Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) US poet


Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman (1947 - ____) US dramatist


Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush (1746 - 1813) US physician, congressman

I had a funny dream this morning I dreamed that I was one of a gang of people who had preformed a train robbery and that I was on the run from the police. I finally got caught and got sent to prison for some years but they never got the money back and that I had it hidden in a safe place. However, when I got out of prison and got back to the money it was all old money and I couldn’t spend any of it, then Mandy woke me up weird or what? I suppose that there is some one out there that can possibly tell me what the dream mean, but I for one found it to be good fun and it felt quite exciting while I was dreaming it. We had a good time at church this morning I suppose. I found it a bit boring because it was a harvest service and that means that the children stayed it for the whole time. We had James with us and he was a bit restless and I was glad when it was over, James liked it though. Mandy had gone to bed to try and get an afternoon snooze and James is watching some TV that is why I can write this now and not latter. With a bit of luck I can possibly get some more time on the computer later. You never know I might have some more of that dream. It is funny how one day you can dream one thing and then never think of it again at all and others you can dream al the time. I think that I will have to see what happens.

James and I slept in today till 11am. The first that I knew about it was Mandy telling me that it was time to get out of bed then she said that James was still in his bed as well and he knew were he got it from. It is the first time that he has slept in so late he is usually the first one to get up at about 7am but I know that he got up around that time this morning but I didn’t know that he got back in bed am fell asleep again. Mandy said that she was glad of the rest and the QT with herself. It still didn’t stop James from playing all the time that he was awake and he went to bed at his normal time of 7pm and went strait to sleep. The rest of the day involved a trip to MacDonald’s, a walk around a local garden centre and a hunt for some new shoes for Mandy and James, which we never got. After James went to bed Mandy and I watched some TV and Mandy has gone to bed and I am here at the computer, all together a normal day in the Sutton household.

The Car had been playing up today I have had to take it to the garage to get it looked at. I got in the car last night after I work put on the headlights again and they didn’t I turned the switch again and they stayed on till I got home. However, when I looked they were not working at all. I looked at all the fuses and they were ok so it was a trip to the garage and a nice bill fro £97.00 for a new switch unit. Therefore, as of now we are penniless until next week when I get paid again. I am glad that I get paid weekly, but hay what is new. The rest of the day has been ok I am glad that it is Friday and I can have the weekend off I hope to spend some QT with Mandy and James. We are all looking forward to our holiday in a few weeks and I for one say the sooner I am on my holiday the better.

Launching a successful Enterprise
Well I can't wait for it to come on TV here.

I have finally got myself in front of my PC. I ended up working overtime last night and I spent the whole morning in bed and then went to work, which was ok but I am glad to be at home now. Mandy had a meeting at church so we asked C if she would look after James while I was at work, I don’t even think that James knew as I think that he was in bed asleep while C was here. I am glad because if he new she was in the house he wouldn’t of gone to sleep at all. I hear that the meeting was a bit of a bad one because the things that we wanted talked about have ended up being changed and mixed up and now we have to rethink things again never mind. I have just been watching one of my favourite Star Trek films on TV “The Voyage Home” I like it because there are some classic quotes in it and they make me laugh, which I think it the point. Mandy just says that I am a geek and leave me to it. I am on my third Star Trek book by the way and I am happily about to start my fourth. I am not a geek honest.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. — Samuel Butler

I have had a good day today at work things went very well and no overtime to. Mandy was waiting up for me so we had some QT which was good and James woke up and ended up in bed with Mandy till I got him out and put him back in his own bed. He is so cool when he is sleeping he just looks so lovely and dare I say cute. I am glad that he is my son. However, I won’t be saying that at 0700 this morning when he comes in to our bedroom and I have to get up to look after him.

The weekend is over and it is back to work for me. No overtime tonight I mean it.

Church was good today the preacher was very good and the fellowship was excellent had to pull myself away from the place. I think that it has something to do with the party last night; we felt more like a family. I spent most of the afternoon preparing for my youth fellowship group that I lead; we covered the resent happenings in the USA. I think that I got a good response from the group and we had a good discussion about terrorism and war. We all thought that we as Christians should be praying for peace and not war and we all hope that no innocent people get hurt in the cross fire. I have a feeling that no matter what we do some one is going to die soon. I am just so sad about that thought. After all life is life and I know that people have died and people are morning but I still think that it will only be the innocent that will end up getting hurt in the long run. Mandy is reading a Blake’s Seven book and now I know what she feels like when I get my head into a good book and I can’t stop reading it. I can’t wait form my new books to come.

Got up late this morning James our human alarm clock has just got up. I was having a wonderful dream as well.

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. — Anne Frank

I think that things are getting silly now.

Fell asleep last night in the front room I woke up at about 0100 and went to bed and slept till late morning and then I fell asleep again in the afternoon I must off needed it or I wouldn’t of slept at all. Had a good evening though Mandy, James and I went to a church party at a local school we a nice time and James enjoyed himself a lot with his friends I led a few games and also got the job of running the PA so that we had music while we ate our meal. It was good to come together to have some fun and fellowship with out it being a fundraiser for the new building project. I know that some may say that we could make some money from it but life is not just about money if anything church life is about fellowship and that I think is what counts. Any way we had a good time and James came home very sleepy and went strait to bed. I myself came home and fell asleep in the chair in the front room again and now I have just woken up to come and write this and now I think that I will go to bed.

I Thought that I would put tis one up to remind me what work is all about.

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. — Emmuska Orczy

I was fast asleep and the alarm went of this morning wow, I didn't expect that honestly. I was having a really nice dream about something that I can’t even remember and then next thing I had was the radio blaring away next to my head. I got up and almost fell over a washing basket that was left on the floor and then I found myself at work. Ok I didn’t just get up and find myself at work but getting there seems a bit of a haze but that is normal. The rest of the day was fine and I even got a trip out to look at some new machines, which was the best part of the day, and I got paid for it. Got home late and had to go to a meeting, so I didn’t get to spend as much time with Mandy and James as I was hoping but I did have James sitting on my lap for about half an hour which is a long time for a tree year old. The meeting went very fast and I must say was not as boring as some can be and I was glad to get home after a long day and now I think that I will go to bed to try and get some sleep. Only one more day left then I can sleep all weekend, and the alarm can stay off for the week what a very nice thought that is.

Good day today apart from the fact that I had to get up. It was raining this morning at 0500 and I was on my bike so I got wet going to work and wet coming home and I was cold and wet in the middle as well. Came home and fell asleep for about 4 hours on the bed which I think was a bad idea as I can’t sleep now and I didn’t get some QT with Mandy like I wanted to but hay that is life yes. Mandy said that she and James had a good day today so I am clad. I hope to have a good day at work tomorrow but I will find that one out when it happens. Other than that life is ok and I can’t wait for the weekend. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself". Tolstoy

Thought...
When are friends more than friends? When they gather in the name of Jesus and he meets with them there.
“If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”

Reading the end of my book and and bed fro me tonight I think.

Well it is Monday and I and to go to work very early this morning which I found hard. Then I had an ok day at work apart from things not going to well at 0600 it was ok. Got home at 1430 only to fall asleep in the chair and to be woken up by Mandy reminding me that I had to go to mend a friend’s computer. I couldn’t quite get the computer going so I had to leave that for another friend to get going and then rushed home for a meeting at our house at 7pm. the meeting was the highlight of the whole day I suppose because all the things that I needed to get passed were passed and I have got some new ideas about what to do with my Youth Group over the next few years. So I have had a very full day today and I am now ready for bed so I think that is were I am heading I hope.

I got up this morning to go to church and when we got there we found a note out side saying that we would start the service with silent prayer for the people in the USA. It is good I suppose for us as a church to spend some time reflecting on the last weeks events but I was glad to see that my minister has sort of the same feeling about the whole thing as me. I do feel for the people in the USA but I can’t seem to get my head round the fact that there are still lots of staving people in Africa, I can’t seem to feel that some more people will die when the USA retaliate and get back at the group who have planed the whole thing. I am more than shore that there will be some innocent deaths to come. I know that some people say an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but what about what Jesus says turn the other cheek. We mustn’t let the terrorists get away with what they have done but I hope and pray the Americans don’t end up killing some innocent people at the same time. I had a good service in the evening I preached and I didn’t talk about the USA all we did was pray about the people in the USA.

I have just been chilling today and I am having a nice weekend of for a change Mandy and James have been wonderful and I haven’t had much to do at all. I have managed to read some more of my book, which is good, as I need to get this one read, as I have loads of new books to read and I just don't know when I will get the time. I am preaching tomorrow afternoon but Mandy, James and I will go to our own church in the morning it is our minister preaching so it should be good. Sleep now I think.

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.


~ Julius Kambarge Nyerere ~

(1922-, Tanzanian Statesman, President)

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.


~ John F. Kennedy ~


1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.


~ Albert Einstein ~


1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

I am thinking about what to preach on sunday don't know what yet but I am open to coments.

I was not going to comment on the resent events in America because I feel that although my heart goes out to the people who have been hurt at this time and I know that there has been a lot of suffering. I just can’t get out of my head that there is still a lot more suffering going on in the world today that any one would like to think about I mean children dieing because of lack of food and medical supplies men and women fleeing from war and famine to name a few. I feel that if it wasn’t for the fact that it has happened to the USA and not somewhere in Africa then the news and all the hype from the media would not be the same. Famine is old news, terrorism in the USA is today’s and tomorrow it will be something else. My hart goes out to the people in the USA and I do pray for them but I also pray for those people who have been forgotten and are still in need.

Suggestions on how to pray about the American tragedy of September 11, 2001

"Though it is difficult, start with praise. Focus on God's character. Praise God that He is sovereign, that He has ultimate control over all, and that nothing takes Him by surprise
Pray for...
· The victims and families of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attack
· The victims of the other terrorist attacks
· The President and his aides as they formulate a response
· The response and safety of emergency and medical workers
· The response of Christians who minister to the hurt
Prayer
'Go, sell all that you have and give it to the poor!'
God are you angry with the divisions in our cities?
The enormous gulf between rich and poor,
how some live with plenty while others struggle to live with dignity?
God do you weep with the women who sell their bodies to provide food for their families.
Not because they want to, but because there seems to be no alternative?
God do you despair because young people cannot reach their full potential,
Because the education system is weighted against them,
And they have to contend with a culture of drugs and crime?
God, who lives in each of us, do you feel the cold of the homeless, who sleep on our streets?
The pain of those who suffer abuse and violence, or the indignity of being unemployed?
God of the city,
Challenge our complacency,
Confront our self-satisfaction,
Provoke in us a craving for change.
Give us the understanding that you also suffer in the poverty and
dislocation of our society.
Make us dissatisfied with what is,
Help us understand our responsibilities and to have a driving compassion
which will not let us rest until justice is done.
Amen

A Prayer for uprooted people
God of all humility
God of the wandering refugee
God who has nowhere to lay your head -
you hear the cries of cast-out people,
threatened, persecuted,
driven out by terror and cruel treatment,
out of their homes, their countries, their cultures …
You knock on the door of the world
waiting to be welcomed, waiting to enter
a place you can call your home -
Give us eyes to see you in strangers
tongues to speak welcome in other languages
ears to hear the refugees' story
minds to honour them for who they are
hearts to embrace them in one family.
God who has nowhere to lay your head,
God of the wandering refugee,
God of all humility. Amen

Father in heaven, hear the prayers of Your people this day. Comfort the grieving; comfort Your people, heal our world. Awaken OUR hearts to pray and intercede for a revival of godly sorrow, repentance and new commitment to God; may a revival of righteousness sweep across our world. Bring America back to God, In Christ's Name, Amen."

I have just got my coments back on the site after a visit to reblogger but I have lost all the coments that people have put on the site, not that there was many. If any one would like to comment feel free.

Worked late last night so I had no time to Blog but I was glad to get home. I just was glad to get away from work. My son James has had his first day at nursery today his mother was there as well, I understand that he loved it and didn't want to come home I don't think that he has worked out that he will be going there every week dey form now on I hope that he has a nice time tomorrow as well. Mandy was in bed tonight when I got home but I have a feeling that she will take Jmaes to nursery and then come home and come back to bed for the rest of the morning, she need a good lie in as well. My book is going well but I am still fining it hard to get Harry Potter out of my head still I will keep going.

Wow! What a mad few days I have had I ended up going to work on Saturday and had a really funny weekend after that I felt so sleepy that all I did form then on was sleep. I went to church and come home and then fell asleep, had Youth Fellowship at our house after they left I went to bed to sleep and then I got up at 11.00 and went to work and ended up doing more over time. Sleep, sleep and more sleep I am feel a lot better now but can’t wait to get some more sleep. I suppose my body can only seem to take so much of burning the candle at both ends I mean that I knew that all this lack of sleep would catch up on me some time I am glad that it happened at the weekend at least. On another note I have finished all the Harry Potter books and I can’t wait for the next one to come out in 2002 which I will be queuing up to buy. And I have just started to read my new Star Trek book, which I must admit, I am finding a bit hard going after Harry Potter but I know it won’t be long before I get fully in to it. So what has today got in store for me well what can I say work, work and more work boo hiss.

Had a good time at the radio today played some good songs and had a good talk to C and D. The Harry Potter book is still on the go and I still loving it.

Life is ok at the moment Mandy has gone out to a meeting leaving James and myself at home I supposes that it is nice to have some time at home with out Mandy it is good for her as well. Just found out that I will be working all day Saturday so no lie in for my till Sunday. I had some nice post today I have just got the last Star Trek book that I have been after for some time I got it of ebay for £2.50 which was a bargain. I think that I will try and get a early night tonight as I am still felling very sleepy and I think that it will do me some good. James starts his new nursery next week I think that Mandy and I are looking forward to having some tome together again. And I think that he is looking forward to it as well. He met hi new teacher yesterday for that first time and he got all excited about it. I think that Mandy can’t wait.

Work. sleep, work, sleep and more work that is all that I seem to be doing at the moment so that is all that I can say realiy. I am still reading a good book thoght the last Harry Potter book I think that i will have it read by the end of the weekend.

Got up late this morning and had to go to work in a rush. The day didn’t seem to get any better after that but who cares I was glad to get home. I also went to see my minister today we talked about funding for a degree course that I feel I would like to do. He was very helpful and very helpful, he said the he would be glad to help and has given me some ideas about getting the money together. I only hope that I can get the money together for next year. So I will have to see what comes of it. Mandy seems to be happy about it and that is important to me.

My Mother and Farther inlaw have been with us this weekend they have gone now good to have them here but I am some times glad when they go and today is sad to say one of them. Bed early got to work early.Booo

The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.

Work sleep and more work that is all that I have done for the last few days I haven’t even had time to get in front of the computer to check my mail let alone write my Blog. I have worked over time till two in the morning for the last two days and then sleep for the rest of the time that I have had off. My ISP had been playing up for as well so when Mandy or I have tried to get online we haven’t but it seems ok now though. Mandy and James are fine and we have some house guests staying, my mother and farther in law are here so I have finally got to the computer. Life is treating me ok and I have just about had enough sleep. I have also been reading the Harry Potter books which I have found to be great fun to read much to Mandy’s disgust because she don’t like me reading that sort of book but I like them. James had got some new cloths for his nursery today he is so happy that he is going to start nursery in a few weeks that he keeps on telling us that he starts his new school soon. He is growing up to fast.