All the right notes….

Being a Pianist, girl who sometimes plays piano, this is my all-time favourite sketch from British Comedy. It’s unfortunate that it’s not the full clip but a commentary of the clip, the effect is lost a little, but it still makes me smile. (It takes a while to load but be patient!)

Mummymac.

Biblical sermons free..

As you know Shannon over at Rocks in my Dryer hosts a weekly Works-for-me-Wednesday. where we all list our tips of something that works for us.

One thing that works well for me is Sermon Audio. While I don’t always have time to listen to many sermons at home it is a good way of hearing a sermon on a particular topic or passage of scripture. Sermons can be searched by Pastor, by topic and by text.
I can’t vouch for all the Pastors listed at this site but I can most certainly vouch for him, him, him, and not forgetting him.

Regards

Mummymac.

A cry for help…

Ok so as I mentioned we have some American visitors coming next week and I’m still at the menu planning stage, the one part I always struggle with is Breakfasts!!

So this is a cry for help, what do you do for Breakfast that’s different?

So I know about everthing that comes out of a box and your pour milk on, we know about the old pancakes, bacon & maple syrup and the scrambled eggs etc. not forgetting Daddymac’s speciality an Ulster Fry, but I’m looking for a few new ideas that are handy prepared etc.

Please, please, please help a girl out here! I’m relying on you……….

Mummymac.

The plot thickens….

As promised an up-date on the veggies, the tumbler tomatoes have vacated my kitchen window at long last and are outside now as are the courgettes. We have 2 courgette plants in a cloche and 2 out in the cold night air, be aware this is an experiment and we may have to admit failure here but there is nothing wrong with accountability.

The blackcurrant bushes are doing a treat and Daddymac thinned out the swedes today - that could turn out to be a mistake but it’s too late now!!

The photos I hear you ask - YES I did take photos after we had done a nice job of the weeding but then Daddymac deleted them off the camera because I quote “They are all out of focus”.

Oh it’s ok he did very kindly take some more with much diligence for me (he loves his camera more than his veggies). And them? I hear you ask? Well they weren’t photos of what I wanted so if he is so proud of them he can put them on his own blog!

(Really that’s not me having a strut I just don’t have the patience time today to upload pics)

Mummymac.

Izzy Wizzy let’s get busy…

Things are hotting up round here, what with a busy weekend at church this weekend and our friend and Pastor coming to stay next week for some special meetings there is much to be done. I could do with a little of Sooty’s touch.

I mean the kiddy macs are great but I need some mega cleaning done here over the next few days, not to mention baking etc. Daddymac and I did some gardening to-day and that will be the last of that for a day or two. I’ll post some pictures later. Yes, he was off to-day, it was a bank holiday and it didn’t rain, now that is something worth blogging about!

Just thought I’d let y’all know (did you notice I typed South Carolina lingo there I’m practising for my visitors) that things might be a little quiet round here but don’t worry I’ll have so much to tell, it will be worth the wait.

Mummymac

What a friend..

Another favourite hymn is What a friend we have in Jesus.

I think this is a favourite because we need to be reminded so often to take everything to God in prayer.

What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He’ll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.

Hope you have a good Lord’s Day remembering the friend we have in Jesus.

Mummymac.

You had to be there…….

Our annual Sunday School prize night is next week. Being Reformed Baptists we stick to the regulative principle of worship, that being so, this is the one night of the year that the kids get to stand at the front of the church and recite and sing as taught by the teachers.

This year the class I try to keep control over teach are ages 2-4 (yes 2-4)! To keep the recital easy for the little ones I have incorporated some hand actions into their story. We are telling the story of how Abraham was faithful to God and how God “Always keeps His promises”. The 2 year olds’ role is to say “God always keeps His promises” while doing the thumbs up!

At home here babymac has been re-hearsing hard and just to-day I heard him practising while in the other room. As I looked on from the hall-way, the driver of the bin lorry was doing the thumbs up at him through the window and there was babymac imitating his actions and screaming out the window “GOD ALWAYS KEEPS HIMS PROMISES!!!!”

What age is just too early to start witnessing?!

Mummymac

Cancer

I lost my mother to this life-threatening disease not 5 months ago.

She bore the cancer tag for 15 years. Praise God she left it in the grave and does not bear it to-day.

A friend gave her this poem which encouraged her in her battle.

Cancer is so limited

It cannot cripple love

It cannot shatter hope

It cannot erode faith

It cannot eat away peace

It cannot destroy confidence

It cannot kill friendship

It cannot shut out memories

It cannot silence courage

It cannot invade the soul

It cannot reduce eternal life

It cannot quench the spirit

It cannot lesson the power of the resurrection.

According to the national statistics on-line, 1 in 3 of us will be diagnosed with cancer and 1 in 4 of us will die from it.

Why is it then we are shocked when we hear of more and more diagnosis among our friends and relatives? I believe part of our fear is that we don’t know how to cope as Christians with this diagnosis.

If you are a cancer sufferer or have just been diagnosed with cancer, as a Christian how should you respond?I believe part of the answer is here. John Piper has compiled a list to encourage cancer sufferers to glorify God in their illness.

Perhaps in the light of statistics we should all be reading this advice to be prepared for hearing the diagnosis no-one yearns for, but that which God alone gives.

(I would appreciate continued prayer for my dear Aunt and my husbands dear sister).

Mummymac.

Don’t forget…

 

 

 

Mummymac.

Text - Ephesians 6 v 17.

What would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our mobile phones?

What if we carried it around in our hand-bags or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive text messages?
What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?
What if we used it as we travelled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?

(Author Unknown)

“And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God”.
Ephesians 6 v 17.

Mummymac.