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If you are part of a small group, or a service team or a mission project, we'd love for you to share pictures or details of what is happening in your corner of our WMC community.
We do need these kinds of diversions though, don't we? It may be an English football side, or a hobby of some kind, but we need something that gets us thinking about more than load-shedding or petrol prices!
I'm sure many of you will remember the days when the whole world seemed to slow right down on Sundays - shops were closed, there were no school or sporting events. One had to have planned carefully to make sure that all the Sunday braai supplies had been bought well in advance :)
"If we pray only occasionally, we might well experience some pretty deep emotions in our prayer. However, if we pray faithfully every day, year in and year out, we can expect little excitement, lots of boredom, and regular temptations to look at the clock during prayer; but we can also expect through the years an ever deepening intimacy with our God."
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8)
Author Gretchen Rubin hosts a podcast on the subject of happiness. She recalls how she once interviewed Sandra Day O’Connor (the first female Justice in the US Supreme Court), and O'Connor offered her own definition of happiness in just three words: 'work worth doing'.
At our home group this week we talked about people who had nudged us closer to God over the years.
I watched my daughter’s U11 hockey match this week and there was a moment in the game that has stayed with me since.
Author Ryan Holiday has written extensively about the ancient Stoics and applying their ideas today. I was taken with this observation in his newsletter this week: "How would you describe someone who lies to you?
In a few weeks' time, a 12 year season comes to an end at WMC