What!!!

Friday at work we got a phone call.  The lady on the other end said she was phoning from Manhatten and wanted to speak to Darren.  I said there was no Darren but only a Colin.  She went on to say she was responding to a message left with her to ring back.  Now being as we do sometimes get stuff from the US i went to get the manager and told it was a lady from Manhatten on the phone.

She answered it and started laughing, the lady she said was from Lion Hudson (a publishing house) and wanted Doreen (the manager).  So much for my hearing, but she did have an accent.

I have had this problem before, 'The Greatest Love of All' (song), i heard as, the greatest navaho, till told different and 'Ghost Busters' i heard as Cock Fosters.

Don't even ask.

 

What have i been up to

The last few weeks have been particularly busy but rewarding, however life has a way of having its little joke and piling on more things for you to do just to keep you on the wrong side of stress.  Nevertheless even with all the pressure, when the nurse took my blood pressure last week it was lower than it had been for years  :-)

So what have i been up to.  Well with a few friends i have been trying to organise a mission in our church and over the last weeks getting flyers, posters etc. printed and out.  The time has now arrived and we have started.  The first thing we did was a social games night inviting church groups but also people who hire the halls and have nothing to do with the church.  The idea was to do a 'God slot' during the break and also to invite people to the next week's events.  Nobody wanted to do it and on the night there still was no takers.  People wanted to have a mission but no one was prepared to do the scary stuff.  I understood that because i had been on missions before and never volunteered to stand up and speak.  Too chicken :-)

This time was different, we couldn't have just a games night and miss the whole point of the evening, so i did it.  Thankfully i didn't have time to think about it as i was busy having a good time playing.  The others have blown it though because sharing the 'Good News' with a bunch of people was so satisfying i doubt if i will let them get their hands on the job now.  LOL!

Next week we start again with more events and then we will be doing a 10 week Alpha course.  This is a course where we share what christianity is about, starting with a meal, a talk on DVD and then get into groups for a chat.  This course has been done around the world and has been particulary successful in prisons.

Mum is slowly getting over her bag being taken.  She went to her club for 2 weeks and instead of going shopping hubby picked her up and took her home.  Then she ran out of food so hubby took her shopping telling her she had a time limit though as she can be hours and i mean hours going round looking at everything twice.  I think 5 hours has beenthe longest.  Towards the end you start to lose the will to live and if an alien came to beam you up you would go willingly.  But she did as she was told (hubby had to get home by a certain time).  Then this last week she plucked up courage and went on her own.  As she only goes out one day a week if this stopped it would mean being confined to the house and getting no exercise at all.  Thankfully hubby works nights so he is available during the day to do things for her as me and my sister both work.

Well bed is calling.  I must try to not leave it so long before writing next time.

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i have managed to get graphics on nans blogs for her. it i s her famous grandaughter again!

hi all! it is the famous grandaughter again! you'll never guess what i have managed to do for my nanny?!....    i have managed to put a graphic in with my writing! how clever am i?!?!?!

i am staying with my nan till saturday (tomorrow) and i have been with her since yesterday. i went to work with her today and am tomorrow too. she says i've worked hard! how nice.

i slept with her in her big king size bed with her last night and still ended up on top of her in the night! oooooooopppppppsssssss!

do you like this graphic?

talk soon!

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Pentecost

Someone has asked me what Pentecost is so i thought i would answer in a post for anyone else who doesn't know.  It got a bit like a bible study but never mind.

 

Pentecost means fiftieth day.  It is the day we call Whitsun in the Uk and comes fifty days after Easter Sunday.

Jesus told the disciples to wait in the city for the promised gift of the Holy Spirit.  So on the day of Pentecost which was the Jewish feast of fiirst fruits of the harvest and also a day when they commemorated the receiving the Ten commandments, the Apostles and others were together praying in the upper room.  Suddenly there was a sound like a mighty wind which filled the house and then what looked like tongues of fire appeared and settled on everyone and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in other tongues as the Holy Spirit. led.  This was the gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit that Jesus had promised them just before he ascended into heaven.

Christians say that this was the birth of the christian church, there was cerainly a vast difference in the disciples afterwards.  The cowardly disciples who had run away or denied they were Christ's friends and were worried for there future became with the power of the Holy Spirit bold and fearless in telling everyone about Jesus.

Everyone has the Holy Spirit who comes to be with you the day you say yes to Jesus and you have the authority to ask and pray in Jesus' name, but when you have been baptised (filled, immersed) in the Holy Spirit you then have the anointing of power to go with the authority as well.  This experience seems to be the thing that releases God's supernatural gifts in you as well, which was very well demonstrated by the disciples after Pentecost when they preached with power and healed many individuals.  Today this same anointing with power is available to anyone who asks. 

Easter

It's a bit late but,

Happy Easter to everybody and looking forward to Pentecost.

Jenny <><

This and That and Living to Tell the Tale

Today i sat out in the garden with the sun shining and the birds singing the spring flowers blowing in the breeze and it was lovely.  The leaves are just coming out on my oak tree it has beaten nextdoors silver birch.

I looked on google earth the other day and there was our house complete with oak tree minus leaves.  It must have been from a year ago because our old car was outside our house.  The last time i looked our roads were blurred out but they must have got to us now.

Mum as predicted is frightened to go out to the supermarket again.  She thinks they have got her photo from her bus pass and will recognise her and follow her home.  Nothing we say is going to change her mind, so we will have to see if she goes to her club this Thursday to get her Easter egg.  Let's hope.

I think i will have to come back to this another time as i have had a visiter and now it is late.

But just to finish my twin g'son's came round the other day, it was their 16th birthday.  Where has the time gone?  It was lovely to see them though.  Although they don't live far away at their age they are usually busy with their own lives so we don't get to see much of them.  When they were born they were premature and like two little chickens but they  both tower over me now.  I think next time they come i will stand on my stool to kiss them goodbye :-)