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Thoughts By Rod Marshall

June 12, 2025

Children and Parents

"Why are we so keen to have families and yet not give them the priorities given in scripture?" There is a danger, where parents are too busy for their children, that it can have effects on the family and on the society both present and future.

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June 7, 2025

Rainbows

Have you ever seen some phenomenon in nature that could have been put there just for you?

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May 30, 2025

Book of Life

I am to be whom God has made me: fragile, fallible and dependent on Him in the mess and muck of life but not sucked in by it.

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May 28, 2025

Broken Glass

I have noticed broken glass on the tarmac where I ride my bike. I guess it is from broken fizzy drink bottles, or wine and beer glasses all of which have been discarded by revelers.

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May 2, 2025

The Woodshed

When I cycle into work, I pass by a woodshed where pallets of sawn wood of various lengths and thickness are stacked and kept dry.

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April 8, 2025

A Thorn in the Flesh?

PRAYER: LORD, we are truly sorry for being a pain, again. It dismays us to think we can continue to cause You sadness.

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March 27, 2025

Blurred Vision

Reading the Bible at the start of the day is a good place to invite the presence of Jesus in to quiet our rushing about. However, I have found it requires a submissive heart and willing attitude to allow the Holy Spirit’s influence on, and into, our thoughts and beings.

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March 19, 2025

Self on the Shelf!

I had some flu virus, which laid me out totally. Even breathing was an effort, with my ribs feeling sore. I sat still for twelve hours

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March 3, 2025

Double Minded, Me?

The LORD has prompted me in the past not to be double-minded. At the time I was a bit hurt and said "Surely not I?"

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February 11, 2025

Kissing?

I was in a queue at a set of traffic lights in town. We were stationary, so I looked expectantly towards the red lights in front of me, when a movement in the car in front of me caught my eye.

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