Remembering

Gary Ware

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October 24, 2022

There are some losses that don’t have a precise date.

There’s a first day when a life ends. Really. Dedicated medical professionals provide amazing levels of care for a life they expect is over. That amazes me.
There’s another day when a declaration of death is recorded, though all the machines are still running. Nothing changes in that regard except a decision has been made and a day and time recorded.
Sometime after that, another day probably, surgeries are completed and machines are switched off. That time doesn’t seem to be recorded.

It’s complicated. At least in my mind. Not that having a single day would decomplicate things. At all.

Remembering day one.

Gratefulness – Sunday Songs

Gary Ware

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October 23, 2022

The church I visited this morning was singing Gratefulness, a newish song by Rend Collective.
As we were going along we got to the bridge:
I’ll choose to see my pain as some kind of blessing
I’ll choose to see my trials as some kind of joy
I’ll see Your goodness in the land of the living
So while I’m still breathing, I choose gratefulness
Which I found funny for some reason or another. So I had a laugh while I was singing. What can you do?

The full lyrics:
1.
He puts the next breath in my lungs
He pours that new wine in my cup
I can’t stop singing of all He’s done
His mercies are new every morning
Refrain.
I will enter His gates
with gratefulness, gratefulness
He turns my sorrow to praise
Through gratefulness, gratefulness
2.
He leads me through my wilderness
He lifts me up when I’ve no fighting left
I can’t stop singing how good He is
His mercies are new every morning
Refrain.
Bridge.
I’ll choose to see my pain as some kind of blessing
I’ll choose to see my trials as some kind of joy
I’ll see Your goodness in the land of the living
So while I’m still breathing, I choose gratefulness
(Repeat)
Refrain.

Words and Music: Gareth Gilkeson, Chris Llewellyn, Ethan Hulse
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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 43

Gary Ware

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October 23, 2022

Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 43

Chapter 26 – Of the Communion of the Saints
I. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ their head, by his Spirit and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory: and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other’s gifts and graces, and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, as to conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.
II. Saints by profession, are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification; as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. Which communion, as God offers opportunity, is to be extended unto all those who, in every place, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.
III. This communion which the saints have with Christ, does not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of the Godhead, or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm, is impious and blasphemous. Nor does their communion one with another as saints, take away or infringe the title or property which each man has in his goods and possessions.

Tupperware Cake Carrier

Gary Ware

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October 22, 2022

Once if you wanted to purchase Tupperware you had to go to a party, where a representative took orders. (and you could swap broken lids)
Now Aldi sells Tupperware. Which is weird, but we’ve been after one of these cake carriers for ages.

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