Thank you God for a great day. Despite my lack of sleep, I was able to get up a bit earlier and even have a quiet time. The whole vibe of my day felt different from what it normally was like which is cool. Finished work at 4pm then scuttled off to Sainsbury to do some shopping. Mum is away in Nigeria so its us boys and my dad fending for ourselves. Thats me and my litttle brother, cause the older one is back in Birmingham. She's gone for the funeral of one my aunts who died. She had been ill for a while. The family are coping quite well. I heard this quote by J.I Packer at Church last sunday and it put the situation into perspective and turned my preconceptions right way up.
I cant say that I think about death much and when I do its sorta fearful, cause I dont want to die now. There are so many things I want to do. I guess I havent developed the Paul like attitiude of " To live is Christ and to die is gain". My reasons for living are sorta self centred. Want to travel, marry, have kids.Then die surrounded by my grandkids. Anyho, Packer said that Christians have become warped by the world's perspective. He said that we see health and wealth as the best blessings God can give, but he disagrees with that. He also said that we see premature death as a great tradegy, but shouldnt we rejoice that God has taken them out of this sad world to be with him. I thought what he said was real cool. It blew my mind for a second, cause it sounded so sound.
Let me know what you think,

Keeks

P.s. the quote is from a book called Knowing God. Also it aint a quote caue i was spouting out what i could remember from a sermon 4 days ago

Hi,

Its been a couple of weeks since I have edited my blog.
Well the summer is coming to an end, about time too. Its nearly 01:00 and even though I worked 10 hours today and have to be up for work tomorrow I seem to wrestle with sleep. Not the only person/thing I am wrestling with at the moment. I am still a child I guess, or am I the only kid who didnt like to go to sleep. Sleep is such a weird thing.
Anyways I have been working at my cousin drycleaners for nearly 2 weeks now. The hours are long, the weather is hot (because of the boiler in the room) and the work is monotonous. On a scale of monotomy, this work will rate very highly. Its a constant cycle of tagging, scrubbing, machine washing, pressing, sorting and bagging. I am talking about shirts by the way. The work is also high pressured. A day doesnt go by without an enquiry about a random shirt serial number which I dont remember tagging or scrubbing.You are meant to know where 100s of shirts are at 1 time. Well maybe not 100's, just the ones on the express service.
Anyho, enough about work. my life at the moment is a constant routine, which I extremely loath. I wake up, shower, brush my teeth, have a shower, dress, eat, go to work, come back from work, eat, watch tv/ internet and sleep. Thats my life at the moment. The words of the Switchfoot song "Meant to Live", ring so true at the moment. Nothing wrong with work, but work aint meant to be your life.I guess I should take some responsiblity for structuring my evenings. Do something more worthwhile and productive. Thinking of starting Digging Deeper by Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sachs
I seriously need to stop saying anyway. Anyway.lol. In terms of my relationship with God over the summer, its been a bit weird. My first year of uni was great, loads of growth and I actually learnt so much from the Word about the character of God. Over the summer, I have slipped into a part time Christian routine. I pray everday and I rely on God, but not really spending much time with him. I fell a real need to get into the word. I guess you could describe it as a thirst or a hunger. I feel empty, I feel dry. In my case knowing what I need to do and doing it are two polar opposites. I felt an urge to start reading John's Gospel and praying over it in the mornings, but that as yet to happen. Tonight would have been great to start but I failed again. Thought I'd have dinner, watch "the Bill" then have a quiet time. Didnt happen, instead I did the dinner and "the Bill" bit then watched a massive chunk of Ronin and then watched an episode of spooks I have seen before. Why do I have such a weakness for TV? I guess maybe its a voyeuristic thing with me. I like to know things. Maybe watching other people living/imitating life, whilst you let it pass you by is a release.Ahhhhhhhhh.
I am going to get to bed now, should get a couple of winks if I will survive work tomorrow. I am sure I will regret my candour on this blog in the morning.

God Bless,

Have a good day,

Keeks