The silence treatment..

Silence can just be the solution to many of our problems. Maybe we blow the trumpet a little bit earlier than we should. Maybe we are too arrogant to think about our actions, i mean, we are always right, right?

I set out to write this post some time last year, and i just left it at the first paragraph. So now when I was looking at it, i just wondered why?

Of course, we are human, and we react rather than respond to situations as they arise. Sometimes, the way we react usually is in bad taste. It is impulse reaction, and it can cause more damage than good. I was just reflecting on the book of James 3, and I realsied that the tongue indeed needs to be tamed.

...and hearing the word of God

So, just recently I sought to get back to reading the bible, from the very beginning. Well, I didn't. I ommitted the very first chapters and began reading from Genesis 9.

My issue is not really that I read the bible, but it is the conscious decision I made that I was going to try and read through a book and finish it and grasp the concept of where we are coming from and where we are going to, to find the premises and roots of all the figures we get later and deeper into the bible's pages.

It was quiet interesting, revealing and exposing at the same time going through the first book of the bible.

Does God Still Speak to Ordinary People?

August 3, 2010 Glynnis Whitwer

"All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things

and will remind you of everything I have said to you." John 14:25-26 (NIV)

Devotion:

The Bible tells amazing stories of God speaking directly to humans. God walked and talked with Adam. He spoke through a burning bush to Moses, and God had direct messages for His people after speaking with the prophets of old. Growing up, I wondered if God had stopped speaking to normal people after Bible times. After all, I never heard Him speak.

GOD IS FAITHFUL

So many things have been happening lately - and especially this week. Just the week of my birthday was a milestone I guess. I had a particular heaviness in me and today, I am happy, but this happiness is also mixed with some grief. If this office was empty right now, i would cry my heart out and scream for joy, at the same time, praising loudly my God for ever being so faithful.

It sounds crazy I know that one can be sad and excited, jovial, happy at the same time. Like I always tell myself, God has a plan for all of us. We might not know it but the plan is always there.

That explains it...or does it?

A couple of das ago, i was burdened and felt sad, was it because I had a premonition of the theft that took place this morning at my house? Maybe.

So I got home, unusually early, slept on the sofa as there was no electricity. I was just too exhausted and wanted an early nap, which I got. I communicated with my friend for some time, before i called it quits and slept. I woke up around 1 am and checked the time, and this was going to be the last time i saw my phone.

Reflections on a ladder

by Yvonne Mashayamombe on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3:58pm

Birthdays are meant to be fun, as one celebrates life. But today, I am not all excited, or happy or well. Not that I have no excitement or happiness or joy in me, but that I am just in a world i am not too sure where.

I have turned 24, and a lot has happened, whilst a lot more is still to happen.