Spiritual Sunday

Welcome to Spiritual Sunday and many thanks again to our hostesses Ginger and Charlotte - please click the photo to read other Spiritual Sundays contributors.

For Christmas I received a book from sister-in-law entitled 'God's Message For Each Day' by Eugene H. Peterson the translator of The Message and I would like to share the entry for the 1st January..

GOD IS SURE OF US

'God will never let you down;

he'll never let you be pushed past your limit.

1 Corinthians 10:13 The Message

Karl leaving our hotel for walk early one morning..

We wander like lost sheep, true; but God is a faithful shepherd who pursues us relentlessly. We have our ups and downs, zealously believing one day and gloomily doubting the next, but He is faithful. We break our promises, but He doesn't break His. Discipleship is not a contract in which if we break our part of the agreement He is free to break His; it is a covenant in which He established the conditions and guarantees the results...

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

I conclude with a quote from Mother Teresa..

God's Trust - I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa

Happy New Year

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year

'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'

And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God

That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'

So I went forth and finding the Hand of God

Trod gladly into the night

He led me towards the hills

And the breaking of day in the lone east.

So heart be still!

What need our human life to know

If God hath comprehension?

In all the dizzy strife of things

Both high and low,

God hideth his intention."

"This poem was written in 1908 by Minnie Louise Haskins, an American lecturer at the London School of Economics, who wrote as a hobby. It was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the late Queen Mother, who showed it to her husband King George VI. He included it in his famous Christmas message broadcast in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. After the King's death the Queen Mother had it engraved on bronze plaques on the entrance to the King George VI Memorial Chapel,Windsor, where both are now interred. It was also read at the funeral service of the Queen Mother.

Wishing you a Happy New Year

A few quiet moments

Literally - my voice has gone on holiday and so 'yes' it is very quiet I can't sing, can't speak hence the reason behind the title of my blogger - so I have taken 'time out' to reorganize my blogs, my website, various websites that I belong too and my laptop computer.

I have decided to return home to blogger and will cancel my viviti site in time. Mainly because I only really want a blog site and having experimented with viviti - blogger is easier for me because I can send blogs via my Picasa photo site and my Microsoft word.

So thank you to you my loyal friends for following me from blogger to viviti and, hopefully, back to blogger again.

As much as it frustrates me - being quiet has had it's advantages:-

1. I hear more of what is going on around me
2. I have to think carefully about what I want to communicate so that I am understood 1st time around!!
3. My quiet time with God has literally been a 'quiet time'

Some things don't change though and it's time for a cuppa!! lol