This week in chester I have been mostly.....

learning.

I didn't expect this course to be anything like this. It's very strange. I realise now that I came into this with completely the wrong approach. I saunterd into this course knowing God had made me a youth worker for a reason, knowing he had equipped me to do this job well and knowing exactly what youth work entailed. Well this is my fourth week now and already I can see how very wrong I was. I thought that I would learn very little, that I would wait three years, have some fun and then come out of it all with a certificate that says I can do all the things I could already do three years ago.
Wrong again. I have learnt more in these few weeks than I would have ever thought possible. I've learn't about youthwork, theology but most of all I've learnt about myself.
But thats what you get when you step out of your comfort zone. Whenever you do something that makes you scared you grow a little. When you do something that makes you scared, for God you learn a heck of a lot more "God cares more about your charecter than your comfort. I've already learned a lot and I'm ready to take in more.
So I just want to encourage you all to step out of your comfort zones. Do one thing today that scares you every day. Know that God is with you, he won't let you fall however dangerous and slippy it feels. He's always with you watching over you like your his little child just learning to walk. And as you pull yourself up by holding onto his big hands and take those first steps. He smiles a big smile and a sinlge tear of joy runs down his face. Step out of your comfort zone. He's with you.

End of the game

Well today is the end of the guess the fruit game unfortunately there were no winners as the mystery fruit was in fact a grape. Sorry that nobody got it.
So the game has become a roll over if you can guess this riddle you win two things. Here is the riddle.
A monkey is trapped on an island it has one tree (well more of a shrub) two stones (each the size of his monkey fists). On his posession he has a lapton and a poisonous frog. He really needs to get off of the island because his wife is having a baby. What does he do?

You have until the 13th of november start guessing.

So here I am writing a blog because that is what I have been told to do.
It's interesting isn't it how we all try to do what we are told. That constant urge in our inner being that determination to please others no matter what the personal cost. I suppose thats a part of what people mean when they talk about the human condition. Although to be honest I don't really care about all that to me it's just something that some fella said so that he could sound dead clever and all his other friends would say something like "well done John thats a very good point" but all the time they are really thinking "I have no Idea what John is talking about....... I wonder what is for luch........ I hope it's not ham sandwiches again........ she always makes ham sandwiches........ maybe I should buy some chocolate spread........ or get a new wife..... who can actually cook." and so philosophy reveals it's self to be increadibly flawed.

So any way I've thought of a really good game. I'm thinking of a fruit. The first person to tell me what fruit I am thinking of will win that fruit. One answer per person all answers must be handed back to me no later that friday 13th of october. Have fun guessing.