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Learning from your mistakes | Deaconos's Blog
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Learning from your mistakes. 8220;We all learn from our mistakes” they say, but what ‘they’ don’t tell you is how long that process can take. I say this because I am still learning how to grow a parish and like all growing there are pains involved. For example how do you know what to do to be doing what God wants? To Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I. To God’s initiative. So the lesson I am slowly learning is this. Wait on God and while you wait,...
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Now there’s a word that has gone out of fashion -virtue. My online dictionary defines virtue as: “ the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. ” Traditionally there are seven virtues consisting of a combination of the four cardinal Virtues and the three Theological virtues. They are as follows:. Which is “proper judgment of reasons for action with regard to appropriateness of context.”. Which is “proper judgment regarding individual human interests, rights and desserts. December 5, 2008.
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Sleepless in Swansea | Deaconos's Blog
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This is the second night in a row that I can’t sleep. I don’t know if it is something I ate or drank or whether this is something that every 52 year old might as well get used to because this is what will occur on a more regular basis from now on in? One blessing is that this is one of the few ‘free’ moments I seem to have to write my blog, so “every cloud…”. I know it does smack of some kind of loss of control and anyone reading this can be forgiven for thinking that maybe I am on the verge of some sort...
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March | 2009 | Deaconos's Blog
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Archive for March, 2009. The democratization of morality. In the absence of God, who decides whether a thing is right or wrong? But there are huge problems with this approach because something (or someone) is fuelling this this way of thinking. Someone is persuading the majority that this is okay and the way forward. They, the public, are not uninformed, so who is informing them? Who or what is driving this forward? March 26, 2009. This is the second night in a row that I can’t sleep. I donR...What do...
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Love and laying down the law | Deaconos's Blog
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Love and laying down the law. One of the tensions I struggle with as a Christian and a parent is the relationship between rules and love. No one likes rules and there is something in us that wants to hit out and react when someone tells us we can’t do something. It’s like the sign that says “Don’t touch, wet paint! Rules become a means of expressing love, just as God’s ‘rules’ or ‘words’ were meant as an expression of His love. Surely to love is to set boundaries? March 25, 2009. Enter your comment here.
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The democratization of morality | Deaconos's Blog
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The democratization of morality. In the absence of God, who decides whether a thing is right or wrong? But there are huge problems with this approach because something (or someone) is fuelling this this way of thinking. Someone is persuading the majority that this is okay and the way forward. They, the public, are not uninformed, so who is informing them? Who or what is driving this forward? March 26, 2009. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are commentin...
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Saturday Football | Deaconos's Blog
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Alternatively Ruth, our youngest, comes a close second, with her radio/cd player blasting out Michael Jackson’s ‘Killer’ or her loud conversations with one of her friends (who must be deaf) about arrangements for their Saturday trip to Town. What caused this turn around? What was responsible for such a transformation? Was it the atmosphere of the occasion, the weather or the score? Was it some need or lack in her life which going to watch football filled? Was it some kind of revelation or insight into so...
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A time to live and a time to die | Deaconos's Blog
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A time to live and a time to die. Dad has had several ‘near misses’ over the past year with a couple of admissions to hospital after mini-strokes or a chest infection. Each time he has bounced back although a little weaker each time. He is 92 going on 93 and although there is little real quality to life, he is not ready to go yet. Why is this? I don’t know. So visiting dad is a kind of healing. It keeps me reaching out instead of closing off. So there is a “time to live and a time to die...Fill in you...
