communication

When the children's Christmas parties are being held, well you know that Christmas now is getting near!

The parties were held this afternoon and I was down at the halls for the bulk of the time.

Mainly on the technical side. Preparing to have the songs and story pictures projected onto the wall.

It took me a good deal longer than I'd planned. Mainly because for long enough I simply couldn't get the computer and the projector to 'communicate'! I mean, it's bad enough with people, but when you have machines behaving badly, well...!

Of course, it wasn't their fault! In the end, all it required was a simple couple of buttons getting pressed and - bang! - communication problems all resolved!

If only life were as simple as that! What a difference it makes when people are enabled to communicate. And what problems arise when they don't.

As the time wore on and all my best efforts seemed destined to prove all in vain, we started praying hard that whatever was the problem would be speedily resolved! And, as I say, it was.

A guy walked in - the guy that I've been seeing with his wife these past few months - and I asked him for his help. 'How about this?' he volunteered. A couple of keys pressed down. And there it was. Answered prayer! Wonderful.

I thought it was appropriate that it was he who'd sorted it. The times I've spent with him and with his wife have all been geared to helping them 'communicate' with God. Sometimes it just in a couple of moments all clicks into place. I think it's been a bit like that for them!

A whole community of people gathered there this afternoon was thereby helped. It wouldn't have been even half the time it was without the two machines being able to 'communicate' like that.

I think it's like that when there is that real communication link between a person and the Lord. A whole community of people are enriched.

So I'm hoping that was something of a 'sign'! A sign that over these next days there'll be many who are put in touch with God and find that he is speaking to their hearts.

Apart from that little minor sort of difficulty, of course, the parties themselves were great! As always.