Generous Realist?

Generous Realist

I took one of those on line personality tests. Suggested I am a Generous Realist. Not sure what that exactly means but when I read the detail many of it struck a cord.

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Thank God for Mollie

My 15 year old daughter brought home a baby from school last night. Well actually a baby doll. The deal is that it acts very much like a real baby - it cries allot. It cries when its hungry, when it needs changing, when it needs attention.

Abbie was up at 4 am with mollie and found it difficult to get ready for school because the baby just wouldn't settle down. As I was leaving Abbie told me she NEVER wanted a baby. Music to a fathers ears. Anything that tells my 15 year old baby that she shouldn't have a baby for many years gets my vote!

The Bible talks about people who have just started a relationship with Jesus as babies. Babies can be time consuming, disturb your routine, demand your attention and generally make a mess but Mum and Dad wouldn't have it any other way because the new life is priceless.

Each new life that starts when a person collides with Jesus is priceless. They are not the finished article and they are sure to mess things up and disturb the status quo but we just can not have it any other way.

It is the reason we exist.

mad church disease

After my post yesterday about the difficulties I have been experiencing it was interesting that the following post found its way to my Google Reader today. Written by Terry Storch.

Today is the public launch of MadChurchDisease.com. As a trailblazer, or early adopter if you will, I have been supporting Anne in this project for a while now. I am excited about it, and really think it will have a big Kingdom impact. Here are the highlights in a short and sweet TerryStorch.com kinda way.

–The Book–
Mad Church Disease is a book which will discuss the epidemic of ministry burnout in today’s contemporary church.

–About Anne—
She is a friend of mine. Read more here.

–Get Involved NOW!–
Here is your action step to help with the project. Click here, and take the survey. I have already done it!

–Spread it—
If you feel like spreading the news about Mad Church Disease you can click here and see all the ways to add images like this.

Make sure you take the survey today and tell your friends about it.

Chumbawamba Doctrine

Posts have been few and far between this last week. The fact is that last week I just hit the wall. For the last year and a half things seem to have been non stop. Any idea of life balance has been non existent.

Working full time in the church is what I believe God has gifted me to do and I love what I do. That's the problem. I feel driven by my passion, driven by His cause, driven by my desire to please God. I fool myself into thinking things will be different once I get past this project. Once I get this out of the way then I'll have more time for myself, more time for my family. The problem is that there is always another project.

Even on my recent "holiday" I took my lap top and my smart phone so I could continue to work. Well it all came home to roost last week. After sitting for 2 hours in front of my computer getting more and more frustrated that I couldn't complete a task that I could normally do in my sleep I had to bail out.

3 days of no e mail, no computer, no church staff at least I am able to start back. I still need to get some balance into my life and I know that's going to be hard.

Had a laugh today when I was reading the Bible. Paul was reflecting to the church at Corinth about some difficult times he had faced. In 2 Corinthians 4 v 9 he says "In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again."

It just reminded me of a song called
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Tubthumping by Chumbawamba:

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down

Sometimes all we need to do is just get up again!