tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post7276441862079445465..comments2024-03-17T09:17:01.454+00:00Comments on Vic the Vicar!: Woolly headed and feet of clayVic Van Den Berghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-82303391943688572532016-12-07T07:57:03.438+00:002016-12-07T07:57:03.438+00:00"Lord, give me clarity of vision, integrity i..."Lord, give me clarity of vision, integrity in living, honesty in conversation and love in all I am and do. Amen".<br /><br />Your prayer reminds me of the diminishing physical vision that I am suffering from. Year on year, it worsens, and I need more and more stronger assistance with lenses for my spectacles. I have to use bifocals for reading and they help, but the worsening of vision begs a few questions?<br /><br />What happens when I lose the independence that driving gives me?<br /><br />What happens to my independent living, will my spouse adapt to doing more for me? (in love she will, but her own health might suffer as a result. She already has arthritis in her knee's in it's early stages, but signs of things to come.<br /><br />How do I continue to minister and work in my LLM role, if I am unable to see well, or not at all?<br /><br />I have reflected on the gradual loss of physical mobility and good health, and do what I can to slow down the worsening, but even the miracles of modern medicine can't over come the affect of ageing. My younger sister has had dementia, requiring full time residential care for several years, and my elder sister is disabled by injuries sustained during a nursing career, and has type 1 diabetes. Diabetes runs in our family, our father died from it's complications.<br /><br />But I am optimistic about it - if this is God's will - so be it. I hope that I will cope without falling into depression or self obsession - after all, there are thousands of people, suffering much more than I am, or am likely to be.<br /><br />Putting our trust in God and rejoicing in thanks giving for his gift of life, freely given seems to me to be the appropriate response I hope that I can live up to it.<br /><br />Lord, give me clarity of vision, integrity in living, honesty in conversation and love in all I am and do. Amen.<br /><br /><br />UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-50713216355462340512016-12-07T06:29:42.565+00:002016-12-07T06:29:42.565+00:00Indeed
The problem is that we have lost the place...Indeed<br /><br />The problem is that we have lost the place of properly placed passion and comment<br /><br />Thanks for comment<br /><br />VVic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-17979598621632992122016-12-05T17:36:22.626+00:002016-12-05T17:36:22.626+00:00You say "I'd like to turn a table over&qu...You say "I'd like to turn a table over".<br /><br />I say "King Jesus and No Quarter".<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com