Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
AWAKE O ZION!
pub on the way to Oxford. As for money-bags Mike, I thought
he needed to be more heavenly-minded and got him to rise
up early to pray, and to meditate daily on the Song of Solomon!
In many ways sisters surpassed brothers in their enthusiasm
and devotion to God. They were prolific in songs, poems,
embroideries, tapestries, paintings — and cakes! Single sisters
lived mainly at Verna’s and Kelly’s cottages at Great Lane,
at the Harlestone Road house in Northampton, or in various
extended families, mainly on the Bugbrooke housing estate.
Up on the estate, the villagers were getting worried at the
prospect of a Jesus People takeover! Among others, Lionel
and Marion moved there and shared a common purse with
Val next door who was now married. Victor, Sheila and their
kids also moved in from Northampton and extended their
house to take in brothers.
Most of the single brothers were thrown together at Argyle
Street or the Hall where they had their rough edges knocked
off. The cross often came in little things — like living with
someone who reads late into the night while you’re trying
desperately to get some sleep. Or it might be the irritating
brother who’s always quoting Scripture at you, or the boisterous
teenager who gets your neck in an arm lock and says,
‘Are you all right, bro?’ when you’re pondering on some deep
things of the Lord!
For others, the cross might walk in as the dear sister who
has as much concept of the ‘meek and quiet spirit’ as Queen
Boadicea! Or the brother who comes to ‘tell you your fault’
with the sympathetic understanding of a bulldozer!
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