Ahhh Sundays...!!

Ah yes, I knew there was something I loved about Portsmouth - Sundays! Especially Sundays that are like the Sundays in my first year which went something like this : Church, students being invited to someone's house after church for lunch or to some kind of pub, followed by some sort of afternoon activity like random games or a nice walk, followed by church again in the evening!

This type of Sunday was one of the things I loved most last year! At the time it was nice because it meant I could escape from Langstone for a whole day, spend time getting to know new friends and of course having a whole day away from work (which is what God gave us Sundays for in the first place!!) These Sundays kept me going last year, when I was missing home or stressed or lonely, they were days where I was able to be with my Christian brothers and sisters, and probably became my most looked forward to day of the week!

Now, this year I no longer need to escape from Langstone and those ''new friends'' have become people I love a whole lot and spend a good amount of time with but I realised today how much I still adore these Sundays just the same! The families at Eastney Church just amaze me with their kindness and generosity - especially as a lot more students come now than when I first started going! So I guess what Im trying to say with all this babbling is that I had a lovely day!

For this evenings service we had a guest speaker in who works for 'Open doors', which is an organisation that helps persecuted Christians all around the world. I have heard and read many things about Christian persecution but every time I hear more, something new will strike me. Today, the main things I took from the service is just how extraordinary the faith of a persecuted Christian is. We heard examples of Christians that have asked for people not to pray that their persecution would stop, but rather that they would never deny Jesus... Wow! How often do we have silly little problems that we go to God with and ask to be set free from? Not that thats wrong of course, I mean, God wants us to share our feelings and problems with Him, but it sort of puts things into perspective when people are daily being imprisoned, beaten or even killed for their faith in God.... and we worry about being laughed at for example....makes ya think hey?

Second thing I took from the service - how much we take the bible for granted. This point was hardly really touched upon but something (cant think of the exact sentence) that was said got me thinking. There are people going out and risking their lives, or certainly risking prison, to take Bibles to countries where they're not allowed and the people that recieve them treasure it with all they have. Most of them will read as much as they can, as often as they can, and here we are, in the Western world, most Christians owning more than one bible and how often do we read it? At church? Maybe a few times a week? Maybe when we ''feel like it''? Or maybe we do our 'once a day' like we feel we should. BUT my question is, how much do we really treasure God's word? And I mean really treasure it. Do we even completely realise what it is that we hold in our hands, or keep by our beds, or on our bookshelf? That book, contains every thing that we truely need to know about God and about being a Christian here on earth - EVERY THING!! Yes there are other things that we're not always clear about, or that we wish we knew, but right now, on earth, they're unimportant. God has given us all we need to know within the bible and I for one pray that I will treasure it and read it more and more whilst I have the freedom to. Who knows when that freedom wont exist anymore. And so how about you? Will you pray too that our so often complacent attitudes regarding the bible will be broken down and we'll treat it as the treasure that it is? And will you pray for persecuted Christians everywhere, and that the faith of the 'free' as it were, would be even a fraction of what theirs is? **Praise God** for our freedom but let's not take it for granted.
xxx

Love a bit of procrastination

Procrastinating. Yep thats what I'm doing right now!! What I really should be doing is my Career Management assignment thingy that is due on Friday but other things are just more.... fun!!

I am happy that it is Saturday! Yesterday was rubbish...bad.... Until evening. Evening was good! Went out for pizza and cinema with lots of lovely friends! I love friends ya know, they make me smile lots (as i have rambled on about many a time!)

D'ya know what... I have absolutely nothing of interest to write about right now... [it could be argued that I never do tho to be fair!! ;-) hehe] So... I should stop wasting language and be quiet!

Byeeeeeee xxx Sorry, Im a freakin' weirdo!!!!

Oh yeah... i should probably blog....

Oh dear... I've not posted for a long old while...! Ooopsy!

Hmmm... where do I start? Christmas has come and gone, new year has come and gone... so that means 2007! New year, fresh start, positive outlook, expectant that I will see God doing yet more great things and generally feeling good :-)

Can't really write about all thats been going on since I last blogged cos that would just take up endless pages and quite frankly bore you all to death! But its generally been lots of hanging out with various beautiful friends and having a laugh, family christmasses and even *some uni work* SHOCK HORROR :-O

Something that deserves a mention - purely for comic value, was mine and India's trip to Taunton to visit Becca for the day! Went to Burger King and Becca turned round and knocked India's tray flying everywhere - I don't think it can effectively be explained but it was just so funny... India kinda stood there for a couple of seconds without moving...looking completely shocked... O my days it really was funny! As you've probably realised the pic above shows the consequence.... HA

Went out for a meal with my girlies and once again had to say goodbye to my wonderfully great chum Hanzy... Shes off to Austria again you see... till May - SUCKS. No doubt I shall have to go and visit, else what on earth will I do??!! ;-)

Right, im TOTALLY babbling now.... so i will stop now! At least I've updated! Finally, yay!