Inspiration required

Women are funny creatures. I'm not saying this out of any experience I specifically had over the past week as my last rant about women was, I just felt led to write something. I just think they...Hold on, my housemates are playing hacky-sack and there's a 6-year-old child joining in. He's a third the size of them and they look quite uncomfortable involving him. That's funny. My housemates are a crazy bunch. One's a borderline alcoholic in denial, two are regular pot smokers, and spend more time than I do shut in their room creating crazy noises, one's small, bearded and always hyped up on coffee from working at Caffe Nero, and the other is a sedate Masters student with a good walking pace. Life becomes interesting when you're the only Christian in a house like that. Fun, but interesting.

I invited them to Alpha and all turned down the offer with lame excuses like, "I'm ill", "I'm in the library" (he wasn't, he was sitting on the sofa), "I'm spending the day climbing so I might be tired", or "I'm not here, I'm in Liverpool and you didn't ask me because of that very reason". Slightly on the annoying side, but I did get to spend the evening watching a video of Robin Williams swearing instead, with Abbey, of course. And now Adam and Chris are threatening to throw a brick through my window. How did they know I was writing about them?

After my experience the other Wednesday (being punched in the mouth), Life has continued to bless me, and others through the encouraging story it turned out to be. God is a good influence on my life. In fact church today (which was excellent - God says "You are my son, you are my daughter, and I love you. I love you.") Joel Edwards was preaching about Jesus being fascinating. Bringing Grace & Truth together. Truth is dificult and rules after rules cause hardened hearts towards Christianity, and Grace is nice, kind, and admissive of all behaviour. How do the two come together? When Jesus says to the adulterous woman "Go and live a better life". Grace & Truth inspires us to live better lives. Not out of obligation, but entirely out of love and inpiration for our creator.


Revelation 20:11 says: - Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. I am really looking forward to it.