Finding a little rest
Argh, I think I am coming down with a cold. I can't really remember the last time I was sick so I guess I've been pretty blessed health wise.
Last night I managed to have a night in. It was surprisingly something different for both Ruth and I since we've been galavanting (gosh, I love that word) around Perth for the past week and a half. Staying up late and waking up early (10am is early if you consider I have been going to bed around 3am on average) just trying to make the most of everyday and the holidays whilst they last.
It was nice to have a night in. I managed to have an awesome quiet time with God and by the end of it I felt alot more centered and internally organised. I really need to sit down and just be in His presense more often rather than trying to do it in the car on my way somewhere. Wow, thats a word for me: to sit down and just be. Rather than running around trying to do everything all the time. Busy-ness can be a sin and rest is good.
This morning Ruth and I went down to a meeting at Pregnancy Problem House in Nollamara for their Choices, Decisions, Outcomes High school program. Its an awesome and much needed program that goes into high schools to give students strategies to making informed decisions regarding relationships and sexual activity. It really is such a priviledge to be part of it.
One of the ladies at Pregancy Problem House mentioned how a collegue at work was in a wrong relationship and she gave her a CDO bookmark about what true love is and woman was so grateful. It just highlighted to me the need for programs like these. How can a grown adult woman not know what love is and how she should be treated? Just blows my mind, but its so common. Its as if they don't think they deserved to be treated with respect and love. The number of friends I know who are in relationships that are complacent where they are stuck in the same old routines. Maybe once they were in love but now the relationship lacks love and care.
Complacency makes it easier to just to stay in a unloving relationship rather acknowledging its not right and parting ways. Its too much hassle having to start from scratch again with someone else. This is the mentality of it all. I guess as people we are always trying to fill a God shaped void in our hearts with people or things. Everybodys worshipping something. But nothing in this world will ever satisfy like God and His love. Trust me, I know.
I went down the the Furnace after. I really wanted to finish a painting I had started yesterday. What meant to be a really quick 30min thing felt like an hour but in reality was two hours. There seems to be no concept of time in there. Sometimes when I am painting I can feel Gods presense so thick despite the sounds of other people in the room. I am in my own little world.
Last night I managed to have a night in. It was surprisingly something different for both Ruth and I since we've been galavanting (gosh, I love that word) around Perth for the past week and a half. Staying up late and waking up early (10am is early if you consider I have been going to bed around 3am on average) just trying to make the most of everyday and the holidays whilst they last.
It was nice to have a night in. I managed to have an awesome quiet time with God and by the end of it I felt alot more centered and internally organised. I really need to sit down and just be in His presense more often rather than trying to do it in the car on my way somewhere. Wow, thats a word for me: to sit down and just be. Rather than running around trying to do everything all the time. Busy-ness can be a sin and rest is good.
This morning Ruth and I went down to a meeting at Pregnancy Problem House in Nollamara for their Choices, Decisions, Outcomes High school program. Its an awesome and much needed program that goes into high schools to give students strategies to making informed decisions regarding relationships and sexual activity. It really is such a priviledge to be part of it.
One of the ladies at Pregancy Problem House mentioned how a collegue at work was in a wrong relationship and she gave her a CDO bookmark about what true love is and woman was so grateful. It just highlighted to me the need for programs like these. How can a grown adult woman not know what love is and how she should be treated? Just blows my mind, but its so common. Its as if they don't think they deserved to be treated with respect and love. The number of friends I know who are in relationships that are complacent where they are stuck in the same old routines. Maybe once they were in love but now the relationship lacks love and care.
Complacency makes it easier to just to stay in a unloving relationship rather acknowledging its not right and parting ways. Its too much hassle having to start from scratch again with someone else. This is the mentality of it all. I guess as people we are always trying to fill a God shaped void in our hearts with people or things. Everybodys worshipping something. But nothing in this world will ever satisfy like God and His love. Trust me, I know.
I went down the the Furnace after. I really wanted to finish a painting I had started yesterday. What meant to be a really quick 30min thing felt like an hour but in reality was two hours. There seems to be no concept of time in there. Sometimes when I am painting I can feel Gods presense so thick despite the sounds of other people in the room. I am in my own little world.
