Five year olds are smart

so I have stolen this from soul survivor magazine. If you dont read it you should here are some inspirational stories.

In the city dump of Tegucigalpa in Honduras live hundreds of people who depend on the rubbish generated by wealthier people to survive. With a serious reputation for being a dangerous spot, you wouldn’t want to be caught in the area for too long.So what would you do if you found yourself staring into that dump? What sort of stuff would run through your mind as you watched the hundreds of children rummaging through the foul smelling mounds of rotten food and broken glass?

This is the situation Jeony Ordonez found himself in. Being with his five year old daughter, Chris, he figured it was safest to just get out of the area altogether. Sounds sensible……His daughter didn’t think so. She wanted to pray for the other children.

A few weeks later, on returning to the dump with her Dad, Chris (still five years old remember) was convinced God wanted her and her family to do something: she urged her father to put their prayers for these children into action.And so it began. One small girl, a few small words, a little prayer and the lives of all involved are changed.

For the next six months the Ordonez family visited the dump community every day to build relationships and trust. After a while they started to provide education for the children of the dump and soon they started afternoon school classes right amongst the ‘rubbish’.

Four years later and the ‘Love and Faith’ school brings the hope of a brighter future to 75 dump children and their families. They are just about to move in to their first covered classroom in a site just outside the dump, and a growing number of kids and their families are encountering Jesus as part of the local church where Jeony is Pastor.

Just one prayer translated into action… that’s all just see what can happen.

bored

essays are boring!!!!!!!! only another 5 and a half assignments left and im done until september. so bored!!!!!! cant really complain Im learning a lot about New Labour and PCT's and what measures were taken to intergrate health care and social care in regards to mental illness. Ok that is rather dull.

Stealing from AJ

Abbi did this and I decided to try it myself. SLightly gutted at the fact that Bridget Jones made the top 100 whats up with that...

So..here are the top 100 books that must be read (and a * by the ones I have read/am currently reading so far!!)

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien* (I have read the first one, never got round to the others)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6 The Bible *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare * (some... sure I havent read all of it)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk*
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger*
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger*
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini*
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell*
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan*
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel*
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen*
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold*
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding*
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett*
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson*
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell*
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker*
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White *
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom *
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl*
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Ok not quite half way 47 plus- the Lord of the rings one too. If your like me and just trying to procastinate give it a go.

hmm

So as you can proberly tell uni essay writing isn't going to well.

I haven't left it to the last minute which hopefully means I have learnt my lesson (thank you God)

I have a friend who is not exactly living as God would want her too. We have sat down and talked about it but still she continues to do it.

I felt hurt and disappointed at the fact that my friend struggles so much with it and that it continues. I know and I understand her motivation behind it but I still feel hurt. It made me question a lot of things.

Do I have a right to be hurt? Why am I feeling hurt?

I then thought about the times I have disappointed people and hurt them, how upset and annoyed I get for hurting the people I care about. Does she feel the same?

What about God in all this? Sometimes he seems distance? sometimes he seem's far away and like he is not listening? but How many times do we break his heart? How many times do we not care? How many times do we hide behind our excuses and our insecurities and end up disappointing him? How many times are we tired? or we make him the last thought in the day?

I know most of you have heard it all before (in fact I think all of you have) but When we do right Gods sings over us. we make him so happy he sings. (Zephaniah 3 v 18) We can do a lot wrong but with Gods help we can do some good too.

My friend Mim gave me this analogy about how god can use us.

A dad has a young son. he brings home a flatpack wardrobe (possibly IKEA) for the Son's bedroom. The Dad could put together the wardrobe in two seconds flat. He doesn't need help doing it. He has put together things like this countless times.

He realises that It will take him a lot longer but he decides to let his son help build it. He guides his son through the instructions, through putting the base together and assembling the doors.

The Son now an Adult (and a Carpenter) remembers putting that wardrobe together with his dad. remembers how to put a base together and how to assemble the doors. The dad didn't need his sons help, he wanted it.

so my weeks been dull

Majorly. I have been so lazy but more about that later. Im annoyed at myself and Im going to babble about it in a bit.

Highlights have been -

Sleeping in until 4
Rocksolid (which is usually a highlight tbh)
Talking to Jasper on the phone,
Talking to Emily on the phone,
Having the guys at Rocksolid show me there favourite bibleverse's
Seeing the Sunset today
Did a bible study on Revelations, (Very confusing but my head is getting around it... ish)
Filling in my missiondirect form
Seeing an Irish band
A possible chance to go and see U2 in Concert (so Excited!!!!!)
Bones
Dancing around my room to Blondie
writing 3000 word essay (or more attempting too)
Facebook Stalking
Meeting with Luke (which followed with MacDonalds)
Discovering that on FX they have Buffy reruns on everyday
Getting a very encouraging text message from Gemma
Having a Godly moment with the joys of youtube
Hearing Helens Voice (via voicemail as both of us so far have failed to reach the other one when they havent been doing something) Love you though x
Getting a larger overdraft (wooooo)

Ok so now after doing that, I retract by Title statement.

Its been a good week full of Gods blessings.

I haven't gone hungry, I haven't been struck down by disease, nor has anyone died. (which I feel is a definate bonus) Praise God for that!!!

check this out

watched this at a ridiculous time but its amazing. hope it encourages all who watch it. had me praising my king!!!

http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=572b18853b3948570fad

if that doesn't work go to tangle and type in the search bar thats my king. click the first one

Random

Check out the band called rush of fools. I really quite like them!!!! I get to see Laura tommorrow and I had an amazing weekend with the guys from Rock Solid.

I really wish it didnt have to end. I had so much fun with them all. I would not say that its better than Recharge but It was different. different enviornment, different themes and different things to get out of it.

I got pushed over in the mud at least 5000000 times and I actually think I spent the whole weekend laughing. When asked what our favourite bit was I can honestly say I dont have one as all of it was AMAZING.

Prayer requests for those guys who committed for the first time and recommitted to becoming a christian that they stay strong against attacks of the devil and that they be filled with the holy spirit daily and build a firm relationship with our Lord. Also that The relationships that were formed and defined would continue to go on.

Now its to a backlog of University work, Planning sessions with Luke and meeting up with the vast amount of friends that I have managed to neglect recently (love you guys)