Today I had my monthly encounter with pain on the massage table. Lots of pain. Pain revealed is pain released.
It intruiges me how some pain can be satisfying.
Been looking into flights to Hong Kong on the net. 
Finally wrote a long email to Nicola in Amsterdam. I am a good friend I am!
Bit of a bler of a day off.
Might be time to get out of the library.
I’m excited today about the new young adult funk & Hip hop class I’ve decided to start. Lots of phone calls about it. YAY. Don’t know if people will actually come, but I definately like the idea of it. Hopefully finally teaching a bunch of people i’ve never met before.
oo, and teaching at the Hilllsong conference. The idea is surprisingly growing on me.
maybe that’s the best way for me to stay inspired in life. Start something new every couple of months.
trouble is you have to train people to take things over when they’re not new anymore. Coz when you start too many new things you end up with too many things.
actually that’s ok. i like that too.
I’m very much getting into my 4 fold training plan. Discovering it might actually work. Pip & Jodie entered final stages of phase 3 today. That’s exciting. Not far till we hit homebase on phase 4. Bring it on.
i’ve just been trying to get my head around grace.
It’s too big for me let alone 12 year olds.
Grace
She carries the world on her hips
U2
I haven’t been bloggin much. Haven’t got round to it. I even considered giving it up or having a break yesterday. But i haven’t given up yet. so here I am.
What i have given up is my hope to write lots of stuff about soul. Too many thoughts. Too late to share them now me thinks. But it was good. God did lots in me and I feel quite different now about some things which is really good. Love it when God does a work over on you when and how you don’t expect him to.
For freedom I’m set free.
There were lots of laughs too. And community. And youth getting touched. God’s up to something. I can tell.
And that’s all I have to say.
It’s been fun celebrating Jo’s birthday.
Happy birthday jo.
wed was fun. went to the gym with Kylie at 615am. WOW. Felt really fit and healthy. Saw Pastor Phil at the gym. He looked different. Funny. My legs still hurt and its sat. Then did a day trip with Jacqui up the mountains. ( we were like tourists coz she’s a new zulunder) Showed her the 3 sisters and we worked out which of her 3 sisters were which. Did a walk from echo point to the bottom of the scenic railway and caught it up. SO beautiful. Had a look in ‘The Artists’ Gallery’ which was this fantastic vibey place with antiques, knick knacks, local art, furniture, jewelery. They had french music playing too. Jacqui and i connected with the artists within us. Go the vibe. We had pumpkin soup in a vibey cafe in katoomba and came home via the Blue Gum. Wed was the bomb.
the trouble with having a few days off is that you come back to lots to do. I just wrote a list of 38 things i have to do between now and Mon. That’s excluding any youth group stuff i have to do by tues. Depressing. No going out tonight. Waking up early tomorrow.
I’m tired.
I love God.
I ended up having a catchup with Kylie day today. That was good. Just went with the flow. We ended up walking along Curl Curl beach eating lollipops and apples left over from Soul.
Good things happen when there’s time and space.
We’re thinking of hosting an Enjo party. Would anyone come??
I talked to Helen in HK. It was her turn to cry. I cried last time. Told her all about Soul. There was lots. Feel like it makes sense now that I’ve verbalised it.
Tonight was the first workshopping of the East Timor Project. Fun. I like doing political satire. Bit scary we’re getting paid to do it though. Might have to be good. I hope it is.
Breakthru’ Artz made a new friend tonight. That’s Hayley. She’s an actor. We like Hayley.
And the Lord added to their number…
Last night I went to an Enjo party at michelle’s. I went as a favour because she only managed to get 2 people from her work to come.
Enjo are environmentally friendly cleaning products. Fibre based, no chemicals. I was actually pretty convinced. As far as I can tell so far they would save me time, money, energy and ill health, and i get to be nice to the environment at the same time, so I may end up buying some! Still trying to work out if I’ve been got by a clever sales person. But I don’t think I have. Might give it a day or 2 though.
Why does every Australian household not have Enjo???
Gotta go, Jo’s here.
Only 20mins late.
Well I survived Soul.
Today was a blank day. Not quite what I had planned but probably to be expected considering the full on-ness of the last week.
I just set myself the task of catching up on blogs. Very cool. I like reading blogs. Particularly different accounts of the same event. Fascinating.
SO i might add my thoughts on Soul to the blogging world tomorrow. Though i think I’m still deciding where I’m going to go on the scale between ‘general/brief/overview’ and ‘up close and personal’. Somewhere in the middle me thinks. Lets just say it was a big week, and not quite what I expected. Typical of God really.
Just wanted to say hello.
hello.
Soul starts today.
Been procrastinating a fair few things over the past few days, but unfortunatley I can’t procrastinate that one. Its out of my hands.
I feel sick today. Unhelpful really. Since today was going to be my productive day.
The idea of me and a tent over the next week is becoming less and less attractive. But there’s no way out.
Once upon a time I would have been really excited about a week long Christian camp. I got worried this morning that maybe I was getting old and boring. I swore I’d never do that. Maybe I’ll love it once i’m there. In fact, yeah, I will.
Just came back from having coffee with Claude. twas great. Her current hatred of men was slightly contagious. Good reminder though that its better to be single than to be attached and being treated like crap. Broken relationships are such horrible things. It really is incredible how much hurt we’re capable of as humans. Reminded me that there’s just no guarantees. Sometimes people just aren’t what you think they are, and you don’t know it till they turn around and hurt you. Sometimes I wish I could make it better. but I know I can’t. But I know someone who can, and might eventually.
We worked out we hadn’t talked properly in years. Which means I got to tell Claude what God’s been doing in me the last few years and how healed I am. Which meant a lot to her because she knew me really well when I wasn’t well at all. Gosh its good to take a step back and keep the big picture in mind. On the scale of the big picture my life is great! Such a shame to get bogged down in the week by week sometimes.
I decided to acquaint myself with my bed this afternoon. After tonight we’re going to be having some time apart. Sad but true. So wanted to make the most of our time together. And my body seems quite happy to sleep at the moment.
Had rehearsals this morning for TOOBSC reworked. Not quite as scared as I was now. Our rhythm piece might not be a train wreck after all. And people laughed at our other new piece. which is a good sign. it will be nice to put TOOBSC to rest tho. i think we’re a little bit over it.
Soul is here tomorrow. I don’t feel ready. oh well, can’t put a stop to time.