chucked in the deep end!

...one little phone call really can make all the difference. I have a great job which is so flexible, that I phoned up just a short while ago and booked a shift for this evening!... wait for it... it's the scariest shift you'll ever work:
A&E:Night! that means it's around 10 hours of people, no big break, rushing around (well, i'm only guessing really!) but it is a bit scary!
But, then again, I did ask if there were any night shifts going, and that was the only one, you never know, I might enjoy it, and then be getting lots of them, I suppose I wont have to be too quiet! and will actually have something happen rather than nothing, just sitting there being bored and having to read and do mindless puzzles for hours on end. At least I can chat to people, I just hope that I don't get really tired! oh well, nevermind!

slow shutter night pic

The view out of the front of my house
taken by Jonathan. 

embracing the 'inner geek'

I believe that everyone of us have an 'inner geek' in some people this is more established than in others. For example Craig likes to do puzzles, I like to read, and spend time in libraries and bookshops, I also like to sew. I watched Superman the other evening at the cinema, and a friend of mine said that she liked Clark better than Superman, she preferred the 'geek'y version of Superman.

I will encourage all of you to find, and embrace that 'inner geek' so that we can all live more fulfilled and happy lives ;)

a large gap

I didn't know whether you knew this but for a plant to grow, a seed has to die (says so in the bible John 12:24 http://bible.cc/john/12-24.htm ) and did you know that if you break a bone in your body, when it heals, it is stronger than it was before. It just goes to show that to get something good, sometimes we have to go something painful or confusing... I mean if you ever thought that to grow a plant, a seed would have to actually die, that just doesn't make any sense, surely if you wanted to grow something it would have to begin life being alive?!
This is just how God created nature to work, so why do we find it difficult to understand that God is so much greater than nature and therefore so much more confusing!

' For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.' Isaiah 55:8&9

Right, not wanting to sound heretical or anything, but we have just put a rocket up into space that is going to travel to Pluto to find out whether it can be classed as an actual planet or not http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4629486.stm
well, in January it went, but if we can go that far, which will take us about 10 years to reach going at a great speed, then surely the heavens are further above than that distance (this is a guess, because as we all know we cannot see the heavens just yet) but it is every possibility that it is so much further (humour me on this!) So, if God's ways are so much higher than our own, how are we ever going to understand Him?

I never thought in a million years that I would actually be going to India this september! If anything I would have bet a lot of money that I would probably have never gone to India (although I really wanted to when I was younger) But now I'm going, and I'm excited to see what God is going to do through me over there. We go to these places to try and help others in their poverty or whatever, but more often than not, the people who change are ourselves.

I really feel that God wants me to go, because when praying about it, I asked that it would go smoothly, and that I would be able to get the money together etc, and so far it's looking good.

I just need to ask for prayer about my health and safety when me and Craig are over there.

chester friends :)

I just wanted to introduce you to some of my friends... (from left to right) Dee, Kate, Tamara, and Rachel are all I can see properly!