Tags: future

• preparation in the present…

  ‘…when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph…’ is a phrase from the Christmas Lessons that still rumbles around with me. So how about this…? Technically speaking, Mary wasn’t the mother of Jesus yet, but so much more is happening here (as is often the case in scripture.) Mary’s future was so certain she could rightly be introduced this way even before her future had been introduced to her!! Why? Because God completes what He initiates every time. You [...]

• loving, loss and the future….?

  The Times showed a haunting photo of the wife of the footballer Robert Enke, who committed suicide, in it’s print-run on Thursday. The layers of detail and complexity in his life make challenging reading. The headline read ‘sometimes love is not enough.’ It set me thinking. More-so-because, actually, I suspect that people might commit suicide for the opposite reason, because love is too much. I don’t know how true that is in this case. But the thing I was thinking [...]

• yes

  this is what I feel like! lots of adventure, challenges and explorations!!

• quizzing question (21)

  what is the cloak that you need to throw off to get to Jesus? it’s not my question really! If you don’t let your past die, you will not let your future live!

• quizzing question (16)

  How can you discover life’s treasures ahead, if you constantly reference the past? How do you hold the past, present & future together….?