Tags: life

• a serious man

  Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, responsibility, odd behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, Judaism,… and how they all might combine: ‘A Serious Man’ is the new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen, that explores these intersections. It’s the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe dated 1967, orbiting the world of Larry Gopnik as a physics professor, having been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love [...]

• beyond tinsel!

  There’s a question that’s been bouncing around with me lately. I’m going to share it with you in the hope that you’ll take time to chew it over. Here it is. Are you living a rhythm of life that restores God’s wonder in you? Here’s what makes this question so difficult; for it calls for a yes or no answer! Mostly I love Christmas. It can and yet will be wonderful, but regrettably it’s a complicated season to navigate. There’s [...]

• quotable quote; intro & flow

  Many of you know that dotted throughout my paper-journals are many thoughts and quotes. So long into 2010 and beyond I’m going to post a series of gems that I have and will yet, stumble upon……. They’ll reflect breadth, depth and….curiousity!? Comment, copy, consider,…. whatever! “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” John O’Donoghue

• life, conflict & Miller

  Donald Miller evokes different responses from different people, but whatever your view this quote is worth chewing on: “A story can’t be meaningful without conflict. Conflict comes when you don’t get what you want. Adam faced conflict. Adam experienced loneliness, an emotion Adam didn’t want to experience. But the only way a character becomes a better person is by going through conflict. (Picture Scrooge.) Pain changes things. The conflict lends value to the thing the person wants to attain. So [...]

• in tenderness

  wonderful tenderness God already loves us behind the locked door to our inner self. and there He waits to embrace us……. Right there in the very place which is so enduringly troublesome for us to enter. Right there in the damaged soul-space in which it so difficult for us to love ourselves. It is there, right there where we feel most unloveable, that God desires to cherish us into life. Life and tenderness are His (eternal) heartbeat! God is right [...]

• quizzing question (41)

  How much do you like the truth…?!! Bill Hybels says: “In Christian circles, we think the kindest form of management is avoidance.” Jack Welch says: “The kindest form of management is the truth.” Jesus says;- The truth always sets us free, right!? Which view do you believe most?

• shadows and self

  A man called Isaac grows and lives in a small village. He works hard on his farm, rising with the sun and tending the garden God gave him, tilling the rich brown earth. Rains come and water the green growth and plumps the ripening fruit. Life is good. Next door lives his great friend Joseph. In the evenings they sit in the light of the harvest moon and share their hopes and dreams. They drink toasts to the future and [...]

• feeding

  A man spoke with God about Heaven and Hell. “I will show you Hell,” said the Lord. And they went into a room which had a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious and around the pot sat people who were famished and desperate. All were holding spoons with very long handles which reached to the pot, but because the handles of the spoons were longer than their arms, it was impossible to get the stew [...]

• angles of love

  I bumped into this thought from Johnny Depp…. ”There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ” What do you reckon?

• Easter Day

  My prayer is that you know the resurrection power and Holy Spirit joy of this day…… Colossians 3:1-2 ‘So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it!! Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Jesus Christ: For that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.’ [...]