I think my little boy had his first nightmare last night – well his first conscious one anyway. He woke up around 5am in floods of tears saying I don’t like Honk Honk Honk, which would have been quite funny, except that he was so upset. The honk honk honk thing might be one or […]

Go on then – been tagged by watchandweigh who I once shared an office with.. Here goes for my first ever meme… One book that changed your life? The Marriage Book by Nicky and Sila Lee. The affianced and I worked through Nicky and Sila’s course for our marriage prep, and it made us discuss […]

Well, surprise surprise, the accuracy of (native) GPS is not really enough to be useful in a maze, at least not the sort of maze where it’s relatively easy to keep your bearings. The screen resolution also becomes a factor.. if you keep the scale large enough to be able to see paths, then not […]

Just watched the Miracles of Jesus (part 1), a BBC documentary on, well, the miracles of Jesus. Rageh Omaar presents this overview that’s principally concerned with what the miracles meant, rather than if they happened or not. I have to say I actually enjoyed it, although the programme was about twice the length it needed […]

It shows how exciting life has been recently that I’ve made no mention of my new GPS. The Garmin lost out to a Magellan at the last minute… the eXplorist 210 to be exact. The extra memory nailed it for me (22Mb vs 8), and easy USB connectivity. After all the comments from friends about […]

As silly as it sounds, it has never occurred to me before to consider Psalm 84 from ‘outside’. I’ll quote Psalm in full at the end – but key phrases are things like My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord, and Blessed are those who dwell in your house, my heart […]

Been pondering the life of St. Paul recently – and particularly his apparent forsaking of his entire former life once he started following Jesus. It occurs to me that this is a nonsense… much of his ministry was enabled by the fact he was such a strong theologian and understood the Jewish scriptures so thoroughly. […]

Time for an utterly trite entry, and I don’t care! The weather for the last couple of days has been lurvely – and is set to get better and better this week. This is particularly good news as we’re all going to a barbie on Monday to mark the end of house-group term. The only […]

The Psalms seem to speak into our situations very often.. Though my flesh and my heart fail me, God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. Psalm 73:26 I certainly do feel like my flesh and my heart have failed me, and yet somehow God is our strength in the midst […]

They say that “it isn’t over until the Fat Lady sings,” and what a true word that is. Everything can seem to be perfectly in place and heading towards resolution, when suddenly a whole new plot-line comes along in (what you thought was) the final act, and it turns out the play might only just […]