Songs that say it for me

Meaning to the Years

You’ve always stayed so near
Brought meaning to the years
Your loving arms surrounding me
Since first I knew my need

You help me face my fears
Oh so gently wipe the tears away
With your loving Father’s touch
I love you Lord so much


More of you in me

With endless patience you’re
Guiding me
Forgiving me
Living in me
I’m so thankful that you’re changing me
Making me more like you

You enable me to understand
I’m in your hands
It’s in your plan
Through all that’s happened I’m learning how
Yours is the very best way

Help me Lord to
Submit to youL
Live like you
Mirror you
So more people I meet may see
More of you in me

(Back posted 16th November - moved from front page)

Back posted quotes

Karen Burton Mains‘Being born again …. is an event which is the catalyst for a process … some seared & barren fields are forever being discovered, then harrowed & furrowed to yield produce’

Max Lucardo‘Like the lady with electricity who was tapped into the power but didn’t use it; we often make the same mistake… with our souls saved but our hearts unchanged, we are connected but not altered. Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation, we occasionally flip the switch but most of the time we settle for the shadows.’

A Plass – on Christian ‘formulas’‘The sort of teaching that tells you B will definitely happen if only you do A is likely to produce guilt and failure if the formula doesn’t happen to work for you… God sometimes takes a route through H to get from A to B and he might even stop off at J and X on the way, hanging around long enough to find out how I & K & W & Y and the rest of the neighbours are getting along.’ (Sacred Diary of A Plass Christian Speaker aged 45 3/4)

Back posted 16th Nov - moved from front page (sorry subscribing friends, you may have read these already)

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It seems to me that a life of any purpose on this earth is likely to be a roller coaster; the only different being a Christian is that it's a wilder ride, having a spiritual dimension as well (eat your heart out Alton Towers). The only alternative life on offer (for now) would be one of those little kiddie rides you can also get at the fairground, where you sit on the tiny pointless train and go round and round. This, one has to admit, can seem quite pleasant from time to time, and maybe the Lord in his grace will offer you such an interval whilst he stands lovingly watching you trundle by, waving, holding your baggages and of course paying for the ride. But, like all his children, I suspect you're the sort who quickly get bored.

Andy Hawthorne

Clothing Quandry

Well – here’s the thing… it’s autumn, my favourite season; September, my favourite month, but there is a distinct chill in the air and I can delay it no longer – yes, it’s time for the winter clothes.

Those blessed with lots of money of course must have great fun buying up the new styles; colour-co-ordinating; buying outfits (I have never brought an outfit in my life!) but I do quite well mixing & matching, with my end-of-line sales and charity shop discoveries, so am not complaining (well, maybe just a tad!)

However, the real crunch is; having lost quite a lot of weight over the course of the last winter & spring, I purchased some lovely trousers in end of season sale which I only had the chance to wear once…. having subsequently put back on half of what I lost (over the course of the last 2 months!) I can no longer wear said trousers without severe VPL problem … but my previous trousers are still too big!

What a disaster, what a quandary … what should I do?! There are 2 options available to me in my money-less state … should I try & get rid of half a stone, to fit into those lovely Next Sale trousers … or revert back to my natural rather piggish tendencies in order to get back comfortably into my size 14s?! Hmmm! What to you think, dear non-existent reader?!!!

Songs that say it for me ...

The world is turnin'
Telling me to hurry on
You gotta run to get ahead
Try to take the things you want
But when the sun begins to set
So many things I haven't done yet

But I won’t worry
Cos there’s no hurry
The world’s not passing me by
For the Lord he knows
Just where each day goes
I know he won’t leave me behind
And I won’t be bringing
A single thing
That my heart can’t carry inside
Yes I’m going home & I’m only taking my time

The weight of worry
Is never worth the price
Of a world of treasures
That can never satisfy
I know heaven’s up ahead
Where the best is yet to come

So I won’t worry ….

Album Along the Road, Becker, Ashton & Dente
http://lyrics.crossmap.com/artist/ashton-becker-and-dente.htm


Excerpt from ‘In the Palm of Your Hand’

If I could have the world & all it owns
A thousand kingdoms a thousand thrones
If all the earth were mine to own
With wealth my only goal

I’d spend my gold on selfish things
Without the love that your life brings
Just a little bit more is all I’d need
‘til life was torn from me

I’d rather be in the Palm of your hand
Though rich or poor I may be
Faith can see right through the circumstance
Sees the forest in spite of the trees
Your grace provides for me

Album I Know Who Holds Tomorrow Alison Krauss & Cox Family
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/cox_family_the/bio.jhtml