Here is a quote from something I just read, that shows why “showing love” to people does not always mean doing whatever makes them happy.

The quote is from one of my Perspectives students, who writes a regular piece on the Torah (called Torahbybtes). This one is on some verses from Deuteronomy 7, where it talks about God destroying “those who hate ( Read more... )

At Small Group last night, someone reminded us how God gives us gifts/abilities, not to use for ourselves, but for others. He gave the example of how you don’t, if you have the gift of preaching, preach to yourself.

For some reason, it came to my mind how I enjoy myself right here. I have several tabs open for reading this blog-one for reading the ( Read more... )

Praise you Lord, that I can put myself in your hands and count on you from morning to night. I can be confident that you’ll answer when I cry for help. Nothing I might obsess about, compares to you and your works. All the nations will one day honour you and “parade your greatness”!

You are known for forgiveness, you are tender and kind, not easily ( Read more... )

If you don’t want to miss new posts from this blog, you’d better click on my “Home” tab at the top, and then scroll way down to the bottom and enter your email address, then click “subscribe”. Because I’m pretty sure most people are like me: when they see that “so and so shared” something, they just flick right by it, hit delete, whatever. It’s ( Read more... )

My One Word isn’t being updated as often as I’d originally planned, but good enough that it gets done as often as I can find something, or come across something that fits. “Done” usually means a Facebook status update, sometimes with a photo. Now that there are “memories”, you know you’ll always come across them again.

However, one wants to be ( Read more... )

The main reason I want to make these notes, is because it’s what I would like to say myself, to people. Thank you Steve T. for giving me the words!

One thing that jumped out at me that day, was “You can’t really know with certainty until you commit.” So even it you’re a little bit sure, God will honour that. Think about the things you’ve “always ( Read more... )

Time to put something down, to keep the memory: our first trip back to our previous “home” of 35 years. And it took almost 2 years before we did it!

The quote at the top of my home page these days is: “If you do not BREATHE through writing, if you do not CRY OUT in writing, or SING in writing, then DON’T WRITE”. (It’s to keep me from writing too ( Read more... )

WORSHIP:

“A song to our strong God! A shout to the God of Jacob! Anthems from the choir, music from the band, sweet sounds from lute and harp, Trumpets and trombones and horns: it’s a festival day…” Thank you for establishing days to celebrate! And thank you for music, and so many varieties of music! And no wonder we feel like celebrating, because ( Read more... )

Just thinking, about sacrifice. Since it is the end of Lent, when lots of people try to give up something for 40 days.

I’m often feeling challenged about that, because I do have so many comforts. Then I comfort myself by saying that every time I have to work to cook a meal, or clean the house, etc., it’s a type of “sacrifice” that I do for my ( Read more... )

WORSHIP:

Praise you that whenever we’re tempted to say, “the Most High has turned his hand against me”, all we need to do is remember what you have done-even “your wonderful deeds of long ago”. Your Word is so precious, and I’m so thankful for the abundant opportunity I’ve had to learn it, so that those deeds can be “constantly in my thoughts”, and ( Read more... )