Oh My God

Have just seen this trailer for Oh My God and it looks very interesting.

Out on the 13th November, so will have to go and see it and then let you know what I think.

Where The Wild Things Are - Are you a wild thing?

Image via Wikipedia

I was sent this link earlier to Relevant, its about the new movie" Where the Wild Things Are" and I found it very enlightening. It made me ask the question, Am I a wild thing? Maybe some days I am.

I will not re-write or even plagiarise the article, but I encourage you to read it. Here is my favourite quote from it:

"Go ahead. Be mad. Shout your questions. Punch a wall. Color with red and black. Go to where the wild things are. But dock your boat, mark your trail and remember your own weakness. You could never be half as mad at God as He is in love with you.

In fact, He loves you best of all"

If you are anything like me, you may find yourself angry and annoyed at life sometimes, but it is true, once the moment has passed I realise that life is good, people love me, I am not perfect and most of all God is good.

Nearly there!

Image by ecstaticist via Flickr

So it is nearly half term and there is light at the end of the tunnel. I had not thought that it had been a long term, but these last few days have been hard work to get up and out of bed!

It is funny how we work to these way points, we reach there physically and mentally tired. We have a few days and then it's back into the race they call Rat!

I am really looking forward to this half term as I get a few days away with Mrs M, time for us to just be, to reflect on the past 6 months of change and re-adjusting to what married life looks like and what it means to be married to me! (oh the poor women!)

As I was driving to work this morning I was praying that God would "give me my daily bread", that He would be my strength for today. I have been reminded recently that God asks us to live for today, He has tomorrow sorted so we have to get on with today.

God be my strength today, let me worry about tomorrow when it gets here!

Uplifted Spirit

Image by Loci Lenar via Flickr

Last night I attended my home group from "Letchworth Garden City Church" and we had a great time. We have been looking at the Holy Spirit and last night we looked at "Baptism of the Holy Spirit". We spent a short time talking about it and looking at various bits of scripture, the leader was very sensitive that everyone of us would have or could have a very different view, so we kept it brief and then decided that it would be good for us all to pray for each other. With there being nearly a 50/50 split of "boys and girls" as he put it, we did just that.

So all us guys went through to the kitchen - the women were staying where they were! So all 5 of us went through and the long story short was that each of us received prayer and each of us received a fresh or new touch of the spirit. One of the guys had always wanted to speak in tongues but had never felt he could, so we prayed and he did! We then prayed that each of us would receive something from God for one of the lads and what happened? God spoke!

Personally I felt that God's holy spirit gave me a fresh touch and spoke to me both directly and through others. I came away with an excitement that I have not felt for quite a while. I was reminded that this faith is all about being, it is alive and if I want to life to the full (John 10:10) then I have to step out.

One thing that we all felt was that we had not been living that full life, so I encourage you to take the step, pray, ask God for a new or fresh touch of His spirit, even ask others to pray with you. Only by taking a step do we really live by faith.