Life Focus
Make a difference
26/11/10
Recently a National Volunteer Charity launched a “make a difference day” campaign. Their goal - to try to challenge everyone to do something to make a difference. The Watering Hole decided to respond to this challenge for the benefit of our local community. I was thrilled to find people from the age of 5 - 55 years volunteering and working together to achieve something worthwhile. We decorated and painted a mural on two changing rooms, weeded, dug and planted a flowerbed outside our Community Centre as well as raising money for a cancer charity. As we worked together it did something for the volunteers relationship. In spite of tiredness, mud and rain we felt connected. At the end of the various projects there was also a tremendous satisfaction and sense of achievement. I felt it not only made a difference to the surroundings but that we too had been changed by the experience. Read More...
My new kitchen
22/08/10
My new kitchen
Having recently moved house I knew I needed a new kitchen. But, before the new kitchen could be installed, a door and window would have to come out,
the boiler replaced and repositioned which then meant adjustments to the shower and upstairs radiators. The whole job seemed to be getting more complicated, messy and expensive by the minute.
After four weeks of mess, muddle and chaos I am just beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel. A few days ago I started using my brand new cooker - simple, home-cooked food never tasted so good after endless trips to the chip shop, Pizza Hut and Chinese take-aways. I thought I would never get tired of running my hands over the shiny new worktops and turning on fancy new taps BUT already I seem to be taking them for granted and the buzz is fading. The only thing that is not fading away is the bank loan to make all this possible!
In John chapter 6 Jesus suggests that we need to focus our attention, time and money on things that will have lasting appeal. He invites us to check out, then dare to begin, a life spent in a friendship with Him that will deeply satisfy and bring lasting benefits.
Having recently moved house I knew I needed a new kitchen. But, before the new kitchen could be installed, a door and window would have to come out,
After four weeks of mess, muddle and chaos I am just beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel. A few days ago I started using my brand new cooker - simple, home-cooked food never tasted so good after endless trips to the chip shop, Pizza Hut and Chinese take-aways. I thought I would never get tired of running my hands over the shiny new worktops and turning on fancy new taps BUT already I seem to be taking them for granted and the buzz is fading. The only thing that is not fading away is the bank loan to make all this possible!
In John chapter 6 Jesus suggests that we need to focus our attention, time and money on things that will have lasting appeal. He invites us to check out, then dare to begin, a life spent in a friendship with Him that will deeply satisfy and bring lasting benefits.