Prayer

Here's a talk I did a while ago on prayer, which, it seems, I've never quite got round to posting. It starts with an except from a book that I've been gradually working on writing (and, who knows, may actually get round to posting as well someday!!!).

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Loving Your Enemies

Another quote from Lucia (aged 3yrs):

Lucia: "Daddy, the Bible says you need to be kind to your enemies."

Dad: "But you're not my enemy, so does that mean that I don't need to be kind to you?"

Lucia (in a very exasperated, reproachful voice): "Daddy... Your children are your enemies... so that means you have to be kind to me!"

Cross about Computers

Another quote from Lucia (aged 3):

Lucia to Dad who is working on something on the computer so can't come and play a game with her: "You're making me cross!"
Dad: "Oh - well then you may need to go to the stairs to think about your attitude for a while because it's not good to get cross about such a little thing."
Lucia: "It's not a little thing - it's a big computer!"

Flying the Nest

There was great excitement the other day when we got to see the baby blue tits emerging from their nesting box and flying off for the first time. We had been very cautious in our hope to even see this event - but, as it turned out, not only did we see it, but we happened (providentially?) to have been videoing the parents coming and going just as it happened.

Here's the video - with the children's excitement clearly audible in the background!

Catching Up With Kids Quotes

Here's some quotes from the kids that we've been noting down over the past couple of months but haven't got round to posting yet...

Me to Sinead: "How long have we been married - 12 years?"
Kathleen (aged 8) pipes up: "It seems longer than 12 years to me"

Kathleen (aged 8): "Reading Milly Molly Mandy is the joy of life."
Mum: "Hmmmm, not sure I've read that in the Bible!?"
Kathleen: "That's because they didn't have Milly Molly Mandy then."

Lucia (aged 3): "I'm a big girl now."
Mum: "Are you? How big?"
Lucia: "Small."

Dad, looking for something: "Does anyone know where..."
...finds it as he is asking and turns towards Lucia (age 3) and continues: "... this is?"
Lucia: "No - I'm not a mother!"

Lucia (aged 3) - out of the blue one morning: "Anyway, it's tomorrow"
Dad, confused: "What's tomorrow?"
Lucia: "Today" - pause - "Is it Daddy? I'm not really sure?"

Seeing the Unseen

Another sermon - this one is in two parts due to the fact that Tangle has a limit on the length. The topic was "seeing the unseen" based on 2 Cor 4:18 - would we live our lives any differently if we were more aware of the "unseen", "eternal" things instead of being so distracted by the "visible" things around us?


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A New Day

This is a poem that I wrote to go with a series of photos that I took for a photography competition - here's the poem - you can hear it read along with the photos in the video embedded below.

I ventured out at dawn's first light
Across the dewy green
Where lonely trees peer through the mist
And sleeping grasses dream.

The whispered breath of rippling waves
Sigh gently from the wake
Of one lone duck that glides where trees
Are mirrored on the lake.

Along the fringe of every reed
A million jewels of light
Watch shyly as the stirring world
Wakes softly from the night.

"Twill not be long till through our leaves,"
The silent branches say
"Will burst God's rays of sunshine's hope
To herald in the day."

- Mark H (DelightInLight.com)

Note: This is one of a number of poems that I have posted on this blog. If you want to see more of them, please have a look at this post: "Fun Poems for Kids"

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