A word, once it has be said
An opportunity, once it has been missed
Time, once it has pasted
Don't miss out. Take today in your hands and go for it. Live for Him today, Him who lived to die for you... He loves you...
(the top part was not from my thinking... i wish i could say it was, but it was from a powerpoint pressentation a friend sent to me and it got me thinking... i hope it does you too)
Take care
Alex
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Check it out...
You have to check this site out:
http://spokemantour.com/default.asp?id=10
If you want to find out why this site, before you go to this site... check this out:
http://egyptianmonson.blogspot.com/
http://spokemantour.com/default.asp?id=10
If you want to find out why this site, before you go to this site... check this out:
http://egyptianmonson.blogspot.com/
Oh boy what a day!!
Oh boy what a day... Oh boy what a week...
I have been sat at my computer for a very long time entering data, moving data checking that the data i have is correct, gathering it into one spreadsheet... and then yesterday i tried to put it into alphabetical order. However, what i didn't realise was that when i hit the alphabetical ordering button, certain bits of info that were in groups, but did not have the group name in the same row went to the bottom while the group column was ordered alphabetically... OH BOY...
thankfully i was able to recover my mistake, a mistake that would have taken me another day to fix... (the undo button didn't do the trick however, i tried that and then got really scared about the consequences)... but yeah i managed, with some calming helping from the person i was working with, get it back in the right order...
however, today we were going to send out emails to people, and there was so much trouble with the internet and the phone lines... then there was a problem with the size of what we were going to send...
i thought good i get to play some football tonight, hopefully i will be able to enjoy it... but no... i think i played the most rubbish game i had played in a very very long time... everything i did was wrong...
OH BOY WHAT A DAY...
...
Alex
I have been sat at my computer for a very long time entering data, moving data checking that the data i have is correct, gathering it into one spreadsheet... and then yesterday i tried to put it into alphabetical order. However, what i didn't realise was that when i hit the alphabetical ordering button, certain bits of info that were in groups, but did not have the group name in the same row went to the bottom while the group column was ordered alphabetically... OH BOY...
thankfully i was able to recover my mistake, a mistake that would have taken me another day to fix... (the undo button didn't do the trick however, i tried that and then got really scared about the consequences)... but yeah i managed, with some calming helping from the person i was working with, get it back in the right order...
however, today we were going to send out emails to people, and there was so much trouble with the internet and the phone lines... then there was a problem with the size of what we were going to send...
i thought good i get to play some football tonight, hopefully i will be able to enjoy it... but no... i think i played the most rubbish game i had played in a very very long time... everything i did was wrong...
OH BOY WHAT A DAY...
...
Alex
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
His Timing... can it be beaten?? NO...
No, it can't. Its carzy... He is never late, and always on time... even when you don't know He is coming to visit you in some way... He is still on time...
I may have told some of you, but then again i may not have...
During a sunday evening event a few weeks ago now, this girl came up to me and said that they felt she had something to share with me. She said that she felt God was saying that He wanted me to know that anywhere i go i will be a blessing.
This took me by suprise, but also as a really nice encouragement.
About a week or two later, we were at church and we were praying out a family. For some reason and i can't place my finger exactly on it, but i was feeling really frustrated and annoyed. I think that it might be because as we were praying-out the family i just felt really lonely, or at least that is the closest feeling that i can relate the feeling i had too.
After the service the same girl came up to me and said that since the evening event she had been praying for me and that today as we were all praying she felt God saying that He wanted me to know that i was a blessing and that He loved me. She also had Ps 23 for me.
Wow... at first i didn't want to put this up because i felt like i was relying too much on my blog, and also now i am not putting up so that you know i am a blessing wherever i go or that God loves me... NO.
Through this example from my life i just wanted to encourage you in that God is there with us all the time. He knows what we need and He gives us what we need, at the exact time that we need it. He loves each and everyone of you... and i, i am lookig forward to seeing you all at some point soon...
Take care
Alex
I may have told some of you, but then again i may not have...
During a sunday evening event a few weeks ago now, this girl came up to me and said that they felt she had something to share with me. She said that she felt God was saying that He wanted me to know that anywhere i go i will be a blessing.
This took me by suprise, but also as a really nice encouragement.
About a week or two later, we were at church and we were praying out a family. For some reason and i can't place my finger exactly on it, but i was feeling really frustrated and annoyed. I think that it might be because as we were praying-out the family i just felt really lonely, or at least that is the closest feeling that i can relate the feeling i had too.
After the service the same girl came up to me and said that since the evening event she had been praying for me and that today as we were all praying she felt God saying that He wanted me to know that i was a blessing and that He loved me. She also had Ps 23 for me.
Wow... at first i didn't want to put this up because i felt like i was relying too much on my blog, and also now i am not putting up so that you know i am a blessing wherever i go or that God loves me... NO.
Through this example from my life i just wanted to encourage you in that God is there with us all the time. He knows what we need and He gives us what we need, at the exact time that we need it. He loves each and everyone of you... and i, i am lookig forward to seeing you all at some point soon...
Take care
Alex
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Youth work...
What an incredible way to live... To live to affect the lives of youth. Personally i think its great, but then after this year i would wouldn't i...
On tuesday we had a day event with the local kids. Four of them turned up, which in some cases i think a small group if better... and in this case it was better. I think that it was easier for us to connect and for them to have our attention all the time. We took them to the beach to play volleyball have a bbq and then do some climbing and absailing...
It was great... the smallest guy managed to complete the hard climb that we had set up... i think that he was really pleased with himself, and we, well we were ecstatic about it.
Apart from tuesday, i help in the setting up of a youth group in a place called Camarthern every friday. Since i have been here i have helped out in numerous camps and youth events, and most of it i have enjoyed... there have been the times where i think, oh dear here we go again. However, last friday, when i was feeling like that, i prayed for energy and enthusiasm, and well by the end of it, the person that i help set up the youth group had noticed that i was getting more stuck in that week and asked why... so i told him, 'I Prayed'... there is some more proof to you that prayer works...
This weekend we have another youth event, well a camp, please pray that our leader will be able to come on saturday morning, so that i can go with him... the thing is, because we are setting up the youth group on friday nights, we can't go to the camp out that night... and then on saturday the camp is on the beach... but i need a way to get there and our leader is the only straight forward way... so please pray that he has the car...
Thanks
Alex
On tuesday we had a day event with the local kids. Four of them turned up, which in some cases i think a small group if better... and in this case it was better. I think that it was easier for us to connect and for them to have our attention all the time. We took them to the beach to play volleyball have a bbq and then do some climbing and absailing...
It was great... the smallest guy managed to complete the hard climb that we had set up... i think that he was really pleased with himself, and we, well we were ecstatic about it.
Apart from tuesday, i help in the setting up of a youth group in a place called Camarthern every friday. Since i have been here i have helped out in numerous camps and youth events, and most of it i have enjoyed... there have been the times where i think, oh dear here we go again. However, last friday, when i was feeling like that, i prayed for energy and enthusiasm, and well by the end of it, the person that i help set up the youth group had noticed that i was getting more stuck in that week and asked why... so i told him, 'I Prayed'... there is some more proof to you that prayer works...
This weekend we have another youth event, well a camp, please pray that our leader will be able to come on saturday morning, so that i can go with him... the thing is, because we are setting up the youth group on friday nights, we can't go to the camp out that night... and then on saturday the camp is on the beach... but i need a way to get there and our leader is the only straight forward way... so please pray that he has the car...
Thanks
Alex
Monday, May 28, 2007
This year..
I commented about something today about my gap year, and a friend said to me, it seems as though you haven't really enjoyed this year really...
I would like to say sorry if that is what i have been putting across through my blog... I have enjoyed this year... sure it has been a bit frustrating and not all easy, but i wouldn't change it... I think that in every situation there is something that we can learn... unfortunately sometimes we need to go through the lesson several times before we actually understand it...
But yeah, thank you so much for your prayers.
I have enjoyed this year and i hope that the rest of it will be a great experience as well... Please forgive me if i sometimes over exagerate (without realising sometimes... obviously some exageration can be used to the benefit of telling a story... but i hope that i haven't exagerated anything to make you think that i have not enjoyed this year...)
Ta
Alex
I would like to say sorry if that is what i have been putting across through my blog... I have enjoyed this year... sure it has been a bit frustrating and not all easy, but i wouldn't change it... I think that in every situation there is something that we can learn... unfortunately sometimes we need to go through the lesson several times before we actually understand it...
But yeah, thank you so much for your prayers.
I have enjoyed this year and i hope that the rest of it will be a great experience as well... Please forgive me if i sometimes over exagerate (without realising sometimes... obviously some exageration can be used to the benefit of telling a story... but i hope that i haven't exagerated anything to make you think that i have not enjoyed this year...)
Ta
Alex
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Aim or drift? Or is it Aim to drift?
What do you do? Do you drift through life and take things as they come? Or do you aim for something and take things as they come?
What's the difference?
In so many movies one of the ideas that they insert into our lives during that 2 hr slot that they have us held there, is that 'By Aiming for something, we can be disappointed when it fails'
But i want to stand against this thought pattern and say, hold your horses, if you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time... Now i didn't come up with this, i wish i had, but i didn't. The person who did is someone i respect a lot.
Why aim at something when you can be disappointed? You are right, you can be disappointed, but at the end of time, when you are standing infront of the KING or Kings and the LORD of Lords and He says to you, i gave you talents, what did you do with them... then what will you say? oh sorry i thought that i wold be disappointed to i stuffed them under my chair and sat on them till now so that i wouldn't be disappointed... ... ... ... ...oh boy...
Stand and Aim. As i have started off by talking about movies, or at least what some say let me end with what one movie says... 'Why do we fall Bruce? To learn to pick ourselves up."
You will be disappointed, it is no secret... but through the disappointment/struggle, you will learn, you will grow... and through that, well there we go...
Alex
What's the difference?
In so many movies one of the ideas that they insert into our lives during that 2 hr slot that they have us held there, is that 'By Aiming for something, we can be disappointed when it fails'
But i want to stand against this thought pattern and say, hold your horses, if you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time... Now i didn't come up with this, i wish i had, but i didn't. The person who did is someone i respect a lot.
Why aim at something when you can be disappointed? You are right, you can be disappointed, but at the end of time, when you are standing infront of the KING or Kings and the LORD of Lords and He says to you, i gave you talents, what did you do with them... then what will you say? oh sorry i thought that i wold be disappointed to i stuffed them under my chair and sat on them till now so that i wouldn't be disappointed... ... ... ... ...oh boy...
Stand and Aim. As i have started off by talking about movies, or at least what some say let me end with what one movie says... 'Why do we fall Bruce? To learn to pick ourselves up."
You will be disappointed, it is no secret... but through the disappointment/struggle, you will learn, you will grow... and through that, well there we go...
Alex
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