Time Is Wasting by Josh Ritter

Gary Ware

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August 27, 2020

New music from Josh Ritter is something I look forward to.
There’s a lightness and depth to his lyrics and musically he ranges around in folk rock with inviting melodies.
Time Is Wasting is the first track from an EP of previously unreleased songs titled ‘See Here, I Have Built You A Mansion.’
It was composed for a movie, but wasn’t used.

I used to be bad people used to get hurt
So bad that better would’ve still’ve been the worst
But you took me to the garden girl you took me to thе light
You took me to the mountain and you gave my hеart sight

Come on honey, time is wasting, hither hasten
Run the front porch jump the railing
Come on pretty honey baby time is wasting

These days have made a change in me
I can see they’ve changed you too

Footy Tipping 2020 – NRL Round 16 / AFL Round 14-15

Gary Ware

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August 27, 2020

Another week, another rugby league coach.
And two games of AFL on a Thursday night.
Just normal for 2020.
I was very pleased to get 8/8 for NRL and 8/9 for AFL.

(Draws count as correct)
NRL (last round 8/8; season tally 88/120)
Paramatta
Saint George
Easts
Newcastle
Cronulla
Penrith
Melbourne
Canberra

(Draws count as correct)
AFL (last rounds 8/9; season tally 73/113)
Round 14
Essendon
Richmond
Geelong
Port Adelaide
Greater Western Sydney
Saint Kilda
Collingwood
Gold Coast
Round 15
Hawthorn
West Coast
Richmond
Melbourne
Greater Western Sydney
Brisbane

Batman Black And White Statue #100

Gary Ware

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August 26, 2020

This arrived today.
No, I don’t own 100 of them.
This one marks 100 releases in the series.
I’m very, very pleased with it.
It will be installed in the Batcave sometime soon.

Faith Only Grows By Being Stretched (via Paul Mallard)

Gary Ware

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August 26, 2020

It just feels like a tough week, due to very recent events on top of other events months past, with the expectation of more to come. More unfolding right now.
The Bible recounts in a variety of ways stories of people who trust God and learn of God’s faithfulness.
As those stories continue, those experiences are then followed by other experiences where these people have to trust God again and learn more of God’s faithfulness.

He’s never failed. And he never will.
The only two things you can be certain of in a tough week is that God is faithful, and that somewhere, sometime there’ll be more tough experiences to come and that God will be faithful then.
He’s never failed. And he never will.

From Paul Mallard’s book Invest Your Disappointments.

Faith is risky, but it is inspired by confidence in the unchanging character of God. He calls us to trust him in the dark, based on what we have learned in the light. God is gentle, kind and patient. He is not an ogre who gives us good gifts only to hurt us by then taking them away. Past grace gives us confidence to trust God for future grace.
Disappointments – no matter how heart-rending – are meant to test and deepen our trust. Faith can reach maturity only by being stretched.

Paul Mallard, Invest Your Disappointments, IVP, 2018, pg 168.

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