A friend from church gave it to me when she saw #24 on my list.

24 . Read a romance novel

I found it in the recently spoken of living room re-arrangement: ‘Redeeming Love’ by Francine Rivers.

I’m about to read my first ever page of a romance novel (actually the first page of any kind of novel for a LONG time). pray for me!!

thx Lex for the book.

So this is related to the post below and Dan’s comments.

This morning I started cleaning the house (there’s not much of it, after all…how hard could it be?!). However after the first bit of tidying I realised that I really didn’t like how the living room was arranged. So instead of tidying I rearranged the whole thing and pretty much made things as messy as they’ve been for a long time. Jodie approves of the changes (thank the Lord!). we’ll finish tidying it up tomorrow i guess.

Jodie bought me a cupcake too from cupcakes on pitt. Pretty amazing stuff!

How often do you change things up at your house? does anyone ever ‘spring clean’ these days?

Jodie is doing a few days radiography work during these holidays break from lectures.

I’m trying to think of nice things to do for her to show some appreciation. I know that it’s a little less personal going for requests, but I reckon some of you will be more creative than I could be….any ideas?

Tamie posts a review. what do you reckon??

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Jodie and I got back yesterday from a week of mission with PAC school. Not the PAC I went to for highschool, but Penrith Anglican College. A fairly young church (5years old?) ‘Christ Church at the college’ meets on the campus and we were particuarly linked with them.

We both had an enjoyable time! we were encouraged greatly by the people in the church and the christian kids fired up for Jesus and hoping for their friends to come to know him too.

Highlights:

1. Our billets. Lovely people, and Terry is into fishing – the photos of the snappers he caught recently are amazing! Both he, Ruth and their girl Claire are such great christian people and we felt warmly welcomed into their home

2. Paddock bashing. I’ve never been a rev-head, but this was so much fun. Hooning around a muddy paddock pulling handbrake turns while avoiding the people watching on the hill near the final corner. lesson learned: keep your eyes on the car when Manfred is driving. narrowly avoided death

3. Divinity classes. Brilliant oppotunity to share testimonies and field questions that the kids had. I was in a y7 class and was surprised but how many questions they wanted to ask on topics like heaven/hell, angels demons, Does god hate the world, is it the best world he could have created and so on. Thanks to Duke for keeping the answers understandable by y7′s i struggled to pitch them right i think!

4. Chapel services. i was initially uncertain about teaching 500 students aged kindy-y12 in a gym for 40 mins. It worked well though and was a lot of fun. we worked with the triumphal entry(lk 19). to work across the ages we kept it varied: humilitated y12′s in donkey races, got team chants going and got nostalgic by showing a clip from the lion king. I spoke about the need to recognise Jesus as he truly is – God’s king. I questioned whether this truth may presently be ‘hidden this from their eyes’ (Lk 19:42) urging them to ask God to change this for them. 4 other groups of 3 from our team were running chapels to ~200 kids at the same time and it seemed to go well for them too.