Category: avoiding temptation

  • the saga of the mouth scaffolding continued

    Yesterday evening I was frustrated. You may be aware (if you read my previous bloggage) that I currently have scaffolding on my teeth (aka mouth braces) in an attempt to relocate my teeth to where God intended them to be. And it imposes limitations on me that I dislike (sometimes intensely). One of the things about…

  • why we find it difficult at Thames Station

    You must have heard the misunderstood Lord’s Prayer which includes asking ‘Lead us not into Thames Station’… It’s a childish joke that masks a deeper truth (other than that there isn’t a ‘Thames’ station): we don’t like admitting that we all struggle with temptation. Temptation has many different disguises that we prefer. Temptation towards gluttony and…