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Are you ready for another trip around the Sun? #HappyNewYear #Plansfor2017
I love this time of year. I love it for two reasons, the first is that it’s not a normal time, it’s kind of a twilight zone, an in-between time where one year is really over and another hasn’t properly started. In a moment like this there is the opportunity to spend some time reflecting. The other reason I love this time of year is the chance to sit down in front of the cricket (I know its not a very Canadian thing) or over a jigsaw puzzle or board game with family in a very relaxed kind of way that doesn’t seem to happen in the frenetic pace that…
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His compassions really do not fail, they are new every morning, every week and every New Year ……..
This reflection was first published last year, and as I read it again, I thought it was worth posting again as we prepare to enter another new year…. I wrote todays date in my journal this morning and for the last time I wrote 2011. I love a new year. For me a new year is like a practical form of grace. The old things are now in the past, the future lies ahead. I actually think God designed the rhythm of days, weeks, months and years as kind of a structural grace. One of the most helpful books I had to read for the Arrow Leadership course was “Getting…
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Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails
I love this time of year. I love it for two reasons, the first is that it’s not a normal time, it’s kind of a twilight zone time where no one is really working (apart from everyone in the hospitality industry) and there is the chance to reflect. I also love it because there is the chance to catch up with family in a way you don’t really have the space for any other time of the year. We had a great picnic together at a park in Launceston (pictured) and it was just nice to be ‘us’. I find that this week and next week are usually times when…
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Look for character
How to make this year different I am coming to the end of my week of reflection on the year ahead and there is certainly a theme emerging. One of the things I will be doing differently this year is going back to school.. well kind of.. I have been selected to participate in the Arrow leadership training course. The Arrow website says: Arrow is Australia’s peak body for Christian leadership development. Strategic in its approach, Arrow identifies the nation’s foremost emerging leaders to invest with solid evangelical teaching, tailored mentoring and a cutting-edge curriculum, including the renowned Leader360™. The Arrow program is delivered by highly respected leaders in a…
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Making this year different
I don’t want to get washed away Sometimes it feels I start with plans and those plans are washed away by the tidal wave of the unresolved. As I was sharing, I am spending this week thinking about the coming year and in what ways I want it to be different from last year. As I sat down with my journal this morning, I could sense a level of despair as I could see the unresolved things piling up an I began to wonder whether I could actually change things the way I believe I need to. I have a sense that part of the answer for me is to…
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Structural Grace
Happy New Year I love this time of year. It’s a time to stop and breathe, to reflect and to plan. It’s a time to try to make sense of all that has been and all that will be. New Year for me is a kind of structural grace. The promise that the past can be over and there is a whole year ahead without any major mistakes, crisis’ or blemishes.
