Hi Everyone
If you have time to read this then you must be sitting smugly on your tablet/laptop watching others frantically shopping for last minute presents. Yes, I am one of ye smug ones !!!
Dot? Time to blog on Dec 23rd???
Have just enjoyed treating a single chap from nearby tenements to his cuppa in Cafe Connect, beside Mannofield Church where I work. Hope he will come back with his neighbour. Then I popped in to see toddlers and babies having their last sing song before "Santa" comes. Enjoyed choosing a few tot friendly Nativity books for the cafe toddler play corner, and another about God making the world.
I guess these days , we need to be pro active to balance the see -saw of humanist propaganda that saturates our land. If we don't tell folks the Good News, who will?
Once they've heard, they can respond with an " it's your opinion, but I'm not that way inclined" as one of my nephews did when I offered to do a Blessing for their first child OR "That's interesting. Do you still believe that twaddle/myth about Jesus?" Yes I do!
Let me end with a quotable quote from a book I'm reading called "Sit, Walk Stand."....a golden oldie religious classic.
"Since Adam the natural man, took the fruit of the tree of knowledge, people have been working out their own standards of right and wrong, and striven to live by them. Christ is for us The Tree of Life
( did anyone else enjoy Judi Dench's rapture at trees recently on TV? Wonderful)
We take in our sap from Him. We ask ourselves in this day and age..." Have I been justly or unjustly treated?" That is not the Christian's standard. the whole question for us is one of cross bearing. We are to live by the principle of self denial, non retaliation, others first. ( See that ever relevant speech by Jesus, recorded in Matthew's Gospel Chapter 5)
I leave you with a greeting to have a happy and safe and healthy Festive Season and New Year.
God will go with you, but will 2018 be the year you begin to follow Him. I hope so!
Love Dot
