4Ü #201
Goodbye to a hero
15 September 2005
- WASSUP - Goodbye to a hero
- INSIGHT OUT - If words were silenced
- OUTSIGHT IN - Write off
- SEE YA SUNDAY - Where life and faith meet
- LAST WORD - Out beyond ideas
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WASSUP - Goodbye to a hero
This week I've said goodbye to one of my heroes.
The master of no fuss!
The verse says, "young men will see visions and old men will dream dreams;" Don never gave up on being a visionary. He could out do any young man's vision. The most visionary man I've ever known, he was always building for tomorrow. He could see things in the future that no one else dared to see.
He was a man of detail. No kite can ever fly without a string; no vision can become a reality without a plan of action.
Don had the ability to make great kites fly! Detail, detail, detail!
He always signed on; never signed out.
Ideas and words were not enough, he gave his body, heart and soul.
Don was a man who followed Jesus; his words and actions bare the hallmarks of one who has spent time in the presence of God.
Well done good and faithful servant.
INSIGHT OUT - If words were silenced
How easy it is to trip over your own words.
They flow from your lips like honey
yet fall to the ground like rocks,
waiting for your return trip
Imagine for a moment if words were silenced
became incarnate in hands, heart and feet
where love becomes a noun
the word becomes flesh
It now becomes a question of not what but who
it is that you may trip over
watch where you walk
for the path has already been set
by your talk
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence.
1 John 3:18-19
"The stone rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone.
All who stumble over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."Luke 20:17-18
OUTSIGHT IN - Write off
NEW! Write off: So many words, too little sense
It's one of the great curiosities of business writing today that so many organizations seem obsessed with communicating at the expense of commonsense, comprehension and, in the worst cases, plain truth. Everybody, it seems, wants us to listen. What so many aren't able to do is make sense. From annual reports to corporate literature, sales brochures to the web, the whole world's disclosing in writing. It's just that, too often, the writing itself puts you to sleep. But it doesn't have to be this way!
http://www.audacity.co.nz/articleRead.asp?articleID=2
Sorry this is not an original piece this week, but I'm sure you will find Mark a good read
SEE YA SUNDAY - Where life and faith meet
This Sunday morning:
8.30am: The Great Hymns of Faith - A special service of hymns of faith and personal stories
10.30am: Where Life and Faith Meet - music and personal stories of faith
This Sunday evening - The Ride at 5.30pm: Faith @ Work - "A life dedicated to God" - Mark Campbell
Thanks for this time to chat.
Andrew
St Columba
Where Life and Faith Meet
andrew.norton@stcolumba.org.nz
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LAST WORD - Out beyond ideas
Out beyond ideas
of wrong-doing and right-doing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.Out beyond ideas
of wrong-doing and right-doing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase
each other, doesn't make any sense.Jalaludin Rumi
Translated by: Coleman Barks and John Moyne