Short prayers are best they come without imposing conditions on God. Photo by Luis Quintero on Pexels.com I used to be in awe of people who could stand up in a prayer meeting and pray long eloquent prayers. Petitions to god flowed from their lips like liquid. These people obviously had a better relationship with …
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I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
How to interrupt, and other autistic social dilemmas
I get interrupted constantly. People cannot read me. To be told I am wrong when I haven't got to the point I am making is a common experience. When I try to tell them, "That is not what I was saying," and it is conversation over, The people that interrupted me accuse me of interrupting. …
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Be His Instrument – BeautyBeyondBones
This I found inspiring. It as in my inbox this morning. It is about the radical transformation that a relationship with Jesus brings. Please follow the link and read. After pulling an all nighter, things come into FOCUS! #catholic #christianity Source: Be His Instrument – BeautyBeyondBones
Superhero
Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 4th October 2020 The week after the busy week I have just had is always a difficult one due to my disability. Plenty of pain and a lack of sleep are what I have until I get a chance to rest properly. Picking up my granddaughter from school three times …
8 signs that God is trying to get your attention
Last Friday I blogged on 11 ways to push God away[1]. For those who have managed to do this, here are 7 ways God is trying to get your attention. When we go our own way and ignore God's direction it often goes wrong until we ask for something good to come out from our …
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Extreme male brain?
I first heard about autism as applied to me at the age of 52 from a psychologist I was visiting. I was being looked at for a long standing anger problem and was told that my behaviour both what I described of my life and in the interview was consistent with having Asperger's Syndrome. This …
Is our focus on God?
Holy Trinity Church, HuddersfieldSunday 27th September 2020 The oldest known photograph of Holy Trinity, Huddersfield A week away for us to celebrate my wife's birthday. Little did we know how things would turn out. The blogs I published in the week were pre-written and schedulrd to publish on the Wednesday and Friday so as not …
Eleven ways to push God away
Sins are pushing ourselves away from God You know that sermon, the ones where we are asked, "Do you want more of God?" I would reply, "Yes, I want more of God." If people who wanted more of God were to be asked to come forward for prayer, I may well be amongst them. In …
Other people: Othering people
"People from other countries are not like us," starts so many racist statements. That is the bigger part of the problem. Another part is double empathy, we judge them because they do things differently to us. How desperate do you need to be to trust yourself to the open seas in a rubber boat? Seeking …
We all have an insight that can help someone else
Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 20th September, 2020 Developments this week:The government has introduced the further restrictions to prevent the second wave of Covid-19 from getting out of hand, which is good. The restriction is simple which is good. The restriction come with all sorts of exceptions which will make it difficult to enforce, which …
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Making an ass of myself 