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grasshopper stupidity
For example, Moses sent 12 spies into the Promised Land to develop a plan to inhabit their inheritance. But 10 spies came back with a bad report: “There we saw the giants… and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:33 NKJV). Consequently, the Israelites became…
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Revive me
Are We Ready?Rodney Gypsy Smith was a famous revivalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He travelled up and down Britain, crossed the Atlantic 45 times (no easy task in those days!) and met with two different presidentsat the White House. He preached to millions of people and saw many respond to Jesus.…
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Trauma haunts worlds
For most survivors, life is no longer the same after trauma. Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer makes this point well: The survivor does not travel a road from the normal to the bizarre back to the normal again . . . but from the normal to the bizarre back to a normalcy so permeated by the bizarre encounter…
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Still held prisoner
An issue of the journal Spirituality and health had on its front cover a picture of three US ex-servicemen standing in front of the Vietnam memorial in Washington DC. One asks, “Have you forgiven those who held you prisoner of war?” “I will never forgive them,” replies the other. his mates says, “Then it seems…
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What forgiveness does not mean
Forgiveness doe not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what has happened seriously; drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens to poison our entire existence. It involves trying to understand the perpetrators and so have empathy, to try to stand in their shoes and to appreciate the sort fo pressures…
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God believes in you
A rustic Russian priest was accosted by a brash young phyciist who rehearsed all the reasons for atheism and arrogantly went on, “Therefore I do not believe in God.” The little priest, not put off at all, replied quietly, “oh it doesn’t matter. God believes in you.” Desmond Tutu – 0712604855Click to TweetFrom the book…