Walking home and another question

As i was walking up the hill today after school i walked passed a little girl, possibly 5 or 6 years old. And as i walked passed the girl with one hand rubbing her eye, her other eye gleaming at me, she smiled and with her spare hand she gave me a thumbs up.

I've no idea why, but isn't it just an awesome feeling?


For my next question;

If faith is trusting, relying and believing something will happen without knowing the facts, then how can Our Omniscient God be a faithful God?

Blogging pattern

I've noticed that my blogging comes in patterns. The frequency of my blogging monthly goes like so:
Starting September 05, ending this month: 12 posts, 9 posts, 5 posts, 8 posts, 11 posts, 17 posts, 12 posts, 11 posts, 9 posts, 6(+) posts.

The graph looks somewhat like this. It's funny all the places you see this similar kind of graph. energy of people v time, alternating currents, even our heart beat is similar. What is says to me is that we need both good and bad in life, both the things we like and the tings we don't. We can't get too high becasue we'll explode and if we get too low we'll hit the ground.

Holidays

An interesting discussion on the last post if people want other people's opinions on Blessing.

I'm now 2/3 of the way through my Japanese exam. Finished my Chemistry today and have Biology on thursday. I think i'll save asking another discussion question for the holidays or i'll have an excuse to not do my study.

Holidays are gonna be so awesome! Koru dance on friday night; Hanmer friday, saturday, sunday; As soon as i get back i can go for my full driver's license. I wanna go sometime these holidays. Then the second week i'll be going to Extend for camp. Two camps in two weeks!! I love camps! Did i mention that the whole two weeks will be free of school work?! (-other than preparing for my Desmond Tutu Speech).

Well that about sums up this post.

Question

Can you Bless yourself?
And if you can Bless yourself then is it the equivalent of someone else Blessing you?

Church Today

The service in the morning involved the Girls and Boys brigades. Steve talked about the end times. No-one knows when it will come. And he used parables as Jesus did. Everyone got given a medal/talent, some big, some small and Steve explained that the rich man who gave different amounts of money to the three different men and how he was contented with the returns he got with each of them (with the exception of the man who buried his because he feared the anger of the rich man if he lost/wasted it) But the man said the same thing to both men who returned with gain. He told both men that he would put them in charge of larger amounts of money because they had proven faithful with what they were given. No matter who got what size talent, if we use them right (FOR GOD) then God is well pleased with us and invests us into bigger and better things.

Go carting with the boys. Randall, Mark, Michael K and myself went go carting. I got an offical warnign that if i banged another car i was outta there. There went my overtaking tactics and so i got stuck behind michael for about 15 laps until someone else caught us up and overtook him. I followed their lead and finally got passed him. No-one counted their laps or overtakes but i'm sure Randall won. He was the only one i didn't overtake of all the people on the course. (I did get over taken several times after my official warning though so i can't say i came second) The main point was, it was stacks of fun.

Lynne talked in the evening about Healing. She too used parables. Or examples. We discussed in groups things that were inflicted on us and how we overcame or were healed of those afflictions.

Daily Devotional

I am thinking of starting up a blog that will be linked off this one that i will use to write my thought on my daily devotionals. It will help me reflect, remember and put into practice the things i learn. Hopefully it will get me into a habbit of doing devotionals more and act as my accountability. However this is assignment season and so if i do decide to start this blog i will only be posting about once a week. (don't think i won't be doing my devotionals the other six days, i just won't have the time to do the reflection too.) I do hope to get into the habbit though. I would be welcoming any contrary thoughts to my own reflections also.

Any thoughts on me putting this plan into action?

News Headline

"Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God"
A story about a man who climbed down a rope into a lion enclosure at a zoo and exclaimed "God will save me, if He exists." One of the lioness' instantly approached and killed him.

This story has sparked a big forum about how it is proof that God doesn't exist.

My view could not be added to the forum because i am not a member and i don't want to sign up to something i would never visit. So i'll put my view here and i'm open to listening to other people's views.

Firstly i believe it is important to know whether this man had genuine faith or was just trying to find for himself an answer. Secondly, does the Bible not say,
"do not test the Lord your God!"? (matthew 4:7)

Now if it says that then how can we have faith? Well the Bible also says,
"And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." (Mark 16:17-18)

So what does that mean? Well to me it says this guy didn't read his Bible properly. To me i believe this means that so long as we do not test the Lord our God we shall be safe from harm. So in relation to this guy the way i see it is if this man was thrown into the enclosure like Belteshazzar he would have survived because it was not his will that caused him to drink the poison. But he instead chose to go into the enclosure and test God. Because of his testing he was shown nothing. The Bible says that,
"Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (John 20:29)



the headline was found at the web address >here<

A Look On Life

Ok, so i haven't updated in 8 days. You may well be asking, "is he dead?"
But stop your worrying please! I am not yet dead. I have much to talk about.

It all started back in 1993 when i was a stripping young five year old.....ok not that much to talk about...

Last friday was a night for the whole family, the church family and the community family, to come together and battle each other in groups of 6 for the supreme right to be named the winner of the 2006 quiz evening. My team did not win. I KNOW! shocking! err... you can close your mouth now. Thankyou. I'll tell you what though, there were some pretty tough questions in there. And i really think my team needs to work on their musical knowledge. There's no I in team. I don't need to work on it, i knew all the answers, i was just giving all the other teams a fair chance...well if you're reading this in the early hours of the morning i'll tell you know, i'm just kidding. Right, lets do away with the quiz night, other than the mention of thanks to Jas and Amy who did a brilliant job of putting it together, and the mention that if you know absolutely everything about music then i am happy, estactic in fact, to sign you up for my next year's team.

So, Friday faded as the sun hid behind the horizon. We watched a movie as the day gave way to night. Fighting Temptations. I liked the movie, it was quite relevant to the verses i've been reading in the Bible lately.

But the night had to once again give way to morning, for that was how God intended it to be. And night knows not how to disobey. So Saturday came. And Saturday was a day of preparation for the day of pentecost. We learned, we listened and we discussed. The Spirit of God was with us on Saturday just as the Lord promised us it would be all those years ago. And i learned, i learned that storytelling is an art. I learned techniques of storytelling and it helped me. I write poetry, and being able to write is important to me, it allows me to express things i know i cannot express in any other way. It allows me to, even though i do not share my poems, document my history, my thoughts, my feelings. My poems help me to speak to God. And in the evening the lights dimmed and Peter and Joyce broke ice with fire, the fire that together we cast upon the ice altar. And we drank and ate in communion with reverence and silence to the King of Kings as the spirit came upon that place. It was worship and i worshipped Him. How could i not? He left His life that i might have mine, i was not my own. I was in deep gratitude for the things He had done, for the people He had placed in my life, for the Love i had been showed and was yet to be showed. How could i not? But the night had to end, and i had to go home.

Sunday morning i was txting in the early hours. Talking to someone who truly felt human. I knew that feeling and though my words may not have done comfort i am sure my prayers were healing hands. Sunday morning was delayed that morning, not because the birds did not sing at their time, but because my ears did not want to listen. And because of that, i was late for church. Luckily there was a confession box at the back of the church...just kidding. Sunday afternoon meant work and fortunetly Sunday's work was easy and my finish was not so delayed as my getting up. The evening service was run by Simon the story-teller. Or was it? I'm forgetting because i didn't write a blog on Sunday!! Too long ago!!

But Monday came, and i thanked God, for the first time in my life, for the Queen. Why? because i got to sleep in. My weeked was busy and i needed the sleep i had been deprived of. So Thankyou Betty. And thank God for you and your public holiday that we might not forget you.

Looking back on my weekend i think i probably should have fitted some homework in there sometime.

Tonight was youthgroup and we acted out plays of Jesus' healing. Jesus healing the demon-possessed boy with the believing father and Jesus healing the man on the strecher who was lowered through the roof.


Other things on my mind lately have been my assignments that i haven't yet finished and my upcoming formal of which i have still to get a date for. Other than that my life is great and dandy*(not sure what that means but it sounds like it fits in here)

That is my look on life
until next time,
Janei