4Ü #281
Three cheers for tough times
7 June 2007
- WASSUP - Making Space
- INSIGHT OUT - First impressions
- OUTSIGHT IN - Three cheers for tough times
- SEE YA SUNDAY - Soul Quest: Epic - the wilderness
- LAST WORD - The record of History
WASSUP - Making space
The problem is not entirely the room of one's own, the time alone, difficult and necessary as that is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of all its activities
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
Although I say, "I'm thinking of you"
It's hard
Because at the same time
I'm trying to cut out some space for my own thoughts
Stillness in the midst of all its activities
Maybe
Just maybe
As you and I find our space alone
We just might find each other there
Andrew
INSIGHT OUT - First impressions
First impressions are made in the first 50 milliseconds according to recent research from Carleton University in Ottawa.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060109/full/060109-13.html
In a study on how people use internet it was discovered that people make their decisions in the blink of an eye as to what web page they will or not look at.
The old saying, "don't judge a book by its cover" is well and truly obsolete. Decisions are being made faster and with less objective data than ever before. It's all in the eye of the beholder!
The implications of this are staggering. Everything rises and falls on what people's first impressions are of you and your business. You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
OUTSIGHT IN - Three cheers for tough times
I know you don't want to hear this but hear me out
Three cheers for tough times when ...
I saw clearer than ever before
though in pain I felt fully alive
I grew
I felt the embrace of God
The spiritual world ... cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier, and if we would live in it, we must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed.
Howard R. Macy
Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay close attention. They are not only telling you about something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go next.
Frederick Buechner Whistling in the dark
I think I shall always remember this black period with a kind of joy, with a pride and faith and deep affection that I could not at the time have believed possible, for it was during this time that somehow I survived defeat and lived my life to a fast completion, and through the struggle, suffering and labour of my own life came to share some of those qualities in the lives of people all around me.
Thomas Wolfe
SEE YA SUNDAY - Soul Quest: Epic - The Wilderness
This Friday night: 7.30 pm
You are most welcome to join us as part of the Careforce conference
See www.careforcelifekeys.org
Sunday, 8.30 & 10.30
This Sunday you'll be encouraged, moved and inspired by Helen Meyer as she shares some of her remarkable story of God turning brokenness into wholeness.
The sub plot: If you want to experience God let him touch the places in your life that hurt the most.
Soul Quest
This series explores how you can know God without selling your soul. Many people have a concept that becoming a Christian is all about becoming a stranger to themselves, this could be further from the truth. It's about becoming more authentic to who you really are! God has designed you to know him. The clues to knowing God are already in you.
If you would like tape or CD copies of the messages at St Columba to pass on to others please make your request by reply to the email. There is a nominal charge for this.
Sunday evening - Canvas - this week with Matt Chapman @ 7pm
Can't wait ... see ya Sunday
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 - The record of History
Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the record of history?
Cicero
Thank God for Historians!