Days without work...

...are actually kinda boring. Not that I'm not grateful that I don't have any work, but this morning I got up and didn't have any plans. I'm not too good in that situation. I like to have my day all planned out with lots of things to do and people to see. I don't like spending the day on my own. Thankfully I got to spend today with my sis which was good. Went to the park with the dog and Teesside Park. I could spend a lot of time there (and a lot of money).

I am loving the sunshine at the moment, but yesterday I waited outside for my mum to come out of the dentist for like half an hour and got burned. And went v blotchy - not good. Especially cos am going to the football awards tomorrow night and want to look half way decent. Hopefully it will go away by then tho. I actually can't wait to go to the awards ceremony cos am so happy that the church football team won the league. Have been watching them play I think since they joined the league about 5 years ago and they've finally won. And John gets to lift the trophy - so I'm EXTRA excited about that.

Anyway people I have a lot of free time - anyone wanna hang out and do stuff?

Also can anyone tell me how you put links on your page to link to other peoples blogs? Meg told me but I forgot - oops!

Blog for Meg

OK so clearly I'm not too good at the whole blogging thing. My last blog must have been weeks ago and I also have not told anyone about it which I guess kinda defeats the point of having one. However, somehow Meg (hi Meg!) managed to find it which is why this blog is dedicated to her!

Yesterday I handed in my final uni assignments which means now I have officially finished year 2 and am free from that place for a few months. Today is already kinda strange - waking up and not really knowing what to do, although for the past few weeks I have been planning to do SO much in this free time. The list so far is:

take up some sort of exercise (and keep it up), write some songs that are half way decent and record them on Mr Mac which has hardly been used, learn how to use Final Cut on Mr Mac, keep in contact with a lot of people who I have recently been bad at keeping in contact with, especially people who are in another part of the world, take up violin playing again seen as I am playing it in a concert its kinda necessary to practice, actually understand what the heck goes on in the old testament, spend some good time with God - not just five mins here and there.....the list goes on. Am hoping that I can actually do some of these things and not just think about it which is what I usually do.

Anyway, this'll be all for now but I will be blogging again sooner this time!

Interesting things...

I finally have free time so I am going to write some things that I have found interesting and exciting recently. Dave texted me this verse last week and i think its really key to living life well:

And yet,
"Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind".

For some reason it took me a while to get it, but if you look at handfuls as a sort of measurement, I guess you could change it to 'better to have one hour of quietness than two hours of hard work...'. I guess it really spoke to me because I hardly get any quietness. I am too busy, and when I am free I fill up my free time. I am not good at sitting in quietness. I don't really like stillness. I find it awkward. But it looks like I'm going to have to change that somehow.

Then I decided that I would read the book so that I would understand it more. Just a bit later on it says:

'A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer. Three are even better, for a chord of three strands is not easily broken.'

I LOVE that cos it is so true. I have had times in life where I have been surrounded in Christians in everything I have done and it was amazing. You could support each other and when one person is struggling with something you can totally help each other. Now at uni, I am not surrounded by other Christians and it is SO much harder. Thankfully I have some amazing Christian friends around me outside of uni. God made us to live together, and I really don't think He wants anyone to stand alone. Two people can conquer!

Anyway, I have more stuff I am excited about at the moment, but i have a parcel to collect so I will have to keep it to myself for now! I challenge you to sit in quietness...

The Plan

OK so I'm thinking about what to do with my life at the moment. But thats not really any different to usual. I have never been the sort of person who has always known what they want to do with their lives. I don't think I feel hugely called to one thing. I love a lot of things, and there are many things I think I'd like to get into and be passionate about. So how am I meant to pick something? Dave is helping me and John to sort out our lives at the moment because we are stupidly busy and thats not really a good thing cos there really isn't enough time for God in there. Ironically that is mainly because we're doing stuff at church.  He was asking us what motivates us and what we're actually passionate about.  And he asked us what we would do with our time if we didn't have God or church.  I couldn't really answer that question...I guess church has shaped who I am quite a lot.  So I am wondering who I am...

I also was listening to a random soaking cd last night that Hannah brought to Embassy and it kept repeating this thing which was that God's plan is plan A and our plan is plan B.  And that we need to get rid of plan B.  SO I am attempting to get rid of plan B and at the same time work out what plan A actually is....

My first ever blog.

OK so this is the first time I have ever done this.  But I actually end up reading peoples blogs quite a bit and find them really interesting.  I like to read the random thoughts and ramblings of people.  I like to know about peoples lives.  Maybe I am too nosey but I like to know what is going on.

So, this is not an official blog because I don't have time to be writing deep stuff.  Think of it more as a test blog.  Because what I should actually be doing is thinking about what we're going to do in our small group on Wednesday night...but I had a bit of a tangent and made a blog whilst doing that..oh dear!

I will hopefully blog properly tomorrow.