The week gone by...

The week was quite a hectic week. I had every night out which gets a little bit much but on top of that I also had a Doctrine Book Review which was due today. So here is what happened...

Mon was college graduation. This was a great night. Graduation was at the town hall in the city so Naomi, Tan and I decided to go cheap clothes shopping in the city. I scored a couple cheap tops and 2 cheap belts. Very exciting!! Graduation was also good. Tan and I were in particularly silly moods which made for an extremely fun night. Then afterwards we got to catch up with some old friends which was also great.

Tues Tom Wright (Bishop of Durham in England) came to lecture at college. That was interesting but I was just so tired that I could focus properly on what he was saying (actually I think tiredness featured quite highly in the week). This day was also Seumas' Birthday so we went out to dinner to a vegan restaurant on King St. The food wasn't too bad but I had the buffet and it just wasn't hot enough. But then we went for gelato and that was GREAT!!

Wed was Bible study night. Another interesting night studying Hebrews. This hasn't been the easiest book to study especially since I have girls in my group at very different stages in their spiritual walk and very different levels in their knowledge of the Bible. It has been a real challenge and a stretch to really think hard about the individual girls in my group and to work out the best way to encourage them. But I think I am getting there.

Thursday is squash night. This night I filled in for a team in the West Comp and so I had to play at Windsor which took about an hour each way. But I won fairly easily and it was a nice enough game.

Fri I baby sat for the most delightful family. They are a gorgeous English family with 2 of the most well behaved children I have seen. They are 5 and 9 and they are just so delightful. It was also nice to earn a bit of cash while working on my book review.

Sat was a nice day. We went down to wollongong for my mum's birthday. I got to see family and catch up with one of my cousins who I haven't seen in ages. That was really nice. Then Sat night was a housewarming in Syd. Needless to say I did not get any work done this day.

Sundays these days are always great. I really love my new church. It is nice to go to such a great church to make my move away from my home church easier. But the people there are just so great. But perhaps I will tell you more about them in another blog.

So anyways, I got my assignment in, had dinner and went for a walk. So now it is time for me to go and do some Greek!!

Ouch...

The hard thing about investing so much of yourself in any relationship or anything is that the potential for getting hurt increases dramatically. I hate that things in this life hurt so much. I wish that we could be in Heaven now where there would be no more crying or pain for the old order of things will have passed away. I know that through these times God is holding me fast and that in 2 or so years time I will look back and see how God used this time in my life to bring about his good purposes but that doesn't ease the pain right now. Things just hurt so much at times. I wish I could just make it all go away but I can't. One thing I can do is pray and ask others to pray for me. Please pray that I can cling to Jesus' love for me and who God has made me in his Son (a forgiven Child of His) and that I can trust God's good purposes for me, even when things are hard...

Sickness...

Last night at dinner I found out that a friend from College ended up in hospital. On Sat night during the night she had a seizure in bed and managed to fracture 3 of her vertebrae. She then had 2 more seizures on Sunday. She is in a lot of pain but is generally good in spirit. The hard thing for her is that she is from America and only moved over here in January. So she is a long way from home and family and is in hospital.

This one event brings with it mixed emotions. There is the pain that we live in a broken world where horrible things like this occur. But also there is the joy to see God's family kick into gear and care for one of their members. So many people have been up to visit her and take care of her. Her boyfriend has been an absolute gem staying by her side.

But it is just so hard to see her in so much pain. And the doctors haven't been able to work out why they happened yet. That in itself is quite a blow. Please pray for her that she may heal quickly, that the doctors may work out why this happened and work at preventing it happening again, and also that she may hold on tight to the love and hope she has in her Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Online Again!!

Ok his time is for real!! I have hooked up the internet in my room. I am back online and it will all be happening. I wont be promising daily updates (as I am working hard at becoming a geek) but I will keep you all regularly informed to the shenanigans of my life!!

To start... Tonight I went out to my brothers gig at the Hopetoun hotel in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was a brilliant gig!! Tim has released a CD that can be bought in any JB Hi-Fi store in the country. It is called "Down in the Well" and his name is Tim Ireland. He is currently on his east coast tour which is awesome. His website is www.timireland.com.au Check it out!! He is heading down to Melbourne next week then will be up in Byron and Brisbane, then home again to play the Great Escape Festival at Newington Armory in Homebush. If you are in the area check out the tour details and get down and have a listen - you wont regret it.

Well that is my plug for the night and now it is time to sleep...

Back to work we go...

Well the whole internet thing didn't work out as I had planned therefore the updates that I promised didn't really come about. I am now back at college and have moved back into MAC but I am still working at getting internet into my room so I will try to update as often as possible but this time I won't make any promises.

College so far has been good. Last week I had a really bad cough and so wasn't sleeping very well. But as of Sun night I have started to get some sleep which means that the world looks a little brighter. It is good to be back at college but the workload this year has increased from last year (although less than last year's 2nd year) so that will be a change.

These are my college resolutions (not NY resolutions)

1. Keep my room tidy (this one my mum will love! I spent so much of my time travelling last year that I never had time to tidy my room so I am going to make a concerted effort this year for things to be different)
2. Go to breakfast (I was so tired last year that I didn't make it to breakfast pretty much ANY morning)
3. Bed time 11pm as often as possible (this will remain to be seen I think once the social stuff gets into full flight)
4. And all of this is to be able to Study more!!!

Feel free to keep me accountable for these things. And we will see as the year goes on if I can really do them :)

Well that is it for now but hopefully I will be back sometime in the not too distant future :)