Passing Times and Passing Seasons

As all who read will probably know by now, I have recently taken up gardening. At the moment I am in the process of cleaning up the back garden and the yard. The yard is a lot less messy than it used to be and there is a relative amount of order going on. The garden is a little harder to sort out, so far I have made the path useable and cut away a large amount of brambles from the end of the garden, the work I do on the garden helps centre me and makes me feel spiritually sound. However we have recently been struck by a lot of bad weather forcing me away from my labour, which is why I was so happy when I cut open an apple today and found a large cluster of seeds, I was even more joyous when after asking my wife if she would like to help me plant them she said yes. Though the seeds currently have a humble beginning being in small pots I hope to one day be able to look at them as trees and say me, my wife, and God did that. I am hoping that tomorrow is nice and clear so I can get back to my work on the bramble, I have plans to cut more of it down and then cut the branches into smaller sections, bind them together and use them as fuel for our fires. Well I think that is all for now.

Thanks for reading,
NL

Southern Hopes

I am currently looking at a job in the south, it will require that I do three years on a BA to come out with a Degree in Youthwork, it would then at my request continue onto a permenant job in the area. There is only one catch I have to be accepted into the university to get the job and I am a little worried about applying for the course because it is so far south, but I have to have hope in God that this is the right thing to do, I believe it is but I don't know all of God's plan for me. My wife has also applied for a job in the same area but we don't know if that will come to anything, we can only hope for the best and pray to God that we are headed in the right direction. If we were to get the jobs it would be really great because my brother lives in the same area and I really miss him, to be honest I don't really tell him enough that I love him. Well I trust in God, and this feels right, I just hope it isn't my own human thoughts getting in the way.

Children, Children, Everywhere...

I am currently helping out at a Youth Group on Mondays and I have just started volunteering at an After School Club, which I will be doing most Tuesdays. The reason for this is because I am a Youth Worker, at least I will be, I am finally sure that this is God's path for me and I am only humbled by the fact that even when I was a child or a baby he knew what he had in mind for me. I have been floating around the Youthwork scene for years and people have always been telling me that I am good with children, however in my own stubborness I have been rejecting everything everyone has said. Now however I have finally realised that perhaps the reason people have been telling me this is because that is what God has in mind for me, maybe just maybe this is his plan and I haven't been listening to it, I haven't been listening to him. I have just been like a child covering my ears and screaming at the top of my voice 'NO NO NO'. I am sure this probably isn't the plan God has for me forever but I feel comfortable in the knowledge this is more than likely it what he has planned for me now. I am glad I have finally fallen down before God and let him truely speak to me, I am glad he has broken me only to start rebuilding me, and I am glad that I can finally listen to something that has been told me for years.

Thanks for reading, God Bless You All,
NL

Seeing the Sites and Taking a Breather

So today as we so often do me and my wife went for a walk, we took the longest route we could to enable us to walk as many steps as possible because a person is supposed to walk around 10,000 steps a day, so far we have got an average of around 9,000 so we still need to do a bit more, hopefully this new walk we are trying will fulfill the requirement. When I was out walking I realised how awesome it was to have my wife and I have always laid the reason that I have her down to God, basically we are actually from 2 different countries and we met on an online game, the thing that was really amazing were the amount of 'coincidences' there were in our meeting, there were to many and they were to organised for them to be coincidences, I have always felt that God intervened to meet us up. In the end I moved to her country and lived with her for a while before we moved back to England, and we got married. God really pulled us together, and because of this my wife's faith has grown so much, when I met her I can only describe her as an Agnostic, however now she is a very strong christian, she truely loves God, as I love God, and because of that our spiritual and physical relationship with each other is powerful. We do have arguements I will admit but it is nothing compared to the sense of wholeness we get from each other and from God. We are both truely blessed.

Thanks for reading,
NL

Christ's Day of Rest

So it is sunday and of course the christian day of rest. This is based on the fact that Jesus rose from the dead on a sunday rather than that it is the 7th day of the week. Saturday is actually the 7th day but a lot of people don't realise because the christian sabbath in a sunday.

Well anyway this morning I went to church and I realised how good it felt to be praising God. I felt truely happy. The sermon was about the feeding of the 5,000 and it really spoke to me about Jesus and the way he works. In the story he asks Philip where they will get the bread and Philip gives the answer of how to get the bread, I never realised that so often as christians we answer the wrong questions. Sometimes we need to look at our lives to realise waht God is really asking of us and the best way to follow HIS path.

Also on a side note it came out a revelation that by forcing my wife to move to England I actually did her a favour because since she has been here she has been able to grow in her faith to God, rather than when she was in her country she couldn't.

Thanks for reading,
NL

My Sunshine and Me

The person I love more than anything in the world is my wife (by that I mean God is everywhere not just in the world) and today I spent with her. We did a lot of fun stuff and really had some 'together time' playing games and doing our own bit of God's work. We are both helping to lead youth groups at the moment and today we did a bit of work for the one my wife helps out with, it was great, we got to spend time together and we were doing something for God. I really love my wife, she means the world to me. Unfortunately I know that sometimes I am not the husband she deserves and at times like that it is really good that we aren't alone and that God is with us both in our lives and in our marriage. I often pray when me and my wife have an arguement that we can resolve the arguement easily and it helps a lot. Yesterday we had a disagreement about something and my wife sat working at her computer sourly ignoring me and I went out of the room prayed to God and when I returned she was very open to everything I said and the arguement was sorted out easily. I love my wife, and I love my Lord. The fact is there is no such thing as a perfect man or woman (besides Jesus) and we will often have our disappointments and disagreements with the other sex, the problem nowerdays is that everyone gives up to easily, they don't try, also a lot of people don't know God and can't turn to him to help out when there is a problem. The biggest problem in a relationship is men often find it hard to listen to women and women have a hard time expressing themselves without accidently seeming to blame the man for the problem (if a man feels blamed he shuts off).

I love my wife, and I love spending quality time with her it is really great, luckily though I am prepared that there will be arguements and I am able to ask God to help out.

Thanks for reading.
NL

The Music of The Awake

So I thought I would just make a short post about good Christian Music that you can get. A lot of this stuff I actually stole from my wife, I will also include a address to a site to download the scriptures to music.

Ok so here it is:
Hillsong
Hillsong United
Barlow Girl
Vineyard
Deeper - 2 hours of deep worship for prayer and intercession
WOW hits 2008
WOW hits 2009
http://www.scripturesongs.com/

Enjoy,
Thanks for reading.

40 days and 40 nights.

So lent is coming up, and I know it will probably be the worst one for me so far in my life because I am giving up Computer games, this is probably my biggest vice and I am worried I won't be able to complete my time. The only real advantage to giving this up is that I will have more time to reflect on things, and more time to spend with God. I will probably be able to do a lot more than I normally do and I am already planning to try and work my way through my Theory test book so I can start working towards my driving licence. I will also probably finish reading 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.' To be honest with you all the real reason I started my blog was part of a preparation for this time a head where I will have very little to do as most of my time is taken up with playing games normally.

Thanks for reading.

The Sanctity of Hard Work

I am going to tell you that I am a christian, this will probably effect what my posts are going to be about. Today I did some garden work, I used to be really interested in gardening however I fell out of doing it for a long time. Today when I was working I was really apprieciating how good it was to be outside doing something and it made me feel humble before God, when you are outside you can apprieciate God's world and all the nature there is. I am honestly somewhat gifted for a 19 year old because at the moment I live in the middle of the countryside and the landscape around is beautiful unfortuneately unless you take the time to look around you don't see it, a person can walk around and not see anything for years and then one day stop and look around and truely LOOK at it.

Anyway I have to finish here, thanks for reading.

In the Beginning

In the beginning there was man and he found woman and they got married. So that brings you up to date. I have never really kept a blog before so I don't really know what to write but as time goes by I am sure I will think of something.