A reformulation of the ‘Footprints in the Sand‘ poem as a limerick: There was a man who, at low tideWould walk with the Lord by his sideJesus said “Now look back;You’ll see one set of tracks.That’s when you got a piggy-back ride.”{source} Great to see it distilled down but still retaining its meaning. Reminded me of this Savage Chickens cartoon…
In our Home Group we’ve been exploring the Kingdom of God and trying to re-establish our vision of what ‘the Kingdom of God’ means. Just after our second session in which we looked at Matthew 7:21 (“not everyone who says ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom…”) I found the following ‘parable’ by Pete Rollins which really backed-up what we’d been…
Continuing the series: I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. – Maya Angelou
Continuing the series: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King
Continuing the series: The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi
The True Meaning of Christmas (tags: Christmas youthwork media) Spikyheaded – Spider Web. (tags: games youthwork resources) Balancing 17 dominoes on 1! (tags: funny youthwork game dominoes)
Continuing the series: The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
Continuing the series: Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. – Al Franken
Continuing the series: Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. – Ernest Hemingway
Continuing the series: A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. – Albert Schweitzer
Continuing the series (after a week off): Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. – Goethe