Tag: generous

KEYS

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Losing a key is a real worry.  Finding it causes celebration.  You probably both know the pain of losing a key and the joy of finding it – if not yet, prepare for it! It may be a physical key or a password, perhaps even an identity. Many will want to steal what you have and exploit your loss if they can. How many keys do you carry on your keyring?  How many passwords have you had to store in your memory or somewhere else?  They all unlock something of value to you.  We are not born with a key to the meaning of life – how handy that would have been! It is something we have to search for and, if we have courage to open the door, then use. The slight difficulty is knowing which is the right key from the many alternatives – all cut precisely, maybe obviously with marked differences or possibly looking quite similar.

  • ‘Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity’ – W Clement Stone

A GENEROUS NATURE

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How often do you notice the generosity of God shown to us in nature?  Just take this wayside picture from Jersey Island, despite pouring rain, there was beauty all round and in the cobwebs knitted into the heather were seemingly dazzling jewels dripping like diamond necklaces – thrilling if we have eyes to see.  God’s nature is a generous one which can be seen in the multiplicity of acorns, conkers, chestnuts, sweetcorn, wheat, lighting, sensory abilities, herbs, fragrances, music and, of course, people.  Unsurprisingly, the generosity of his nature is unending, not least to us in the grace and mercy we find he gives us. 

BLESSINGS

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What do you see as you look around you – blessings or curses?  Is that glass half empty or half full?  Do you recall the old song with the line, ‘Count your blessings name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done’?  Blessings look like family, peace, flowers, bees, butterflies, people, food, freedom, life, breath, health and of course those wonderful fresh tomatoes – we all have many of these and some have all of them.  We start with nothing and then God just keeps pressing blessings into lives.