Fisherman
caught two fish last night, with my hands... in a tank. Catherine and i had just arrived home with a german family who were feeding us to find that their 600 litre fish tank had just cracked :) we spent about an hour mopping the floor, sucking the water out and best of all trying to catch the fish by hand (they had no net)
all this meant that dinner was a bit late and i didnt get to go on the motor bike, but the fish was much more fun.
so tonight maybe ill go there or maybe ill go to the temple again...
catherine just left and tonight will be my last night in moshi, tomorrow moring i start my journey back to belfast, which will take 2 and a half days :) I have been reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, it is a great book, about a boy who decides to follow his destiny into the unknown, leaving a shepard job in south spain to look for treasure in Egypt. Very interesting and thought provoking, also reading 1 Corinthians at the mo and the book and the bible talked about love yesterday so this is a reflection
1 john 4v7 "everyone who loves has become God's child and knows God"
love is a universal language a blessing from God for all humanity.
It is the most common experience of spirituality.
All our life we are in touch with our creator, through the love of relationships with parents, close friends and lovers,
if this is a surprise,
consider love
attempt a definition
certainly we can list the physical expression of love, but that is not it's essence
it cannot be distilled in a laboratory or comprehensively defined,
because love in an eternal, dynamic force,
the taste of heaven for all
Friday, August 29, 2003
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
talking rubbish
after some consideration, i dont think there was any need to swear in the last post, especially when i had been reading those bits in james about controlling your tongue... anyway
the craic now is
family just left, so catherine and I are still in moshi, Tanzania, we are staying with an old friend of our dads. We were at church on sunday and the people were cool, so we have been invited to lunch and dinner on thursday :) also(AS well) one of the guys who lives at the house where we are having dinner owns a 250cc trail bike, so it seems my GTA Vice City dreams may yet be realised (playing the game has given me a real desire to ride motorbikes :)
the guy we are staying with and his wife are Janeish, which is quite cool, its a kind of Hinduy really really old religion, its 4 pillars are pretty cool, and tolerance is high on the agenda, but no grace :( and if this life is all going wrong, it means you messed up the last one, you can aparrently get beyond the law of Karma if you do enough good stuff. You also keep getting reincarnated until you get to heaven. Anyway they are fairly hardcore the lady Pushba is in the temple for 6am every morning and they are currently doing an 8 day fast! although cause Pushba and Himid are old they arent doing the whole thing.
So respect for the committment hopefully some interested discussion to follow..
after some consideration, i dont think there was any need to swear in the last post, especially when i had been reading those bits in james about controlling your tongue... anyway
the craic now is
family just left, so catherine and I are still in moshi, Tanzania, we are staying with an old friend of our dads. We were at church on sunday and the people were cool, so we have been invited to lunch and dinner on thursday :) also(AS well) one of the guys who lives at the house where we are having dinner owns a 250cc trail bike, so it seems my GTA Vice City dreams may yet be realised (playing the game has given me a real desire to ride motorbikes :)
the guy we are staying with and his wife are Janeish, which is quite cool, its a kind of Hinduy really really old religion, its 4 pillars are pretty cool, and tolerance is high on the agenda, but no grace :( and if this life is all going wrong, it means you messed up the last one, you can aparrently get beyond the law of Karma if you do enough good stuff. You also keep getting reincarnated until you get to heaven. Anyway they are fairly hardcore the lady Pushba is in the temple for 6am every morning and they are currently doing an 8 day fast! although cause Pushba and Himid are old they arent doing the whole thing.
So respect for the committment hopefully some interested discussion to follow..
Saturday, August 23, 2003
CHEETAHS and CHEATERS
just back to a computer after 6 hardcore days of safaari, it was in short amazing, we saw just about every animal God made in this land from lions to zebras, eagles, cheetas, rhinos, giraffee, elephant the complete works, which was class. I obviously took a ridculous amount of photos averaging about 36 a day!
also been quite a chalenging time, been reading George Alagia's book a passage to africa hes the old africa corespondant for the BBC from Sri Lanka, youd know him if you saw him, anyway alot of the book is about how fucked up africa is. I very rarely use that word but this definately warrants it, and the rich west i.e. us have a lot to answer, in pursuit of our own political advances and money we have stuck our hands in where its not wanted and then turned our back when genocide (being committed at a FASTER rate than even Hitler managed with gas chambers) was being carried out in Rwanda.
also been reading acts, James and Thessolosians 1+2 which is really cool the way Paul completely bit the bullet for Jesus, he actually got stoned (no) until they left him for dead then got up again and decided it was time to leave the jails. but most interestingly are his comments about being "out of his mind for God" and not to ignore prophecy....
today visited a Massai village, who are undoubtledly the hardest people on earth they can kill lions, they have spears and knives and big sticks and clubs, and they can walk for miles and miles and it doesnt matter. Anyway the village we visited the men had gone to look for water with the cows(their livelyhood) about 3 months ago and the women were in the wee village, so you drive in, in a fancy land cruiser and pay $40 and they do a dance to welcome you and then show you round there houses (mud huts litterally, held together with cow dung) and its all good till the teenagers start asking for pens and money for photos... funy how it took our safarri driver Peter (a complete legend) to explain all the stuff about traditions, cause they dont speak english but then they know how to ask for the money. but i dont blame then about a 1000 ppl b4 probably gave them it and when most people in the country earn less than $1 a day and massi generally have no income the prospect of getting a couple of dollars off people who have paid $75 for their hotel room is probably too much.
which is all and bit mad and all this stuff is running round my head .. a lot
on the plus side got a guinness tonight, it was wierd foregin export stuff thats pretty strong but good for me nonetheless.
night world
just back to a computer after 6 hardcore days of safaari, it was in short amazing, we saw just about every animal God made in this land from lions to zebras, eagles, cheetas, rhinos, giraffee, elephant the complete works, which was class. I obviously took a ridculous amount of photos averaging about 36 a day!
also been quite a chalenging time, been reading George Alagia's book a passage to africa hes the old africa corespondant for the BBC from Sri Lanka, youd know him if you saw him, anyway alot of the book is about how fucked up africa is. I very rarely use that word but this definately warrants it, and the rich west i.e. us have a lot to answer, in pursuit of our own political advances and money we have stuck our hands in where its not wanted and then turned our back when genocide (being committed at a FASTER rate than even Hitler managed with gas chambers) was being carried out in Rwanda.
also been reading acts, James and Thessolosians 1+2 which is really cool the way Paul completely bit the bullet for Jesus, he actually got stoned (no) until they left him for dead then got up again and decided it was time to leave the jails. but most interestingly are his comments about being "out of his mind for God" and not to ignore prophecy....
today visited a Massai village, who are undoubtledly the hardest people on earth they can kill lions, they have spears and knives and big sticks and clubs, and they can walk for miles and miles and it doesnt matter. Anyway the village we visited the men had gone to look for water with the cows(their livelyhood) about 3 months ago and the women were in the wee village, so you drive in, in a fancy land cruiser and pay $40 and they do a dance to welcome you and then show you round there houses (mud huts litterally, held together with cow dung) and its all good till the teenagers start asking for pens and money for photos... funy how it took our safarri driver Peter (a complete legend) to explain all the stuff about traditions, cause they dont speak english but then they know how to ask for the money. but i dont blame then about a 1000 ppl b4 probably gave them it and when most people in the country earn less than $1 a day and massi generally have no income the prospect of getting a couple of dollars off people who have paid $75 for their hotel room is probably too much.
which is all and bit mad and all this stuff is running round my head .. a lot
on the plus side got a guinness tonight, it was wierd foregin export stuff thats pretty strong but good for me nonetheless.
night world
Sunday, August 17, 2003
SUNDAY IS JESUS DAY
as i mentioned last post feeling a bit spitually frustrated, and had the squirts. Well the squirts got worse and last night was not good for sleepin, but it was excellent for thinking. About lots of stuff but particularly the Flowers estate and how to try do something done so that the uni puts back into the community and the pikeys dont hate students. Thought about getting the glen residents involved early, dara and joe and gordy and tom and i spent 3hrs good revising time talkin about this so we have to make it happen.
Also today just chilled in hotel room and sang a few songs nice and loud then got some top quailty bible, sermon on the mount and then Ester, ester is a classic story. I also prayed with my sisters this morning cause their guts had been dodgy, and praise the Lord, they both ate lunch and i had a cheese toastie and plan on a big dinner soon as. I also just watched Chelsea beat liverpool on Tv(now staying in a nice hotel in aurssha left zanizbar this morning) great match, Jimmy Floyd Hasslebank scored a amazing goal to win it.
as i mentioned last post feeling a bit spitually frustrated, and had the squirts. Well the squirts got worse and last night was not good for sleepin, but it was excellent for thinking. About lots of stuff but particularly the Flowers estate and how to try do something done so that the uni puts back into the community and the pikeys dont hate students. Thought about getting the glen residents involved early, dara and joe and gordy and tom and i spent 3hrs good revising time talkin about this so we have to make it happen.
Also today just chilled in hotel room and sang a few songs nice and loud then got some top quailty bible, sermon on the mount and then Ester, ester is a classic story. I also prayed with my sisters this morning cause their guts had been dodgy, and praise the Lord, they both ate lunch and i had a cheese toastie and plan on a big dinner soon as. I also just watched Chelsea beat liverpool on Tv(now staying in a nice hotel in aurssha left zanizbar this morning) great match, Jimmy Floyd Hasslebank scored a amazing goal to win it.
Saturday, August 16, 2003
TURTLE CHASER
alright, just got back from a days diving, which was class, am in Zanzibar which is a very good effort at paradise, palm trees, calm sea big red sunsets, lobster for tea etc. The highlight of today was definately seeing a turtle, and then swimming off after it so the instructor had to chase me down and remind me i was nearly out of air :) the day started with a lengthy toilet session its seems after 5 weeks the dreded squirts have caught up with me. Had a nice massage on the beech yesterday, and leaving to meet up with catherine(my big sis) and then 5days safaari, which should be class. Kind of frustrating time spiritually, but God has been showing me some fine grace. cant get enough
until the next time....
enjoy the mango
alright, just got back from a days diving, which was class, am in Zanzibar which is a very good effort at paradise, palm trees, calm sea big red sunsets, lobster for tea etc. The highlight of today was definately seeing a turtle, and then swimming off after it so the instructor had to chase me down and remind me i was nearly out of air :) the day started with a lengthy toilet session its seems after 5 weeks the dreded squirts have caught up with me. Had a nice massage on the beech yesterday, and leaving to meet up with catherine(my big sis) and then 5days safaari, which should be class. Kind of frustrating time spiritually, but God has been showing me some fine grace. cant get enough
until the next time....
enjoy the mango
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