Disappointed... but the moment is getting redeemed

I shortchanged myself this morning. After a late night out last night, I slept in and missed church. And I'm really disappointed.

I was sick last week and feel as though it's been an age since I fellowshipped with my Brothers and Sisters in Christ. However, as I type this, I'm also watching to the Christian channel on cable and I'm realising that I am worshiping with other people, in spirit.

I'm encouraged by the thought that at this point, people from all around the world are worshiping God... and I am with them in doing so.

I'm still disappointed that I missed church (and encouraged to that I'm disappointed - I don't always want to go to church!), but I'm glad that God has redeemed the moment.

The funniest song in a fair while

Getting the newspaper early this morning from the Petrol Station I heard this song in my car - it cracks me up every time and so I thought I'd share it. It could be one of those really early morning on a Saturday brainwaves that aren't so good, but here goes it:

Listen "I'm Still A Guy Brad Paisley"

If it doesn't download click here to go elsewhere and listen to "I'm Still A Guy"

A long break

I've been hibernating - taking a break from writing, communicating and in general being fairly anti-social with the world not directly in front of me. Some great things have been happening, some fairly awful things have happened, and in general I could say that life's been very good to me - but it's the sucky things that have made me not write. There's been a few reasons for this:

1. I don't want to air my, nor my family's "dirty laundry" on this blog, and there were times that I was tempted - "Stay AWAY from the keyboard!"
2. I've had, as I expressed to a friend last night "a multitude of unanswered questions that haunt the recesses of my mind, being afraid to have others ask questions which I myself don't have the answers for"
3. I went through one of my "I hate the internet's power to tell you things you don't want to know" phases.
   

I've found myself composing blogs in my head, thinking through what I'd write and how I'd write it - and as I do use this as a bit of a personal journey log I have missed chronicling these events. It has been well worth it though.

A friend of mine has the back of her bathroom door covered in sayings and quotes (you may as well be encouraged while you're in there!), and one of them is this "the wisest words are those which were never spoken because they would have hurt someone without benefiting anyone". This, primarily, is the reason I've been silent lately.

But for the records sake:

• I've had a great time at some garage sales (7 Tolkien books for $7 bucks! 4 Designer pants (trousers for you non-Aussies) which retail for 140 each and I got the lot of them (brand new and perfect fit) for only $40
• Dad's second surgery has gone well. Non cancer related thank God
  
• I've decided that come spring I'm going to buy myself a bunch of roses each week from a local rose farm
• Drinking too much isn't smart (it has the propensity to completely ruin the next day - why put yourself through that??)
• I'm going to spend Christmas in New Zealand
  
• I may have committed myself to going speed dating!
  
• Trust in God is the foundation for our faith (stay tuned for more on this one)
• I'm heading to Hong Kong in a week's time!
  
• Family is the most important thing

I've also realised during this break that come September, perhaps the worst year in my life will be over... Honestly, aside from Death, someone in our family being incarcerated, someone losing a limb or being paralyzed there's nothing that I can think of that couldn't have happened this past year on the downer side of life - Praise God though - a couple more weeks and a milestone will have been reached!