Pix free Zone!
I can't believe it but I got through a whole holiday break and didn't take one photograph!
The Mem Sahib is to blame. Just after the Carol Service on Christmas Eve she turned a strange pale Chartreuse colour and retired to PoorlyLand. It was a very cunning manouevre on her part since that left me with the lion's share of the catering duties, but it was not unknown territory.I got much assistance form two lovely daughters. But I just forgot to record all those interesting little moments as various folks opened gifts, pulled strange faces, played odd little games with even stranger equipment and props. Good job I've got a reasonable memory.
So poor old Mem Sahib was functioning at a much lower level than her norm. The upshot has been a rather pedestrian but very restful break. I returned to work today greatly refreshed to find hardly any work to do. And so I've come home early to catch up on blogging but also to climb comfortably back into Isaiah! I'm reading through - as you do - and have got to those wonderful chapters in the late 30's and 40's where you really see the grace of God towards man. Despite the huge efforts that man makes in constructing false idols [ cf molten gods ... and you must have a rough idea how much effort it takes to make a cast statue of anything - think it through ] the Lord is still prepared to forgive and bless when we give it all up to become His.
I've been asked to do a baby blessing this weekend. Not a church family, but the bay of the sister of my son in law. These are interesting affairs, not a full bodied dedication but I find it encouraging that there is still a desire in the hearts of many parents to involve themselves with spiritual things in moments of great blessing or crisis. These blessing services are very intimate affairs. As the minister, I'm invited right into the centre of the family, I get to tell them how much God loves children and by extension - THEM too! I get to deliver a samll message, bless a new life and possibly even set someone forward into a commitment to engage with the Lord at some new level for them. Then there's the questions afterwards and also the future divine appointments when I meet a family member and am able to take up where I left off. What opportunities! What openings we have if we make ourselves available..
What a blessing!
So here I am in the study,reading Isaiah and also prayerfully considering the people I'm going to be with that Saturday morning, hoping that I hear from the Lord so that they can too.
The Mem Sahib is to blame. Just after the Carol Service on Christmas Eve she turned a strange pale Chartreuse colour and retired to PoorlyLand. It was a very cunning manouevre on her part since that left me with the lion's share of the catering duties, but it was not unknown territory.I got much assistance form two lovely daughters. But I just forgot to record all those interesting little moments as various folks opened gifts, pulled strange faces, played odd little games with even stranger equipment and props. Good job I've got a reasonable memory.
So poor old Mem Sahib was functioning at a much lower level than her norm. The upshot has been a rather pedestrian but very restful break. I returned to work today greatly refreshed to find hardly any work to do. And so I've come home early to catch up on blogging but also to climb comfortably back into Isaiah! I'm reading through - as you do - and have got to those wonderful chapters in the late 30's and 40's where you really see the grace of God towards man. Despite the huge efforts that man makes in constructing false idols [ cf molten gods ... and you must have a rough idea how much effort it takes to make a cast statue of anything - think it through ] the Lord is still prepared to forgive and bless when we give it all up to become His.
I've been asked to do a baby blessing this weekend. Not a church family, but the bay of the sister of my son in law. These are interesting affairs, not a full bodied dedication but I find it encouraging that there is still a desire in the hearts of many parents to involve themselves with spiritual things in moments of great blessing or crisis. These blessing services are very intimate affairs. As the minister, I'm invited right into the centre of the family, I get to tell them how much God loves children and by extension - THEM too! I get to deliver a samll message, bless a new life and possibly even set someone forward into a commitment to engage with the Lord at some new level for them. Then there's the questions afterwards and also the future divine appointments when I meet a family member and am able to take up where I left off. What opportunities! What openings we have if we make ourselves available..
What a blessing!
So here I am in the study,reading Isaiah and also prayerfully considering the people I'm going to be with that Saturday morning, hoping that I hear from the Lord so that they can too.
posted by It's Dave at Wednesday, January 03, 2007
2 Comments:
The blessing went really well Dadz - I recieved excellent feedback once you had left.
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you haven't written anything in nearly a month!
you adoring fans are disappointed!
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