How are you getting on?

It was very much the same task as last week in the house group, but perhaps with a renewed sense of what we are about and the whole in action, in deed thing. And the 'Quality' of the sacrifice as well, not lame animals.

So here's to a lifetime of sacrificial living (gulp).

Romans 12: 1-2 are a good meditating read, that help.

God is with us.

God is with us.
We left house group with this very much in our mind.
To go about our week with a real sense of him there, in everything, to think in that.. way.. fashion, that He is there with us in the day to day, like we should be doing but I guess being human we get complacent.

We spoke about worship and we all came up with that one thought, Sunday service.
We kinda forgot about ~(no not forgot but not there on the tip of our... brain), the other form of worship, the Living sacrifice, the spiritual act of worship. Involving being active, engaging the mind, heart, will and being obedient in our service / daily living..

A thought.

If I didn't make it to service and I didn't attend a maintenance night, all on a Sunday, am I still able to worship in other ways during the week? Is that acceptable to other Christians?

Man does not live by bread alone

I presided today with a Lords Supper that involved poached egg and toast, well C.S.Lewis used it as an illustration about needing Jesus so if it's good enough for him. I did extend it to a steak pie with mash potatoes & carrots an peas. It was very different. Some how I ended up with, if you want to be like Jesus, prove it !

but On every word of God

In an effort to continue to steer us in the way of meditation, Derek suggested that we try and spend 10-15 mins in thought about something. Either things discussed tonight at house group or about nature, scripture the kind of thing.

I have given it a try and I like it. It don't come natural to me but I have found it helpful.

Lesson

From Johns wonderful recent lesson hopefully an aid to help those who where there.

Thanks John.

Pirates Ahoy !

Need to protect that wee bald spot somehow.

Me enjoying the recent God given sunshine.

Gnarly Wood.

Nice piece of gnarly wood found on beach at Cove.

School of hard knocks.

The letter A.

Been a little occupied with letters this last wee while.
Part of my college course is a graded unit and although I went in happy only to get a pass I was told I had obtained a C on the first part (3 parts). It began to bother me probably because my contribution had now been 'valued' by someone who knows about these things. Man it hurt a bit, you put a lot of effort in, stay up late and the best you can do is a C ?
Pants!
By the time all parts had been done I was up to an A.
I don't mind anyone getting recognition for hard work but I guess it's not about hard work I'm sure others, myself included would be on an A to start with. It's not hard work it's right answers and they are not the same thing. So an A for all those right answers and an A for all the hard work, please.
Oh, if it only came to me that little bit easier.

Only 10 ?

Make a list of ten things you could change about your life to become more disciplined,
or ten ways in which becoming more disciplined could improve your life.

That is the task for this week, I will have to think on that one.

Spent sometime talking about how easy, hard, discipline can be, the constant calling of the world playing its part. Personally I think having faith, the ability to see a future that holds something better, in Christ, believing in the unseen means we can be disciplined. It takes that same attribute. For to be disciplined you need to see the unseen benefits, you are 'more' likely to do it if you can see future treasure. I go to the gym because I can see a 'better ' me, I pray (for all the right reasons) because, the thing I pray for can happen. I meditate because, I can / will hear God?
One step at a time eh...