Hi reader - how's your day going so far?
Mine has just begun; I've taken my wife to work, and returned to my desk with a coffee, ready to face the day.
I am leading a school assembly tomorrow, where the children have been studying a simple question with a not so simple answer; "where is God?"
The truth is that God is in so many things and demonstrates himself in and through so many ways that it is hard to simply say where God is. With the exception that I can say, God is with me and all of us, in all that we do.
It has been said before, that this is an amazing promise that can bring us great comfort; when no-one else is with us, God is. But it also brings a great challenge, that God is with us at all times, even when we would maybe rather he wasn't; like the times when we are not acting or thinking in a way we are proud of.
The fact that God is with us, and the lesson that I am going to try and share with the children tomorrow, and therefore challenge myself is this - God is with us but we need to make sure we stay with him.
This is a life long process of small adjustments, making sure that our lifestyles, our language, our relationships, and every aspect of life is being fine-tuned to move closer to God. Sometimes this can be simply listening to the whisper of guidance in our minds, sometimes its listening to other people or through reading good books. Other times it may mean making hard decisions that come at a greater cost.
The amazing reassurance behind all of this challenge is, that God will be with us throughout, no matter how often we get it perfectly right or make the odd mistake.
Have great day
God Bless
Chris.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Friday 5 October 2012
Of multi-coloured honey
Hi reader
Sorry for going AWOL for the last few months. Life has kind of got in the way, but I am back now with an intention to stay back.
Just before retiring to my bed last night I caught a glimpse of a late night news program, that was finishing with its 'and finally' slot.
This program reported that a French factory which produces honey had noticed something very strange; their bees had begun to produce multi-coloured honey. Some of the bees produced honey in different colours; red, blue, green and purple. Some investigation followed and resulted in an unlikely explanation; the bees in question had been dining on the sticky waste produced by the local M&M sweet factory, and the colouring of the sweets had affected the honey.
The French government has, of course, stated that this honey cannot be bottled and sold as regulations state that honey has to be honey coloured - of course!
So my thought to leave with you today is - what is colouring your life?
Are your actions and is your life coloured or flavoured by your beliefs, values and hopes? Do the people that you spend time with notice the difference that sets you apart from everyone else, or do we all blend in pushing our beliefs down burying them so that no-one will ever know?
Just a though.
Have a great day
God bless
Chris
Sorry for going AWOL for the last few months. Life has kind of got in the way, but I am back now with an intention to stay back.
Just before retiring to my bed last night I caught a glimpse of a late night news program, that was finishing with its 'and finally' slot.
This program reported that a French factory which produces honey had noticed something very strange; their bees had begun to produce multi-coloured honey. Some of the bees produced honey in different colours; red, blue, green and purple. Some investigation followed and resulted in an unlikely explanation; the bees in question had been dining on the sticky waste produced by the local M&M sweet factory, and the colouring of the sweets had affected the honey.
The French government has, of course, stated that this honey cannot be bottled and sold as regulations state that honey has to be honey coloured - of course!
So my thought to leave with you today is - what is colouring your life?
Are your actions and is your life coloured or flavoured by your beliefs, values and hopes? Do the people that you spend time with notice the difference that sets you apart from everyone else, or do we all blend in pushing our beliefs down burying them so that no-one will ever know?
Just a though.
Have a great day
God bless
Chris
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