Government to fund school chaplains

This is huge. We need to be praying about it and thinking what we can do...

wives and husbands - 1 Peter 3

I listened to this bible talk yesterday 1 Peter 3. It's on wives and husbands and headship etc etc. Worth a listen I think - sensitive, intelligent and doesn't suggest 1950's family norms are what we ought to be aspiring to...

Blogger cannot open this link...

Possible causes:

* Baptist explanation: There must be sin in your life. Everyone else opened it fine.

* Presbyterian explanation: It's not God's will for you to open this link.

* Word of Faith explanation: You lack the faith to open this link. Your negative words have prevented you from realizing this link's fulfillment.

* Charismatic explanation: Thou art loosed! Be commanded to OPEN!

* Unitarian explanation: All links are equal, so if this link doesn't work for you, feel free to experiment with other links that might bring you joy and fulfillment.

* Buddhist explanation: .........................

* Episcopalian explanation: Are you saying you have something against homosexuals?

* Christian Science explanation: There really is no link.

* Atheist explanation: The only reason you think this link exists is because you needed to invent it.

* Church counselor's explanation: And what did you feel when the link would not open?

New Tune For Our National Anthem

You must, you must watch this.

Very funny.

Warning! Warning!

Keep away from our household.

We have chicken pox.

Pas de deux

by Michael Dransfield

Morning ought not
to be complex.
The sun is a seed
cast at dawn into the long
furrow of history.

To wake
and go
would be so simple

yet

how the first light
makes gold her hair

upon my arm.
How then shall I leave
and where away to go. Day
is so deep already with involvement.

Psalm 131

A Song of Ascents, of David.

1 O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty;

Nor do I involve myself in great matters,

Or in things too difficult for me.

2 Surely I have composed and quieted my soul;

Like a weaned child rests against his mother,

My soul is like a weaned child within me.

3 O Israel, hope in the LORD

From this time forth and forever.

I've been thinking about this Psalm lately. I've never really understood it before. Is it implying that it's wrong to fill our minds with 'great matters' or 'difficult' things? Will these things make our hearts proud and our eyes haughty?

But I think I'm starting to get it. Imagine a tired toddler resting against his mother at the end of the day. As she sings him a lullaby, his mind is not occupied with world economics or quantum physics. He feels the warmth of her arms around him and her rhythmic pat on his back. He hears the soft lullaby and his mind is at rest. Mum is here and that's all that matters. He trusts her to keep him safe in the night and provide breakfast tomorrow morning. His heart is not proud and his eyes are not haughty.

Dear God,

As a child rests against his mother

May I rest against you.

Still my restless heart,

Quiet my anxious soul,

Remove pride from my eyes and

Teach me to trust

in your son Jesus.

Amen