Do a little dance

Back at college this week and I am already looking forward to the rest of the year. There's one reason for that - his name is Andrew Sloane and I love having him as a lecturer. An intense and brilliant man who is so easy to listen to. Lectures will not be boring whenever he's there. To illustrate, he was making a point about how a writer of the bible need not jump up and down on the spot to communicate to the reader that someone killing thousands of people is a bad thing. To clearly teach this point he proceeded to jump up and down on the spot. I got the message and am looking forward to more lectures with him.

On another matter we began looking at predestination at home group last night. I talked too much while trying to lead some discussion on the matter because we were short for time. So I'm looking forward to next week when everyone can really get their teeth stuck into and have their say it having had an introduction to the topic last night. Such discussions are important, we cannot be satisfied with half-baked ideas of various theologies - we need to pursue understanding of the God we (Christians) have faith in and the faith which we have in God.

Still unemployed - praying for a job. Having no money sucks. So I shall continue to perouse the newspaper and websites looking for one. I feel for those that have much more financial responsibility that I and cannot find work. That kind of situation is much worse than my plight at the moment.

And after a few years now of being examined in no other way than by essay writing (except for 2 semesters of Greek) much to my frustration I am improving in my ability to write them evident in the 3 distinctions for 3 subjects last semester. I write about this not to boast (mainly) but to express the incredulity which I had when I found out. I was puzzled that I was capable of such a thing. It's not the most astounding achievement ever - not by a long shot - but I wonder why I should be so surprised - do I really think so little of myself that I'm amazing that I can get three distinctions when I work hard? Why is it so hard to come to terms with good things happening in my life? I'm reminded of the need for us to pursue true and sober judgement of ourselves, to see truth and not pass off self-deprecating attitudes and talk about ourselves as humility and modesty. To see the love that God has for us, to take our value and worth from that while remembering our small and fallen nature.