“No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.” – Albert Einstein

AUCKLAND: Rangitoto Island

What is coming to your mind?

CHRISTMAS 2016 on Boxing Day at a big shopping centre in Auckland, I saw people selling and big crowds buying. You should have been there.

Luke 17:28 came to my mind, where it says: “‘It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.'”

AUCKLAND: Hunua Falls

What comes to your mind?

Christmas 2016 at Hunua Falls I saw a lifebuoy.

Seeing that lifebuoy a hymn came to my  mind which I found eventually online. The name of the hymn is: “THROW OUT THE LIFE LINE.”

AUCKLAND: Hunua Falls

NOT FAR FROM AUCKLAND: Sheep

What comes to your mind?

Twice I have been lately on the bus from KAITAIA to AUCKLAND. You should hear the interesting stories the drivers of the buses tell about their passengers. I do not want to go into details, but I can now better understand why we read in the Bible about sheep.

Pleased read in the Gospel of John chapter ten!

Flowers at the roadside

“EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWER.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Follow John’s tips for a safe, stressfree journey,” is the caption of the image and the title of the article is “Sound road safety rules to live by.” (Northern News, December 21, 2016) John is the chairman of Roadsafe Northland.

“Follow John’s tips for a safe, stressfree journey,” reminds me that our whole life is a journey. And God has given us rules for our journey to live by. We find God’s rules for us to live by in the Bible. They are called The Ten Commandments.

Memorizing Bible verses and especially The Ten Commandments

You find The Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:1-17. And The Greatest Commandment we find in Matthew 22:37-40.

In the same paper I am not only reading about “tips for a safe, stressfree journey” on the road, but also about “Top tips for summer water safety.”

Here are four road safety rules: “Increase your distance, the price of speeding, don’t drive when tired,” and “watch out for others.”

Let us always keep our eyes on God’s rules to live by and not neglect other safety rules.

“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” – Thornton Wilder, American writer

Auckland Airport

“STRESS IS CAUSED BY BEING ‘HERE’ BUT WANTING TO BE ‘THERE’.” – Eckhardt Tolle