Getting Ready

This is a post I wrote for another website a few days ago about my coming plans. I figured it should be repeated for my blog...

I've been thinking/praying/daydreaming about doing a DTS for such a long time that it's still not quite sunk in that this is real! I am so thankful to God that it is! To be quite honest, since my last year of school I have struggled with not knowing where I'm going education/career/calling-wise, and God gave me two words about it (both of them about 2.5 years ago) one was "You're not ready to know yet" (couldn't really argue with that one, could I?) the other was "Don't seek God's will, seek God".

This summer God has blessed me so much in many different ways and I feel that, through a challenging time, He has really brought me to a new place in trusting Him. Then at the end of the summer I finally sent in my DTS application to reeftooutback (I've looked at schools all over the world), applied to uni (God willing I'll be going next September) and generally got to a point of not cringing when people ask what I'm doing and what my plans are.

So as I'm getting ready to go, I'm already so thankful to God for bringing me to this place at this time and pray that His will be done - no limits, no boundaries, just whatever God wants to do in me, through me, to me and with me. I'm excited - bring it on!

Back Again

So I had this blog, then I closed it down and now I'm starting again from the beginning. I'm going on a journey and I want to keep people updated. I guess I kinda hope that God will give me profound things to say to inspire anyone who chooses to read this, but if not, that's ok too. I guess this blog may at least start as thinking, rather than dreaming, out loud. But maybe that's ok. Maybe there's a lot of rubbish I've got to go through in my head, with God, and out loud, before the good stuff will come. That's ok.

Besides, it'll also be a chance for me to plug my flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/bek_flickr) and write about stuff like the places I've been, what God's been teaching me and gigs I've been to.

I went to see Delirious last night. They were way better than the last two times I saw them. There was some real energy (Plug is such a great venue for live music!) and I loved the visuals they had on the screens. These guys are good. The only thing that slightly concerns me is will we actually take what they say seriously, or will we just enjoy the hype of the evening and then go away and forget about the town we promised to paint red, or the modern day disgrace we lamented? I guess it's like that whenever we go to a gathering of the Church, even when the gathering is held in a nightclub.

May God bless you and guide you by His Spirit and grace.