Ruck and Maul

A rugby referee was speaking to a group of Student referees. He was one of the most respected officals in the world of rugby and had managed many International fixtures throughout the world.

He was talking about rucks and mauls and that some times it is hard to see everything that goes on around the ball. He said that it was sometimes impossible to see whats going on under all the bodys and no matter how close you look, still sometimes youll havbe no idea what goes on.

He Suggested to the students that maybe the best way to refferee a ruck or maul is to step back 2 or 3 paces. This gives you a view of the whole situation and rather than try and look for a infringment in the inside you could be better of looking for the ones on the outside.

This guy could have easily been speaking to a church conrigation as what he was saying makes sence in most situations.

We can get hung up on little things that annoy us, thing that maybe dont really matter in the grand scheme of things. What people say, what people do, what they have or dont have.

Sometimes stepping back and taking a wider view can be much better than trying to sort the little things. Like maybe looking at the future and the consiquences of our actions.

Maybe rather than chasing and running round trying to sort or change little things in life is not a proative as stepping back and seeing the things that really matter.

Give yourself a new history today!

The difference between today & yesterday & tomorrow is potential.
You actually only own this very moment in time! for good or for bad!
Yesterday is forever fixed & unchangeable, it is done! Let it go!
Tomorrow is a hope, a dream, ungraspable!
Today however offers us the chance to change the history of tomorrow!
What's the history you are writing for tomorrow?
Just remember to write it well, as although there is forgiveness, and accolades there is no eraser! Once the page has been written it is written forever!
No rewind, no going back, so if you want to make a difference then do it today!
I encourage you to change the history of tomorrow! TODAY!
So what will you say tomorrow about today?
Give yourself a new history today!

Hills

This Weekend has to put down as an all time low in the of Cooky (me), and its a place i don't want to go again.

It started Thursday and although I went to work I found myself not coping and had to leave early as I felt empty and distant. The same again on Friday.

Saturday I couldn't even pull myself up to open curtains and Sunday got worse and even when I heard people knocking on the door and trying to call me I just curled up and tried to ignore it.

I knew people where worried and I was hurting them by ignoring them, but when your in that state of mind nothing makes sense and worse you can see a future and think that the people you love would be better off with out me and the worry would go away and they would have a better life.

But while i was in that state I continued to pray and continued to tell God I trusted him and although my faith was slipping I somehow knew God was looking out for me.

I Stayed up till 4.30am Saturday morning and not tired or wanting to face the week ahead. But I drifted of to sleep and at 9am my dad called to say hi and see what I was up to.

I got out of bed with a felling of calm and somehow I had the energy to do some stuff round the house and almost felt like I could run a marathon (I'm not going too). I was back on a high and nothing was going to pull me down.

I went out looked at cars and did some shopping. I came up with a new business idea (i do that allot but still not rich) and I got myself down the gym and signed up.

I don't know what is going to happen next, and I'm sure I will have bad times again. But I truly feel that god was listening all weekend and maybe I had to hit the lows to get to the highs. A bit like when I was a kid on holiday, out walking across the hills of Derbyshire we would get up the top of the hill and mum and dad would say ''lets just see whats over the next'' this happened at the top of every hill.

I'm sure i have many more hills to climb and I'm sure I'm gonna hear that voice say ''just see whats over the next'' but I also know that God is there and I can trust in him and know he wants the very best for me and and my family and all i need to do is trust and listen to him. Because he can get me to the top off even the biggest hills.

Dont Fight Alone

Today I really just don't think I want to blog but something is telling me I should. The last few days have been really bad and the felling of sadness and anxiety have been over whelming.

I even have been looking for God and losing sight of him. This has mad me feel lower and made me think that maybe God was just a state of mind and not real.

But then I Rested for a while and prayed (hoping there was a listening ear) and after a while I felt lifted up and something in side me was telling me there was hope, there was a future.

Again I look at that statement

 ''No God, No Hope - KNOW God KNOW Hope''.

There is hope with God, and I know I have to get even lower to come out the other side. and I cant Fight alone. Fighting alone would be instant defeat. But with Faith and with God I can Conqueror all ahead of me.

Going through trouble? Cant see a way forward? why not ask God into your life and see what happens?

When I call on Jesus