God continues His work

TheresALotThatNeedsToBeWrittenHereBecauseIveBeenPrivilegedToHaveHadSomeReallyGoodConversationsWithPeopleInTheLastFewDaysAndWithGodAsWellAsSomeReallyIntenseThoughtSessions:

StuffAboutMyself,MyInsecurities,MyDesiresAndAmbitions,MyThoughtsAndEmotions. StuffAboutGod,AboutWhatIThinkOfHim. StuffAboutPeopleAndHowIInteractAndPerceiveThem.

RealizingAllOfThisHasBeenFruitfulButCrushingAndOverwhelmingAndThoughtProvokingAndHumbling.

At the same time, God remains to be praised:

You never abandon what You have begun. Make perfect my imperfections.
- via St_Augustine's Twitter Account

I'm not where I want to be. But, hopefully, I'm not what I used to be.

Repentance versus feeling sorry

We were talking about the difference between repentance and just feeling sorry, when a friend came up with a cool game that illustrated repentance quite well: "Have all the children run away from you, and when you shout 'Repent', they have to stop and run back towards you."

Then some bright spark added: "Yeah, and if you shout 'Feel sorry', they can carry on in the same direction."

- Yeah, yeah, I was the bright spark, but I thought it would help illustrate the difference! -