“KORERO AWHI”

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“Your words and deeds today .. can make a difference tomorrow,” is written on the posters.

THAILAND: Missionaries are working in Thailand. Picture / Alan Collingwood

You can see quite a number of the posters, when you enter the Kaitaia hospital at the present time. I did that yesterday and saw them. You will see them too.

“How do you want to be remembered?” is also written on the posters. How would you answer that question? And “Korero Awhi” it says at the very top of the advertisement.

In the Gospel of Mark, in the last chapter, the Lord Jesus Christ says:

“GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO ALL CREATION.”

You find that verse in Mark 16:15. When I “GO” (deeds) and when I “PREACH” (words) today, I can make a difference tomorrow.

But being obedient to “The Great Commission” is even more staggering: I can make not only a difference tomorrow, but I can make a difference in eternity. In Luke 15:10 it says, “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

“How do you want to be remembered?”

I went to Thailand as a missionary when I was young.

LISTS

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At the Beach

“Let’s cross this one off your list,” encourages me Microsoft. It has to do with a Window update and they need my help installing the update.

Reading that on my computer screen made me think of other lists. Just now I saw a “Things to do list” on our fridge door and a shopping list in our kitchen.

Also what I read about the importance of a list of goals once comes to my mind.

Someone was asked to show his list of goals, but he did not have a list. But when he was told that his bank balance would increase drastically if he had a list of goals, he “became a student of the art and science of goal setting.”

Do you have a list of goals?

The notification “Let’s cross this one off your list,” concerning the Window Update has been on my computer screen for quite some time, and I better get on with helping Microsoft to install it.