Tuesday 28th Setpember 2010 - It's ours.

Well, subject to financial approval this:

 

is ours. Well, partly belonging to the bank. Although that shouldn't be for long. This is the second of the two houses we liked. It was our second choice, but I believe the Lord's first choice. Isn't it amazing how we get our choice and His will for us mixed up.

Back to the house. Let me try another image, hope fully in the right place.

There, now hopefully we have a floor plan. The bedrooms and the lounge are bigger than the rooms in our current house. The kitchen is smaller and there is no dinning room. So the reality is the kitchen doubles as a kitchen/dinning room. See the grey area at the back, labelled Terrace? That is going to be our second living area. It has a plastic roof at the moment. I will change that. Probably to iron or colour bond.
What is now the only living room will be Stephanie's piano studio. It will need a computer and other stuff. But the details of that we have yet to work out. And no I am not going to say how much. Enough that we should be debt free at the end of all this.

And now to a completely different subject altogether. Over here at Cole-slaw is an occasionally excellent blog. This got my attention. Go read it and come back.
First, Neil is one of my mentors, although he don't know that. He was my introduction to Life Transformation Groups. We call our LTG's, Triple M's over here at St Luke's in down town Frankston.

Back to Neil's blog and this entry. Neil makes an important point. If you teach it you own it. You take ownership of what ever it is you own. Because you have got to pass on knowledge of a subject, you research the subject and know it better than your students. In my former life I was a train driving instructor. I knew the rules and safe-working regulations like the back of my hand. I lived the rules, breathed the rules, ate the rules because it was my business to pass on knowledge of those rules. Now, I did that because it was my job. That's what they pay me to do. But I knew the rules at a far deeper, just like Neil says, than my students ever did.

"In fact, one of the most frustrating realities of teaching is that you are not able to convey to the people all that you have been able to learn studying for the process." This is so true. But it also goes to sharing something from God's word. I have lost count of the number of times I have attempted to share something, only to have the person's eyes glaze over. I have seen something or God has revealed it to me, but they don't get it.

That brings me to another important question. How does one get others to get excited about God's word? That is a secret we would all love to learn. This week we are in John in my Triple M's group. John's gospel has got to be one of the most exciting books I know of. I can spend weeks, no month's, in that book. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. How exciting is that?

Wow, and I haven't bragged about my family this time. That's got to be a first.

Till next time.....