Optimising connectivity for everyday life

C4L Boosters are here to help you in the spiritual lift-off stage and to bring vital boosters to keep you in the best orbit on your journey. Unafraid to tackle any topic, C4L Boosters are designed for you to connect securely with God, for this is your call to pursue.

Exile

At its simplest, life is one entry and one exit! Whether or not the exit leads to a permanent exile depends on whether there has been a second entry – some will understand this but it will be explained later for anyone who is puzzled by it. Exile can be understood in various ways but…
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Lent

How very old-fashioned and religious some might say – perhaps they are right! And yet, is there something here that is misunderstood, something worth investigating to be salvaged, ‘contextualised’ and re-understood for our times? Lent used to be about giving up biscuits and chocolates, religiously! There’s something here of an internal struggle that goes on…
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Work – Life Balance

Balancing priorities in life is a skill that many of us get wrong at some point. Even as children, there will be some who are driven by parental expectations or personal obsession to study and not play.
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Advocacy

Have you ever needed someone to speak up for you? It could have been informally in a social setting or even in a family. Perhaps you’e needed it in a formal setting of a work tribunal or law court? Unless an advocate will be listened to and cares enough to intervene on your behalf for…
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Atheism Revisited

The sad truth is that landslides result in many deaths the world over every year, sometimes wiping out whole communities – 2000 people were killed by one in Peru in 1962. The most common cause is erosion which leads to loss of stable ground and then to a collapse just as with this cliff face.…
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Unchanging

Wind and weather come together – one brings the other. What they both have in common is that they are very changeable and unpredictable even to the best red-faced forecasters. If a weather vane cannot be relied upon as an accurate weather forecaster, then something that is a fixed point is needed for safe navigation…
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Inner Torment

This looks to be a psychotic crab with an identity crisis! Have you ever struggled with an inner anguish? Such an internal storm may be invisible to those outside or there may be tell-tale signs in one’s behaviour. When extreme, it is a dangerous state making a person vulnerable to feelings of worthlessness, self-harming and…
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Barriers and Breakthroughs

There are many different kinds of barriers which can have either a positive or negative effect. These old groynes were intended to stop coastline erosion and protect beach habitat. As you see, they are now broken down in many places and no longer really functional. The word groyne (groin in the USA) comes from the…
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Faith shipwrecked

Lake Erie is a huge stretch of water at 241 miles long by 57 miles wide and 210 feet in depth at its deepest point. It is the fourth largest of North America’s five Great Lakes and the eleventh largest in the world. It can be navigated safely and yet it has over 2000 shipwrecks…
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In His Steps

Cement is not meant to be walked in! However, these steps and pawprints reflect the love and faithfulness of this dog for its master which is saved for posterity! In the old carol about Good King Wenceslas, we see the monarch and his page stepping out in harsh cold weather to show kindness to a…
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Sacrifice

This tree is seen in its natural beauty before being cut to become a centrepiece for Christmas festivities – unlike the chicken laying an egg, the Christmas Tree is more akin to a pig sacrificing everything for the bacon! Every year, many households across the nations like to bring in a conifer like this to…
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Your Story

If you were to ask Vincent Van Gogh about his life story, you would either get a complex answer or a picture like ‘The Starry Night’. He was the son of a pastor and wanted to become a minister but his complicated road led him instead to serve God through artistic expression, as he said:…
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Feeling Invisible?

The world-famous Kew Gardens holds many wonders from the natural world which are easily missed because there are so many of them in one place. It also has beautiful and thought-provoking internal exhibitions within the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. This photo shows one of them – thousands of tiny metal intricately shaped trees…
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Living on the Edge

Life on the edge is where explorers, astronauts and extreme athletes choose to live. It is demanding and risky which is why they are so admired. Yet in another sense, we all live on some edge – it could be financial constraints, health limitations, emotional well-being or our personal abilities. These all will ebb and…
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What to do?

There’s a pithy saying: ‘If in doubt, don’t!’ That is the safer way to play it, especially if it comes to working with electricity as you may have discovered. Rewiring a house is a job for a trained electrician and not for a willing amateur! The opposite approach is taken by some with likely dire…
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