Celibate and Sane: A Day Beside the Sea!

July 24, 2010

A Day Beside the Sea!

Today we went out to a nearby spit which is right at the entrance to our harbour. It was an absolutely gorgeous day and I went mad as usual, taking heaps of photos. Unfortunately there weren't too many birds about, though in the past I've snapped three of my best bird photos here.

Mostly there were silver gulls, a couple of herons, magpies, crows and brown honeyeaters.

Silver Gull

Eastern Reef Egret

We had a barbecue lunch there and a nice walk, though my knee didn't appreciate the walk much. It's good that my knee is getting better though and I think it will be much more flexible and less painful by the end of next month.

Tomorrow morning I'm hoping to go to church - I think I may have found myself a church family at last. I'd given up looking for a long time. Really though, I consider our Bible study group my home church.

When you consider the original churches - they were just home study groups. The concept of a church with a minister or pastor out the front being in a building came about much later. This was not what God wanted at all, but the original concept has been perverted.

I understand there are many churches that still hold their meetings in homes. We should be focusing on this, rather than spending our time, energy and money on buildings that really do nothing for the growth of the church.

Perhaps a more structured church and even a building may appeal to some people, but we should not be frightened about going back to the basics of what was the original intention and basis of the church. In fact, we should be encouraging it, but for some, it seems almost blasphemous.

Anyway, I could go on and on about this - but there are better people than me who have written books on this very subject.

Best be off. Catchya later!

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”