yo de mc yoderson
hows it goin
sorry for general lacking of posting or late
i have no real excuse seing i have all the time in the world, or used to anyway...
life has busied up a bit since the quietness of my first month or so. i keep going a different place each weekend which means monday is tiredness, and friday is going away after work so that only leaves 3 nights and i have waterpolo and a bible study on two of them but i am jacking the bible study for a pub quiz tomorrow... i really like the ppl at the bible study or most of them anyway but the vibe is a little old skool and i am cant avoid being influenced in a way that i am not feeling. ie its making me a self/works centered.
LOVED the weekend in belfast, chilled on friday with parents in a really good we like each other kinda way(it has been a bit rock cause of me sitting on my ass for far too much of the summer) anyway its was cool. then saturday met Ben jamin then went out to cape town reunion, which was with church in summer 03, mainly the olds showed but they are really cool olds and funny aswell. after that i arrived at shines 9th birthday at about half 12 and the bouncers werent letting ppl with stamps back in! i had no ticket and wasnt that determined to get it... well thats what i had told myself walking down, hearing the tunes pumping through the concrete i decieded to take a walk round the back looking for an open door... eventually i saw an open window, on the 2nd floor, but there was a ladder up to a ledge i could pull myself up to the the first floor from. So tryign to get a 999 feeling out of my head i pulled myself up on a metal guttering and crawed across the top of the madella hall (which alter egos rocker was on - sweet) then pulled myself in a window with the help of a couple of the friend shiners and i was in :)

dj hell for 3hrs on halloween the sense of irony was not lost as for the first time i felt like i saw an angel who then opened the ceiling the let the Glory of God shine in :) a very beautiful and special moment.

i did later set off a speed camera driving someone up to get poppers for an after party (now theres a tricky decision, do i give my friend a lift if i know they are going to collect drugs?) so the night wasnt all a holy lovlyness but it was over all excellent.

I am totally re-affirmed that the clubs are dying for a massive move of God, that the dancefloor rather than the church meeting is where we are free to worship and dance as hard as we can(a la david) and that sitting around until its tomorrow is a great way to spend time with your friends.
i was also struck by the effort some of my friends put into getting "wapped" - totally druged up, there are normal ppl so to be risking a criminal conviction to buy the expensive stuff, and then be prepared to spend 9 or 10 hours plying your body with what you know is going to make you feel like absolute crap the next day, is a real commitment to the cause, it is a social thing but its personal too. Like at the end of the day, 24-7 rooms aside, are we prepared to get together with a few mates and seek God's face enjoy His presense and experience His Spirit(which we would(rightly) all claim to be a better feeling than any chemical high) for even a few hours knowing that will not in the least bit be hung over but rather probably be in the best form the next day?

maybe im ranting, and just sitting around looking for a high from God is not really what Jesus was about, but maybe there is room for a little more celebration, and generally as far as my limited understanding of history goes, was it not from these type of gatherings that God launched many a new move?

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