SKYPE

It makes me feel like people are in the same room when really they're in rooms that are in different cities.

I heard some Kate Dey music and decided what kind of animal Bridgette was.
God gave me cool friends. They accept me and all of the crazy, instead of just the bits that are let out involuntarily when I can't contain it anymore.

Mwahaha. I think I have ill crazy.
x

Treasure

Treasure Hunting. Not just for pirates, but for Christians too! Get out on the streets, ask God for the clues and find some treasure.

Met lots of people tonight, had some exciting conversations and prayer opportunities. After a day of reading and writing an essay doing practical stuffs with some friends was uber fun.

God is good. I am ill. I am looking forward to the rest of the week. Woop!

Over and out xxx

The blues

I think we all have those days where we want to hide and can't really face, facing the world. I wonder why we have those? I find that they don't have any sort of rhyme or reason to them and disappear pretty soon.

Still, they tend to make me into a bit of a 'thinker' for the day... It's a dangerous game because I'm my own worst enemy and I tend to get caught in silly thought patterns. Now this makes me sound like a psycho, which I'm not, despite many a sarcastic joke stating otherwise.

So, normally, the solution is a girly evening and an early night. That's what I have planned for tonight, or at least the girly part. Except it's not with the usual girls, and so I'm hoping it'll still have the same effect.

We shall see.
Peace and love and empathy to anyone else having a bluesy day.
x

Cake Thursday

Every Thursday our church runs an over 60s coffee morning, it's pretty popular I believe, although not being over 60 I've never actually been.
Anyhow, as a result, when returning the building keys to the office, the lovely organisers bring a plate of cakes.

Therefore, today was Cake Thursday. As will every other thursday be. I enjoyed a nice piece of Victoria Sponge. It quite literally had my name on it.




I am beginning to find that not having had a day off in nearly 2 weeks is quite shocking to the body. Everyone seems to be getting ill so I'm dosing up on Vitamin C and hoping I don't get the flu/tonsilitus/sickness that seems to be spreading around every sphere of life... uh oh.

Exciting news today is that it looks like I get to go out to Portugal in January! December and January are going to epic months of

- FP Training in Bristol
- Visiting Zoe in Nottingham
- Visiting Bridgette in Liverpool
- Visiting Sam in Manchester
- Seeing ARCADE FIRE LIVEEEE :D
- Christmas and a week and a half of holiday! (Even more exciting because I worked last Christmas which made me cry a lot)
- New Year
- A week at Centre Parks for FP
- A trip to Portugal!


And those are the only things I know about currently!

This week I am missing snuggle time though. Girls, you're just to far away. Miss you muchly.

Ha

This once happened to me. I was hit in the head by an elderly lady with her walking stick. I was 8. She was mean. And yes, I did say in the head.

I've got that monday feeling

I've got that monday feeling, the, wow another week, another to-do list, and a total lack of free time, scary feeling. Makes me a tad emotional. Eek.

I love what I'm doing these days but I'm exhaaaausted. I am going to stay in and have some 'me' time. Something that doesn't involve being sociable.
Yes, monday night, hermit night.

I hope everyone has had a jolly good weekend?
Mine was fabulous and very nice.

Love xxx

A bit of belle & sebastian and a bit of life

Just back from running youth tonight and enjoying a little Belle & Sebastian while I attempt to reflect on my rather manic day. They've got a new album for 2010 which Spotify has nicely provided for my listening pleasure.

Today I got to do lots more organising, had meetings with 3 different people and got to visit some lovely friends at Gateway to do some planning for a great event. It's been exciting but seriously busy.

I think that before I was a Christian I always thought that Christianity was about rules, about doing the right thing. I've begun to see how wrong I was. (That tends to happen a lot tbh!) I know I can't always keep the rules and most of the time I fail at doing the right thing. Just like so many other humans, I think about myself, I see things wrong and I hurt people. So, to understand that's it's not by what I do that I get to call myself a Christian, but through Jesus and His loving sacrifice, is an incredible revelation. In the Bible it speaks of Jesus coming to bring life, and actually that's not just in terms of life again when we die and then are raised to life, it means life on this earth...

In Psalm 16 it says

"You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

You see, following Jesus brings fullness of life, freedom from insecurity, brokenness, and the general trappings of the world. It's not as if I go to church because I have to, but because I love to. I don't serve and spend a year working for the church because that's what is expected it's because I've been given life and that stirs in me a heart for something that 4 years ago I would've shunned and turned my nose up at.

Today was one of those days where you catch a glimpse of the fullness of life. Without trying to sound deep or poetic, I just saw some of the many benefits of knowing Christ, and knowing Him as a friend and not just a nice moral teacher who died 2000 years ago. That idea of Jesus could not be further from the truth.

And these things cause me to ponder, what will I get to do, or see, or be in my lifetime? What has been prepared for me to do? It's exciting because there is no other way, apart from Jesus that I would get to live the life I do, and I know it's not because of me.

In darkness and in light, in times of fog or in clarity, God is good and there have been several incredible blessings today, that remind me how good Jesus is. And though I shall never fully understand or comprehend, I know what I'm living for...