Come fly with me....

View from the roof
Originally uploaded by thenamesrichard.

Well its confirmed, the flights are booked. Again this year, in about 2 months time, myself and four of the people I know best in life are taking a visit the the childrens home the charity I help run supports in India. Check out the Micah's Call link on the side bar for more info.

We go in July for two weeks and will probably spend some time chilling (or rather sweating) and much of the time getting dug into the work we have gone to do. We are looking forward to really getting to grips with the reality of life in rural India. We will be joining in with the churches work in areas of health and social care in the very rural and quite often poor areas of South India. Like all visits to a different culture, we anticipate the challenegs it will bring but we also look forward to changed lives on our return and are praying that God will use us to do good for His kingdom in the short time we have there.

Ill keep you posted!

This European ad......

I thought this was quite cool. Fill in the tick boxes and it colours your European travels! Notice I havnt been to Scotland - something I should correct sometime soon.



create your personalized map of europe
or check out our Barcelona travel guide


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A new job!

Wahay I did it.

Iv broken out the "limited jobs" box of nursing in the NHS and managed to secure a new job in intensive care. Its about 5 minutes away from where I live which is great!

Having worked on a ward for over a year now, I have really come to the conclusion that I prefer 1 on 1 nursing rather than a caseload of 6 patients - even if the 1 on 1 patients dont talk back! Strange to say, but thats how im wired it seems.

I calculated that this new job will save me 1) about £50 / month in transport costs and 2) 6 hrs / week in time due to not travelling to work for 1.30 hrs each shift.

I start in about 6 weeks!

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A strange desire to study...

Recently, I have been caught by a feeling that I actually want to study again. Talking of essays a few months ago filled me with a feeling of dread but I think the effects of school and college have somewhat worn off.

We all know that writing essays is actually interesting and even fun, in a wierd sort of way. So im going to try out some distance learning, and also maybe study more for my degree in nursing as well.

Ill keep you posted if your remotely interested.


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The losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools...

What an awesome group I found on Facebook. "The losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools". For anyone on Facebook.com, check out this group if its your thing, its worth a read. Find it by search or through my profile group lists if you can see them.


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Jehova's Witnesses

Interesting thing happened this week - there was a knock on the door one morning. I opened it to find two guys, wanting to talk about the truth of the Bible. I said I was a Christian and they said they were too - but did I know what the reason for suffering in the world was? It was a priming question of course. In the ensuing discussion I managed to learn a few things about Jehova's Witnesses that I found very interesting:

1) Their translation of the Christian bible was completed by anonymous people - they dont know who the translators were.
2) They call themselves Christians but the religion is NOTHING LIKE orthodox Christianity AT ALL!
3) Some converts (like the one I was talking to) convert because they don't like the Bibles teaching on Hell or because the trinity is hard to explain, which in my opinion are not great reasons for believing in something - by definition God is hard to explain!
4)They have an extensive array of answers about Bible passages but talk very little about the religion itself, what it means and what its about. They are very eager to prove their version of the bible by looking at mistranslated scriptures and comparing these with other versions of bibles no one uses because of thier inaccuracies.

I don't want to degrade or make fun of Jehova's Witnesses here, and I respect anothers person views and faith, but that doesnt mean I have to say why I can't believe in it!

All in all, I learnt quite a bit, and was also challenged that I need to know more about MY faith - I have read the Bible many times, and I believe it is true, not because it all makes sense straight away, or that I partcularly like all of it - but because deep inside I know that it is very much exactly what Christians call the "Truth" that sets men free. To know more about it is the key to knowing what is not the truth, such as the religious experiences I encountered on my doorstep.

You only know God once you have accepted that we come by faith, and not in a human reasoned argument, however good that argument may be.


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Learning how to relax

Learning how to relax is a good thing and i have been dedicating more time to relaxing recently. So here is what we got up to last sunday evening, having had a few poeple around for dinner - enjoy the new hit of "Sofa dancing"!!!!!!



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