Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,
Whose trust, ever child-like, no cares could destroy,
Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,
Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.

Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,
Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,
Be there at our labours, and give us, we pray,
Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.

Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,
Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,
Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,
Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.

Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,
Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,
Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,
Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.

Jan Struther 1901 – 1953

Apparently the lady who wrote this hymn was an agnostic and an unenthusiastic church-goer?

The mind boggles!

This hymn has been a great blessing to me over the years.

And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.

‘ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

Gospel of Luke 12:16-21 ESV

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Gospel of Mark 16:1-2 ESV

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

For you were called to freedom, brothers.

Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Pauls letter to the Galatians 5:1-26 ESV

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

John Newton

Thought I would have a look at the new soon to be Windows OS.

I just could not get it to install from a disc ISO from the Microsoft site, I tried all the suggestions that were on offer, download again as it might have been corrupted, burn slower to disc, use different burning software.

Nothing worked, it just would not get passed a crucial stage of CD/DVD recognition after the initial boot and installation procedure.  I even tried installing off a thumb drive but still arrived at the same error.  I believe it is a SATA problem and until Microsoft sort it, it’s here to stay.

Thankfully there is a workaround, I was going to multiple boot anyway so it was a fine answer for me, all you need to do is unpack the Windows 7 software ISO to a folder on your hard drive, then run the setup.exe file and install it to the partition you have allocated for Win 7.  Worked ok for me.  Even the MBR is all done for you.

I must admit, it is very nice system to use.  Will be looking forward to this one I am sure.

I also upgraded to the new WordPress 2.8 recently and for some reason images I post cannot be expanded to full size as they are clicked on?  I will have to inquire and see how it can be rectified as most of the images I post are better appreciated when viewed fully.

Purge

1. kathairo (G2508), akin to katharos (see PURE, A, No. 2), “to cleanse,” is used of pruning, Joh_15:2, KJV, “purgeth” (RV, “cleanseth”). In the Sept., 2Sa_4:6; Isa_28:27; Jer_38:28.

2. ekkathairo (G1571), “to cleanse out, cleanse thoroughly,” is said of “purging” out leaven, 1Co_5:7; in 2Ti_2:21, of “purging” oneself from those who utter “profane babblings,” 2Ti_2:16-18.

3. diakathairo (G1223 and G2508), “to cleanse thoroughly,” is translated “will throughly purge” in Luk_3:17, KJV (RV, “thoroughly to cleanse”; less authentic mss. have No. 5).

4. kathakizo (G2511), “to cleanse, make clean,” is translated “purging (all meats),” in Mar_7:19, KJV, RV, “making (all meats) clean”; Heb_9:14, KJV, “purge” (RV, “cleanse”); so Heb_9:22 (for Heb_9:23, see PURIFY) and Heb_10:2. See CLEAN, B, No. 1.

5. diakatharizo (G1245), “to cleanse thoroughly,” is translated “will throughly purge” in Mat_3:12, KJV. See CLEAN, B, No. 2. Cf. the synonymous verb No. 3.

Notes: (1) For Heb_1:3, KJV, “had purged,” see PURIFICATION. (2) For the KJV rendering of the noun katharismos, “cleansing,” “that he was purged,” see CLEAN, C, No. 1.

W.E. Vine. Expository Dictionary of Bible Words.