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Making prayer beads

December 16, 2025

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

In the last year or so I have started making prayer beads. In the examples above I have learned to make three types.

  1. The Anglican or Christian Rosary has 33 beads. One this you can prayer the Jesus prayer or the Come Lord Jesus prayer. It has an Invitatory bead, four Cruciform beads and 28 smaller weeks beads.
  2. The one decade rosary has 11 beads – an Our Father bead and 10 Hail Mary’s. This is small enough to be easily carried in your pocket.
  3. The traditional Rosary is the longer one that is used by Catholics to pray the Marian Rosary or the Divine Mercy.

I have mainly making them for my own enjoyment and to learn a new skill. I have given away quite a few of them as gifts to be a blessing.

I have really enjoyed this new skill.

What would I change?

December 3, 2025

What is one thing you would change about yourself?

What would I change? I would change my heart to be more wholehearted for God. I would change it so I would love and trust Him more. So I would offer Him my whole self unreservedly. So I could echo the words of Jesus, “Not my will, but yours be done”.

As I type I am reminded of an old quote from John Wesley…

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

Three years time?

November 4, 2025

What will your life be like in three years?

This is an interesting question. I find it interesting in light of world events and the return of Jesus. To me there are three options.

  1. I will be here with Jesus doing my best to serve Him every day.
  2. I would have died and be in heaven with Jesus.
  3. Jesus would have come back and I will be with Him in the new heaven and new earth.

The reality is we can make our plans, but ultimately God orders our steps. So I may still be here serving Jesus?

The other reality is the Bible tells us that no one knows the date or time of His return. He may come back in less than three years time?

The key is to prayerfully make our plans as if we will be here for a long time, but know in reality God may call time on this world at any moment.

Where will I be in three years time? Only God truly knows.

The Resurrection

October 31, 2025

What historical event fascinates you the most?

The Resurrection of Jesus is the event that most fascinates me. It fascinated me so much that it changed my life back in 1989.

Up until that point I had a basic understanding that Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday and then He rose to life on Easter Sunday.

But in all honesty I did not know why He died? When a friend gave me a tract that explained Jesus died on the cross for my sin, it started to make sense.

I realised I was a sinner and I needed God’s forgiveness and Jesus’ death on the cross made that possible. I could be forgiven because He paid the price for my sin.

The resurrection showed that Jesus had the power over death and that God was satisfied with His sacrifice for us. It also showed that we will be resurrected one day too.

This truth changed my life and gave me a new purpose – to live for Him. In a sense I was dead in my sins and then I was raised to a new life with Jesus.

I believe the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus are the most significant events in human history. I believe that if you want true life now it all begins with Jesus.

Today I would encourage you to visit my peace with God page so you can begin afresh with Jesus. You can find it here.

God Bless,

Dave

What could I do more of…?

September 23, 2025

What could you do more of?

I would like more the Holy Spirit in my life. I would like to be empowered to live like Jesus and display more of the fruit of the Spirit in the world around me.

But in truth it is not about me getting more of the Holy Spirit, it is about the Holy Spirit getting more of me!

Paul Little in his book “Know What You Believe” said,“To be filled with the Spirit means we allow Him to occupy, guide, and control every area of our lives. His power can then work through us, making us effectively fruitful for God and flooding our hearts with His joy” (p. 78).

When we come to accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour we become born again by the Holy Spirit. He then takes up residence in us to empower us and make us more like Christ. So as Christians we all have the same Holy Spirit, in the same measure, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead (Romans 8:9-11).

As Paul Little says in his book, it is about allowing the Holy Spirit free reign in our lives. It is allowing Him to have all of us in complete surrender. Then He can live in and through us.

If I am honest, this sounds really scary and really exciting at the same time! But what a journey it would be if we surrendered fully to the Holy Spirit. Imagine the difference we could make in this world.