My never ending expedition.

Have you ever noticed things happening in your day or events happening in your life when you say to yourself..that was just weird, not normal or no one could have forseen it..like incidents were planned to happen, ment to happen but there was no way you or anyone else could have seen it coming...or even planned it for that matter! Its weird when that happens isnt it. For me its been happening a lot lately, but I really do think it was always happening in my life and also in your life but we just dont see it, or if we do we write it off as being some odd coincidence. During this summer I've been longing to study the bible more and more..ok so that doesnt sound like everyones cup of tea but it is mine-its like a big mug of barrys tea to me! Friends of mine have and are studying in a bible college in Siegen, Germany (Calvary Bible college). The more and more I heard about the bible college and studying the word, the more I grew excited about having the opportunity to study and tau...

Its been a week since I wrote, it really feels only a few days. More and more the time seems to fly by.. but each morning we wake its a fresh start. I think back to just this year and what has gone by. So much has changed. At the start of this year I was buying a house-with someone I knew wasnt right for me or me right for them. This year I was working in a job that i dreaded most mornings,that didnt bring out the best in me and brought me to tears more often than not...its scary to think how comfortable we get with things in our lives that arent right, that we dont like and that make us so unhappy. The person I was for the majority of this year seems like someone I was years ago...I look back and feel like years must have past because my life has change so much. Praise God for that. Even though I do seem to cry as much now as I did then but mostly I cry for I am full of joy..but when I cry because of sadness..it still isnt the same as before because I feel safe now, I am not alone...

So yes as Katie Tunstall says in her song Weirdo..."Still a weirdo after all these years"... yes yes I truely am. All my 23 years or at least what I can remember of them I've been unique,quirky even. I think we all must feel that way, that we are extra weird compared to the next person..we see it every day, people trying to fit in , be it with there clothes,lanuage, music, taste in films, hair do's, hair donts, tan..too much tan, no tan at all, friends, opinions, bringing each others group down so the one we are in, the "norm" we fit into seems like the "right" one. Are we..no matter what group we fall under or how much we try not to be in a group.. still trapped in that cycle of not comfortable in our own skin?? Yes some days its easy to say "well yes I am comfortable in my skin and happy with who I am" but how many days are there with the doubt,the unsureness, the self conciousness, the unsatisfation with our own bodies, our own minds, ...

Today I am thankful for a day of rest...And things that I have learned. So...its hard sitting, reading and thinking-I know it probably sounds like a great day to most.It is dont get me wrong, but what I struggled with today was handing my day over to the Lord and glorifying Him..Yes as I get up and go about a working day or a day full of plans I find it a simple joy to glorify Him in all I do.However give me a day of leasure at home and I seem to fill it with many visits to facebook, eating random food such as two eggs and a slice of cake for breakfast..coffee and cake for lunch and popcorn for dinner!!very nutritious indeed.Other activities of the day included mulling over the thought of going for a run..so much so that Ive almost convinced myself I have!! Key things missing from my day...the Word and prayer. You see my focus was not on the cross...and so I was lost. Before I used spend many a day wasted like today...I'd be waiting for something to happen, to have some purp...

So..Here I am. First post. A sigh of relief as I begin.I thought the setting up of a blog was going to be painful and long but alas it was easy and quick. I am far from a wiz at technology..I admit to knowing very very very little about the new or even old ipod, iphone, mac, apple..and whatever else is out there. They are mere words I hear in conversations on a daily basis..which is a slight worry..not because I dont have a clue about them (I prefer pen and paper and a good oul cd to be honest) but the fact that its such a highlight of our conversations these days. Anyway...less about all those fandangles... I am glad to be writing. I've always loved to write about this and that... but of late I yern to do so, more and more. My life has changed soo very much over the last number of months and time is going so fastly by that I wanted to write it all down, so that I see it all and remember it all.. all the blessings that are part of my new life, the moulding of my new heart and...