Thursday, August 23, 2007
grandpa
Grandpa (Dad's dad) died last night, from cancer. I'd appreciate prayer, especially for Dad and Mum and the rest of the family.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
home is where the heart is
Here's part of an email I sent to Caitlin the other day :
"I'm sitting a Kako's desk [Kako is a friend of mine], looking up towards the MCR [Main Common Room]. The late afternoon sun sprawls across the lawn, lighting up the sides of the two gum trees I can see out the window, making this clever little splotchy bit running up the middle of the trees that can't decide whether or not it's in light or in shadow. The door's open, and it's about twenty degrees. The birds call to each other every now and then. But it's going to take a while for this place to feel like home."
I went to Bowral in June for part of the holidays (just a couple of days), and although everything was familiar, it didn't feel like home, as I thought it would. I'm going to Goroka, PNG, from 15-30 September (woot!), but I don't think that I'll find home there either.
So where is home?
C. S. Lewis wrote : "If I find in my heart a desire no experience in this world can satisfy, I can only conclude that I was made for another world." (Mere Christianity, I think).
I don't think I will ever really feel at home anywhere in this world. Why?
"All these people [Enoch, Noah, Abraham etc.] were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them." Hebrews 11:13-16 (NIV)
"I'm sitting a Kako's desk [Kako is a friend of mine], looking up towards the MCR [Main Common Room]. The late afternoon sun sprawls across the lawn, lighting up the sides of the two gum trees I can see out the window, making this clever little splotchy bit running up the middle of the trees that can't decide whether or not it's in light or in shadow. The door's open, and it's about twenty degrees. The birds call to each other every now and then. But it's going to take a while for this place to feel like home."
I went to Bowral in June for part of the holidays (just a couple of days), and although everything was familiar, it didn't feel like home, as I thought it would. I'm going to Goroka, PNG, from 15-30 September (woot!), but I don't think that I'll find home there either.
So where is home?
C. S. Lewis wrote : "If I find in my heart a desire no experience in this world can satisfy, I can only conclude that I was made for another world." (Mere Christianity, I think).
I don't think I will ever really feel at home anywhere in this world. Why?
"All these people [Enoch, Noah, Abraham etc.] were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them." Hebrews 11:13-16 (NIV)
no more mondays for a week
Hooray! Welcome Caitlin (because I know you'll be the first to see this). And welcome others. This is my new blog which I figured might be an easier way to keep everyone updated. There is not much here yet, but in time hopefully there will be.
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