Final Movember Update
With great relief we are entering the final stages of movember, and to be very honest I cant wait for the flippin month to end. I am thinking about going for a walk to a playground, and just sitting there enjoying the fact that the little children are not running away - screaming. I hope you appreciate that white trash nature of my photo; wife beater, aviator glasses, and the dirty dirty slug.
A huge shout out to Adam, Rob M, Rob Mc, Scott, Sam B, Dan, Chris, Matt P, Chez, Nathan C, Pete, Clay, and the many other mo-bros that have gone through this very dark month. If you want to have a look at the journey... update one. update two. update three. update four.
In other news...
It's business time, back from my much needed break and into a very full season as we start heading towards the very first Soul Survivor festival in January. I am curious to know how people get back on the horse spiritually, because I need to do that at the moment. It may be the mo effecting me in more ways than one, but I am in a bit of a weird space where I feel quite disconnected from God.
The problem is that life doesn't stop to let me have a bit of space to get back on the horse; I am up in Gisbourne this Saturday for a youth alpha training day, then speaking at the Rock church on Sunday night, and have a pretty full plate with different speaking things and churchy stuff etc till (gulp) May next year.
I feel like I have very little to offer at the moment, and the temptation is to just bluff it. And on top of this, I really don't want the motivation to get back on the horse to be because of what I have to do for God. I want it (and I think it is) because I want to be with God.
I really don't want to feel like a hypocrite, I despise playing the Christian game, I loathe saying one thing and living another, I desperately want to live with integrity. I need Grace yet again.
Grace; that amazing concept, that reality, that truth, that injustice. Grace which needs to be something alive in my heart right now, rather than just another head concept.
Micah 7:8 Do not gloat over me my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
Songs of Songs 8:5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on their beloved?
Labels: movemeber, personal, soul survivor
29 November 2006 at 11:20:00 pm NZDT
Mate, the update is up on my blog. Loud and proud. Go the mo...
1 December 2006 at 12:13:00 pm NZDT
it has been a good month for the mighty mo! here's my final day with and then without my mo.
also, i'm cruising up to Gisbourne tomorrow with Team X for a holiday. flick me a txt or something and we might be able to catch up...
1 December 2006 at 12:21:00 pm NZDT
that mo is dirty! no parks sam!
1 December 2006 at 11:26:00 pm NZDT
Oh sam, with pics like that, why do you no longer live in west auckland?