11 January 2025

Recharge

We all need to recharge regularly.

Just imagine if you didn't plug in your mobile phone regularly? It would soon be completely flat and of no use to you.

Well, we human beings are just the same. However, we are need different types of recharge (and we are much more complicated than your mobile phone). 

There are three aspects of recharging:

Physically, we need a regular intake of good food and drink and a good level of movement to keep our physical bodies in peak condition. This includes:

  • Exercising
  • Eating healthy
  • Taking a bath or shower

Mentally, we need to have regular rest and relaxation (to offset the draining from your work/life experiences). This includes: 

  • Getting enough sleep
  • Taking breaks
  • Spending time outside

Spiritually, we need to be regularly spiritually filled - and for me this comes from faith that comes from The Word of God. This includes:

  • Practicing mindfulness
  • Connecting with others
  • Practicing gratitude
  • Journalling

30 December 2024

16 October 2024

Suddenly ....

I don't like 'suddenly'. 

Let's unpack that a bit to give you some context.

When asked to describe myself for a recent church event I included the phrase "I don’t like things to be too busy, too noisy, or too chaotic". 

This week has been all of those things. In the last seven days I have had the following:

  • A quiet morning in the office, with only a couple of issues - followed by seven separate problems to solve, all arriving within a fifteen minute period. Just like buses, they all came at once! Do these guys save these problems up, and co-ordinate sending them to me just to annoy? (yes, I did work through them all - it took a couple of hours)
  • Then I got some news that a work colleague had suddenly retired. The first I had heard of it was an out-of-office notification sent to someone else that had been forwarded to me. So much for our close working relationship! Guess we weren't that close after all - except when he wanted a favour...
  • A meeting I had been planning for three weeks had to be moved into a completely different room and IT setup with less than half a day's notice. No, it didn't go as well as I'd planned. Of course...
  • Traffic in the local area is currently appallingly bad. Road closures, road works appearing with no prior notice. Where did those temporary traffic lights come from - they weren't there this morning! No, really, you have to leave yourself an extra half an hour just to get across town! 
  • There are other examples, however that gives you an idea of how infuriating things can be this week. All one after another. And all just as sudden. And then - suddenly - it's all back to what it was before. Was it a bad dream? 
When talking to someone about how I felt, he said that I shouldn't be so sensitive

Which is a pity. Because that's who God made me. 

See link here .

8 October 2024

If only ....

Food for thought. Are you doing your bit to spread the love around?

6 October 2024

Foolishness?

1 Corinthians 1:18, NIV

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Perhaps the words of God don't make any sense to you? Yeah, I get it. Because that's what scripture tells us in the above verse. Oh, you didn't know the bible spoke directly about those who don't believe the gospel... 

To one group of people - Paul calls these 'the perishing' because it means they are heading for death - the sacrifice of Christ makes no sense. The original Greek term used here is mōria, from which we get the English word moron. Consequently, those who don't know God think believers, and their faith, are stupid.

However, those of us who do believe, Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is a powerful act. Without that powerful act, we would be lost and without hope.

Which group are you in?


3 October 2024

1 September 2024

25 August 2024

Z is for Zebroid

A zebroid is the offspring between a zebra and any other equine (horse-like animal) to create a hybrid. 

A zorse is the offspring of a male zebra and a female horse. 

A zony or zoni is the offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.  

A cross between a zebra and a donkey can be known as either a zenkey, a zonkey, or a zedonk.

And I never thought that my entry for Z in this collection of posts would be so long...!