Message #3646

[ecuworrier]

hmmm ..on the way on the other side of the road a couple plus baby buggy plus baby are walking... i lift my hand to wave they are oblivious OR are avoiding to catch my eye....  i don't pursue the effort... but watch the oblivious or studious avoidance.... they are from my church...  they left went to faraway places had a baby and are now attempting to return to our place... i know our pastor will be pleased, who misses one of them...  me well i did not know they had left! till it was mentioned they had ... had a party and all sorts... me i feel totally like well they haven't really said goodbye.... so if they turns up again well it will just be like they haven't been for a while.... however it has been that the one who is missed has popped up on the street from time to time and always friendly to say hi... nice cos we have absolutely nothing in common except that GOD has us in the same place....   though at some point ... well it was like i say we has nothing in common.... it is interesting though cos the one has been at our church for a while and folks know them from before they were married... seems those who knows the one from before then have a very fond view of them ... me i is as i confess... kindov less enthusiastic... sure i recognise the Holy Spirit when i see it and that is GOOD ... i also feel somewhat bemused by well they come from a charismatic family with a vibrant kind of background in terms of exposure and therefore experience.. and me i look on and can't help feeling well where did it all go ... like well anywhere? i know they are bemused and disappointed even by their experience within our locality... and me well i thinks ... does this sound like a bitching to you well it sure sounds like it to me!.... the other one meanwhile is someone who i might have far more in common with than i found that i do.... leaving me feeling decidedly aghast actually there is a small group with the same well credentials in terms of their declared interests but seriously this is really peculiar! the cultural and voice perspectives of folks in the church on issues that actually are important and matter..... in the world that is.... the other one actually comes from another church that i like the folks from if anything them that i know i can relate well with cos of their interest in issues that are of importance and matter their ways are somehow very different! but here modelled into marriage and all that we are in a view of religious perspectives and peculiarity stuff that i really do not relate with... and so the sight of two christians walking along with a buggy brings about that interesting perspective and that is that odd anxiety and over protectivity they exhibit and so it is no particular surprise to find a circumstance whereby they might actually be avoiding me and me i could not care less about the new baby with so many worries born new for this pair.... and that is how it is .. as we have an avalanch of new life in the form of babies born into the fold and folks is seriously worried about keeping them in the fold... well there you has it all this new life and serious anxieties about not just the physical but the Spiritual protection of the good folks what is increasing the church numbers while  carefully avoiding the unclean and the 'unsavory' lest....

another chapter in the life of the church!

this week we did our treasure hunt... i was really fed up ... i had had to stay at home for two days but then it did kindov make sense... when well they had been previously but they had missed something.....?????  well just as well turns out cos when the latest gas engineer had to repeat all the checks they found a gas leak .. only a tiny one but nevertheless a leak and guess where? right at the place where i smoke! wow GOD! not spotted previously? was it there previously...

well our treasure hunt was different again.... i was time pressed which is not the best way to do stuff.... and we kindof went for coffee first after we had completed our lists.... playing with balls of wool? our locations were a little odd... we ended up in the area without actually venturing into the actual well very official building... i let my trh accomplice do the being led.... but still we found some folks to pray for ... we ended up at the other of two locations... and i was very aware of the busyness of folks passing through.... so i said to GOD ok get the ones you want to pray for to stop... so GOD did... a non believer... a believer verrry sceptical about church with some dramaztic life experiences.....  a someone i have previously met doing street stuff elsewhere!... who says they doesn't believe  but they went on and on seemingly rebutting prayers.... but quite a chatter..... and then i said to GOD and GOD got us to move on ...

and i had to borrow some money to pay for a taxi to take me someplace fastasposs ... to discover a regular bus actually goes that way!

hey ho

GOD is GOOD in MYSTERIOUS WAYS!

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,