Monthly Archives: August 2013

“The kind of letter you really want to get.”

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Two things, which have happened to me lately, have never happened before, and I believe that they are connected.

The first thing:

I was given $100 too much by mistake at one of our banks here. I returned the money of course. 

The second thing:

Each month the ASB bank is giving away twenty $1,000 cash prizes. 

In a letter we received from the bank not many days ago was written:

“The kind of letter you really want to get. Congratulations! You’re one of the  lucky winners from this month’s PrizeSaver draw. That means you’ve won a prize – just for saving. You’ve won $1,000.”  

Long ago I read this about a coincidence. “Coincidence: When God chooses to remain anonymous.”

“SOMETHING WONDERFUL”

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“Have you read aloud something wonderful to your children today?”

I am reading that question in the article called “LOVE OF READING IS REWARDED”.  (The Nortland Age, Tuesday, August 13, 2013) 

That is one of the signs you can read, when you enter one of the Primary Schools here in the Far North of New Zealand. The sign is for parents of course.

One teacher at the school, a lover of books herself, is making every effort to get the pupils reading as well. She is successful and has received an award for her hard work.

In which books do we find “something wonderful”? The most wonderful stories I think we find in the Bible. And they are true. Please read one or more stories from the Bible to your children aloud today! 

Quote

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“Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are,

first, hard work;

second, stick-to-itiveness;

third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison

The Speaking Donkey

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“Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?'” – Numbers 22:28

DONKEY

DONKEY

“But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey-a beast without speech-who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.” – Second Peter 2:16

Read the whole story of Balaam’s Donkey in Numbers 22:21-41!

The Blackbird

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The blackbird I heard singing this morning is still on my mind.

It was raining, but the bird was obviously enjoying it, sitting on the lawn feeding and singing.

I must say, that I really enjoyed listening to the thrush.

What a reminder, to praise our creator.

Psalm 150 is the last Psalm in the Bible, and have you ever counted the word PRAISE in the Psalm? It is actually only a short Psalm. In the New International Version I counted the word PRAISE thirteen times. Please check, if I am correct!

In verse six we read, “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.”

I have heard this morning that the blackbird has breath. The blackbird did not need any encouragtement, to praise the creator. I should not need any encouragement either.

Relationships (again)!

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werner-150x150To the importance of relationships I was pointed again, when I read an article in one of our local papers.

The article is about the sacking of a College principal, and the word relationships is mentioned again and again.

The reader is told about irretrievable broken down key relationships, inabily to build wholesome relationships with people and inability to build enduring relationships.

There is one relationship, which is of uttermost importance, and that is our relationship with the living God.

It is our key relationship and it is also broken down, but not irretrievable.

The Lord Jesus Christ bridged the gap between God  and us, so that we can have a wholesome and enduring relationship with God.

All we must do to enter into this relationship is to believe! Please enter into this relationship, it changes your life.