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Sorry I'm so rubbish at updating...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:53:28 GMT

Nichole Nordeman - The Altar

I'm at the end of myself, I just dropped out of the running
I don't recall when I last pulled the shades and said "here comes the sun, here comes the new day"
Someone remind me again that joy might show up on ocassion
I'm sitting here with my hands on my head, and my eyes on the ground, wondering if I'll be found by You

I don't believe what they say about one foot in front of the other
If my life was a map, you'd see every last step just circling around, still lost, never found by You

Maybe last year I'd have made empty promises
Maybe last month I'd have tried to pull strings
But I don't have one single chip left to bargain with
The only thing left is me needing You to make me new

Will you take what's left of me?
I guarantee that it won't be a fair trade
Will you set me free from what's keeping me afraid?
I know I've prayed it all before
But I'm back
On the altar

They keep changing things!

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:42:29 GMT

It's just taken me an age just to find the link to put a new weblog up - or maybe I am just a bit dense LOL!

I have a hideous cold/sinus infection/sore throat thing happening at the moment but will attempt to post more when I'm feeling more healthy.

And YAY for the wedding bells in our midst (well, virtually in our midst!)

I am alive...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:44:50 GMT

Sorry I am so bad at keeping in touch.

www.lost.eu/723d9

Sad...........

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:34:27 GMT

...That praying for Palestinians prompts people to tell me that "God will curse those who curse Israel".

Um. Did I curse Israel? I LOVE Israel... I pray for the land and the people almost every day.

...That loving and praying for all, and not just the Jews, is somehow conceived as failing in my duty to love and comfort the Jewish nation: as if loving Jews precludes loving Arabs, or vice versa.

Since when did Christian love have to be exclusive?

...That a desire to keep political propaganda out of a group designed for intercessory prayer is suddenly actively anti-Israel.

Since when do I base my prayers for people on which side of a political divide they fall on?

Pray not for Arab or Jew,
For Palestinian or Israeli,
But pray rather for yourselves,
That you may not divide them in your prayers
But keep them both together in your hearts.

-- a Palestinian Christian's prayer

I will try to keep them together in my heart. I wish I could inspire others to do the same.

Gah

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:33:48 GMT

I'm reading Den Of Lions by Terry Anderson, having just finished Taken On Trust by Terry Waite. Just been reading about the Iran-Contra affair which TW alluded to.

Gah. What's wrong with us in the West that we would swap weapons for people? Is a Western life really worth more than all those killed by the weapons?

I can't help wondering what Father Jenco and Pastor Weir, both Christian leaders, felt when they found out they'd effectively been swapped for arms :(

Gaza - prayer request

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:53:48 GMT

I just got this urgent prayer request email from Open Doors about the Gaza Baptist Church, and I am passing it on in hopes that you will keep them in your prayers.

I'll try to update properly soon.

"...we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
Romans 5:3-5

Dear Christian Friends,
We just received an urgent prayer update on the situation in Gaza, from our colleagues in the Middle East

Palestinian Authority (PA) police of the Fatah party have seized the six-story Church building as a watch point against armed groups supporting the governing Hamas Islamist movement.

The building houses the church’s sanctuary, Gaza’s only Christian library, a guest hostel, and a mammogram clinic.

The Gaza Strip's borders are closed, locking 1.4 million Palestinians into a coastal territory just 27 miles long and 5 miles deep. Frightened Gazans are remaining in their homes, and food and other basics are running short.

Hanna Massad, pastor of Gaza Baptist Church, described the crisis as "the worst situation we've ever gone through in

Pastor Massad also told us that early worship services had to be cancelled on Sunday morning.

For more details visit this page of our website: http://www.opendoorsuk.org.uk/news/news_archives/001831.php

Pastor Massad asks Christians around the world to pray that:

* God will protect Gaza & its believers

* Believers will experience the power of God's peace

* God will give Pastor Massad strength and wisdom to minister

* There will be no gunfire around the church building and that God will protect the building for his use and glory

* Gaza's leaders will receive wisdom to stop the fighting.

Thank you for your support and for continuing to pray for Gaza's tiny but enduring Christian community with us.

Where would you expect to see this wall? this gun tower?

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:30:51 GMT

First Line Game

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:39:29 GMT

Step 1: Open up whatever MP3 program you use and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarassing the song.
Step 4: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

~~1. Poor Jud is daid~~ - also the title of the song - from Oklahoma (Hugh Jackman singing, but loads of artists have recorded it so wouldn't expect anyone to guess!
2. There's no one stirring on my street tonight
3. Shallow capacity is bearing all I see, and I know
4. One choice, one tree, one fall for humanity
5. You come into the threshold of another starless night of fear
6. My fairest child, I have no song to give you
7. Did you not see my lady go down the garden singing?
8. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come, you sinners, gather round
9. When I wake up in the morning, I want to blow into pieces
10. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
11. Torna, vezzosa Fillide
12. We have heard the thunder & we have seen the storm
~~13. Oh the shark has pearly teeth, dear, and he shows them pearly white.~~ Mack the Knife by... anyone!
~~14. It's every day I'm in this place, I feel this way, I feel the same~~ Breathe Your Name - Sixpence None The Richer
15. All my life I worshiped her
16. Why do they make up stories that link my name with yours?
17. How do I speak of the indescribable to you?
18. Jesus on the radio, Jesus on a late night show, Jesus in a dream looking all serene
~~19. On an open stretch of freeway~~ Masquerade - Caedmon's Call
20. Spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a spider can (:lol: - OK well it's not quite as obvious as it sounds, it's not an artist I automatically associate with the song...

edit: Literal translation from the German of the start of Mack the Knife:

And the shark, he has teeth

And he wears them in his face

Hmm..

Countries I have been to or been through.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:55:51 GMT

create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Visiting Russia makes my map look very impressive, lol.

this would be my map if I got to visit all the places I'd like to visit :)

discuss Britain urine

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:19:27 GMT

Seriously random, but it made me giggle;

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/36530

Is there anybody out theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere?

I thought the idea of spam/junk and esp virus infested email was to make you want to read it with enticing subjects, or just "re: hello" to make you think it was from a friend.

Got one this morning entitled "discuss Britain urine"

My oh my. How DID I resist clicking on that......................??