Fish on Friday. Today is the day that the Lord has made and we can choose to allow the almighty spirit of God to work through us for the good of all.

Blessings love and peace to you, my brothers and sisters.

Yesterday my mother gave me a quarterly daily Bible reading booklet. I found some relevance in it, particularly due to my being born in east Anglia. Here in the United Kingdom. 

REVELATION 7:9-10 (NIV)
Having the end in view.

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that
no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, 
standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing
white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And
they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.`

Reflection
Whenever you feel isolated or lacking in faith, remember that, in Christ, you are part of a great company gathered throughout time and geography. Today we have read the end of the book... and God wins.
                                     Stephen Rand

Stephen remembers as a child growing up in a small, tightly knit church and then attending a mass meeting, called the Keswick Convention where there were thousands of people. It was literally, a revelation. Like a foretaste of heaven. People from many different backgrounds and locations, worshiping together, united by their salvation that came through faith in the risen Christ who is also the sacrificial Lamb. 
His father had attended this convention with a friend by the name of Geoffrey Bull (coincidentally, Bull is one of my family names from my fathers mother before she married my grandfather and became a Kimble.) Anyway Geoffrey Bull arrived in Tibet just before it was engulfed by the Chinese Army. He was captured, imprisoned tortured and, after three years, released. He could not have looked less like a hero, but, in on sense, he was: he had risked his life because he thought people far away deserved the opportunity to come to faith and, one day, become part of the great celestial worhip choir that John had seen in his vision 2000 years earlier.
Remember, we live in the heritage of equally heroic figures who risked all to travel to the inhospitable far reaches of the Roman Empire because they recognized that God could transform even the most barbaric tribes: `not Angles, but angels`, one of the first missionaries to Britain is reputed to have said.`
                                  Reflection
 Whenever you feel isolated or lacking in faith, remember that, in Christ, you are part of a great company gathered throughout time and geography. Today, we have read the end of the book... and God wins.

So my brothers and sisters who visit this site from many countries, I ask us all today to remember our family members in China and pray that though they may be the only child of their earthly mother and father, they have many relations in us brothers and sisters who dont, recognize mankind's imposed borders.  God is one with us and we are one in Him.

                                     
                                                   This is the photo I took of the red sunset
                                                    through tree branches, twisting the camera
                                                    slightly to get an abstract effect.

                                                    Here we have me twisting the camera
                                                     again, but this time on a painting that is
                                                     already an abstract!

         Got to go as my sister is on her way to pick me up. Bye for now. Know that you are loved and pass this on. Your bro in Christ, Jesus, Peter G Kimble.