Search winter comfort keto food and this sort of thing comes up. There was bacon and cheese involved as well.
Search winter comfort keto food and this sort of thing comes up. There was bacon and cheese involved as well.
It is impossible to avoid disappointment.
To live as a human in a fallen world is to experience deficit between expectation and experience.
A strategy of avoidance is to eliminate expectation or reject experience.
Avoidance is deficient and self-defeating because it nurtures cynicism and refuses to accept the gifts God brings to our lives.
Instead of drawing us toward him with thankful hearts we retreat to a hardened form of self-reliance.
From Paul Mallard’s book Invest Your Disappointments.
We cannot control what happens to us – but we can control how we respond. And one response is to receive with gratitude all God’s good gifts. Enjoy a meal with friends; find satisfaction at the end of a good day’s work; relish those time you can spend with the people you love. Make the most of every opportunity.
One of the temptations that disappointment brings is to try to cut the connection between expectation and satisfaction. If you expect nothing, you will never be disappointed. In a subtle and pernicious way this can lead to a kind of non-Christian other-worldly asceticism which refuses all God’s gifts. Don’t enjoy it, because you will one day lose it. It is possible to go through life without engaging and getting hurt. Ecclesiastes will have nothing of this. God ‘richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment’ (1 Timothy 6:17). It is an act of ingratitude, as we saw earlier, to refuse to accept his good gifts.Paul Mallard, Invest Your Disappointments, IVP, 2018, pg 41.
Disappointment is a part of this world.
We can’t avoid it, we will have it; our choice is what to do with it.
Disappointment may not be able to be gone from our life, but it can be invested.
Jesus demonstrated disappointment with the actions of both friends, foes, and those who were neither – an indication of the variations of experience that give rise to differing expressions of disappointment.
Jesus was never disappointed in God, his expressions of dereliction on the cross voicing trust and faith, not accusations of failure.
We are redeemed through Jesus’ faith; we are instructed by Jesus’ expression of disappointment that is not sinful, but instead demonstrates trust.
From Paul Mallard’s book Invest Your Disappointments.
Jesus was not taken by surprise – he knew the anguish that he would face at the cross. He was not disappointed in God – he expresses a sure and certain confidence in him. The pain does not destroy his trust.
What does all this mean for us? If Jesus is the perfect example of true humanity, we can be certain that disappointed is not alien to humans experience. We should not be surprised when it happens. Equally, we find assurance here that disappointment is not necessarily sinful. Sometimes it can be a godly response to the hardness of the human heart or the pain of a broken world. It should also encourage us to remember that Jesus is our High Priest who is able to sympathise with us in our weaknesses because he was tempted like us in every way (Hebrews 4:15).
There is a purpose in disappointment. And the greatest purpose of all is to drive us into the arms of Jesus.Paul Mallard, Invest Your Disappointments, IVP, 2018, pg 28.
These two are the rounds before things go bonkers in the AFL again.
It seems remarkable that Adelaide can be running stone motherless last and there does not seem to be a semblance of the drama that has ended four NRL coaching positions so far this year. It’s highly possible no coaching changes will be made at all this year. It’s actually more likely another NRL head or two will join the four rolling on the floor already than any AFL coaches will lose their jobs.
If it was anywhere other than Adelaide the deal would be done. Adelaide’s culture seems to deal with underachievement better than most, for some reason.
The NRL is show business, people are entertained on the level of soap opera; the AFL is a culture, people are participants in it, it’s part of the fabric of their life.
The only time league get to that is State of Origin. Conversely, when AFL does State of Origin that’s more like entertainment only.
That’s not a reflection on the players, and their respective athletic skills, it’s just my experience of how people engage with the two sports.
(Draws count as correct)
NRL (last round 6/8; season tally 80/112)
Paramatta
Penrith
Saint George
Canberra
Easts
Souths
New Zealand
Newcastle
(Draws count as correct)
AFL (last rounds 5/9; season tally 65/104)
Carlton
Western Bulldogs
Port Adelaide
Richmond
Sydney
Geelong
Brisbane
West Coast
Collingwood
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