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Mentoring

Posted: May 3, 2013 in blogging, children, family, friendship, language, life, management, personnel characteristics, religion, school, words
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Well, just like yesterday (in Manners), I’m going to have a moan…

In many areas of our lives we can find ourselves “mentoring” others in what they should be saying and doing and how they should be saying or doing it, both at work, in our family lives as well as with our friends.

During our lifetimes, it’s been proven that we can be influenced the most when we are children. So here’s my question for you today…are you mentoring your children, and those you come into contact with, in your bad habits, or are you mentoring them in God‘s way?

politenessWhy am I asking this? Well (here’s my moan), my main reason is, just like yesterday, my concerns over the way our society has changed over the last years. It feels to me, that even during my lifetime, and I’m not that old, that the basic standards of decency and politeness have all but disappeared from our society.

Where is our respect for others?

Why are we no longer willing to help a stranger in need?

These are just a couple of questions to highlight my concerns, but the bottom line is, if we want our society to change for the better, it’s down to us to be the example of decency that others need to see. Jesus wants us to be Christ-like in all we do, so take up that challenge today by acting how Jesus would have acted, by being polite, honest, decent and caring in all you do.

I Dare You

Posted: February 24, 2013 in children, friendship, life, love, music, religion, school
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When you were younger, do you remember playing dares? Each person in turn was dared by the rest of the group to do a particular thing which they wouldn’t normally do.

I don’t know about you, but I always hated that game. Maybe it’s because I have always been quite a quiet (don’t laugh!) and shy person, but I always hated having to put myself in situations I wouldn’t normally get embroiled in, or say things to people I wouldn’t normally say.

There’s one dare however that we should all be willing to do…

Dare yourself each day to be a blessing to someone.

If God in part of our life, it should be our duty to be a blessing each day. Will you accept the challenge today?

Who Am I?

Posted: February 4, 2013 in books, celebrity, Charity, cross, death, friendship, hospital, life, love, poverty, religion, school
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who are youOf the billions and billions of people who have ever lives, there is one who stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of influence…

More schools, colleges, hospitals and orphanages have been started because of him, than because of anyone else.

More art has been created, more music written, and more humanitarian acts performed due to him and his influence than anyone else.

Great international encyclopaedias devote twenty thousand words to describing him and his influence on the world.

Even our calendar is based on his birth.

And all this he accomplished in a public ministry that lasted just three and a half years!

So who am I?

I am Jesus Christ!

Teacher

Posted: January 28, 2013 in children, friendship, life, management, music, religion, school
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ExamsDo you remember being at school and sitting exams? It was always so quiet in the exam halls wasn’t it!

Personally I always found the silence quite intimidating, so rather than it helping me concentrate, I found it distracting as every little noise seemed to be magnified 10 fold!

Could it be that life is just the same as school exams…when we’re being tested in life, our teacher, God, stays silent while we’re being tested. That of course doesn’t mean that our teacher doesn’t care how we are getting on in our test.

When we were at school, I’m sure if we’d tried to walk out on our exams, our teacher would have tried to convince us to stay and battle on through the test. Likewise in life, God may seem silent when we most need Him, but He is always there, and will help us when we need Him.

Names

Posted: January 5, 2013 in family, friendship, life, religion, school, words
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As you know my first name is Dorothy, which I have found isn’t a particularly common name, as over the years I think I’ve only ever come across two other people with that name – one was someone who went to my Sunday school and the other is a friend of my mum’s.

Today I’m just curious how many people you know with the following first names:

  • Dorothy
  • Rosalind
  • Niamh
  • Bruce
  • Declan
  • Marjory
  • Abigail
  • Malcolm
  • Kenneth
  • Victoria

Why am I asking you this? Well, as we think of specific people whether they are the only person you know with that name or whether you know a number of people by that name, I’m sure that depending on what is being said at the time and who you’re talking to, you can normally easily determine which person the conversation is about even if you know a number of folk by that name.

Yes, we all have a name by which we are known, but people identify us by our characteristics just as much as they do by our name sometimes – that’s why based on what’s said a about a person we can often determine who the conversation I’d about without being told the person’s identity.

We may have a name which doesn’t make us unique, but our characteristics and personality do make us unique. A name in itself may give us one indication of the person concerned, E.g. Their nationality, but it’s their personality and characteristics that will uniquely identify each of us.

Alphabet Time!

Posted: December 9, 2012 in depression, friendship, Health, heaven, language, life, love, prayer, religion, school
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I recently received this in an email and I liked it so much I wanted to share it with you…

ALthough things are not perfect

Because of trials or pain

Continue in thanksgiving

Do not begin to blame

Even when the times are hard

Fierce winds are bound to blow

God is forever able

Hold on to what you know

Imagine life without His love

Joy would cease to be

Keep thanking Him for all the things

Love imparts to thee

Move out of “Camp Complaining”

No weapon that is known

On earth can yield the power

Praise can do alone

Quit looking at the future

Redeem the time at hand

Start every day with worship

To “thank” is a command

Until we see Him coming

Victorious in the sky

We’ll run the race with gratitude

Xalting God most high

Yes, there’ll be good times & yes some will be bad, but…

Zion waits in glory…where no one is ever sad!

Lessons

Posted: September 6, 2012 in depression, life, love, music, prayer, religion, school, Twitter
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I recently read the following quote on Twitter:

There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.

Yes, things happen in life that hurt and upset us, cause us to question life in general and even question God’s existence, but everything that happens to us, happens for a reason. It’s because there’s a reason for everything happening that we can never make mistakes.

I know that sounds mad as of course we make mistakes! However it’s through our mistakes that we learn, and through our mistakes we learn to put our full faith and trust in God to provide all we need in life…from the smallest thing to the biggest desire, God can, and will, answer them all.

Do They Know It’s Easter?

Posted: April 7, 2012 in cross, Easter, family, friendship, heaven, holiday, life, love, music, religion, school, work
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You’re probably thinking, what a stupid questions, of course everyone knows it’s Easter! However I guess the question I’m really asking is do they know the reason why we celebrate Easter?

Have a think about all your family, friends, work/school mates and your neighbours, what percentage of them do you think are celebrating the Christ‘s resurrection this Easter?

If like me, you know and are in regular contact with many people who are either unaware of the real Easter message or are aware of the Easter message but do not celebrate it. As a Christian I recognise that this weekend, Easter weekend, is a good a time of year as any other, to tell those I’m in contact with that Easter is all about the cross, Christ’s crucifixion, His resurrection and ascension to heaven…and that was all for us!

Have you spread the message of Easter this year?

It’s not to late to do so now, because it’s never to late to come to the foot of the cross and seek Christ there.

At the cross I bow my knee
Where for me you shed your blood
There’s no great love than this
You have overcome the grave
Your glory fills the highest place
What can separate me now
 

Mislabeled

Posted: March 22, 2012 in church, friendship, language, life, school, sport, words, work
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A couple of weeks ago I spoke a few times about how people like to put labels on things…objects and people!

In this last week I become all to aware once again that people are very quick to put labels on others. What has become very visible to me is that people tend to put labels of others that they know very little about. In other words, it’s as if the impression they get of someone is based on nothing more than what they see or hear, rather than on actually getting to know and understand the person in question.

As I said in Labels Can Stick, once people put a label on you, it can be difficult to get rid of it, not least because the person who gave you that label already has a preconceived idea of who/what you are and can often be unwilling to consider their initial thoughts are incorrect, and that can really hurt deeply.

So what do you do when you find out you have been mislabeled?

The first thing I would say is, does it matter that you’ve been mislabeled?

Secondly, does it matter to you that a particular person has mislabeled you?

Whatever your answer to these questions, you’ve got a difficult job ahead, trying to change someone’s opinion of you. Having said that though, if the label was definitely inaccurate, the real you should shine through and show that person that they got you wrong – Please note, this make take some time!

In conclusion, can I urge you not to label others, particularly those you know very little about other than in a specific situation. e.g. member of a sports club, work, school, church etc. We must never judge others, so please join me in trying to stop mislabeling!

Word Association #4

Posted: January 28, 2012 in bible, blogging, car, children, church, film, Food, love, motoring, news, religion, school, Scotland, tennis, words, work
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It’s Saturday again, so I’d like to give you another word association challenge today. So as before, I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word.

Here goes…

1. Chocolate

2. Bible

3. Interview

4. Diet

5. Scotland

6. Sunday school

7. Tennis

8. Baby

9. Water

10. Hairdresser

11. Cinema

12. Car

So how did you get on with those words? Did you find it easy? Did your answers surprise you or were they just as you suspected?

Well here’s my responses to my Word Association questions:

1. Mmmmmmm

2. Study

3. Nightmare

4. Weight-loss

5. The independence debate

6. Childhood

7. Rafael Nadal

8. Blessings

9. Thirsty

10. Appointment

11. It’s been a while

12. Garage

Were any of your answers the same as mine? Did any of my answers confuse you? Did any of your own answers confuse you?

Do you like these Word Association games? As I’ve said in my previous word association posts, I find I get a bit stressed when I’m doing them as I put a lot of pressure on myself not to over think my answer!

I still think when we truly do respond with the first words that come into our mind, our answers tell us a lot about our emotional state, and what’s important to us at that particular point in time.

Bearing all this in mind, review your answers, does my theory hold true?

As I said before, I sometimes just pick some really random words and just try this myself just to see what my answers are – I know that sounds really sad, but I often find it illuminating to discover what is occupying my subconscious…I’d urge you to try it out for yourself.

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