I’ve found it! Well someone did.....and handed it into the police. Amazing!
I rang them today and asked if anyone had handed in a wedding ring since last Friday night, and would you believe it someone had the following day. They found it near to where I thought I had dropped it. To be honest I wasn’t expecting this kind of good news when I called - but what a great surprise!
I had to go to the police station this afternoon for a ‘fitting’.....and it was mine!!
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
The Ring Goes South
'The ring betrayed me and was lost forever....'
I lost my wedding ring at the weekend. It just slipped right off my finger. Unfortunately I was out in the town centre at the time and when I went back to look for it I could not see it anywhere. I was gutted!
Jane says she will buy me another one for my birthday....which isn't too far away.
I lost my wedding ring at the weekend. It just slipped right off my finger. Unfortunately I was out in the town centre at the time and when I went back to look for it I could not see it anywhere. I was gutted!
Jane says she will buy me another one for my birthday....which isn't too far away.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Connect Group
Some thoughts we will be discussing tonight in our Connect Group (from notes taken from my Pastor, Paul Benger's recent series in church)
Going to the Next Level
Colossians 1:11-14 (11) 'We also pray that you will be strengthened with his glorious power so that you will have all the patience and endurance you need. May you be filled with joy, (12) always thanking the Father, who has enabled you to share the inheritance that belongs to God's holy people, who live in the light. (13) For he has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. (14) God has purchased our freedom with his blood and has forgiven all our sins.
‘Most mountain climbers die coming down the mountain not on the way up!’ - Have the right tools for the job, for the climb. 4 tools for the climb...
1. Patience and endurance
2. Joy
3. Gratitude (thanksgiving)
4. Theology - what you believe and why you believe it!
KEY: What you believe. Unless we believe right/think right...not dependant on FEELINGS!
Colossians 1:13-14 - God has rescued us/saved us. The Devil wants to rob us....the thief comes to steal and destroy.
Often our FEELINGS control us – forget that! Know the TRUTH – God as rescued us! CHANGE YOUR THINKING.
Our feelings might not change – but we don’t live by our feelings. We are FREE. Live by your beliefs not your feelings!
Ephesians 5:17 – Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.
Philippians 2:5 – Let this mind be in YOU (Christ’s attitude)
Questions for discussion:
What do we feel about Monday mornings? What are we like? (positive/negative)
Are we glass half-full or glass half-empty people?
How can we change our thinking? (if it needs to change)
What is the difference between belief (theology) and feelings?
What kind of things characterise those who live by FEELINGS and those who live their BELIEFS?
Going to the Next Level
Colossians 1:11-14 (11) 'We also pray that you will be strengthened with his glorious power so that you will have all the patience and endurance you need. May you be filled with joy, (12) always thanking the Father, who has enabled you to share the inheritance that belongs to God's holy people, who live in the light. (13) For he has rescued us from the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son. (14) God has purchased our freedom with his blood and has forgiven all our sins.
‘Most mountain climbers die coming down the mountain not on the way up!’ - Have the right tools for the job, for the climb. 4 tools for the climb...
1. Patience and endurance
2. Joy
3. Gratitude (thanksgiving)
4. Theology - what you believe and why you believe it!
KEY: What you believe. Unless we believe right/think right...not dependant on FEELINGS!
Colossians 1:13-14 - God has rescued us/saved us. The Devil wants to rob us....the thief comes to steal and destroy.
Often our FEELINGS control us – forget that! Know the TRUTH – God as rescued us! CHANGE YOUR THINKING.
Our feelings might not change – but we don’t live by our feelings. We are FREE. Live by your beliefs not your feelings!
Ephesians 5:17 – Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.
Philippians 2:5 – Let this mind be in YOU (Christ’s attitude)
Questions for discussion:
What do we feel about Monday mornings? What are we like? (positive/negative)
Are we glass half-full or glass half-empty people?
How can we change our thinking? (if it needs to change)
What is the difference between belief (theology) and feelings?
What kind of things characterise those who live by FEELINGS and those who live their BELIEFS?
Monday, March 21, 2005
Hire Sunny! Fire Gloomy!
This just popped into my in-box from a friend. 'A daily thought from Tom Peters'
Hire/Promote those with....Sunny Dispositions
Fire those with perpetually....Gloomy Dispositions
(Hint: The farther Up the Organization you go, the more important this gets)
(Rule: Leaders are not permitted to have "bad days" … especially on Bad Days!)
(Rule: One Sad Dog can Infect a group of 100)
(Rule: One Energetic, Optimistic, Sunny Soul can motivate an Army to Move a Mountain)
Hire/Promote those with....Sunny Dispositions
Fire those with perpetually....Gloomy Dispositions
(Hint: The farther Up the Organization you go, the more important this gets)
(Rule: Leaders are not permitted to have "bad days" … especially on Bad Days!)
(Rule: One Sad Dog can Infect a group of 100)
(Rule: One Energetic, Optimistic, Sunny Soul can motivate an Army to Move a Mountain)
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Monday, March 14, 2005
The Hobbit....four years away?
Read....hopefully this will become a reality although there are a number of hurdles to get over yet.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Go to the Ant...
Intriguing article from the BBC.
Here’s an excerpt...
When our present technology-driven society considers the ant, the aim is not to find moral guidance or to admire a perfect political system, but to gather clues that will help us to solve technical problems.
In the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the University of the West of England, Dr Chris Melhuish presides over a fleet of "U-bots".
A U-bot is a foot-high robot which glides around an arena on castors, carrying a U-shaped scoop in front of it. It is a very stupid robot, because it carries only three instructions:
1. If nothing is happening, keep moving.
2. If you hit a large obstacle, take a turn and keep moving.
3. If you've got a little something in your scoop, and you hit another little something, drop what you've got, take a turn and keep moving.
Following only those instructions, Dr Melhuish's robots, given enough time, can gather together a randomly distributed collection of frisbees and assemble them in a pile in the centre of the arena.
Here’s an excerpt...
When our present technology-driven society considers the ant, the aim is not to find moral guidance or to admire a perfect political system, but to gather clues that will help us to solve technical problems.
In the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the University of the West of England, Dr Chris Melhuish presides over a fleet of "U-bots".
A U-bot is a foot-high robot which glides around an arena on castors, carrying a U-shaped scoop in front of it. It is a very stupid robot, because it carries only three instructions:
1. If nothing is happening, keep moving.
2. If you hit a large obstacle, take a turn and keep moving.
3. If you've got a little something in your scoop, and you hit another little something, drop what you've got, take a turn and keep moving.
Following only those instructions, Dr Melhuish's robots, given enough time, can gather together a randomly distributed collection of frisbees and assemble them in a pile in the centre of the arena.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Questionable Analogies
Jane was toast, and not the light buttery kind, nay, she was the kind that's been charred and blackened in the bottom of the toaster and has to be thrown a away because no matter how much of the burnt part you scrape off with a knife, there's always more blackened toast beneath, the kind that not even starving birds in winter will eat, that kind of toast.
Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
As Fiona slowly drew the heavy velvet curtain aside, her eyes smouldered black, deep, and dark as inside the lungs of a coal miner, although it would be black in anyone's lungs if you could get in there because there wouldn't be any light, even in the pink ones of people who don't smoke.
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
As Fiona slowly drew the heavy velvet curtain aside, her eyes smouldered black, deep, and dark as inside the lungs of a coal miner, although it would be black in anyone's lungs if you could get in there because there wouldn't be any light, even in the pink ones of people who don't smoke.
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
The Da Vinci Code
I'm about to start reading this ‘controversial’ novel. It has caused quite a stir in Christian circles...I will have to see what all the fuss is about. Here’s an interesting article at Christianity Today.
Apparently it is going to be made into a movie directed by Ron Howard and possibly starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon although the enigmatic Russell Crowe was considered for the role. News about the movie here.
Apparently it is going to be made into a movie directed by Ron Howard and possibly starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon although the enigmatic Russell Crowe was considered for the role. News about the movie here.
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