Old Rose.

I have finally got the old green car through the M.O.T,much against everyones advice, mostly that because it as old i would spend more money on it than it was worth, which i have! but i just love it it felt like a member of the family, and although i have another newer car, which is a wonderful Jeep and very useful and reliable on long journeys,God told me to buy the old green car in 2001, and only one thing has every gone wrong with the engine in all that time! God has not told me to get rid of it, and i guess i am being too sentimental,but it was always such a blessing to me, because all the cars i had before that were just money pits, and were always breaking down on me!!. I have been 'Husky proofing' the garden today,which meant putting some recycled chain link fencing aroung the corner of the Hedge where here are gaps as that is a really old hedge too, and i was able to bend an old rose bush more into view at the same time, when we moved into this house, 30 yr ago, the Garden was full of Roses,we got rid of them and planted grass for the kids to play on,but this Rose is in the midst of the Hedge so must have got missed, it may not even have been planted by the previous occupants, its red lovely in the summer and hardly ever been cut back, so just looks after itself!its got to be 30 years old if not more...strange but very nice to know that Nature "will out"( as Jeff Goldblums Chracter says on Jurasic Park!!They use Frog D.N.A to fill in the gaps to clone the Dinosaurs, and some frogs can change Sex if need be, and thats how the Males are produced, as all the Dinosaurs were made only Female). One day this week i got 400 views on this blog....strange! but nice i guess!..May God bless every one of those people who view here!

Forty Bibles.

Exciting days! i was at a Bike show in a town near here on sunday, only managed to talk to one person and give out one Bible!!,but they managed to give out about 40 bibles over the whole weekend!! so Praise the Lord for that! and He will make sure every Bible impacts someone, because as the Bible says, "His word does not return void" Brian was just amazing, despite having a full time job he was at the show for three whole days.I missed Andres wedding because Ben didnt get up early enough, it was my fault too as i didnt arrange things better, but he and Josetta are going to come up to visit us so i will have a chance to meet her! God is Good! all the time!

Family, and everyone sharing

I was reading a book years ago about Abraham searching for the "City of God", and this book is a kind of modern Pilgrims progress,i will try to find it and give some quotes at some point but yesterday one thing that struck me was Chris saying that we at the meeting last night were all family....such a simple statement but it really describes what a true church should be...more later!

up a gear and new Zeal

Well it has really been an exciting week, things have gone "up a gear", there is a new Zeal in the Local C.M.A, God is moving,there is a new season coming up of shows and the oportunity to witness on the C.M.A stands, to tell others what God has done for us, and what He can do for others too, that there is more to life,forgiveness, and a wonderful life living with Him, its all good! but most of all God is good! Praise Him

Floorboards and loving relationships

I have been replacing some floorboards in my Victorian terrace house,and thinking about the lessons the Lord was teaching me at the same time,back to C.S.Lewis, and his in between places again,he talks about it in the book"the magicians nephew",the children go into the attic of their Victorian terrace, through which they can access some of the other houses, and instead of getting into another one they get into the Uncles Room by mistake, where he experiments on them by sending them to an "in between wood" full of pools which takes them into other worlds, the place is described as not really existing in time but almost a stopping of time, and not being a part of the worlds at all, like the attic above their houses,not a place where anything happens,but connecting all.
This made me think of these tiny insects, smaller than a grain of rice, that have been eating away in the floor underneath me, for the 30 years I have lived here and all the others who lived here in the past 120 years, it's like Sin,it's there working away silently undermining us,
I have to go to the Lord many times and pray that HE will take away the Sin I have forgotten,the bad thoughts about Howard,the everyday irritations, that instead of bringing to the Cross,I don't take captive,and it's there working away!I commented on a blog about a book I read years ago, "Women who love too much",I couldn't remember much about it except the phrase "today I am choosing to" which was a sort of stock phrase to use when we were trying to not react to someone else's unjust actions, not taking responsibility for them.
I found it again today but the most remarkable part was a description of a normal supporting relationship, both ways anyway! The man was interested in her well being supportive, of her interests, always there to rely on! Amazing stuff!! "I remember Howard once saying he "would let me" do a course.....LET ME ...LET ME! Now I let myself,I let myself thrive, survive, be free to do what I want when I want, and one of those freedoms is NOT TO HAVE HIM around, how ever many times he try's!!Praise God for His Love and freedom!

Better off in Eygpt?

As usual i am sitting here with no iea what to write!!..Last night OF COURSE when i was lying in bed. unable to sleep i had planned exactly what to say!! and to talk about in the meeting on Monday night....ahh coming back to me now, i was reading the bible study for yesterday (in my one year bible, because my ipad was dead AS USUAL,) and my phone need charging, so i couldn't read it on the daily email!! It was Exodus just before the Lord gives them the ten commandments,Moses has gone up Mount Sinai and has ordered them to gather at the Bottom,they are told not to go up the mountain,to wash themselves and their clothes,...and the trumpeting starts, and gets louder and louder!! to the point where it is deafening,He then gives out the rules for life, the Commandments, what struck me most though that this wasn't long after they had left Eygpt.So they had seen the Red sea Part, they had heard the HEAVENLY trumpeting, and yet they were still moaning that they would be better off in slavery in Eygypt!!! SO after seeing the miracles how could they challenge the Will of God? and doubt His care for them?? Later Moses gets so exasperated with them that he loses His temper, which causes him not to be allowed to enter the Promised land, which leads me to another thought.Moses spent his entire life outside the promised land which was supposed to be flowing with "milk and honey"...he spent most of his life in Eygpt, and the lands of the un-believers, and yet because of the burning bush,He had turned to the Lord, we are the same because most of the countries we live in claim to be "Christian",we are very much in an un-believing word, and yet his faith was amazing!!