Yaaaarrr, what be that on the horizon?

The answer of course, is the technical rehearsal, starting in under 9 hours. Huzzah, as the old buchaneers would have put it. I don't quite know how, but the introduction of several props last week totally threw our rehearsal and we were all missing our cues. As to what this means for tomorrow's fun is anyone's guess, but I'm looking forward to it all the same!

Work at Asda continues to be hard work, but also continues to be good! God's continuing to challenge me about keeping my thoughts on him and reminded me of that today especially. This got me thinking. It's reminded me of the bible verse that says to meditate on his word day & night. And the wonderfully simple truth I've found is this: if your focus is on God, it's not on the enemy and his plans for sin, to derail you from God's plans. And the more we meditate on the things God's teaching us, his character, his truths, the cross, the more we become effective and malleable vessels for God to mould and use to his purposes.

In those moments of clarity when your focus is on God, you remember how awesomely privileged and blessed we are to serve the one and only living God. And the more those moments fill our days, the closer we walk to God, and the harder it is for the enemy to find a crack and wedge it open.

TheWeeScottie

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Nothing, Hallelujah!

'What can separate my soul,
from the God who made me whole,
wrote my name in heaven's scroll?
Nothing, Hallelujah!

Trouble, hardship, danger, sword
brought by those who hate my Lord?
Slander here? Or no reward?
Nothing, Hallelujah!'

Jim Boice (Based on Romans 8:38-39)

This was an encouragement given last Sunday by the pastor of my home church in Swindon. And what an encouragement it is! Can anything ever separate us from the love of God? Romans 8v38-39 says nothing can. Not stress, work, family or relationship pressures or issues, not even sin. Some of those may distance us from God at times, but nothing can separate us from the Love of God. And don't you ever forget it. Hallelujah!

TheWeeScottie

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Yaaaarrr, do that be treasure?

Yes indeedy, I've finally got round to blogging the info for the upcoming WADAMs 2006 pantomime, 'Treasure Island'.

Dates: Dec 7-9th @ 7.30pm & Dec 9th @ 2.30pm
Tickets: £6

Box Office: 01793 813847 / 01793 813307

Book now to avoid disappointment!

I'll post directions from junction something-or-other of the M4, once I've worked it out. If you need a bed for the night, Thursday and Friday as possibilities but sadly not Saturday as it's after-show cast partay!





















Please note: The pirate in the poster is an artist's (MS office clipart) impression (and a bad one at that) of me, and I've not actually lost a leg. Despite there being a joke about me being legless.

TheWeeScottie

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Recent pics

Aye up all, just though I'd share some pics I've taken recently. Some highlights from the Lake District, and a sunrise/set or 2.




































































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Exciting news, and yes, God rocks

The title kinda says it all really! The exciting news is that Reading have offered me a place on the 2007-8 PGCE course, doing General Primary! :D so many huzzahs there, as I'm hoping to be shacked up with my good friend Steve LW in Lower Earley, a suburb of Reading, for the year. Which will be much fun ;)

I do seem to have been rather out of the blogosphere recently, but I have to report (I just to!) that God has been fantastic to me at work recently in terms of answering prayer. It's been very exciting to see him give me opportunities to talk to one of my workmates about my faith & trusting God for the future, so do please pray for the continuing humbling of my heart & attitude to have the courage and boldness from God to a) stand for him, and b) speak out for him in Asda here in Swindon.

I've been challenged a lot recently by God about growing to be a man of faith, knowing God's character so I'd trust him more. And in order to do that, studying his word, 'immersing myself in the word of God'. It's not easy at times, with having panto rehearsals, bible club and study in the evening, and coming home shattered from a long walking day in the warehouse - but there lies the choice. Do you freshen up and make time for God, for getting to know him better, for reading his word to understand his character & remind yourself he is the same loving, faithful and powerful God who liberated you from your sins through Jesus on the Cross? Or do you sit and waste the time doing a host of other things that clearly 'need doing' more.

I'm finding work breaks a fab to time to get some reading in, whether my book (My utmost for his highest, by Oswald Chambers) or the bible. Both challenge me and get my focus right back where it needs to be 24/7 - on God. Not easy? I agree. But then again God didn't say 'those who wish to follow me must pick up their cross and follow me' (i.e. put your old life to death & shoulder the new life, following God) lightly. In that statement, he brings our focus back to where it needs to be - him. I find that whenever you take a minute or 2 to think about what Jesus did for you on the cross, you're reminded why you walk this different life. It's because you've been liberated, saved and reformed by the living God - who has a plan for you - and who is leading you; not on some endless journey, but on an exciting, hard-working race that ends in Heaven! Wow!! And with the end in sight, as it always is, you're reminded that he's waiting always for you to take his hand and run that race with him. Sure, you stumble from time to time, but he waits. Then he helps you get back on your feet and takes you on again! Wow! What an awesome, loving, faithful, kind and caring, yet awesomely powerful God we serve!

And that's not the half of it.

TheWeeScottie

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