After watching the news last night, this was my realisation, as I sat, hearing about a man convicted of killing 5 working girls in Ipswich. Switching off channel4, I felt a profound sense of sadness for those women. 5 lives all with massive potential, women in need of help... wasted.
I have no doubt that Jesus was the most subversive man who ever lived. As Jesus sits and eats in the house of Simon (a Pharisee), a very brave woman, who The Message Translation brands "the town harlot" comes to him, weeps on Jesus' feet, wipes them with her hair and pours perfume on them.
The Disciples are outraged, The Pharisees are incensed and Jesus is anointed with a Jar of perfume that a prostitute would have used in her trade to lure men. It's shocking isn't it?! God loves prostitutes.
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Friday, 25 January 2008
making the connections...
I'm slightly bemused. I bought a router on monday, (for £60 - that's more than double a week's rent!) hoping it would solve the problems we have been having getting wireless to reach my bedroom.
As it turns out, I'm now writing to you via the free router that the kind people at AOL sent us in the post. I thought that this free router was broken. I'm obviously wrong!
It turned out the problem was actually a piece of software I was using not being compatable with the new router... and it's taken me nearly a week to work this out...
It's amazing that we can be so stupid sometimes isn't it- God love us!?
A Picture of Reconciliation
Those of you who know me closely will know that myself and Mark (my housemate) have been having some difficulty in
getting to know our neighbours. An incident occurred a good few months ago, and it meant that we haven't really been able to chat to one set of neighbours properly or get to know them any better.
This had began to annoy me, so, prompted by God, I started to pray for reconcilliation with our neighbours.
I know how God delights in kicking evil into the wild blue yonder, and last week, he proved his power again, as my neighbour
greeted me, we chatted, and I became indignant on their behalf after someone had wronged them. Loving people who you struggle to get on with not only changes your attitude, it changes you. What's more, it changes your relationship with them and it changes them.
God has done something significant this evening... it's blown my head off. Please pray for my neighbours...God is clearly listening.
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