Norman and Susan Carter

The Lord God is the Lord of compromise

No Muslim or Christian should be our enemy. We are all members of the same body, and the Lord God blesses those who strive to live in peace and harmony with one another.

My dad used to say that “there is nothing more tragic than watching the news on the television“. When I got to the age of fifty I began to really understand what he meant. We go through life and the younger we are the less we take from the news on TV or even the papers. Another one of his sayings was “don’t buy the times until you retire because you won’t have the time to really take it in“.

Both of those pearls of wisdom came upon me today, I watched the news tonight and saw the piece on poor baby Peter, how I hope that he is in the arms of our Lord now and that he truly knows that what love is now “suffer unto me little children”.

But what left me fuming were the words of the Judge and the words that he used when sentencing those animals. Are the judiciary so truly out of touch with humanity and the grass roots of the good minded people who live in the UK? What on earth posses a man with the power to deliver a much higher verdict choose the lenient way he sentenced them all today. They as good as murdered that poor defenceless child. They deserve to be euthanatized for one tenth of the things that they made him suffer. I know where there is good there is most certainly evil so on the Day of Judgment let them fear the wrath of God.

Now with hindsight I can say without fear of contradiction my dad was right. The news tonight has left me with a bad taste in my mouth and a crying pain for the innocence of that child in my heart.

Prayer:

Pick me up, Lord, and hold me in Your loving arms. Protect me from the pressures of the day, and remove the heaviness from my heart. Inspire me with the knowledge that You and I together can handle anything. Amen.

God wants us to need Him. He made us to need help, not to try to do everything on our own. When times get tough, God wants us to open our hearts to Him, that He might be made real to us. Call upon God from your brokenness, and He will be faithful to answer.

Prayer:

When all else fails, I turn to You, Lord . I should not wait until situations get bad, but I do. Be with me to help me in the hardest of times, and stay with me in all times, that I might know You better. Amen.

Today I have spent quite a bit of time listening to my talking books and pondering on where I will be in ten years. Are you like me? Do you worry about the time you have left, do you worry about what people will do when you are not here, well I have been doing that quite a bit lately. What in Gods name am I doing I spend days worrying about the quality of my life than I do planning or just enjoying time.

We all from time to time stop and try to make sense of this earthly domain. Me I am about to give that up. Who cares what you are going to leave as your legacy, not me and that's for sure, I will have passed on to another existence. So why do I worry about it. DUUUR.

So a very late new years resolution, I Norman (fat boy) Carter will do my very best to stop worrying about the things that I can do nothing about, and will concentrate on the things that I can influence.

How long do we think this new found freedom will last, keep you eyes on my blogs both here and Christian Chat

God Bless you for reading this and I will keep you all informed via my blog or on the Christian Chat Site.

Loves Ya all.

Norman

My dear God I got the gas bill in today and would you believe it, it was almost £300. I hade to call them to complain, only to get told “we have put the prices up by %50 this last year. Then some waffle about oil and gas costs. She said we will be putting it down by %10 soon. How in Gods name do they think I am going to keep myself warm I now know the meaning of "HEAT OR EAT". You see though I am a War Pensioner I do not get the fuel allowances as I am to young.

Pension up % 3.5 I think and that plus any savings for the next three months down the pan I have nothing but praise for the elderly generation and so do understand their complaints about fuel bills, I dont like the idea that they will have to face   the same choices that I do. The one I have just received will just have to wait.

GBY

Norman

I wonder if like me you sometimes read something and say in your mind

I WISH I HAD THE COURAGE AND WIT TO SAY THAT.

Muserat Sujawal who is the co-chair of Leeds Coalition Against the War said to the “Socialist Worker”

“The first time I heard the word Muslim and terrorist next to each other I was offended. But now if I hear the word Muslim without terrorist I assume the sentence isn’t finished.” Bloody well done Muserat, don’t you just love that.