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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Come, follow me...

Today we heard of Jesus's call to "Follow Him" (Mark 1:14-20)

It must have taken a lot of nerve to follow someone you didn’t really know. To simply give up what you had and make that decision to follow.

That commitment. 

The disciples seem to have taken that step into the unknown almost without thinking.


 Back Safe

As always, Jesus chose a group of people who were at the lower end of the normally accepted pecking order. Fishermen. 

Since I was a wee boy I have had a great love for the East Neuk of Fife. A close-knit community living cheek to jowl with the North Sea.

I remember well the days when the older fishermen would put on their dark blue suits, dark blue knitted polo neck sweaters and ubiquitous bunnets and meet down at Anstruther harbour to reminisce. I recently attended the 60th birthday party of a friend that I first met over 40 years ago while on holiday in Anstruther. His father was a fisherman, out in all weathers to earn a living. An honest, Christian man like the majority of the others.

He may have been a simple man but, if he was anything like those first disciples, then all I can say is if it was good enough for him then it is good enough for the rest of us.

Are you ready to follow - to make the commitment?

 

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Until the 12th of never...

 

Twelve days have now passed since the previous post and I don't know where the time has gone!
  Celebration

After the euphoria that is Christmas, it has been back to "auld claes and purrich" and the various calls upon our time to do this, that and the other. Hence not a lot happening on the blog.

I had been thinking about what words of wisdom I could post, but nothing sprung to mind. 
I therefore Googled "12 days" to see what words of inspiration might come up.

Lo and behold and surprise, surprise, I got to about page 17 without anything other than… "the 12 days of Christmas" showing up.

So thinking caps on!
What did Christmas mean to you?

Did anything earth shatteringly different happen, or did you simply eat too much, drink too much, and fall asleep in front of last years repeats on the new 52 inch-flat-screen-app-controlled-watch-six- channels-at-a-time-television. The one that you bought yourself to celebrate… er… eh... what was it again?
 
Your thoughts?

 

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