Domestic Violence within a religious context

This has been on my heart for a while now and I am hoping to address this issue from a Christian perspective over time! 

I have a book in mind, to write about the subject of women encountering Jesus and how He treated women with a view to it leading to husbands seeing how they should treat their wives within a Christian home (from a Biblical perspective).

I will try and write something soon because it is an issue which must be highlighted and addressed within churches.

Watch this space...

Tolkeinesque humour

These were things I made up in 2005 as a bit of a joke - so for all who like and appreciate Tolkein - here's a post for you:

Authors Bilbo Baggins Books There and Back Again: A Hobbit’s Tale Magazines Country Living Elves Weekly Newspapers Nuduin Times Hobbiton Chronicle Comic Strips Nymphs and Shepherds

Movies Mission Imp Mission Imp 2 Lord of the Rings First Blood – the beginnings of Nuduin Naked Gnomes Naked Gnomes 21/2′ Naked Gnomes 331/3" Armageddon New Armour and a Bow Twelve Men from beneath the Mountain The Lone Ranger The Return of the King: Elvish is Alive Pixie Academy Mrs Dragonfire Escape from New Orc City Enemy of the State: Smaug returns May-tricks: Computer wizardry starring Gandalf May-tricks exploded: more dangerous computer wizardry by Gandalf May-tricks Revolution: the Hobbits rebel S.W.A.T.: Got that pesky Dwarf Kill Bilbo: Directed by Gollum Master and Commander – Starring Gandalf Stormcrow The Out-of-Towners – Invasion of the Trolls Mystic River – Saruman casts a spell The Ent-tertainer Gnome Alone TV Shows Biffo the Dwarf Slayer Deep Space Elf Actors Leprachaun Connery

Type of Music Music of the Woods Rock Bands/Artists Take That (you annoying little Dwarf) Elfzone Spice Elves Atomic Wargs

Sports Archery Teams Rivendell Rangers Lothlorien Loonies

Vacation Spots Rivendell Lothlorien

Food Drink – Sprite

True to yourself or false

I was pondering the world when I was coming home from my singing lesson today (I was on a bus so I had time to ponder :) )

We live in a world of false things:

False promises - we see this with our MPs [politicians], of course these can be at a lower level
False peace treaties - again amongst nations - false peace can be amongst families and work colleauges, peers etc.

But what about our personal lives? Our physical bodies? Did God create us to be false? Did God give us the bodies we have so that we could alter them to how we want to? This world is full of false things:

False hair colour/hair type (curly or straight) etc.
False eye lashes
False skin colour (tans and the like)
False nails
False breasts
False eye colour (different coloured contact lenses)
False body figures (I remember in the 80s there was a media frenzy when Jane Fonda admitted she had some ribs removed to make her have a slim(mer) waist)

Do we really have to go around being false? (Got to admit that I have worn false nails because my nails are hopeless)

I'm not judging anyone who has any of these things - Just wondering whether we should be false in our lives - have false anything (including false attitudes...)?

Ten String Instrument

I love this:

An elderly saint at a prayer meeting was heard to pray,

“O Lord, we will praise You;

we will praise You with an instrument of ten strings!”

 (People wondered what he meant).

“We will praise You with our eyes by looking only unto You.

We will exalt You with our ears by listening only to Your voice.

We will extol You with our two hands by working in Your service.

We will honour You with our own two feet by walking in the way of Your statutes.

We will magnify You with our tongue by bearing testimony to Your loving kindness.

We will worship You with our heart by loving only You.

We thank You for this instrument, Lord; keep it in tune.

Play upon it as You will and ring out the melodies of Your grace!

May its harmonies always express Your glory!”

Plan your work , then work your plan...

...easier said than done, especially when I have so much I want to do! 

This is what I have going on:

1. I home educate my 16 year old son who has mild aspergers
2. I want to build a portfolio of teaching I have done over the past 12 years
3. I am writing a children's book
4. I have ideas for another 6 books
5. I want to research an adult book I've been wanting to write for ages
6. I HAVE to do Grade 5 music theory in November (2012)
7. I HAVE to do Grade 6 flute by July 2013, before the music changes
8. I'm doing an IGCSE Spanish course which involves assignments to write
9. I'm doing an IGCSE Business Studies course which involves assignment writing
10. I want to build a website on Social Reform therefore I'm reading a biography about Anthony Ashley Cooper - 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885)
11. I HAVE to read Scandalous (by Don Carson) by the end of September 2012 for a book group I belong to
12. I work 4 afternoons a week

No wonder I never get anything done - I have too much going on! I have good intensions which never get completed! PRIORITISE!!

The items marked in red are urgent/important... 

The items marked in green is everything else

I'm sure if I did just half an hour a day on some of those things I'd soon get through them! So I need to:

PLAN MY WORK THEN WORK MY PLAN!

 

Teaching Spelling

Conversation about the weather...

I love this quote by Oscar Wilde


“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative”