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I would just like to welcome the following people to my links list - Jo French, Lauren, Liz and Matt.

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Today was food court Thursday. It was really good. I enjoyed myself. Had good company and good food. Yay.

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I can’t blog the way I feel today,
I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.

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I am feeling phone rage at the moment. I have been trying to call someone in India for the last hour. I finally get a decent line through to India and Victor is “out of station”. Whatever that means. I think I’ll try again tomorrow.

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I have a bit of a cold at the momment. The real problem with me having a cold is that it makes it uncomfortable to stare at computer screens all day, which is what I generally do. Oh well.

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I’ve got some bad news for everyone. It really is quite disturbing. I don’t know how you are all going to deal with it. . .

I AM GOING TO INDIA!! So you are going to have to manage for 6 months with out seeing me face to face. I am excited, and scared. It’s real now. I am going. Haven’t sorted out dates yet but will be doing that soon.

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A friend of mine once told me that they love it when “God is sneaky.” I think I do too. I have been put out of my comfort zone of late.

I have had to challenge long held views and some I have had to discard. Some of my views really limited my view of who God was and what he can do. A big one was I used to believe God didn’t really work directly in this world anymore. I worked almost exclusivily on head knowledge.

My Spiritual life was pretty dry as a result of this. I had little confidence in my own faith and didn’t really share it with anyone. I think though that’s changing slowly. I am feeling a lot more love for God and getting to know a lot more about Him. I am starting to shed my preconceptions, Lose some of my cynicism and stopping telling God what I will and won’t do. You see whenever I tell God I won’t do something for some reason He’ll find a way around it.

Praise the Lord.

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I went to Belrose again tonight. Tom wasn’t there, which made it even better. Don’t get me wrong I love going to church with Tom, but it let me experience something tonight. Without Tom I was a little lost, but it made it cease to be Tom’s church. It became my church.

I think Soul this week really helped too. It’s nice though to have a church where I feel I can belong. It really does have the community vibe happening. I am feeling very excited about what God is doing there, and also what God is doing with me.

By the way thanks Tanya(who needs to get a blog) and Helen for sorting out my logistical difficulties this evening.

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Been tidying up my room today. Thrown out a lot of paper. I also went through my CD’s and threw out over 110 CDROMS!!

That’s a lot I think. I now have about 40 slimline plastic CD cases and about 10 of the full size CD cases. Anyone want some?

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Went to Soul again tonight. It was good. Played frisbie, had dinner watched the final Donnie. All good fun. Got a bit more into worship tonight. I love when the band stops playing and let people sing by themselves. I am still not a big fan of huge worship meetings, but I get something positive out of it. I still think U2 makes the best worship songs. 40 and Streets Have No Name spring to mind immediately.

Anyway then Mike talked about God’s passion for the poor and anger at injustice. Mentioned some of my favoriate passages. I was sitting there for a while feeling a bit smug with myself, I already have my plans to do some of that (India). Then I got to thinking more and realised that nothing I do will ever be enough. I am not giving up everything. Thank God for grace!

It means my imperfect attempts to do good actually mean something. Anyway, so now I’m like tripply pumped for India. I feel it’s the way forward for me. If it happens I could be gone in 12 weeks. That’s not very long. I’m starting to feel more ready for it. Still scared, no idea what will happen to me. Six months without friends or family. I think I might be making a few new friends over there.

Saw old TUC people at Soul too. Not sure how I feel about seeing them, think it was just awkward. Which I guess is to be expected.
Listened to a bit of Jazz tonight too that was fun. Did some tapping. Also caught food thrown at me with my mouth. A first for me. Went to Macca’s afterwards that was fun. Got a bit late.

Overall I think Soul was a good experience for me personally. It got me thinking a bit more about God stuff, and how that fits in with my plans. Gave me a fair bit of encouragement. Let me get to know people from my new church more too. It has left me energised to fight the good fight!

But now sleep is calling so my energy must wait for another day.

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Me and Howie walked most of the way home from St Ives Showground. We left a bit before midnight and I got home just before 2.30am. We walked until the bottom of the big edgeworth david hill and then got in a cab. I jumped out again at Myra St and walked the rest of the way home.

It was a silly walk. I had some fun though. At least it ended at home too.

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I just got an email and now I am really excited.
I have been runing and singing and dancing house. I have been just being silly it’s been great fun. Things are starting to happen slowly, very soon though I can feel the ball will be rolling down a very step hill and I’ll be running after it.

Praise the Lord.

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Just thought I should openly admit that I am not some great hero. I am not a righteous man. My blog posts of late may seem to indicate I think otherwise. Looking at them they seem a bit arrogant.

In reality they are an attempt to pysch myself up to fight the good fight. I don’t know how much difference I can make, probably not a lot. But it’s something I must none the less do. I reckon lifes more about what you try to do, and why you try to do it, then any end result.

Hope that’s how God sees it anyway.

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YAY! Nearly time for food court Thursday. I am predicting a very low attendance. I blame Soul Survivor.

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My last post was a bit vague as to how I intended to live out my new manifesto. I am going to work towards bridging the Digital Divide between rich and poor. This is my area of passion, to which I devote my life, in the service of my King.

My first step is India. After that God only knows.

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