A High Five for a Smile (Or How to Make my Heart Go Wild)

Dear me!

What a day I had yesterday...

The first Sunday at church where we have four services, that's right, four proving that, as a church, we are headed in the right direction.

If you build it, they will come!

Plus I got to exchange a high five with a certain young lady and got the most amazing smile that I have ever seen in response... like EVER!!! :-P

Just thinking about her makes me go crazy, lol, but seriously, I wish it was as simple & excitable as that but to be truthful I'm really not feeling "on it" today...

Only Human

Hey!

After my recent three part posts on leadership, I wanted to follow up very quickly by saying that, knowing that my time is indeed coming when I will be telling a certain person that I have been developing quite strong feelings for her.

I feel a little apprehensive, yet totally excited for what the future holds for me...

One More Time, Inevitable (The Focus of Leadership)

Hey everyone!

I felt challenged by the last part of this trifecta of postings on leadership that I thought I'd use one more post to wrap things up.

We've talked about the power in leadership, the direction of it so now I'm going to look at what happens the moment that you focus your leadership or speciality in one particular area...

That's Right, I Said Inevitable (The Direction of Right Leadership)

Hello everyone!

I'm having a great time at the moment, I hope that you are too because you only get one chance at life so you might as well make the most of it.

I want to follow on from yesterday's post, whilst also keeping up this trend of posting as frequently as I possibly can as apparently, as I've said before, my actions are indeed being noticed by other people.

The key follow on from this is that my actions are also inspiring them too, which is something I wasn't really anticipating...

Inevitable, Mr. Anderson (The Power of Right Leadership)

Hello everyone!

It's Friday again & I hope that you have had a good week.

I can't complain really because, despite the challenges that I am facing, realising that Christ has already placed within me all that I need to achieve everything that He is calling me to, helps me to see that other people's opinions of what I do pale to insignificance.

The reality is that as long as you hold yourself responsible for what you say & what you do then how other people take it is not up to you; it is down to them.

Today, I want to make a quick mention about my situation as it's high time I started preparing to tell a certain person how I am feeling about her...

Holding the Line (Shock, Drop & Awe)

Hey!

Man, this is some sucky weather we're having in the UK right now, especially as Storm Doris has definitely arrived!

I said I wasn't going to go to Life Group last time, didn't I? Well I'm glad I changed my mind!

Again, the reasons will not be on here, but let's just say it helped remind me why I'm doing what I'm doing, why I'm staying connected on social media...

Further Down the Rabbit Hole

Hello everyone!

Do you ever have one of those days where you just know it's gonna suck?

Don't worry, this is not a negative post, it's just an observation I got when I go up this morning.

First I awoke at 7:49am & thought "damn, that's way too early to be awake". Secondly, I got a call about a job that might've been worth a crack had it not been in friggin' Leeds (ED - for disclaimer reasons he's not having a dig at Leeds, just that he's no way to get there at the minute so that job's a complete bust to him.)! >:-(

Then, when I was getting dressed to go meet up with my mum in town, I found myself looking for my pants...

Off the Scale #1 - Allegri's Miserere

Hello everyone!

I trust you are all doing well this fine and, um, rainy Tuesday evening.

I've jumped the gun with this one because my editor & I have not had the chance to arrange our meeting to discuss the future of this blog yet.

To start off my series I'm going to be calling "Off the Scale", I've gone for what is probably one of my favourite choral pieces of classical music; Allegri's Miserere sung by none other than the King's College Choir of Cambridge...

Sometimes to Dismantle, You Have to Go Deeper Down

HA!

My last post might possibly be the best one that I have written yet!

All I am trying to do is to keep pushing, keep praying & keep watching God do phenomenal acts of breakthrough like He has been doing lately.

To get to a stage where I can readily admit that I am indeed ready to put my crush down once and for all shows me that never again will it take up space in the throne room that is my life.

I'm not saying I am going to, just that what happens next is 100% in God's hands now as I'm more intent on seeking Him than ever before as a priority...

Be Lifted High (Or How to Dismantle Yourself Like an Atomic Bomb)

Hey everyone!

I'm certainly hitting a groove, aren't I, with these posts?

You know what? I don't care, especially as I'm in that good a mood!

I know you're all wondering why, especially with my obsession with posting update after update on my crush, so I'm going to tell you...

Catching the Updraft (Further Steps to Beating the Depressive)

Hey everyone!

It's weekend, so I hope that you are all making the most of it!

Earlier this morning, I posted quite a breakthrough article that just popped into my head as I wanted to pass on the tips that I've discovered in my own journey to beating depression.

Today I wanted to, not follow it up per se, but to post some further thoughts on what I posted recently about catching the updraft...

Steps to Beating the Depressive

Hey everyone!

It's the early hours of Saturday morning & I am feeling absolutely freakin' fantastic!

Why? Simple.

Having been reading Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer this week, I have started to realise that a lot of my problems with depression have indeed been coming down to wrong thought patterns.

Naturally, once they turn up you are left with a choice and in this post I'm going to let you know what that choice is...

Talk About a Boomstick!

Hello everyone!

This is a post I've just thrown together as I've just got off the phone to my BFF, Peter, after spending some time talking about last night's Belonging at church. Talk about a powerful evening.

Apparently, I was around five seats and two rows away from a certain person too! :-P

But what I'm focusing on now is the impact that last night had on me...

Even a Broken Pot Has its Uses (Or Borne in Identity)

Hello everyone!

It's a surprise to be writing this so soon after the last one, but then the last post was an impromptu one that I never anticipated.

Today, I want to take a quick look at identity & how it can shape us for the better or for the worse.

Before I do that, I want you to be thinking about what it means for you to have an identity...

Changing Seasons, Shifting Sands, Yet I'm Built on Solid Rock!

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.

Matthew 7:24-27 (HCSB)

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all doing okay today.

I feel I have to address something that occurred a couple of times over this last weekend, as I posted a couple of thoughts then promptly took them down within a few hours of them going up...

P.U.S.H. Until Your Praise Breaks the Darkness

Pray Until Something Happens

Hello,

It's the end of another week and I hope you've all been encouraged and challenged like I have. Life might be a yo-yo these days with certain, um, events that have been going on at the minute, but I'm still going.

I said that I would be the one to go down with the ship if it sank and that I would do it alone, but apparently, at the time I said this, I wasn't counting on having friends all around me that are with me regardless.

Some have been scared away, some I cannot trust to help me through this anymore, but it's the ones that are still here, still with me that I want to cleave to...

P.U.S.H. One More Time, For One More Moment

Pray Until Something Happens

Hello everyone!

I must say that things are certainly gathering momentum once again, yesterday I spent some time writing down my whole story as far as this crush goes from beginning to now and it made for some seriously awesome reading, I can tell you. It had drama, comedy, disappointment, elation... all the things a good storybook should have!

The reason that this has boosted my morale is because as I listened to the recording that I'd made of it, I quickly started to realise that God's fingerprints were all over it and that, though I might not have seen it all the time, with enough time passed, I saw Him at work.

Naturally, this leaves me with the inescapable conclusion that I will have to tell her one day soon...

No Matter How Bad it Gets, You HAVE to P.U.S.H.

Pray Until Something Happens

Hello.

I know this title seems a lot heavier than it actually is right now, but the truth of the matter is that for every few days I seem to get where I find momentum behind me, there are always those where it feels like it's falling away from me.

Nevertheless, I will not let it pull my gaze away from where I am headed because, knowing the destination like I do, or at least part of it, I am trying to teach myself to just rest & let God go to work in my situation.

It doesn't alter the fact that I saw her, though, last night...

To Get Past it, All You Have to Do is P.U.S.H.

Hello!

I could have gone for a number of different titles to reflect how things currently stand, but in the end I settled for this one.

It is often in the seasons when you feel like I do, that you cannot push one more day let alone season. Today, I want to use this post to encourage you to do as I'm doing and dial it right back, all the way back to pushing one more time, one more moment rather than day to get through your situation.

You know the feeling, you're approaching your wit's end, or your in a situation that you've been in for the longest time and nothing seems to be happening? Well, those are the seasons that something is happening, as I hope to prove today...