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‘Tis the season… a very Merry, Happy and Blessed Christmas

Apart from colds and sniffles we seem to be recovering from illness now, just need some sleep really which isn’t particularly likely at the moment – just need to hope the kids sleep in sometime (yeah right!)

Anyway – health update provided onto the main post…

Being the first Christmas for a few years where I can fully appreciate the joy and wonder of the season it’s been a fairly emotional time as once again I am reminded of the joy and wonder of this season, and once again I am aware of the grace, mercy and Love that God poured out on us when He sent Christ to be with us.

I’ve made a resolution this year to make the most of the season, to fully enjoy all that we can and to spend as much time rejoicing and growing in excitement as the Advent Calendars count the days.

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Oh irony sweet irony…

So it was week 9 of the “Making Life Work” series at Church this week… all about “Seeing Red” (i.e. Anger!)

It was one of the sessions that was really key for me in this whole series as I can, at times, be erm…. let’s just say somewhat erm….. sensitive in a non-constructive manner.

Oh alright – if I’m being totally honest I can fly-off-the-handle sometimes and it’s something that I dearly want to manage a bit better than I do now.

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Still trying to make life work…

Yikes! Really sorry for the delays on these folks…. going away and being ill have slightly impacted upon my free time and things have just been so crazy lately. Don’t know about anybody else out there but we just seem to be rushed off our feet at the moment and even a 48 hour day wouldn’t be long enough right now.

Anyway – I have FINALLY managed to get some desktop backgrounds done for week 1 and weeks 6-10 of the Making Life Work series we have been doing at KingsGate.

Wowsers, what an… “inspiring” (i.e. scarily challenging) series it has been so far with not a week going by without several “OUCH” moments and many action points being brought out either in my own study or in the small group discussions. But, despite the pain, the series is absolutely superb and totally spot on for what I need – this is definitely going to be a life-changing series and I am making sure I have all the sessions downloaded to be listened to over and over again in the coming days, weeks, months and years…

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Making Life Work – or at least, trying to!!!

We’re now 2 weeks in to the new season of teaching at KingsGate, using Bill Hybels’ rather excellent “Making Life Work” book to take us through Proverbs and then looking at how this can affect different areas of out everyday lives.

The first session was looking at Wisdom – and boy did I feel foolish by the end of *that* one! (and supremely challenged it has to be said), and last Sundays session was about taking the initiative and “getting a grip)

As part of the series everyone in housegroups were given a copy of the book to work through and to study as a follow-up on the Sunday teaching and to use when we meet as groups. We have also been challenged to learn one proverb each week in line with the sermons.

It’s YEARS since I’ve done any form of memory verse and getting back into the habit has proven to be somewhat fun! Yeah, I know that I need to do more of it… but I’ve gotten out of the habit and now I really need to work to get back *into* the habit.

As an aide-mémoire I have started to create some desktop background images containing relevant images along with the proverb of the week… and being the sort of person I am, I thought I’d upload them here. (And by “the sort of person” I mean the sort who forgets so often it’s useful to keep such things on the Internet where I know I can find them wherever I am!)

So here they are in all their glory – to get hold of the images for parts 2 to 5 simply click on the desired image and then save it for your consumption. Hope they help others of you out there as they are helping me! Continue reading “Making Life Work – or at least, trying to!!!”

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Keeping going

When life is tough, or thoughts are darkened by fears and pressures…

How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing to the LORD,
for he has been good to me.

That’s Psalm 13 (from the New International Version of the Bible) and I heard this as the basis of a song yesterday and was blown away by the words as they really were so honest and true, whilst also being a challenge to keep on rejoicing and praising.