It is good to be content with what we have and most of us have every reason to be content. We have more food than is good for us, clean water, so many clothes that we have to find new places to keep them and even then we can't actually wear all of them, there not being enough days in the year. I do have a favourite lightweight blouse come jacket that I get to wear about three times in the year, when the weather is warm enough. Regularly I have to sort out which clothes I am not wearing and take them to the charity shop. Is it good to be content all the time? Well in our personal lives it is, but there are injustices in the world that should stir us out of contentment with a righteous indignation for the many wrong things in our world. Even if there is little we can do about the situations, maybe our indignation is like a prayer for God to help those suffering, always with the realization and acceptance that we may be God's answer for that situation. William Wilberforce saw the evil of slavery and originally could not have seen that he must be the answer to that problem. We need several more Wilberforce's to sort out the present day situation where slavery is still rife. Any takers?
First of all thanks to Fat Prophet for your interest. I see from your blog you are having trouble commenting. To get back to my assessed service. Criticism albeit constructive is harder for some to take than others. I felt a little crushed after my assessed service but then remembered I had recorded it on my dictaphone. I listened to it all through and although my assessors were quite right about me speaking a little quickly and rushing from item to item, I was actually very pleased with the content of my sermon and how I presented it. So I have decided to take heart. I highly recommend other trainees to record your services. You can hear your good points and your bad and there is no argument about it, it is all caught on the recorder.
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