How much of my world will change if my attitude would change?? My attitude really needs a shake-up and my feet have been dragging. I don’t feel like changing; I don’t feel like anything new; I, in fact, just don’t feel like anything that will require any effort from me.

So how does this balance with what God has in store for me for 2012. Obviously nothing is going to change if I am not willing to make changes. I know God can’t work with me like this. That is exactly what Andrew was talking about this week. God requires an attitude that includes love and forgiveness for those whom we feel have wronged us.

This last Sunday I shared around thanksgiving and gratitude, perhaps our outlook would be different if we just looked back and were grateful and thankful for what the Lord has done in our lives.  Thankfulness changes things!

Christmas Day: Service will be at 09:30 and there will be no tea afterwards. Escape early J But do use the opportunity to bring your friends and family!

Andrew wanted to know on Sunday how many excuses I can come up with when Jesus calls me for something specific. J

I am sure we all have similar ones; but none of them are valid. Jesus doesn’t send us to something. He is already there. He sees a need and then calls us over to Him to help. He doesn’t expect us to sus out the situation. He has already done that. He doesn’t call us over to something we can’t do or are not equipped for.

The power of a timely message, spoken clearly and from a credible messenger can’t be overstated. Marketers know this, and so they work hard to hone their message, enlist messengers like celebrities or experts in the hope they will be credible, and make the call to action that they hope will result in people buying their product. The result of this is that we now live in a world in which we are bombarded by messages on a daily basis - around three thousand of them.

Yesterday, our very we sang as part of our worship our very Louise’s song called “My favourite place”, what a worship song! I finished the series on Peace and Unity, with God, Ourselves and each other, by sharing around peace and unity within community.  It was so well illustrated by our year and Church lunch.  If you were not there you missed out J Jeff, Marlene, Tony and Lynn and a few others served us the most awesome lunch.  People sat and chatted, enjoyed food, fun and fellowship.

Two things that are impossible for humans to create. We cannot do it on our own.  We are so selfish that when we try to make peace or unity it is mostly to meet our own needs.

When I look at the Hippy stage with their constant PEACE signs and mantras, I don’t see that they actually achieved it to the contrary they started a downward spiral of society that we are yet to recover from.

Ever had someone tell u to have peace in a stressful situation? Ever tried to bring two unwilling parties together for the sake of unity? Did that work for u? I bet it didn’t.