2013-things-of-thanks: Week 21
Here they are – my 39 things at the start of a wintery-crisp week in the southern hemisphere. As our days here get shorter, north of the equator God is breathing Hopkins-type ‘dearest freshness deep down things’ and life is surging through snow again because the ‘world is charged with the grandeur of God.’ Where […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 20
‘The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.’ – Michel De Montaigne Here are my 39 things for the week – based on the next 13 challenges of Ann Voskamp’s May Joy Dare: A gift picked up, put away, put back: 742 Bargains at a fête […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 19
We were sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for the kettle and Murray said: ‘Until people realise that God’s priorities are his glory, and the spread of his Kingdom, they’re going to be miserable.’ It’s like, if we can just view sufferings and victories and delays and opportunities and all the crazy complexities and straight-line […]
100 Words of Wisdom: Chasing
It’s restless panic. Strange urgent-fear paralysis. Relentless driving breathless chasing. Always chasing. Everyone everywhere – chasing. In the mall, in the mirror – chasing. We chase the common culprits: Possessions. Pleasure. Prestige (1 John 2:16) – in whatever shape or form or handheld device they come. We chase the subtle lures that have us whipped […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 18
On various levels of life’s layered depths it’s been a good-news-bad-news week. But thanksgiving is a way through – a way to live fully – fully alive to God’s glory. Whether his ways are clear, or beyond tracing out. This week’s 39 things: 664 Opening blinds – morning wintery sun 665 Closing blinds – snug […]
