This is the subject that seems to be occuppying more inches of print in our Guernsey Press that any other at the moment.
We live in a wonderful island. It has outstanding beauty almost everywhere you look.
The trouble is that where there are people there is rubbish!
Also what compounds the problem is that it is a small island with only limited options to deal with it.
- Concern is raised that the only existing landfill site is filling rapidly and will soon be closed for business.
- The possibility of incineration has been ruled out as too expensive,
- and the option of exporting our waste to nearby France was recently thrown out by our local government.
I too had a whole lot of rubbish that needed getting rid of. The Bible calls it sin.
The trouble was similar to Guenrsey's, I couldn't bury it because I was already full of rubbish.
I couldn't export it and make it someone else's problem - nobody wanted it.
Thank God that Jesus was prepared to come up with a solution. He said "Give me all your rubbish, and I'll deal with it.
Not only did He want my rubbish, but He wanted to exchange it for something so much better.
We used to sing a song that went:-
He gave me beauty for ashes
The oil of joy for mourning
A garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness
That we might be trees of righteousness
The planting of the Lord
That He might be glorified
Now that's what I call a solution to the rubbish problem!
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I was praying last night, and had a picture of a big red brick wall being put up - on the other side was hope, destiny etc, and on this side (where the wall had been built) was confinement and restriction.
Please test this of course! but I saw you standing with sadness looking at the brick wall stretching up high, trying to figure out how it could be brought down and how you could get to the other side of it.
I then saw you look straight at the wall, and you took a brick out of the middle, then more which weakened the wall, but at this stage gave you a way to climb through it.
I felt God was saying that he is making a way for you, room for you and the giftings he has given you - creativity, ingenuity, will be used to confuse the plans of the enemy, not just in your own life but that of others.
Hi Karen,
Thanks for your encouragement.
I have just finished reading your testimony. Isn't our God great!! The way He leads, puts people in our path, closes doors, opens doors. The list is endless. It was such a blessing reading all He has done in your life. Thank you so much for sharing it with me.
Strange isn't it how the worlds advice is to build up ourselves. our esteem, our wellbeing. Yet God wants broken submissive people.
They are the ones He wants to use.
Thank you for sharing your picture with me. Yes, there are times when I do feel very restricted. I would love to get off my medication, yet feel God's time isn't yet. Each time I reduce my doseage the symptoms very quickly return. Also like Paul, I feel God is saying "my grace is sufficent for you, when you are weak you are strong".
I feel there have been other areas that the Lord has set me free from, however there is a long way to go yet
I was so blessed to find, and set up a blog as I feel these poems are for more than just in a once in a lifetime airing at Shiloh, and trust that this will be used as a channel for His blessing in the lives of others.
I read your testimony in one day, it was amazing - really anointed. I mean it! There are people out there who will be hugely blessed to read this and know that there is hope for them.
Do you mind if I forward the story to another dear friend?
Please use it anyway you can, it just makes the suffering more fruitful
I have just returned from a Women's Breakfast - amazing speaker but when I heard the following I felt I had to pass it on (I will blog all about it later).
"It is good to live in the mountain top experiences but true growth is found in the valleys. Have you ever noticed that there is nothing growing at the top of the mountain but that lush grass etc grows in the valleys?"
Hi Karen
This is something I too have shared a number of times.
In fact having read a number of climbing books, they refer to anything above about 20,000 feet as the "Death Zone", as regardless of your condition, after a short period of time your body deteriorates and will eventually die simply by being there.
Mountain top experiences are meant to be at best brief. The valleys are abundant with life, yet still we yearn to get out of them.
Hi Ferby, I am the woman who got the copy of your book.I received it yesterday and I plan to stay in bed and read it on my lap top this afternoon.
I am so keen to read what you have to say and get back to you with my story.
P.S. Feel free to visit me in blogland form Australia!!!
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