Monthly Archives: January 2013

Everything I Know I Learnt From Noah’s Ark

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I learned from Noah’s Ark

• Don’t miss the boat.• Remember that we are all in the same boat. • Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.• Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.• Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.• Build your future on high ground.• For safety’s sake, travel in pairs.• Speed isn’t always an advantage,  The snails were on board with the cheetahs.• When you’re stressed, float a while.•

• No matter the storm, when you are with God, there’s always a rainbow waiting.

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail”. Robert Motherwell.

A Different Kind of Prayer

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Different Type of Prayer:

Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the person who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who works nine hours that day and was rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking beggar, asking for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

 

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

 

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not just to those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.