It has been an interesting morning J  I woke up to my alarm and although I had decided last night to get up and do my post grad study, I did what I thought I would probably do, hit snooze, rolled over and went back to sleep.  But snooze doesn’t solve all your problems because nine minutes later I was again woken by the blaring alarm and had to content with trying to find the snooze button one again.  This time my mind was awake. 

 

My eyes were still glued shut but my mind was reflecting on a conversation I had had on Skype the night before.  In June, Katie, her Dad and I are planning on going to India.  We had discussed a two night stop in Singapore, and to this end I had mentioned my trip to a friend who lives there.  The conversation which ensued came as such a surprise to me that I went away feeling a sense of awe at how God seems to organise things. 

 

I won’t go into too much detail, but we may be stopping in Singapore for a little longer than originally planned.  I’m not at liberty to divulge details yet as things still need to be confirmed, but if they are confirmed Katie and I may be in for an interesting ride.

 

That playing on my mind I couldn’t go back to sleep so I did eventually get up, get some tea, bring my computer back to my bed and read the first of two readings I really need to get done this morning.  I’m not sure how I’m going to manage study this semester.  There is so much going on!  But it has to be done, I’ve paid for it already and have wanted to do it for so long that I’m not giving up now.

 

So begins my Saturday morning, and its only 9am.  I havent even opened my curtains yet!

Well its been a considerale amount of time since I have written here.  Possibly the longest gap in my short blogging history. 

 

I guess sometimes when you keep a blog, there is a big question mark over who actually read this thing.  Ive had it listed on my email signature all this time, so maybe some people do read it.  I actually dont mind if no one read it much.  Maybe I will say one thing and it will impact someone's life.  That would be enough.

 

I am in a contemplative mood, but dont know quite what to write.  Actually I read on my google news that an airstrike has killed Afgan civillians.  My heart cries when I read titles like this that are all to common.  These were real people, living lives probably not to dissimiliar to our own.  I mean they have diffent clothes and cultural traditions, but its not like they are so different that they eat their own feet.  They have two eyes, a nose and a mouth.  Five fingers and toes, skin and bones - the distance between us and them is not so far that we cannot mourn with those who mourn. 

 

Thats all my humble thoughts for this morning...