A retrospective. Goodbye 2013, I'll miss you. You were the year I started a job, in Leeds, after 7 months unemployment. You were the year I gained competency and sealed my year's contract. You were the year my contact was extended for a further six months. You were the year I took the risk of …
Happy New Year
This is how I spent the Christmas period, as a not to scale onlooker at the nativity. Looking to Jesus is a good place to be. Happy new year.
Go west
The Bible and geography. Its simple really. Wise men came from the east (Matthew 2:1) so the must have travelled west. They did so because they saw a star at its rising (Matthew 2:9). Like the sun and the moon, stars rise in the east, this is because of the direction of the earth's rotation, …
Little donkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Nni_dYORY Little donkey
No vacancies
No vacancies In my childhood we spent our summer holidays in Blackpool. My grandparents had retired there and we stayed in their house. Being in a residential town, to get to the beach was a trek, past rows of guest houses with Vacancies or No Vacancies signs in the windows. It was a good indication …
Merry Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5rOO2v2dU Great costume budget.
Merry Christmas
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it …
Kidnapped
I've been kidnapped. The humans who look after me were not vigilant enough and their youngest foal and her husband kidnapped me and took me shopping. (Don't they know I'm a real ale donkey, not a white cider donkey. The cat was friendly though. (Hi TC, are you reading this?)
The day God changed (Part 4)
Through the Sundays in Advent I've been blogging about the ways in which God has changed for me, or rather of how my understanding of God has changed. It wasn't about changes in God but changes in me. But for those who are thinking God has never changed, you are wrong. God's nature has changed, …
The day God changed (part 3)
The day God changed was the day I discovered that John Calvin wasn't a TULIP. Calvin Gets lot of flack on the Christian fora I read and contribute to. It is said that he portrays a God that is cruel. But that is a misconception by people who can't see beyond the TULIP. Let me …
Making an ass of myself 