“KEEPING CONNECTED”

“It seems astonishing, but scientific research suggests that social isolation, in the long term, is as damaging as a 15-a-day cigarette habit or being an alcoholic. Studies have found that those  with a poor social network are at increased risk of dementia and high blood pressure, and the genes we need to fight off serious viral infections seem to be less active in the lonely than in the rest of the population. Loneliness may be a contributing factor in cancer or heart disease. So here are just a few tips on how to stay connected.” (Age Concern Kaitaia + District, May 2013 Newsletter)

Quite a number of tips are given.

AGE CONCERN

AGE CONCERN

There is one isolation that is even more damaging than the social isolation you have just read about, and that is the isolation from from the Living God.

Keeping connected with the Living God is more important than anything else!

How do we stay connected with God?

First of all we pray to God regularly.

Secondly we read His Word, the BIBLE, regularly.

Please read more posts on this blog if you have never had a  connection with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Reducing Crime

“Time to bring in the dog to reduce crime,” I am reading on the front page of our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE. (Tuesday, May 7, 2013)

KAWAKAWA IS A TOURIST MAGNET - THE VINTAGE RAILWAY ON THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

KAWAKAWA IS A TOURIST MAGNET – THE VINTAGE RAILWAY

There is a staff shortage at the KAWAKAWA police station and at the KAITAIA police station and it is difficult for the police to get on top of  burglaries and wilful damage.

Calls to the KAWAKAWA police station  don’t go further than the answerphone. (The Northland Age, Thursday, May 9, 2013)

But business people and residents in both towns are working towards reducing crime.

“SOW FOR YOURSELVES RIGHTEOUSNESS, REAP THE FRUIT OF UNFAILING LOVE, AND BREAK UP THE UNPLOUGHED GROUND; FOR IT IS TIME TO SEEK THE LORD, UNTIL HE COMES AND SHOWERS RIGHTEOUSNESS ON YOU,”  we are reading in Hosea 10:12

And in Isaiah 65:24 we read, “Before they CALL I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”