Just been thinking

Well I have been thinking..... hence the picture of the coggs - could not find one with coggs and smoke. I am leading worship tomorrow for our staff gathering - we meet each week and have worship together. I have been led to think about encouragement and considered Psalm 100:3

"Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."

I heard this story once - A school teacher recounted the times when sometimes the young students would have a quarrel amongst themselves, one would inevitably come running to her crying “So and so called me stupid!” The clever teacher would always reply, “Well — are you stupid?” Without fail, that little red-faced, button-nosed three or four year old would ponder for a moment, shrug back, look up at her and timidly say no. Well, okay then — so go and play! And just like that, the quarrel was over and playtime would resume as if nothing happened.

We need to take a lesson from those little students we need to remember who we are! We’re not stupid — we’re not ugly — we’re not defeated — we’re not useless!
On the contrary! We are fearfully and wonderfully made! We are loved and cared for dearly! We’re victorious! We have a divine purpose and calling to fulfill today!
Let’s not allow anyone to dictate who or what we are! God has already made it very clear who we are — loved, cherished and adored........ so there.... God bless

Is it help I am nearly forty?

Is it really help I am nearly forty? You know I am not so sure. No disrespect to those of friends of mine who are over 40 - you look great. But it feels really weird. If 50 is the new thirty then I must be 20....... what do you reckon?

Why it is weird I don't know. Has life turned out as I expected? As the exit door to my thirites approach what does it mean? 40 isn't really so bad except for the small fact that now I have got to be 40.

So I thought I know I'll look at Psalm 40 but the words "but I am poor and needy" jumped out and it didn't really help. So back to the drawing board and for a short time there was the consolation that my twin is also 40, though of course she reminds me that I am 7 minutes older than her.

There are of course some good things about being 40 (originally I had typed thongs which if you know me maybe inappropriate) it's just they take sometime to come to mind.

I will think though even more over the next week and a half until the day itself..... is it time for a change.

I think it is. I think it’s time for change that I can believe in. I think I am the change that I have been waiting for.