SCRIBE & INK

                                                                                                28  January, 2017 “He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 23:3 Psalm twenty three is one of the most popular chapters of the Psalms and the entire bible. Almost all Christians can recite it from beginning to the end. It was written by David who was once a shepherd before becoming the king of Israel. There are a lot of lessons we could draw out of the whole chapter but we would look at what it meant for David and us today to say, “He restores my soul.”

Do people change in marriage or does marriage change people? H ow does change occur in marriage? What kind of change do we dread in marriage? No doubt young people are scared of getting married. It seem "Mission Impossible" to think about marriage without our hearts beating at a fast rate or without some level of panic. Such fear has drastically risen in many singles of this time and age. I think that is a product of the high rate of broken marriages, and lives that comes out of such marriages. Do people change in marriage or does marriage change people? The question is like asking "The chicken or an egg, which one comes first?". Perhaps the question should be, how does change occur in marriage? What kind of change do we dread in marriage? I believe what we see in marriage is not more of a change happening but a change that has always been there.

                                                                  21 January, 2017 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery . Deuteronomy 8:10-14 I watched the pot of rice steam and boil on the gas burner; it had cost almost a fortune because of the biting economic recession in my country. Alas, I was grateful I had something to eat that night. Often times we lose the benefit of tranquility that absorbs the mind overwhelmed with gratitude to God over little th

This is the beauty of the Christian faith –A God that suffers with humanity . S orrow, grief and fear are parasitic companions of today’s men and women. Dealing with them has led humanity through parallel lines that had set us on diverse paths. It is awfully difficult to meet anyone not acquainted with the trio across the divide of race, colour and faith. Human suffering seems sine qua non to human existence. It is attached to our own lives with visible impact in our communities, educational institutions, hospitals, relationships, and it doesn’t seem to be evaporating from human history soon. Why would it?

                                                              14 January, 2017 “ Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. ” Psalm 65:1 Praise is a ready word on the lips of God’s people. What does it mean to praise God? Praise is from the Latin word Pretiare meaning PRICE. To praise God would mean that we value him as a priceless being, someone who fills a priceless vacuum in our lives.  To esteem, acclaim & credit God with our words is an attestation of the value we place on Him.

Oliver Burkeman All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed T he eternal human struggle to live meaningfully in the face of inevitable death entered its newest phase one Monday in the summer of 2007, when employees of Google gathered to hear a talk by a writer and self-avowed geek named Merlin Mann. Their biggest professional problem was email, the digital blight that was colonising more and more of their hours, squeezing out time for more important work, or for having a life. And Mann, a rising star of the “personal productivity” movement, seemed like he might have found the answer. He called his system “Inbox Zero”, and the basic idea was simple enough. Most of us get into bad habits with email: we check our messages every few minutes, read them and feel vaguely stressed about them, but take little or no action, so they pile up into an even more stress-inducing heap. Instead, Mann advised his audience that day at Goo