God Makes No Mistakes – Products of the Mental Threshing Machine. Part 6.
Some of you may have noticed by now, but through these series of blogs I am trying to work through the attributes I listed when I began this. I have to admit that as I have gone on the more difficult I have found it. This is because I have had to take a good long look at myself and as Oliver Cromwell would say ‘Warts and all’ and come to some sort of conclusion about myself. So here is one of the many paradoxes in my life and that is the fact that I can usually clam up in a group environment but have no problem standing up the front and speaking. It has been quite a source of discomfort for me personally when in a meeting at work, church or in a group of more than four people I can clam up completely. The only conclusions I can draw from this is: 1. I adopt this ‘silent’ mode simply because I am trying to process all the inputs from the other people and come to some sort of conclusion of my own. 2. I grew up in...