Lent can be a bit like New Year, you make promises to yourself - and sometimes to others. Plans always seem easy, it's when you begin to do the things you plan that reality kicks in. Change can be awkward to manage simply because it is change, you need to make room for it.
So today I have steeled myself and began as I intend to carry on. No great secret, just determination and effort. It may sound dramatic but it's the only alternative to the ever present easy options that surround me. No amount of groups or books will help me if I will not help myself first. Many of the people that Jesus met personally had suddenly realised that they had deep needs and had chosen to do something about it.
Every journey starts - if it ever starts - with a first footstep. Many people though never take the first step, finding change just too hard. The good news is that the next step is easier and with each passing step the journey gets shorter. So if you are sitting on the fence reading this hop off and walk along with me on my journey this Lent, I would relish the company.
Peace Dave.
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
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Made it !
Another fresh new year and another chance to pick up the reins, so's to speak. Lots of challenges and problems too I'm sure. No matter, we are still here and so long as we are we can carry on. But with one change, lets carry on better. What ever we do, when ever we do it, who ever we do it to or for, lets try to do it better. Iv'e added a poem called The Future which is for all the people who can't believe it's 2007 or never thought they'd live this long or see so much.
Happy New Year !
The Future.
Well here we are,
Where we all wanted to be.
Far from the life we knew,
In the time we all thought we’d never live to see.
All our old friends behind us,
Laid in the folds of life.
Echoes from our journey,
Sometimes crying joy, sometimes screaming strife.
Luxuries all around us,
Pastel shades and shining chrome.
Central locking, ninety channels,
Credit histories chipped and pinned on every home.
A communication satellite flies,
Where we expected Dan Dare.
Leisure time is loaded with stress,
Fast food single parent families dashing every where.
The future has arrived,
It brought wrinkles and old age.
Muddied the dreams we cherished,
Fudged the present and made itself harder to gauge.
Peace Dave
Another fresh new year and another chance to pick up the reins, so's to speak. Lots of challenges and problems too I'm sure. No matter, we are still here and so long as we are we can carry on. But with one change, lets carry on better. What ever we do, when ever we do it, who ever we do it to or for, lets try to do it better. Iv'e added a poem called The Future which is for all the people who can't believe it's 2007 or never thought they'd live this long or see so much.
Happy New Year !
The Future.
Well here we are,
Where we all wanted to be.
Far from the life we knew,
In the time we all thought we’d never live to see.
All our old friends behind us,
Laid in the folds of life.
Echoes from our journey,
Sometimes crying joy, sometimes screaming strife.
Luxuries all around us,
Pastel shades and shining chrome.
Central locking, ninety channels,
Credit histories chipped and pinned on every home.
A communication satellite flies,
Where we expected Dan Dare.
Leisure time is loaded with stress,
Fast food single parent families dashing every where.
The future has arrived,
It brought wrinkles and old age.
Muddied the dreams we cherished,
Fudged the present and made itself harder to gauge.
Peace Dave
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