Category: Thought of the Day

Have you ever noticed that you just like being near someone? There is magnetic invisible draw some people have that gathers people together, and forms communities.

Or have you experienced uncommonly good days, where nothing out of the ordinary happened but you just hung out with the people who remind you of who you are and how good being alive is?

Some miracles, or examples of prophesy are sensational. They can be moments where is seems like the physical laws of the universe seem like they have been suspended.

Others are more quiet.

“Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, … those who prophesy speak to other people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation … those who prophesy build up the church. Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy” … read more of 1 Corinthians 14: 1-12

With people it can be more complicated. Attraction is a genuine form of Love, but since it is so fundamental and often experienced at a pre-concious level it can be confusing. If we make the effort to be self aware, and to fill our minds with the knowledge and Love of God, simple friendship Love can become a bedrock for our human relationships.

Could the draw towards green environments be an example of creation prophesying to us? The quiet call of God through the wind in the trees, or in the harmony of the spheres?The magnetic personality of God drawing us into deeper relationship. The mouth of a cave doesn’t form words, but the solidity of stone can speak to us. We are embedded in a conversation with our environment, in the present moment and on a cosmic scale.

Enterprise is a buzz word going around. School pupils today are being trained for jobs that don’t exist yet. Traditional economic models are crumbling as we reap the hidden costs of industrialisation, and it’s collapse.

But what does it take to get a new enterprise going? Many won’t survive, but some will.

Legend tells that Ninian arrived in what is now Scotland as a missionary bishop to the Southern Picts across the water from his native Cumbria . He wasn’t alone though. Martin of Tours trained him and sent 12 disciples with him.

Well over a thousand years later the story continues. Like all good stories it’s telling adapts with the audience. So whether at the moment you are the shirtless wierdo, the early adopter, or someone who finds their self in a crowd there is plenty of opportunity from you to play your part.