How do you judge good character? The idea or concept of ‘Character’ and ‘A person of good character’ seems, to me, to be a bit of subjective or elusive in terms of definition. And so, instead of trying to come up with any kind of definitive definition [is there such a thing as a non-definitive definition?] of what i mean when i talk about a person of character, i thought it might be more helpful to describe some aspects that i [...]
How do you judge good character? As i have been thinking about the idea of 'Character' and 'A person of good character' it seems to be a bit subjective or elusive in terms of definition. One of the dictionary definitions Uncle Google came up with was 'the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.' But the problem with that definition is that it uses the word moral [which in itself, these days, seems to be [...]
As we head into the weekend i have combined today and tomorrow into one post. Please use accordingly. They say 'Familiarity breeds contempt' although i would say sometimes that 'Familiarity breeds familiarity' which means that sometimes things that are completely profound, can lose some of their depth and meaning [for us] simply because we see them so many times that we get used to them and possibly skim over them and in one way take [...]
We met at UCT in 1975, followers of Christ and both students. Already - two keys to a long-lasting relationship - our Christian faith has held us in good times and difficulties; our keenness to learn and be curious about life, has kept our relationship interesting. After completing our degrees in Education and Librarianship , we decided to work for a year before making a firm choice to get married. So we had actually been [...]
DAY 16ish On day 1 of this Lent observance the task was to pray for your enemies and i imagine some people would have been all, 'But i don't have any enemies' and others might have been tempted to send out a generic, 'God please bless all my enemies' prayer to cover them all. Well, if you really don't have anyone who you don't like or who doesn't like you [whether you would specifically call them [...]
i was hoping to be able to get something out on this before Fred Phelps died, which apparently i failed to do. Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church where we use the term 'church' loosely as nothing of what i ever heard them connected to sounded anything like the idea of church that i have come to know and love. An obvious indicator is that the website address of this 'church' is the [...]
DAY 15ish received this in an email from someone i don't really know so well on the book of faces and figured it was a good reflection to have on this day: Task: Join with me in praying this Lent Prayer “Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.” JOHN 11 Jesus then said, "I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even [...]
Jesus cranks things up a notch by talking about end times and the importance of being watchful in this passage from Mark 13.14-37. [For the next vlog in the Mark series on Jesus and perfume and creating space for the interruption, click here]
sh! don't talk. don't challenge. whatever you do, don't try to get me to think... just nod, smile, pat me on the back, enthusiastically high five me as we pass each other, to validate this current choice i'm making 'like' my current status retweet my popular point of view please don't dare to hold my latest hypocracy up to the light or unravel the threads of my present inconsistency after all, when did [...]
DAY 14ish Task: Today is a simple but profound one. Intentionally show gratitude to someone for something you tend to take for granted. I know we have looked at Gratitude already in this series, but i really want to take it a step deeper and for us to really look for someone in our day who does something for us and probably does not get thanked or appreciated or maybe even noticed. Imagine if we [...]