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Originally  posted on  Friday, 7 November 2014 Hi world, Today was a Proverbs 31 kind of day. It's amazing how God's word is new all the time. Do you know how many times I've read this Proverbs 31 chapter? From the very many movements encouraging women to strive to be the kind of woman described there to my serious respect for Janette's " I will wait "  piece. Pause. If you haven't heard this already, please help yourself to it right now.  Yes, she is a very talented lyricist. Glory be to God.  I read Proverbs 31:10-31 and it's interesting how I picked out so many things that still need to submit to the Biblical standards.  From my sleep habits, to my attitude towards the future. I thank God for the Bible, for all that is in it and for this renewed interest in digging deeper. I figured it'd be best if you just read it: A Wife of Noble Character 10  [ b...

Originally posted on  Thursday, 6 November 2014 Today I read  Genesis 27  (in NLT.... if that matters to you) and at the end of it I found myself wondering what kind of woman Rebecca was. Let me give some background to this passage, for a while now I've been reading Genesis and Acts (on a long overdue bible plan on my bible app). So I've been reading Genesis since Abraham sent his servant to go find a  wife for his son Isaac . I've followed the story since when this servant was unsure that he'd find a woman willing to follow him back to be the wife of his master's son. I've read through the parts where he prayed to God for a specific sign and Rebecca- unaware of his prayer-did exactly what the wife would do if she were an answer to his prayer. I loved that story a lot because I'm all for God being as specific as possible. Faith is a great gift from God and even believing in an unseen God requires great of Faith. But when you ask God specifically for so...

Basically just what the title says: I'm starting a new series of psts and they'l all have "Fopsy's Days With Jesus" before the day's title. That already feels like a handful to type, so it might just be #FDWT...because it's 2014 and hashtags are a thing. I originally started this on a different blog, but I figured I'd just merge everything. Makes life easier. :) They'll be daily reflections on what I read in the bible or hear on the radio or watch on YouTube... all having to do with Jesus anyway.  It’ll be anything and everything.  Enjoy!

You know how you can say you've been a Christian all your life? Like your parents were as Christian as Christians get. You could count the number of Sundays in your life where you'd missed church on one hand. The dress code was and still is "if you can't wear it to church, you can't wear it at all". You kept as much of a distance as necessary from all things worldly because it's "flee all appearances of evil" right? You heard it over and over again-no sex before marriage. It was a no-brainer and yes you got it. After all, the bible did say thou shall not commit fornication. Hmm wait did it?  Anyway, you knew Jesus as your Lord and saviour, because often enough they'd say you know your parents' salvation doesn't make you saved; salvation is a personal decision. So you understood these things, understood the ways of the church, the rituals of service, and the shame that came from answering in the negative to whether you had your qu...

I'm staring at you right now and all I see are eyes. Eyes that bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the girl who came up to me just last week. After work everyday, I have a spot of Mivhy Street where I write poems. I have a really hard to miss sign that says "Stop, pick a poem about everything and nothing and feel free to leave a tip". So she stopped and said hello, but didn't try to make eye contact with me like my regular customers did. She just started blankly. I said "hi" and smiled, expecting her to ask me about my work like others did. Just as I was about to ask if there was something I could do for her she said, "Can I just sit here next to you and cry? I need a moment to cry and not look like I'm crying. You're here writing poems so can you make it look like you're writing a poem about me or something. If you had a speaker playing slow and sad music in addition to this set-up, it could enhance your tip-ability. You can say no...