Yo-Yo
This unusual word but great toy is a Tagalog word, the language of the PHILIPPINES (yes, I’m still here). It means “come back” though your competency of the yoyo may not reflect its meaning! Actually the Filipinos had used it for over 400 years as a weapon. But it was in the 1920s that Pedro Flores began manufacturing a toy under that name, yoyo.
Oh the Grand old duke of York
He had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again
And when they were up they were up
And when they were down they were down
And when they were only halfway up
They were neither up nor down
I won’t spoil this wonderful children’s nursery rhyme by telling you what the story behind it actually is. But it was the greatest scandal that ever hit the British Parliament at the turn of the 19th century regarding Frederick Augustus Hanover, the favourite son of King George III and a useless commander in chief!
Conistency. A lack of change! Having understood that we need to embrace change, we also need to understand that changing can be debilitating.
John 15:1-4
Remain, abide, dwell, stay.
We often have interpreted that as being disciplined and staying in Christ and not walking from God. All that may be right but Jesus is speaking about mission in this chapter.
He is the vine, planted by the Father/gardener, we are the branches.
I am laying my life down soon. I won’t be here for much longer. My mission will be over but you keep going, you keep producing fruit. And I will be with you if you remain with me in that mission of life.
Go on loving, go on knowing you are deeply loved, go on serving, go on demonstrating to a lost world the glory of God, go on being a disciple, go on being known as a friend of God. Read it, John 15:1-17 it’s beautiful! Go on in mission, remain in mission and He will remain with you.
Missions Paul 