Month: <span>February 2008</span>

Published February 5, 2008 by

Regarding the Superbowl

As Greg so put it in his very Australian way:

So pretty much the little guys run like terriers and the big guys try to squash them.

I confess I wound up spending probably more time playing UNO Spin with their daughter Hannah-Kate than watching the first part. I did join in during the final quarter. Strange game. I could like it, if I knew the rules better. Some of it’s really quite ridiculous – particularly the Patriots losing.

In AFL (Aussie Rules Football) every player is lean and athletic. In NFL there seems to be all shapes – so long as you’ve got the exaggerated V happening before the shoulder pads go on.

But then, we don’t wear helmets, shoulder pads and leggings. To think of it, AFL is really quite Australian. Who cares.

Both games, as per most sports, incur rabid, fanatical viewers. Here I think is a universal thing.

On a totally different note. Poor Scott keeps getting his comments eaten by Askimet and I have to fish them out of the Comment Spam area. It’s just his posts, they don’t contain links and it is every single time. Shouldn’t Askimet/Wordpress learn? Any idea how I can fix this?

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Published February 4, 2008 by

Superbowl

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While Makeesha is amused and confused by Cricket.

I get to do the converse and face the Superbowl. Geoff and I are heading over to Kevin and Kerrie (YVV’s pastors) tonight for some further (for me) induction into ‘the American way’.

Some background information: I grew up with Americans but in the Solomon Islands. I have played baseball, celebrated thanksgiving, shared the accent, eaten cinnamon rolls, pumpkin pie, burritos… and now other all things American have suddenly fled my brain. You get the picture.

I never did watch a game of American football.

But hey, I shocked myself into liking Rugby League so perhaps there’s hope.

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Published February 4, 2008 by

This blog

393,991 total published words from 1,125 posts and 1 pages

Scary.

What’s the average word count for a thesis? Perhaps I should go do something useful with my time?

I satisfied my curiosity with this TD Word Count plugin.

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Stay off the paved road

a-pilgrim-s-journey-large.jpgToday I walked to the op-shop. Why do op-shops have half price sales it makes so little sense? I bought The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus for $1.50. New. After stuffing around at home not doing much at all, I sat down and I read it to the back in about an hour.

It’s an interesting one. Simple to read. Inspiring. He’s obsessed with a concept, but passionate enough to really make it work. I was eating up concepts that sprung ideas for my own life and for the youth and our timidly professed theme for the term. Shock. A theme.

I struggle a lot in how to describe things to the youth. There’s so much I want to share and to tell and to teach and communicate. All these ideas that in me have built up over the tail end of my adolescence. Ideas absconding from ideas. I sometimes wonder where this wealth of foundation and understanding has come from, and if I keep filling gaps I didn’t know existed what does the fullest of outcomes look like?

Do you just wait for the questions and fumble through giving the answers?

Then there is the whole living it thing. Which in comparison to the know, appears as an ant to an elephant.

There is not much to be said for living in such a coddled Christian society, but seeing as I’m in one, I’d like to grasp straws at the scope for what could be done. Surely that’s fair?

“This is the barbarian way: to give your heart to the only One who can make you fully alive. To love Him with simplicity and intensity. To unleash the untamed faith within. To be consumed by the presence of a passionate and compassionate God. To go where He sends you, no matter the cost. “

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