you may not like this, but...

Show-off's are a strange species.  We all say we don't like them, but we all have televisions in our homes, and the majority of our viewing is entertainment.  Does it not strike you as strange that the actors, writers and general celebrities that we all watch at home, who give us such great pleasure, have to be very strongly inclined to show off?  Also, do you ever consider how boring and mundane our lives would be without them?  Yes, I know that they make a mountain of money and they are insufferable, but I'm putting a word in, here, for, well, showing off! By now, you must be seriously confused, but bear with me, because I do have an important point.  And here it is... I saw something in my daily Bible reading the other day that made me stop stock still in my tracks.  And I must tell you that this is not exactly something that happens on what you might describe as a regular basis.  The simplest way is to tell you straight out what it was. I was reading through the B

Hello again.  I would like to tell you about something that happened to me whilst on my travels.  This was while I travelled across Europe, and insodoing, alighted upon the Eternal City itself.  Yes, that's right, none other than Rome!  I always remember that the book I hated most in the world was one I had been made to read in school.  And this was Edward Gibbons' "Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire".  Nothing was more sure to anybody off a subject than this dewy-eyed piece of mental and verbal bromide!  I have no doubt that it was written to instill in its readers a right-wing, reactionary mind-set.  Trust me, The august and overtly prolific Mr. Gibbons' words fell on very stony ground in my case!  I spent the rest of my formative years, and the early part of my adult years, for that matter, arguing, pamphleteering and generally disagreeing at every given opportunity with anything and anyone who crossed my path with the merest passing resemblance of sympathy w

This is a VERY big moment for me, so I humbly ask your patience.  It's been a long time since I did anything at all with this blog, and I am so very sorry.  I'm not going to offer any excuses; none about how tough life has been for the last five years, and how I've been a victim of circumstances, or anything even like that or any thing else like those things.  No, I'll tell you that I've sinned.  Yes that's right, I've sinned.  When we come to the point where we can admit that, we are in a very important place.  First, generally, then personally.  Generally, what I find is, that I have let the Lord down in not serving Him as I should.  When I step back and consider what He has asked me to do here in writing this blog, I realise that it is a very easy thing for me to do.  I'm a professional writer and words come easily for me.  All the Lord is asking me to do is really to tithe a portion of my time at my keyboard and give Gospel thoughts out to people a