Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31
- Back in Paris; truly Africa rocks, always has, always will. #
- Reminiscing on Africa, the sights, smells, sounds and flavours of a continent pulsating with energy, passion and incredible faith. #
- A Harvard Business Review article reports that women leaders are rated equal to men in every way save in casting vision. Thought provoking. # Read more
What’s your story?
I sit in the brasserie cum café at the corner of rue Lecourbe and bvd Garibaldi , traffic is busy as usual. I am sipping some safe tea (safe tea is simple basic tea I can ask for anywhere confident that it will be decent; tea is not a French thing, there are few places in Paris where I can be assured of getting a memorable cup), my lunch partner has left for a quick appointment at the Indian embassy and my afternoon meeting starts in one hour. Time to kill, time to sit looking and thinking, watching people go by and wondering, wondering what their story is.
A man walks in sporting a multicoloured cape and dark sunglasses with longish black hair. The waiter comes back in after smoking his cigarette outside in the sun, a girl walks briskly by still sporting a leather jacket (it’s that mid season when you never quite know if you can afford to bare your arms without catching a cold), three thin women in their early sixties, smart but casually dressed speak animatedly, two thirty something business types, in dark suits, stroll along the opposite pavement, a woman sits outside sipping coffee and smoking, an empty stroller in front of her, I wonder, where is the baby?
Amazing grace – Amazing story
This has to be one of the most moving and inspiring clips ever. Bless you Whintley Phipps.
Loving Leviticus
As part of our Bble in one year project, we today conclude the book of Leviticus. It is possibly the least favourite book of the Bible for large numbers of Christians with its catalogue of sacrifices, laws, rituals that seem so totally alien to us and somewhat incomprehensible. But Leviticus is a fascinating book, true, the accounts of sacrifices can get rather tedious but it offers a penetrating insight into the pre-Christ context of the people of God and the rigorous efforts required to maintain some degree of purity to approach a holy God.
Indeed the book is all about the pursuit of holiness. The key verses repeatedly intone ‘be holy for I am holy’. It is that understanding that is key to chewing on this book. The root word for holiness comes up some 150 times in the book. Astounding! After the catastrophe of the fall, God found a man through whom to bring forth a people who would be a holy people, separate from the mess and morass in the wicked and idolatrous world surrounding them. Israel was a microcosm, a representation of humanity under God, through whom God would come to humanity in the Person of the Messiah. Read more
Declutter your life
I have been spring cleaning. Right now, my office is pristine, well, in relative terms. I have cleared piles of equipment junk, boxes, drawers and the like out of my home office and into my minute hallway awaiting shipment either to the cellar or to the bin. I finally got the old fax machine out too. It always seemed as if i would still need it, or my brother would want it, even though he took one disdainful look at it almost two years ago and declared that he had no use for it; the boxes that sundry equipment came in went too.
Now I walk into my office and i am greeted by an impression of light, space and ease. There are still some drawers to be emptied, books to be sorted, (but then i always have books to sort, too many of them and too little bookshelf space); yet the overall feeling is one of well being. I like it, I like it very much. I feel more creative, more at ease, and i wonder how i managed to live with all that clutter for so long.
Our lives are like that. We keep them cluttered with odds and ends, broken down relationships, unneeded antagonisms, emotions that have exceeded their sell by date, behaviour that belonged in the antediluvian age, s Read more
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17
- Truly silver hair is a woman’s crowning glory. #
- Listening to Hercule Poirot, sipping tea and munching puff puff, while poring over accounts; totally unglamorous but necessary. #
- Something GOOD is going to happen today. #
- Woo, yet a fresh day asking to be woven into a beautiful tapestry of unforgettable memories. Let’s do it. #
- Someone needs to hear this; don’t give up that dream. It’s not too much, chances are it’s too small. It will come if you don’t let go! #
- EM Bounds famously wrote that the church is looking for better methods, while God is looking for better men. Oh for better men in the pulpit #
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The Theophilus Company,
ABBA HOUSE, Paris,
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