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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 27, 2012
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I’m too busy right now to see you,
I’ve too much to do today,
If only each day had more hours,
I might have some time left to play.
How is it that each precious moment
Is filled with our own selfish things
Not wishing to spend time with others,
Pursuing our own empty dreams?
For what is a life that is lonely
Bereft of companions and friends?
A schedule whose pages are empty,
Devoid of all meaning, it ends.
So make time and space for each other,
Defer things that stand in your way,
Live life to the fullest and savour,
Those friendships before it’s too late!
Copyright Shirley Anne 4 Dec 2002 Poem listed in My Poems 5 above
It isn’t my attitude to life but it does seem to be for others I know. Living in a community, amongst family and friends, if we have any, can be difficult at times. Everyone has an agenda or an excuse. Sometimes we don’t see the need others might have for us or maybe we think they get in the way of our plans. I mean what plans are so important that we don’t have time for others? Scripture tells us and we are told only too often by others that we should love our neighbour. That doesn’t just mean those living next-door but everyone else on this planet is our neighbour, anyone we come across in life is our neighbour. If we have no time for anyone else what are we living for? There are matters to which we must attend to obviously but they don’t take up our complete life do they? Take time for one another, bear each other’s burdens if we can. I speak as a Christian but the truth of the matter remains the same for everyone.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 17, 2012
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Many of us who have transitioned will be able to relate to what I am about to write and it isn’t unusual. We speak often about acceptance in our lives, whether others will be offended and thereby avoid us if we step out-of-the-way they perceive us to be, for whatever reason. The problem is that most people, if they were honest with themselves, finding anything out of the stereotypical to be difficult to handle. It is a lack of understanding on their part. People will question what we have done, even directly asking us why we did it as if perhaps we should not have done. They do not realise that transitioning isn’t something that is desired to have to undergo nor is it done on a whim, it is done out of necessity. Transsexual people are born that way. Transsexualism isn’t ‘learned’, it cannot be acquired by association, you either are transsexual or you are not. Being transsexual means being found in the wrong body and having to cope with that. We are expected to live out our lives in the gender others perceive us to be and not the gender we know we are. Often this is a life-long struggle which for some is never resolved, some even taking to suicide to escape the trauma. There are many Internet web sites where information about the condition can be found for those who want to understand. For those more fortunate, their gender issues have been resolved and they are now living in the gender they know is right for them, even to the point of going through gender re-assignment surgery. I prefer to say gender correction surgery for that is what it is. What people do not understand is that the persons themselves haven’t changed, they are still the same person they were at birth with all the same feelings and personality. We cannot change who we are inside, the package we come in may be wrong but the essence which is us will never change. If a child is born without a limb every effort is made to change that using prosthetic means. If a child is born with any other deformity the best efforts are made to ease their situation by use of surgery if possible. Transsexuals are no different except that their problem is gender specific and yet they are often looked upon with scorn. Transitioning is a hard thing to have to do but it isn’t the transitioning itself, it is the reaction and attitude of others which make it so. Those we thought loved us before we transitioned we now find that love has gone and we are ostracised. True love would not allow that to happen. People are afraid to support for fear of what others may say and that really is an excuse. The main problem is that people wish to be accepted and consequently allow the dictates of others to influence them to act contrary to their own feelings. Isn’t it better to support those we love despite what others may say? When my eldest son married I wasn’t invited. I know that was a difficult decision on his part and it wasn’t solely due to him or his wife it was the influence others had over them. My heart was broken at the time and other people told me that I should have gone at least to the church anyway, invited or not. Perhaps I should have done so. Now they have a daughter they plan to have her christened in August (something I don’t agree with but that is their decision) and I would like to attend the church service even if I wasn’t made welcome to the following social gathering but I fear that may not happen. I have been told who would resent my being there and it hurts me to know they would act that way. Some will be reacting because they find it unnatural to them, some will be reacting probably because I was expected to stay married whether I was happy or not (although divorce came later anyhow) and some profess to be Christians, how sad is that? How can they not show love and then expect God to condone their behaviour? So I hope my son and his wife defy the mean and hateful attitudes of others and show a love befitting their faith in God. I pray they will but time will tell.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 18, 2012
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Psalm 32
Of David. A maskil.[a]
1 Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
2Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.[b]
5Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.
6 Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
7You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
9 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
10Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD’s unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
11 Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!
Footnotes:
- Psalm 32:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
- Psalm 32:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.
How great it is to be loved by the Lord my God, to know that my sins have been forgiven, even paid for. Without such a love and compassion I would be doomed. It is better to be a child of God and to be loved and forgiven by Him than to be outside of His forgiveness because of unbelief. Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” That name is Jesus Christ.
Shirley Anne
- Truly Forgiven (cbnindiablogs.wordpress.com)
- How can we forgive and forget? (brendataggart.wordpress.com)
- Dim Sum – Deliverance! (ptl2010.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 11, 2012
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What does this four letter word mean to you? What is love? Love means many things to many people and the word is often used loosely to describe their affection, likes, affinity, friendship, kindness, consideration, attachment, kinship, passion, desire, fondness, predilection, adoration and other things. When the ancient Greeks spoke of love they had several different words to choose from but the English language has but the one and we have to discern the meaning of it when used. Why is it that we love things anyway? What is it about people that makes us love them? Objects can be loved but all that means is they give us pleasure in some way. With people though that rule doesn’t apply, we can love people without them having to love us in return. Yes, inanimate objects cannot love us in return either but then they are not capable of doing so whereas people are. With people however we can mean different things when we say we love them, it could be a sexual love, a brotherly or sisterly love, the love of a father or mother or for them. It could be a compassionate love or a spiritual love. Loving someone is not the same as liking them either. I like many people but I don’t love them in a personal way. I love people but I don’t like them all. There is the love of man and there is the love of God. One sometimes comes with conditions but the other hasn’t any. Disliking people usually means that we don’t like what they do rather than who they are as a person or it may mean we don’t like their attitudes and the way they live their lives but we can still love them. How about this love: ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting (eternal) life’. (John 3:16) Could you love the world in this way? Could you make such a sacrifice for all mankind? Of course you couldn’t because it isn’t in you to do that, it isn’t in any of us. Our form of love is sadly lacking in sincerity sometimes and it comes with preconditions when it really shouldn’t. This is what real love is like: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13 but read the whole chapter). As you can see our love lacks in these things quite often. How often has a loved one hurt us and we have felt wronged, had thought nasty thoughts? This world is sadly lacking real love and until we can learn to love properly the world will never change.
Shirley Anne
8 Love never fails.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 24, 2011
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Christmas eve and all is well. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no-one to see. Quietly indulging in my red wine flicking between the television channels to see if there is anything worth watching, something that hasn’t anything at all to do with Christmas, very difficult at this time of year. I tire of the pressure that is imposed on us all, if we allow it of course. Monday morning and it will all be finished with, forgotten and stored away until next year. Folk will already be looking forward to their New Year celebrations and many will stay ‘in the party spirit’ for the whole intervening week between the two celebrations. Each to their own of course but it isn’t for me. It has been at least three weeks since I visited my pub and it will be another three weeks at least before I make another visit there. Hopefully all will have returned to normality by then. I am not really a party animal but I do like mixing with people and socialising over drinks and perhaps the dinner table. I lead pretty much a quiet life and enjoy the simpler things. As I write this (on Thursday….well I said I wanted a break from blogging) there has been no news regarding the arrival of my first grandchild but I will post something when it happens. I won’t be wishing everyone a happy/merry Christmas/New Year but I do wish everyone to be happy in their lives, to love one another and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. May God bless you all.
Shirley Anne
PS….I got a phone call which got me out of bed in order to reconnect an electrical supply for someone 12 miles away. Somehow I knew that was going to happen, a premonition, a vision if you like but I knew it was going to happen. The strange thing is I get these visions quite often lately. The supply was re-instated and all is well.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 12, 2011
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I guess I have been in love a few times in my life and in some of those times I loved the person for who they were too. There is a difference between being in love and loving someone of course but sometimes the both are true at the same time. I was in love with my first girlfriend but I didn’t get to know her that well to say that I loved her as a person, we split up before that could happen. When I met my wife I was in love with her but I also loved her. Now that we are divorced I still love her very much, more than she perhaps knows but I am not in love with her. There have been other people who I fell in love with but didn’t love them simply because I didn’t get to know them for long enough. In reality I love all people but that love is completely different from loving them on a personal level, it is a love borne out of my love for God and His creation. Yes, I am in love with my maker and I also love my maker. This kind of love never fails because God never fails in loving me. It is the same love He has for you too. It is a love that has no comparison to the kind of love we experience with other people. It is pure love, without blemish, without fault, totally unselfish, totally reliable, totally faithful. There is no earthly love to match the love of God. Why God even gave us His Son for the forgiveness of our sins! How wonderful, how marvellous is my God’s love for me! How can I not love Him? He who gave me life, He who loves me and sacrificed His only Son deserves to be loved in return. It doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or not, it doesn’t diminish His love for you. How amazing is that? Yes, I am in love and it makes me very happy indeed.
Shirley Anne
- Holiness of God and His Love (anotherchristianblog.org)
- Ima-obong (pritihorangereflections.wordpress.com)
- God’s Love Flows (learning2hear.com)
- “The Ultimate Giver of Love” (pjsprayerline.blogspot.com)
- God’s Love (victorychurch2943.wordpress.com)
- Questions From Bible Study: How do I know God loves me? (ptl2010.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 25, 2011
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I used to be a person who despised watching soap operas on television but in more recent times I find myself watching one or two of them. The most striking thing I notice in these programs is the way they portray how people deal with each other, more specifically how they treat each other. They say that soap operas are not true to life but in fact they are very much true to life. Admittedly much is crammed into the episodes and much is going on between the characters but when we analyse it all we can see that the things that go on are the same things that most of us experience or have experienced in our own lives. I wonder why people treat other people the way they do. Some people get along with almost anyone, others find it difficult to get along with anyone at all. People can be horrible toward some and yet at the same time be nice to others. Why are people horrible toward others and what pleasure do they get out of putting another down? As human beings we can be both nasty and kind, selfish and unselfish and we are selective in which is dealt to whom. What makes us hate one person and like another, be kind to one person and leave another out of it? If we analyse our behaviour we might find that we treat others in a way which is dependent on what we might gain from it. If someone is different from us we are often cautious in dealing with them but all the time we are looking to see what effect they will have upon us, whether beneficial or otherwise. We may not think about these things, they just come naturally. So when I look at soap operas do I see aspects of my own personality being portrayed or do I feel that I act in a completely different way? Do we think we have faults that should be worked upon or do we feel we are not behaving badly? Do we really treat our neighbours as we would have them treat us? Do we really love as we ought or do we select whom we should treat preferentially?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 2, 2011
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Another repeat on television of the Bridget Jones Diaries was aired on television on Friday last. This one was The Edge of Reason. I simply had to watch it because Bridget is a heroine of mine. I like the actress too, Renée Zelweger. She epitomizes what I think is a real woman, down to earth, nothing false, maybe a little zany but absolutely adorable. Too many women in my mind are not real in the sense that they act naturally. Bridget shows us that being just ones’ self is always enough. It may sound like I have lesbian tendencies here but if that was a fact then I could do no better than to fall in love with Bridget but I fear it would be in vain as she rejected such advances in the film! Wonderful! Throughout the film I found myself laughing and crying with her and feeling all the things that she was experiencing in her struggle to create an impression. The very fact that she was undergoing many embarrassing situations made her all the more attractive. I particularly enjoy the scenes where she is imprisoned and walks in with a stiff upper lip declaring that she is a British journalist but no-one is taking any notice of her. Eventually she wins them over and becomes the most popular inmate in the prison! Throughout the film she is battling with two aspects of her morality, enjoying the advances of on the one hand a deeply loving and romantic lover (Colin Firth) and struggling with the advances of another a guy who seemingly just wants to bed her (Hugh Grant). She is attracted to them both but it is more because she wants the attention than anything else. It made no difference that I had seen the film a few times previously, I was still thrilled with it. In many ways I am like Bridget, a little zany, a little quirky but still lovable in my own way, or at least that’s what I am told. Take my local pub for instance, whenever I am absent for a long time people ask where I have been and I have been told that I am loved by some of the regulars there, which is so nice to hear. I too struggle in my life just as Bridget does but maybe for different reasons, or maybe not. All I ever wanted in life was to be loved and accepted and I guess that was the thrust in Bridget’s story. I will call it The Bridget Jones Syndrome and I believe many of us have it.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on August 20, 2011
Some time back I placed the Social Vibe widget here on my front page on the left to be precise and got little response so occasionally I make a request to my readers and invite them to spend just two minutes (or less) to click on the widget and answer a couple of questions. There is no cost whatsoever involved save the small amount of time it takes out of your day and in doing this you help feed a hungry child somewhere in the world. So I ask, if you’ve got a spare two minutes please consider clicking on the widget. Thank you…
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on August 1, 2011
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Today is the tomorrow of yesterday and the beginning of new things. All dreams and visions, all desires and ambitions begin today if you allow it. That small word ‘if’ is one of the biggest words in the English vocabulary. Things can only happen if you wish them to and if you are motivated for them to come about. Dreams remain dreams unless acted upon. When we are born we know nothing and each new day brings us new experiences and knowledge. As we grow older we become more set in our ways and less open to change and it demands discipline of us to change when it is necessary. Some unfortunately do not have that discipline nor the desire to change, even if that change is for the better.
Why am I saying all this? Well these last two days at home have been lonely for me. Oh yes, I enjoyed listening to jazz, getting drunk on whisky, playing guitar and relaxing in the warmth of the day on Saturday. It is no fun when life is spent alone because the one you live with act the way they do sometimes. Sunday was a day of almost complete silence. I got up late, missed breakfast and mowed the lawn. Returning indoors I prepared a roast dinner and E and I sat eating it, in silence. It is difficult living with someone like E who is stubborn in the extreme and has an introverted view on life, who can be very spiteful at times, uncaring and insensitive. For half of our thirty-year marriage life with her was unbearable at times but I stuck it out because I loved her so much. Much of what I write here is already on my blog pages above but I repeat these facts now because some things just haven’t changed. When we divorced it broke my heart and for a few years afterward the prospect of us living apart was heavy on my mind. I broke the ice and we began socializing together which led to us deciding to remain in this house together, because of this I spent a small fortune on the house so that in any event E could be comfortable if something was to happen to me. Personally I couldn’t care less about the house although it may not seem that way with all the things I write about doing in it! I do it all out of love for her. I have never discovered why E is the way she is even though I have known her for thirty nine and a half years. She remains stubborn and difficult to live with but tomorrow is another day. Tomorrow she may change, tomorrow she may realise the stupidity of her attitude, for her own sake. I hope so and pray.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 30, 2011
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How deep the Father’s love for us
How vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son,
To make a wretch His treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss,
The Father turns His face away,
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory.
Behold the man upon a cross,
My sin upon His shoulders;
Ashamed, I hear the mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished.
I will not boast in anything,
No gifts, no power, no wisdom;
But I will boast in Jesus Christ,
His death and resurrection.
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer,
But this I know with all my heart,
His wounds have paid my ransom.
Stuart Townsend.
Copyright Kingsway’s Thankyou Music 1995
I am reminded every day just how much I am loved. I am loved with an everlasting love that will never die. This love is pure, not like an earthly love. No matter what I have done or how I behave this love remains faithful. How then can I deliberately ignore such a love and come against the one from whom it comes? I cannot. Oh yes, I will fail and I do every day. It is a lifelong struggle which I am forced to undertake each day but I do it willingly and strive to correct my shortcomings. God, my God, the Father of all Creation shows His love for me in this, ’While we were still sinners, Christ died for us’. (Romans 5:8). Christ did not die for those who already loved him but he died for sinners, of which I am one. It is hard to understand such a love for in this world we never experience anything like it. Everyone can know the love God has for them. Do you know that love?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 25, 2011
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I was sitting in the greenhouse with my back to the sun looking toward the corner of the garden a couple of metres away. The path to the greenhouse runs behind a holly tree which gives some shade to the area whilst on the other side of the path another small tree gives some shade too. A large sycamore tree grows in the corner where the two perimeter walls meet. It is a very well established tree something like 40 to 60 years old, perhaps even older. The ground beneath has a couple of other, more ornamental trees and nearby is a young oak tree. The soil is piled up somewhat from when we dug out the ground to lay the concrete base for the greenhouse and the path leading to it. Bluebell plants are everywhere and to be frank, although E hates them, I like them but they do take over if you let them. Plants will grow where the conditions suit them and struggle when they are not. As I was sitting there my eyes began to roam whilst I surveyed the scene. E has a few containers temporarily dotted along the perimeter path around the lawn with plants in them, some contain daffodils and tulips, others have small shrubs in them but one had fern inside. Now I like fern, I think it is a lovely plant and seemingly the species has been around for millions of years. Where we used to live there were wooded areas close by, in fact the place is a red squirrel reserve. It is mainly populated with spruce and pine trees with a few varieties of deciduous trees here and there and there are large areas that are carpeted with fern. The plant seems to thrive in a dappled environment. So putting two and two together I decided to replant our little fern in the sheltered spot behind the greenhouse and beneath the trees. It will probably thrive there whilst providing a nice green backdrop throughout the year. I got to thinking about why it is that I so much like ferns or why I like so many other things in life. Why am I attracted to certain things? Why do I gravitate toward some things in preference to others? Everyone is different and each will no doubt have similar preferences, perhaps not really knowing why. Why for instance do I like the colour green in preference to other colours? Why am I attracted to things associated with the North West, that is the compass location of a land? Why do I imagine fairies and elves living in little sheltered spots in gardens when I obviously don’t believe in fairies? It is all romanticism of course. I am sure there are things about us, mostly little quirks we have, that others are attracted to without being aware of it. I am a romantic person, very romantic in fact. It shows itself in me through my poetry and songs, my attitude to nature, people and life itself. I am also a level-headed person with my feet firmly placed on the ground, a practical and inquisitive person too! It is nice to be a romantic though because it makes me sensitive to the things around me, like the welfare of a poor little fern in my garden.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 17, 2011
When the Israelites were instructed to drive out all the nations of peoples resident in the land that God had given them, the promised land (symbolic of the heavenly promised land to all believers), they did not do as God had told them. Consequently those people who were allowed to remain became a thorn in their side. One of those people were the Philistines who were the ancestors of present day Palestinians. Surprise, surprise! Now those who are an enmity to God, who refuse to believe His existence will declare that He God, the one they don’t believe in, is not a loving God and they don’t want anything to do with such a God. Totally illogical reasoning to reject someone, not believing in their existence and then blaming them for something. You cannot place blame on something that doesn’t exist! I digress. God had a very good reason to give the instruction He did but because He wasn’t obeyed chaos and unrest resulted. God was using Israel as an example to the rest of His creation. The events in the Bible, the Old Testament, were real events but they represent a spiritual future, they were prophetic events that happened in history. Many of those prophecies have come to pass and the rest have yet to be fulfilled. When these things are revealed to unbelievers they are immediately rejected. That of course is bound to happen but it doesn’t mean prophecy is untrue. The blind are blind and cannot see.
As believers in God we must believe in what He says. We must take Him at His word. The problem is that even some believers do not do this. Certain things are wrong in Gods eyes and He tells us what they are in Scripture. Those who believe will listen but others only wish to hear what they want to hear. If God says that homosexuality is wrong then homosexuality is wrong! If God says that stealing is wrong the stealing is wrong! If God says that He hates mediums and spiritists then they must be wrong! Now because many secularists think these things are not wrong they will automatically disagree. A lesbian, a homosexual, a thief, a fortune-teller will all be against God else they don’t believe what He says. God does not hate these people, far from it! He loves them and only wishes they would turn to Him in repentance. It is not the person He hates, it is what they do! As Christians we should also not hate others nor come against them but at the same time we should witness and pray that they will see sense and turn to God. On a personal note here, I know many homosexuals, lesbians and bi-sexual people, a few, well shall we say, unsavoury characters. I do not hate any of them. I love them, I pray for them and I try to be a witness and an example to them. I see them as God sees them, lost but not knowing it.
In our modern society we have mixed races of people living together, people of different faiths and religions and of different political views. We make an attempt at living in harmony but it is destined to fail on all fronts. This is because we cannot love one another as God has instructed us to do. We simply cannot live in harmony because of our differences. This is one reason that God told the Israelites to drive out the nations before them. God knew that there would be unrest, bitterness and hatred but the Israelites were a stubborn people and would not listen, very much like people today, they just will not listen. There will be a day though, as prophesied, when ALL people will bow the knee before their God or be cast aside. In the meantime the secular world thinks it has the answers to all of society’s problems. It hasn’t and it never will. There is too much intolerance, bigotry, hatred, selfishness, homophobia of all kinds for anything in secular society to work. There is a form of stability but it teeters on a knife-edge. The only way is Gods way. The petulant unbeliever, who only wants everyone else to accept them as they are or because of what they are is automatically at enmity with those who object. If it is a religion then that religion is declared immoral, homophobic and even evil. However it isn’t the religion that is at fault, it is the few vociferous members who, not truly following after God, who are at fault. Religion should not be a tool for ‘secular Bible bashing‘. Gods love is the tool for that task.
For the love of God is how and why we should be living. Let evil reside with those who hate God.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 5, 2011
I wonder if you remember this song from the musical ‘Fiddler on the roof‘ made some years ago now? I was looking out of a front room window at home the other day looking at the sight of a cool Sun hidden behind the thin layer of clouds. It must have been exactly due south as it had reached the highest point in the sky. Directly beneath the sun is the house opposite ours and the sun was exactly positioned above it by a few degrees. It was only a matter of a few weeks ago that we couldn’t see the sun at its highest point in the day because it wasn’t high enough to see over the house. As we approach spring and then Summer the Sun will still be positioned directly above that house at its highest point although much higher in the sky and one hour later by our clocks as they go forward an hour in March. This song sprang to memory whilst I was looking at the cold Sun and it reminded me of days long since passed in my youth when the world seemed a totally different place. I began to think of the things of life, love, marriage, good times and how it used to be. It brought tears to my eyes knowing that all that is passed can never return and the world continues to turn. One day soon turns into the next, years seem to fly by and all we are left with are memories.
(Tevye)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
(Golde)
I don’t remember growing older
When did they?
(Tevye)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?
(Golde)
Wasn’t it yesterday
When they were small?
(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze
(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
(Tevye)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
(Golde)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day
(Perchik)
They look so natural together
(Hodel)
Just like two newlyweds should be
(Perchik & Hodel)
Is there a canopy in store for me?
(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 26, 2011
Yesterday it rained. Sounds a bit daft does that statement I suppose, especially when it is Winter in England or any other time in England for that matter! I mention it because we have just been through quite a few days of dry and still weather, however, they say February is the wettest and usually the coldest month of the year and that is just around the corner. I welcome the rain at this time of year because whilst it is raining it isn’t snowing! Heavy rain prevents working in the garden though and I, that is E and I have lots to do out there over the next couple of months. On my free days from work I have the opportunity to do some of that work but not if it is raining. I can turn to jobs around the house for there are plenty of those to do also but the outside work is more important just now.
It’s raining in my heart too. When we write posts on our blogs some of us write about life’s troubles as they affect us personally. I tend not to do that usually but at the same time I could write volumes if I wished to, although if you read some of my poems you will see how life has been unkind to me at times. Many of those poems relate to personal experience. People reading my ramblings may be under the impression that all is always ‘hunky-dorey’ in my life when often it isn’t. I am not alone, most people have problems in their lives and I’m no exception. I put on a happy face to the world when often I am hurting inside. I hurt because E is a difficult person to live with at times but I still love her. I hurt because she needs salvation. I hurt because she is stubborn and inflexible and won’t listen to reason sometimes. I hurt when people hurt me but I don’t retaliate, I pray for them. I hurt because of the selfishness of some people. I hurt because of all the needless suffering on the world. I hurt because of the bigotry and hate towards others for no real reason. I hurt because of mans inhumanity to man………………It’s raining in my heart and I hurt inside.
Shirley Anne
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