tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post4282601109228702219..comments2024-02-28T16:57:47.055+00:00Comments on Diary of a Donkeybody: Could there be anything better?Michael Wenhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04756324780596609238noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-67210225371679387592012-08-10T11:03:23.449+01:002012-08-10T11:03:23.449+01:00Here's praying! "All through this day, O ...Here's praying! "All through this day, O Lord, let me touch for Thee as many hearts as possible; and every life I touch, do Thou quicken, by Thy Holy Spirit, whether through the word I speak, the prayer I breathe, the letters I write, or the life I live; through Christ our Lord."<br />Amen!Michael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-58036245268502789302012-08-09T18:12:26.544+01:002012-08-09T18:12:26.544+01:00Very moving - thank you. You mention Amazing Grac...Very moving - thank you. You mention Amazing Grace: friends of ours in Olney help to run the Cowper and Newton Museum there. One exhibit is a mock-up of the sort of slave ship John Newton used to run and it really brings home to one the ghastly conditions these poor wretches suffered. If someone like John Newton can renounce evil, embrace love, and write such a joyful hymn - well there's no telling what the Holy Spirit might do! Blessings to you and Jane.Brotherly lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10380733588125231811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-61027609906773289932012-08-09T17:34:05.369+01:002012-08-09T17:34:05.369+01:00Jo
It was all too short our time with you. Thank y...Jo<br />It was all too short our time with you. Thank you for provoking me to write less obliquely than I usually do in this blog.<br />I used to love the Avenue chestnut trees and collecting the conkers. The best were from the trees at the bottom (Guthrie Road) end! Living on Pembroke Road I fear I was rather greedy! I wonder whether they'll be replaced. <br />with love<br />MMichael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-85916849828246723032012-08-08T23:14:34.260+01:002012-08-08T23:14:34.260+01:00How humbling to have you write this wonderful blog...How humbling to have you write this wonderful blog in response to my asking the question. But I'm not really surprised because I was very struck by your amazing ability to LISTEN when Alan spoke and ask questions related to what he'd said.... in my opinion this is a rare and precious talent.... indeed, may I say it's an anointing? It challenged us both to be with you for that hour and a half... The normal pleasures for you and Alan of remembering the golden past of boyhood shared was good... but for me it was to be in the company of two who KNOW HIM and spoke if this with natural love. It's been a rare experience for me over the last 32 years of trying to follow Jesus... Thank you. Today we picked up our younger grandson from his father (our oldest, Josh, the tree surgeon) who was managing the felling of two of the Horse chestnut trees in the Avenue. The trees were dying and therefore dangerous... but Alan was really moved to know it was his son who was taking them out. Trees that have provided generations of boys (and more recently girls) with the glossy brown conkers of childhood! I think maybe that to recognise that we can only live... truly live... in Christ means facing death, in the way that Paul writes of death as being a thing of the past if we have put our lives in Jesus' hands... So the deaths of two old faithful conker trees speak prophetically as did the potter's clay to Jeremiah!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04295593544152570508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-25970502137206146242012-08-08T19:05:44.668+01:002012-08-08T19:05:44.668+01:00Thanks, Anita. I fear I didn't do the week jus...Thanks, Anita. I fear I didn't do the week justice, but I'm glad you understood it. I love your account of Pat Bootsma's word for you. I'm not sure how you can explain such things outside the realm of faith, are you?Michael Wenhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111619560360378627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163514158748049548.post-89637671915764745372012-08-08T16:10:32.471+01:002012-08-08T16:10:32.471+01:00That's lovely, Michael and beautifully and mov...That's lovely, Michael and beautifully and movingly written. I am so glad God showed you specifically that he cared for you. <br /><br />I had my first ever prophetic word (that I trusted) specifically for me this year http://dreamingbeneaththespires.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_29_archive.html<br />and was astounded. Don't know if I wholly believed in them before!! There are more things in heaven and earth than we dream of...<br /><br /><br />We've bought a motorhome, and so will be going to New Wine next year. I simply did not have the energy for both New Wine and camping, and used to burn out by Tuesday in the past!!Anita @ Dreaming Beneath the Spireshttp://dreamingbeneaththespires.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com