Where have the golden days gone? The days when the laughter of families could be heard through the park;the days when young and old enjoyed the rays of autumn sun.Where have the fearful days gone?The days when families kept to themselves in the park;the days when young and old could not venture far from their home? Where have the golden days gone?The…
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
Helping People to Meet God • Make Friends • Grow in Faith
Posts by Rusty (Page 20)
It has been an interesting experience facilitating Sunday Kids on zoom. Activities and acknowledging the different contributions that children make spontaneously has been quite challenging. It was great to have parents involved last week with the group who came on from Church as they were able to help the smaller children with some of the activities. I hope the parents were able…
I was looking through my bookshelf and came across Life Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh. They are very light-hearted, but also make a lot of sense. A LESSON IN DOING NOTHING “Where are we going?” said Pooh. “ Nowhere,” said Christopher Robin. So they began going there, and after they had walked a little way Christopher Robin said: “What do you like doing best…
Once when Jesus was criticised for healing someone on the Sabbath, He responded ‘My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I too am working’ (John 5: 16). It seems we don’t often stop to consider what God ‘does’ in His work. Is He Himself above working? What does He do then? There are many instances in the…
Since we have been in lockdown there has been a revival of bread making. We have seen an absence of baking essentials (flour, yeast, baking powder etc) from our supermarket shelves. I have been enjoying trying out new recipes, kneading the dough and that wonderful smell emanating from the oven. Takes me back to my childhood when Saturday was baking day for…
‘We are often troubled but not crushed Sometimes in doubt, but never in despair There are many enemies But we are never without a friend And though badly hurt at times we are not destroyed At all times we carry in our mortal bodies the death of Jesus So that His life also may be seen in our bodies.‘ 2 Corinthians 4:…
Of the online memes doing the rounds on our social media this week, this one caught my eye. Have a read… It got me thinking about perspective and the broad sweep of God’s plan, story and narrative (something we explored together last Saturday as the power of story and metaphor in God’s quiver of communication tools). Our society today is said to…
The day we returned to New Zealand from Switzerland, an old family friend died. I was the executor of the estate, so she must have had some trust in me. I had not seen her for nearly three years, but I did go to her funeral. At the funeral we were given a packet of wildflower seeds, but somehow I never had…
God can do anything. People are not able to achieve anything but because we have been given free will and many abilities we can do a lot. Nowadays, with so many difficulties and problems challenging the people(s) of Earth we need to keep faith in God and a sense of optimism is required as well, I believe, or sometimes we could have…
Aren’t lenses amazing things? Not only do they enable us to see clearly with the aid of our glasses, but they reveal so much more to us besides, whether through hand-held lenses, optical microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, or electron microscopes. When I was a child, my parents gave me a microscope one Christmas. That amazing present opened up new worlds for me. I…