Tuesday 12 March 2019

Lent. Communication.

Learning to use time wisely, I sometimes feel it is a waste if time to do little projects just because I want to do them.

Take the tray I plan to restore, for instance.

I have long wanted a larger tray and found one in a junk shop recently. It needs stripping down and repainting. Then I plan to create a collage with some old maps. I might even start today on my return from school.

Yet a little part of me feels guilty. I don't need to do it. Perhaps I should be using my time in other ways: good works of some kind, or dedicated prayer.

No. Working creatively - restoring a piece of junk, crocheting a baby toy, cooking or baking, colouring a doodle on a journal page - all these free my spirit to worship as I work.

It is not a waste of time, but an exercise in becoming more aware of God and his amazing creative presence in my life.

An awesome use of time. Pity I have to go to work in half an hour.

Time to get creative in the way I dress, perhaps....!

Sunday 10 March 2019

Lent. Listen.

How would I know what to do?
Listen.

Listen to his voice
whispering quietly in my heart.

Listen to his voice
murmuring in the morning wind.

Listen to his voice
Speaking in winter trees waiting
for spring.

Listen for the moment
to speak,
to act in obedience.

Listen to his voice
of encouragement.

Today. Today is the day.

Wednesday 6 March 2019

Lent. Focus

Be still.
Find that space apart
to be with Jesus.

Let him
be the altar I
build my life upon.

Take time
to listen to his voice.
Hide his words in my heart.

Tuesday 5 March 2019

Lent. Sacrifice. Ash Wednesday.

Lent 2019, Day 10 Ash Wednesday, 6th March.

Ezra 2:68 '...some...gave freewill offerings...'

Some of them. Not all.  Generosity is a decision for oneself, not looking to left or right to see what others are or are not doing.

My family motto: 'Choose for yourselves which way you shall go...As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.'

This is a day of challenge, of self-denial. I shall choose...