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 […]
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 […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 17
Here’s hoping you’re a couple hours into a happy Monday. Thank you for the mails and comments and facebook inboxes lately sharing your 39 things. Trade winds in my eucharisteo sails, I tell you. So humbled and honoured to journey with you. 625 Bracing iciness of an early-winter cold front 626 Vacuuming under the boys’ […]
2013-things-of-thanks: Week 13: PASSION
If there’s one week in the year when every Christ-follower should look up from the sludge of life and bask in eucharisteo, it’s this one. As you celebrate how the suffering of Jesus set you free, open your heart-eyes to his mercies, new every morning for this world, new every morning for you. Oh God, […]
