If you are sure you don’t need some help, you can stop reading here. However, he will support you even the highest waves and the deepest depth. When it gets rather blazing and you wished you could draw the curtain in, hope that you will awake from your dream and it’s aint happening, His all consuming mercy sustains you, and his glorious love restores you. Fear, loneliness, depression, doubt. He is listening to your cries. There’s nothing to doubt. Do not be afraid about that. Lost, confused, crushed, washed up. He says you are precious to him. There’s nothing to […]
Hymn / song A-Z
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When Christians sing Come, now is the time to worship, what do they mean? It’s a collective thing. They invite others to come and worship together. It’s a nice tune too. And there is a further thing, they worship, they say somebody or something else is really really fantastic they put this person or thing up somewhere prominent, and they give this person / thing all their attention, and shower praise to him / her / it. Been there, done that? When I had the opportunity to lead an international conference of a research society, I felt an enormous gratitude […]
“Beauty for brokenness” makes you wonder what this could mean, or whether it is logical, does it make sense? Reading the other way “Broken for beauty” seems to help. “Beauty for brokenness” suggests there is a reason for something to be broken. But this reason is both “for” and “because of”. I am going round in circle again. “Beauty for brokenness” is the first line of a song, its second line is “Hope for despair”. The song has a lot of words that often make us take a second look – justice rights peace joy poor cruel scorched ills plundered […]
Some days ago I was at a work meeting where there was going to be a change in the manner of documentation and reporting for senior managers. The work I have done so far has not been in vain, it was not condemned to the black hole; I also dreaded the change could be far worse. Instead, there’s an air of optimism. A slight spring in my step. Mental health is a serious issue. I have found myself trying to work something out when there are a lot of things I cannot change. Sometimes you might feel your performance is […]