simple time management tool...

Have a look at this..  http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/book.html , it can be paper based...(with downloads (free) on the above website), or... there are many apps that help to do it...

Makes sense to me, & seems to be a general tool, rather than one tied to any particular job. Though it may only be suitable to some kinds of jobs. Seems like it will be good for me doing tax invoices & assignments. I guess we'll learn what it is applicable to, as we go.

Thanks, Lord, we'll use

such simple tools,

since now you choose

us to be "fools".

Fools for the Christ,

the childlike one,

with whom sufficed

Father's "Well done".

To use well his

time, & his stuff,

knowing it is

never enough

for this broken

world to love and

to hear, folk can

not understand,

what he made clear-

"He is no fool,

who lives quite near,

under God's rule"

For Love's great game

turns wishes to

commands, the same

as genie's lamps do.

I think we'll see

how tomato

timers can be

part of "the show".

Paul W.,

Cornerstone Comm-

-unity, who

points where we're from.

Head where He led

re. a brother whom we are trying to help reach his potential, to use well what God has planted inside him well. One aspect may be to pursue some training in Accounting..

Lord, help us please

to hear from you,

that we release

potential due

to grow from Matt

& to serve well

in this moment

the fight 'gainst hell,

and hellishness

that "finds... itself"

(self-centredness),

not hev'nly wealth.

Yet to funnel

this earthly stuff

for eternal

friendship's enough.

Amen.

member to full-fill leadership council

Lord, please grow your love
& truth in me more.
Your grace from above,
to shine out for sure.

That like Samu'el,
I, instinctively
might do my job well
in praying for the

people under me,
& those over too,
that they will clearly
honour & love you.

Then the ones between,
they still need you God,
so not small & mean,
they go where HE trod.

Trip to scarey spot

Trip for family
to unstable spot,
now we finally see
might work, but
might not.

Lord, this trip & we

are in your hands, to

do with as you see

fit; & "We love you!"

Whichever way things

go with it, we'll not

complain that this brings

chaos, for that's rot.

Our lack of trust in

you who shone the light

on dark & brooding

Earth, & breathed your life-

-breath into us would

be a treacherous act,

for we know (or should)

that you made a pact,

a cov-en-ant New,

through blood, sweat, & tears

of him who called to

us with "Have no fear!"-

-"For it is I" who

(seems to you some ghost)

walks through this storm to

bring God's will (no boast)!

But we will learn to

boast in nothing else

than this God/Man who

passed through death & hell's

great sep-ar-a-tion

to call dead to LIFE;

the reparation

of all curse & strife.

We are glad to say

like him, "Your will be

done" and every day

we'll rejoice in HE

who, won the battle,

has the victory,

is Light of the World,

and makes blind to see.

Amen.

out & about

God is "out & about" - all over the country-side!
My job is to enjoy the benefits of his work, & war, & "watch" for god (make use of the lens of the scriptures), & to pray;
to not fall into temptation.

He (like a wise parent) is leading me out (of my very small womb-world), one step/centimeter at a time! Trust him, oh, my soul, and do the next little thing he has given me. So that one day I really will be able to live in & control a permanent body.

God,

In all your world

your flag's unfurled,

joy sings hurray,

& life is hurled

into deserted

spots where hurted

Truth wins the day

though it's blood spurted..

& help me too:
to honour you
in what I say,
& what I do,

& how I be;
that in all three
more of your way
will shine through me.

                      Amen. 

a mate doing a job

Well Lord, you're the boss.

We want your honour

through our gain or loss.

Raise your flag on a..

..pole for all to see -

a brass-snake lifted

that works against he

who snakes his shifted

path down broad & wide

to other kingdoms,

on the other side,

You are our vision,

& in you we pride!

Please give your wisdom,

and a lis'ning ear,

to John, & vision,

to use well your gear.

Amen.

Sue’s Muse

My daughter Milly was back home on holidays for a few days. After we sent the school “kids” off & made a few phone calls, we realized that we'd missed community devotions this morning. So, we decided to have our own together in front of the heater. Milly read that story (from the end of Luke) about Jesus being taken before Pilate & accused etc. ..

• about the leaders of the people of God losing their integrity & concern for truth (in having already “bought” Judas & then) using the structure (meant [by god] to back up justice) in order to back up their jealousy & keep their power base intact...
•  about Mary & her friends who had seen 2 angels who had asked “Why are you looking for “THE LIVING ONE” in a cemetery?” & then said: “He is not here but raised up. Remember how he told you… Then they remembered Jesus’ words”
• about Jesus walking on the road to Emmaus with those two disciples, & calling them foolish & slow of heart to believe all that the prophets has spoken, & opening the scriptures to them, then feigning to go on walking. Would he have? (I asked. Milly said) “I think he actually had them wrapped round his little finger”
• about the two running back into town excitedly to tell the others, but too late, for they find the others just as excited & wanting to tell them that the Lord “has risen, & has appeared to Peter”, then Jesus appeared to them all as they puzzled & wondered & laughed & awed; so that then they also looked, & felt, & puzzled scars, & laughed etc…

Then, in the middle of our wonderment at their wonderment, a lady (Sue Hodge, whose husband is the Dean of our Burrabadine Mission Community) knocked on our door in gladness to pass on the happy news that she had found the key (to the yellow "ute") that was lost, (& which a number of us has searched for the day before). Sue announced that Russ had already gone off to his work..then she went off to work in town. It all coalesced into what I could call

“Sue’s Muse”

“Rejoice with me

I found the key;

looked for by the

comm-un-ity”

Rejoice with us

that key won't rust

or be quite lost

it's made reposte!

To those who sought

his death, & bought

his friend; life's fraught

with probs., & short!

So act, & buy

& shut your eye

& let the fly

in ointment lie...

But these who grieve:

sorrow won't leave,

yet they feel torn

to even mourn..

for 'twas his speech

& acts that reached

from years before

to now (& more)..

..and Hope was waked

of Life (Death slaked),

& from above

has shone his love.

Rejoice & trust!

The key found us..

so without fuss

I'll (work/team) with Russ!

tonight I received an email from the Strathalbyn Cornerstone Team in which one of the women asked us to please ... "

• pray that I may become a godly woman

• pray that I may become a key bearer of the kingdom for others."

God, help her please
to find those keys,
bear them with ease,
same way that Jes-
-us showed us how
for those about,
not with a pout,
clear as a shout!
Amen.

Oh U my Lord

Oh U my Lord,

U R adored

by all who've soared,

& have not stored

a treasure (fraud)

on earth4sord-

-id gain, but more d-

-id C they poured

their life & hoard

2 what's of gawd.

They won't B bored (!)

nor B ignored,

even through flawed.

He's our reward!

He gives a broad

(& sharpened) sword,

since we've implored

his help, & awed

(in 1 accord),

we stand (insured).

He now has roared!

My Lord, & Gawd!