Pairs of Discoveries

Yesterday’s two discoveries

I discovered that Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Coins are returning and will be on sale for Christmas. Discontinued in 2014, their reintroduction will delight chocolate lovers across the UK…

I discovered that ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ was the first verse of a five verse poem written in 1806 by Jane Taylor, a Suffolk woman living in Colchester at the time. She also wrote many forgotten children’s hymns that were published in ‘Hymns for Infant Minds…’

Discoveries are strange things. Like ‘discovering America’ or ‘discovering ice cream in the freezer’, they’re there all the time – you just didn’t realise it.

Two pictures of discoveries…

Last night I had a weird dream. I was teaching… on my bike going to school… two classes, in two different buildings, were waiting for me… I had to teach them at the same time… I was lost – I had no clue where I was… I kept cycling, getting increasingly anxious…

I was desperate to discover where I was, what I should do… but I couldn’t.

Yesterday in church Gail shared a picture:

‘I saw a letter ‘Y’ filled with water. There was a boat on this water approaching the ‘Y’. The person on the boat had to decide which path to take. One path was rough and dangerous and one was smooth sailing.

Against what we would imagine, the rough path was God’s path. It’s about discovering that travelling the rough route with God is sweeter than choosing the easy way out…’

Two faith discoveries…

People talk about ‘discovering faith’ – in two ways…

…The intellectual discovery – examining the evidence, searching for truth… reading, thinking, talking… deciding what to believe.

…The experiential discovery – experimenting with prayer, changing the life style, displaying appropriate behaviour, ‘practicing’ faith with others… living it out each day.

G.K. Chesterton famously said: ‘The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.’

Discovering faith? Chesterton says that for many it’s left undiscovered…