My Favourite Pictures -Part 3

Camp's Bay- South Africa

On the platform are two missionary friends playing football, one is pointing to were the ball had landed.

How Exciting!

One of the best bands of the early eighties are reforming this year. There starting with dates in North America in the summer, then they move onto to the Uk. I'm so looking forward to it, the concert tickets will probably cost alot, so i will have to start saving my pennies.

I think they split in quite acrimonious circumstances, lets hope they can get on in the forthcoming tour.

I think my favourite song of theirs was "every breath you take", no doubt they will be playing that on tour.

My Favourite Pictures -Part 2

Snowing at Capernwray, if my memory serves me right the power was out for at least 3 days because of it.

My Favourite Pictures -Part 1

The Capernwray harbour dock was one of my favourite places. I spent alot of time there thinking about my future. One Friday evening ,this was the sight that met me.

There are seasons in my life that i really thank God for, my time at Capernwray was definitely one of them.

My Only Real Treasure

CS Lewis once wrote:

My own experience is something like this. I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly fallen and godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, a holiday or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens serious disease, or a headline in the newspaper that threatens us all with destruction, sends this whole pack of cards tumbling down.At first i am over-whelmed, all my little happinesses look like broken toys.Then slowly and reluctantly, bit by bit, i try to bring myself into the frame of mind that i should be at all times.I remind myself that all these toys were never intended to possess my heart, that my true good is in another world and my only real treasure is Christ. And perhaps, by God's grace, i succeed, and for a day or two become a creature consciously dependant on God and drawing strength from the right sources. But the moment the threat is withdrawn , my whole nature leaps back to the toys.....

I find myself in the state CS Lewis describes alot because i have toys that possess my heart, whether they be sport or the movies. I'm sure there are other things we could all name that get in the way of our relationship with God.

But i wonder if the answer is having a form of Christian perspective were every aspect of our lives is influenced by our faith. Would that bring us to the frame of mind that we should always be? I think it would, also , it's possible to get to that place becasue i've met very mature Christians who do seem to bring God into everything .I doubt it was something that came naturally at the start, but was an act of will that finally became second nature.