Digging for Honey ants

Rene’s Yananyi Dreaming Design for Qantas

Katie Davis and her family of 14 girls

Our stuff can get in the way of us finding and living our story: The Self Indulgent nature …that part of us that is oriented around maximising pleasure and minimising pain 2. Our beliefs about ourselves (our self concept) can limit us and blind us to possibilities 3. We compare ourselves to others and miss the fact that God hasn’t asked us to be that person…he’s asking us to live our story, not theirs!

“For I know the plans I have for you” says the Lord, “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

What is the chief end of man? The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: William Wordsworth (Intimations of Immortality)

How can you be a person who “trails clouds of glory”?

A story from “How far to Bethlehem?” Norah Lofts Joseph, in the many things he had to attend to in traveling from one end of the country to the other to obey the Roman decree to register in his birth town, is anxiously looking for someone to sub for him in his carpentry business for the few weeks he will be away. Through the Rabbi network, a man called Aaron turns up on his doorstep, who lives half an hour walk away. Aaron agrees to carry out all Joseph’s work if he puts a sign on his door directing people to his workshop. “In later days amongst his many other worries, Joseph sometimes wondered about Aaron and how long he had done two men’s work before wiping that notice off the door at Nazareth. But when he came back there were the chalked words, renewed again and again and one of his first visitors was Aaron, carrying in his hand a small bag of money and in his head an exact amount of every piece of work he had done on Joseph’s behalf”

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.” Philippians 4:8