Tuesday 25 November 2008

A READING FROM PROVERBS - THE POWER OF THE TONGUE

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. King James Version

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. New International Version

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit - you choose. The Message

The tongue has power over life and death; those who indulge it must eat its fruit. The Complete Jewish Bible

Your tongue has the power of life and death. Those who love to talk will eat the fruit of their words. New International Reader's Version

What you say can mean life or death. Those who speak with care will be rewarded. New Century Version

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. New Revised Standard Version, English Standard Version

Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life.
New Living Translation

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Amplified Bible

Grace and I went to Church on Sunday, we met up with friends that we have known for some time and have been going to Church regularly forever. Faye joined us shortly afterwards.

It started off very informaly with coffee and pastries, followed by songs (which was a little different to what I had been used to) any church I have previously been to has been very traditional. I must admit that I was a little aprehensive and unsure whether traditional or this new modern look to religion (in my opinion) was the way to go.

Grace stayed for the first two hymns (songs) and then went off with the other children to the 'Kids club' or Sunday School as I formerly had known it. My very good friend 'S' had told me that she found it all a bit daunting on her first visit,and it more than prepared me, for how people around me reacted to Gods presence when singing. I sang, and I sang out loud, it is very uplifting and whats more it was uplifting to see that Faye and Grace were as equally impressed by it also.

The above proverb reading was the sermon, the Church Leader spoke of using the tongue badly was likened to a guns bullets shooting you down and keeping on until your body could not take anymore, she then went on to mention the word sniping as in sniping remarks at people and in the dictionary it is described as cutting and hurtful remarks and also 'sniper' as in being gunned down.

I actually hung on every word and have given it much thought this week..............the power of the tongue heh?

Monday 10 November 2008

Going to Church

My friend 'R' goes to church, she has been gently trying to coax me into trying it for some time. We have had a very busy schedule for the last few weeks with wedding plans and dance festivals, but after next Sunday 16 Nov we have Sundays free again!!

So we are off to Church. The service varies from week to week, and luckily for us this will take us to the very informal meeting in the Church hall where we get to meet everyone and discuss all aspects first....so greatly looking forward to it.

On Saturday, Marks brother got married............ I was greatly looking forward to the wedding, but St James Church where they were married was very special to me.

The last time I went to St James was for a funeral, it was my very good friend Mr Nicholas Dombeys funeral..........and It was a very difficult time for me. I didn't get to see Nick before he died as I had concerns, one because Grace had grown MRSA at the time and I was worried that I may take it with me and Two because I thought what I might also carry back could be harmful to Grace.

Unfortunately whilst I was battling in my head with the decision, Nick passed away. I've never felt so bad in my life and was very distraught at the funeral. Something very strange happened in the church and I am almost sure that I felt Nicks presence.

He was probably saying " I'm a planning engineer you know" I still miss Nick very much, he is a great friend, and great friends are what everyone needs. I do still feel I have let him down,so it was a poigniant day for me going into the church for the first time since that day, and do you know what? I can't begin to tell you how uplifted I felt, I thought that it would be awful,but it was completely the opposite, I think I might have been forgiven??

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Lombard, it was a beautiful wedding...........