I had a late Christmas present about two weeks ago from a very dear and much missed friend and part of it was a book by a Christian author Donald Miller called 'A Millions Miles In A Thousand Years'. In brief Miller speaks about how he realised he was living a boring life and was only writing stories and not living them. The book (haven't finished it yet so can only go so far!) then goes into some of his efforts to live 'great stories'. I think this is a challenge for all of us because God put us all on this earth to achieve something. He put us here to tell the story of a beautiful relationship with Him, with us realising our sin and humbling ourselves before Him and God being faithful through it all and forgiving us, ultimately seeing us rejoice with Him. God also has wonderful plans for us in our relationships, our career and in our dreams. He isn't a party pooper, He wants us to live out the great story He has written for us. What great stories do you think you are waiting to write?
JEREMIAH 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Needed this reminder today :) I love how God has created us for the extraordinary and for the mundane. He created us to dance and not merely be spectators. He desires us to live amazing stories because He invites us to be apart of the best, most exciting story ever written - His Story :D
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're enjoy the book from your dear and much missed friend...I'm pretty certain that she considers you quite dear and misses you bunches :)
Oh and I have a question...what is snooker?
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ReplyDeleteSnooker is a sport much like Pool (do you know that sport, I think that is known in America?) but with a bigger table and about 15 red balls and 6 coloured balls and you score points for shooting a red ball and then a colour. Once you hit a colour the colour is put back on the table but the red stays down and you have to pot all the reds until the colours stay down for good. There are 147 points available a game and whoever has the most at the end wins. Often a game finished early because someone's points total cannot be beaten. Players also try to score so many points at once go on the table with getting over 100 considered an achievement and 147 considered a huge thing. If they miss a shot the other player comes on.
I hope that was understandable, your probably even more confused now!!
No, I promise I'm not more confused (but then again I live in a state of confusion so if I was it wouldn't be anything new haha), but yeah it sounds a lot like pool. But I'm the world's worse pool player so I seriously doubt I would be a good snooker player either haha
ReplyDeleteThanks :D
Haha :)
ReplyDeleteSnooker is a lot harder than Pool..mainly because it has a bigger table. I'm not very good at snooker at all but am adequate at Pool. I think we would have a competitive snooker match but I'd rather play you at Pool ;)
No probs :)
:-P haha very funny (there's that sarcasm you're used to getting in response haha)
ReplyDeleteHaha :)
ReplyDeleteI would really rather play you at pool though! It's easier and more fun. Plus because of your confession of incompetance at the sport, I am feeling confident of a victory :)
Mwahahaha
Well, what if I don't want to play to pool with you haha :-P
ReplyDeleteThen could I have a game of Piscina with you? ;) it's a spanish game!
ReplyDeleteHaha are we going swimming? :) Or do you want to play pillar?? that might be the Spanish game you want to play haha
ReplyDeleteI just typed in 'Pool' in a spanish translator and it came up with that!
ReplyDeleteWe could go swimming though when you are in Spain, we can meet halfway in the ocean! haha
Haha got to be careful with those translators. A lady in one of my university classes once told me of the teacher who's class she worked in used a translator to translate a letter into Spanish to send home with her students whose parents didn't speak English. The teacher had used the word kids as in reference to the children and the translator took it as kids as in reference to goats haha...and I have typo (go figure haha) pillar should be billar haha
ReplyDeleteHaha alright well I'll catch a train to the coast and start swimming haha
That's brilliant haha. Goats seem to be be coming up a lot in our conversations...
ReplyDeleteOkay :D
Haha I know I wrote about it and then thought, "Wait! Didn't we just talk about goats?!"
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I guess we have probably exhausted the topic of goats now :)
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