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He is refreshing!Posted from:  Craigavon BT66 7GX, UKWoke up this morning with a headache. Also with a sense that I’ve been overdoing it a little.   I suppose that’s true, really. I didn’t take my ‘sabbath’ last weekend. Too many activities on. This weekend is scheduled to be fuller still.   Some of the squeeze we’ve been feeling these past few weeks have no doubt added to that sense of being drained.   Anyway I digress.    As I ‘came to’ this morning I had a distinct impression that I needed to take today ‘off the grid’. Switch off. Go walk (in the rain!). Listen to podcasts. Read my Bible extra slowly.   As I pondered taking time out alone with Jesus, a thought came to me that He is the only person that REFRESHES me when I’m with Him. Every time. Social interactivity for most can be draining. And, for the few of us that find it refreshing to be with people (mostly!), I am talking ‘refresh’ on a deeper level here. It touches every part of who we are.   I need that today.   I pray your next ‘sabbath’ will be refreshing as you touch intimacy with the most incredible Person in the universe!

He is refreshing!


Posted from: Craigavon BT66 7GX, UKWoke up this morning with a headache. Also with a sense that I’ve been overdoing it a little.

I suppose that’s true, really. I didn’t take my ‘sabbath’ last weekend. Too many activities on. This weekend is scheduled to be fuller still.

Some of the squeeze we’ve been feeling these past few weeks have no doubt added to that sense of being drained.

Anyway I digress.

As I ‘came to’ this morning I had a distinct impression that I needed to take today ‘off the grid’. Switch off. Go walk (in the rain!). Listen to podcasts. Read my Bible extra slowly.

As I pondered taking time out alone with Jesus, a thought came to me that He is the only person that REFRESHES me when I’m with Him. Every time.

Social interactivity for most can be draining. And, for the few of us that find it refreshing to be with people (mostly!), I am talking ‘refresh’ on a deeper level here. It touches every part of who we are.

I need that today.

I pray your next ‘sabbath’ will be refreshing as you touch intimacy with the most incredible Person in the universe!

May
11th
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Beginning again … This post has a double meaning. 1) My blog needs to be tidied up a little and become more of a blog than a photo junkyard!  So, after a brief tidy-up on the page itself, I am endeavouring to begin again with occasional posts about this and that - serious to funny to what grips me (and hopefully you!)2) A few days ago I was gripped by a post by my friend Floyd. He writes of the massive fire that swept through the Western Cape (South Africa) and destroyed 1,500 homes, making 5,000 people homeless. Homes like this one above that once covered the landscape are gone-gone-gone. Smouldering, charred metal and trash now litters the area.  South Africa is entering its winter season soon, and that’s a lot of people without a roof over their heads!  Floyd and friends are scrambling to do all they can to help out in this situation. Please read the news he wrote to see how you might be able to help families begin again.

Beginning again …

This post has a double meaning. 

1) My blog needs to be tidied up a little and become more of a blog than a photo junkyard!  So, after a brief tidy-up on the page itself, I am endeavouring to begin again with occasional posts about this and that - serious to funny to what grips me (and hopefully you!)
2) A few days ago I was gripped by a post by my friend Floyd. He writes of the massive fire that swept through the Western Cape (South Africa) and destroyed 1,500 homes, making 5,000 people homeless. Homes like this one above that once covered the landscape are gone-gone-gone. Smouldering, charred metal and trash now litters the area.  South Africa is entering its winter season soon, and that’s a lot of people without a roof over their heads!  Floyd and friends are scrambling to do all they can to help out in this situation. Please read the news he wrote to see how you might be able to help families begin again.
May
9th
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Watch this gripping story re girl sold by her Mum for $10 & of her rescue: http://ping.fm/IfCcO
Join the effort: http://bit.ly/e6ddhC

May
8th
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Nick giving his outstanding story, of how he has come to this day of his ordination, from Communist Europe to today.

Nick giving his outstanding story, of how he has come to this day of his ordination, from Communist Europe to today.

May
2nd
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We just read the whole Bible in 400 seconds! #kjv400 on @YouVersion

We just read the whole Bible in 400 seconds! #kjv400 on @YouVersion

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We just read the whole Bible in 400 seconds! #kjv400 on @YouVersion

We just read the whole Bible in 400 seconds! #kjv400 on @YouVersion

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29th
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