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Dosa club tonight same place and time as usual.

I am going to go and stand with Just Stand at Darling Habour tonight.

The idea is to make a stand and give a minutes silence for each of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. I think it’s a good one.

It’s meant to start at about 5.30pm. So that’s when I’ll get there. I’m going to it straight from my Uni lab.

In 10 days i shall be feeling very relaxed.

Lately the disparity in this world has been really getting to me.

How can God love everyone in this planet and live so many in utter poverty?

Why do the worst things seem to happen where the poorest of the world live?

How can our nation be getting so fat whilst so many go hungry?

Why do I have so many great friends whilst others are so lonely?

How can I get so comfortable living in Australia that spending money on luxuries doesn’t bother me?

I got quite angry at God tonight during/after church tonight. The sermon was on how God goes all out for the lost. I spent most of it thinking about how blessed I am but then the poor got into my head. And I began to wonder how God can be going all out for them.

In the end I calmed down and looked through my India photos on my laptop for the while. I began to really feel that God loved every individual in my photos. I also saw how God raises up people to serve those in need.

I came back to my constant comfort. The miracle of the world is that it is not a lot worse then it is. Without God working I shudder to think how crap this world would become.

How good is it when you get a chance to take pleasure in simple things. I really enjoy hanging out my washing today in the nice warm sun. Listening to Van whilst I did it. I like slow Sunday’s. I should be doing uni work now. Hmm.. Maybe I’ll work better in a coffee shop.. Worth a shot I think.

Happy Birthday Jenny!!

Hope you have a great day.

A while ago I put dosa making into a job description for myself. Now someone I am working with in India has been making some other job descriptions for different jobs. This person put dosa making into the qualifications section of the job description. How cool is that.

I stayed at Uni for two drinks with people. I can’t believe I did this. What is happening to me??

I have hiccups at the moment. I got from drinking water too quickly..

I can be an idiot sometimes :-).

Of to uni tomorrow for yet more groupwork.

Meeting a few old uni friends for lunch before hand that should be fun. There are four of us including me and we used to hang out a bit in the first few years of uni. I don’t see them much now cause there Electrical Engineers. One has also finished her course six months early.

What did I do to deserve a life this good?

Thank you God for the blessings you bring me.

Same time same place.

Definitions of procrastination on the Web:

* the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
* dilatoriness: slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* Procrastination is the deferment or putting-off of an action or task, usually by focusing on some other distraction (compare temporisation). It is Latin for “foremorrowing,” or making some such of tomorrow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination

The task I am putting off is my uni work.. I am not very passionate about that it at the moment.

Passion has been intriguing me of late.

There are times in my life when I get really passionate about something and I really love the intensity that brings. Emily, Gemma and Stella come to mind when I think of passion. The way they engage the issues that interest them, and argue about them always inspires me.

I love it when I get passionate. I think passion is what can enable you to put in extra and pursue a path that is risky. Sometimes I get so calculated trying to work out all the pros and cons of something when really I should just make a gut call and do it if it feels right. Passion is good for getting past my past rationality.

A few times this year I have felt that perhaps I was losing my passion for serving the poor, but each time I have had it re-ignited by God. It was great last night at church. Some stuff during the service starting getting me thinking. Then I was listening to Jo and Helen talk about some stuff for a presentation on the MDG and I was getting really excited. Then I had to look for some photos on my laptop for what they were doing. It got me all psyched up again on the whole social justice thing.

If Australia was made up of the poor people from developing countries the entire population of our country would be dead in just under 201 days. All these from malnutrition.

Stats on which I based this the latest statistics from the UN (100,000 people dying from malnutrition a day) and from the CIA world fact book Australia’s population (20,090,437).

It makes me mad!!!!!