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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

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• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

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• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• The Peril of the Pendulum.

  9 May, 2013

  It is often the case that when we want to correct a mistake, we over-correct it.                   I took my daughter flying some years ago and, at an appropriate time in the flight, I suggested she might put her hands on the controls and get a feel for what it was like to fly. Immediately the nose of the aircraft began to dip and I explained she could correct that by pulling back on the "steering wheel" (as she called it).  The nose of the aircraft came up. Quickly!!  I then said that she had pulled back too far and too fast so she now needed to push the steering wheel forward preferably before the stall warning sounded.  The nose of the aircraft now went down. Quickly!!  Well, she soon got the idea and was able to keep the aircraft straight and level.

  THOUGHT FOR TODAY:  When we realise that correction is needed, our tendency will be to over-correct and we will need to make allowance for that possibility. It may be true in your family. It may be true in your Church.  I recall one Pastor saying that whenever they had a breakthrough in their church, the tendency was to "rush to the other side of the aircraft" where the action was, thereby putting the aircraft in danger, so to speak. In their haste to embrace the 'new thing' they overcorrected and it took a while for them to bring about the balance that did not exclude the best parts of what had been in favour of the new thing.