My favourite car?

What is your all time favorite automobile?

My favourite all time car that I owned is my 1973 Holden HQ Monaro. I had that when I first got my licence. It had a huge V8 engine and quite a few other performance mods as my friends and I would race at the drags.

My favourite all time is the Corvette Stingray pictured above. A person who was driving through our town stopped for a break. I got talking to him and he asked if I wanted a photo in it. I jumped at the chance. It had a 454 Chev motor and it sounded amazing with the pipes on the side.

If I had to choose between one of them above it would be very hard. My sentimental side would say my Monaro, but my rev head side would say the Corvette.

Making prayer beads

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?

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?

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

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