Friendly Pirates

Saturday morning I was invaded by pirates. Noah and Huey came while Sarah their mum was helping her sister with the new house (almost there).

While the weather has been so nice the boys and I have spent most of the time out on the beach (homemade). And this week there was treasure hidden in the sand, Noah had great fun digging away to find the treasure.

Huey didn't quite get the game and buried some little men that no-one could find, that's when the garden rake came in handy :) So they were eventually rescued.

We also had the making and doings box out and made some Christmas decorations out of matchboxes. Noah had never seen a match!! But then why should he when they have only radiators for heating, coal fires are almost a thing of the past. Bless him when I showed it to him it made him jump as the match struck and lit. Anyway we had lots of fun with glue, paints, glitter and stickers, the end result being two lovely matchbox decorations and two lovely egg decorations which they duly took home so I completely forgot to take a picture of the finished product.

Hot dogs for lunch with lovely fat Lincolnshire sausage in baguettes, or in Huey's case out of baguettes, followed by fruit in jelly and a gingerbread man, yummy. All in all it was a lovely morning and when mum came they were raring to go to their friends party.

It was lovely having friendly pirates to visit :)

Is it metal?

Another lovely day with my lovely grandchildren, their mum went off to do some shopping and we spent the morning playing on the beach, yes I have a beach (no sea as I'm not sure how to accomplish that), I do sometimes get the hose out :). 

There is always plenty for them to do as they have their own shed complete with treasure box, 

which has lots of toys in. 

There are buckets and spades, cars, trucks, boats, fishermen and all manner of things icluding games but today they played a lot with a dolls house I'd acquired from the Salvation Army sale, I couldn't resist as it was such a bargain. 

A storm was coming apparently so they had to take out all the furniture and put it on the hammock, (the boat), 

saved, yay. 

 Huey liked the way the hammock kept rocking.

After which they did a spot of fishing, they have a magnetic game and they can catch fish or ducks,  they have a rod each, it didn't take Noah long to realise that the fish and the ducks weren't the only things that would stick to the fishing rod and so began a hunt all around the garden for anything metal that would stick. Not everything that was metal or looked like metal stuck to the rod. 

Yes that's metal

I thought about this we are overwhelmed sometimes by Christian books, D.V.D's, blog posts, websites, etc, etc but you know just because it says Christian doesn't mean to say that it is. How on earth do we manage to find the truth when wading through all this stuff. There is only one truth and that is the Bible, beware of anyone who puts something into the Bible rather than taking something out. There are so many people who twist the truth to their own ends just to suit their lifestyle, they don't want the truth that man is a sinner, that God will punish all sinners, and that He sent His Son Jesus to take the punishment for our sin. They give the impression God is love and everyone's going to heaven, beware of the watered down gospel, the true gospel is good news for every sinner. Whatever you hear or watch go back to God's word and see if what you have seen and heard lines up with scripture if it doesn't then discard it.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

May God richly bless you in your search for the truth or if you are a Christian in your Christian walk, may you grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Only Comforter

It is twenty-four years today since my son Philip Mark Nicholls died of a heart attack. At the time I had no idea he had even been taken into hospital as he had left home, he was eighteen years and nine months old.

People say that time is a great healer, I haven't found it so, time flies by but the pain doesn't fly with it.

Since becoming a Christian sixteen years ago my pain hasn't changed but I have, now I no longer dwell on the what might have been, what would he look like now, would he have been married, would he have had children etc. I used to before 1998 try to image what he would look like and wonder what he would be doing but this just increased my pain.

 Now I know I can leave it all with the Lord Jesus, He is my comforter, my strength, my hope, my joy and my happiness. My life is no longer tied up with the things of the world and it's sorrows and disappointments, my life is in Christ. That doesn't mean I won't ever feel pain or sorrow it means that I have someone with whom I can lean on who won't let me down but it's more than that it is looking always to Him the author and finisher of my faith, my salvation, in whom I have everlasting life.

I do thank God for the memories