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Jesus turned around to face to his twelve disciples. "Do you also want to go away?"
Simon Peter spoke out, with words that ring through the halls of eternity, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.'
Cliches are dangerous things. Things heard over and over are like clicks of a mouse at a computer. They simply blend into the background, and you forget they are even there. i probably click the buttons of my mouse hundreds of times a day, but i never hear it.
Billions of people throughout history have read either the bible or what there was of it. The problem is, they hear the words contained over and over again, and become desensitized to what its really worth.
Life is the most amazing thing ever thought of. To breathe, to live, to be aLIVE, is greater than any discovery of an atom or any theory. Its greater than the inventions of man or the power of computers. Scientists cant explain why or how, nor control it.
This is what Peter professed Jesus to have. not only this, but this + forever. Jesus is life and will always be life.
Lets not let this blend in with the coffee stains on our shirts and the weekly stops at petrol stations. Jesus is above the mundane, above the everyday.

What a day. What a day. A thousand books could be written on what happened today. Of course, not about my selfish, self centered actions. Pages would be written about the beautiful altruistic acts of people all around the world. Self sacrificing mothers laying down their time for their children. Pastors practicing true and undefiled religion, visiting orphans and widows. Fathers taking the Sunday off to spend precious time with their children. God would smile upon some and cry for others. I always think, God must be the definition of patience. I think heavenly patience is something that we will never know of till we get there. Unconditional love. How is that humanly possible? I guess it isn’t really. Every day, early in the morning, God himself packages little bundles of love for all his Children. Carriages and carriages of love are carried from heaven to earth everyday. Bundles and bundles stacked upon each other. One for each of us. Every morning when we wake up, a bundle hand wrapped, directly from God, sits at our doorstep.

The greatness of God is something to get around. I used to always find myself thinking when I was a kid, what would happen if there was no earth. If there was no earth, I would think to myself, then there would be nothing. That was a hard thought to get around. How can you just have nothing?

God is the same. I think sometimes we pretend to have God all figured out. Like he is a machine, that when we put a few coins of faith in, we see the waters part for us. I think that we have killed the mystery of God. Like it says somewhere in the bible, we only seen things in part. We preach about the things we know, and forget about the things we don’t know. God is big. So big that we don’t know how big he is. We spend so much time testing out God and seeing if he ‘works’ that we miss the whole mystery of God. Sometimes I wish that Sunday nights would consist of us merely lying underneath the stars and wondering what God has prepared for the next day. Wondering how he can love us so much. Wondering why he would want to kill himself to be near with us.

well just recently it has been three years since i got the job at new zealand natural icecream! Amazing isnt it. You wonder how did i stay so long? yeh well, so do i. Im the longest standing employee there at the moment. Im like the master scooper, if that exists. anyway, some random facts for you.
Since august 2003 when i started i would have approximately:
scooped 64000 scoops of icecream
filled 15900 cones with soft serve goodness
made 13000 smoothies
made 9500 milkshakes
juiced 7400 juices
prepared 3300 fruit flo's
and squeezed 1500 wheatgrass shots
ive probably handled around 100,000 dollars worth of money.
If you add up all the drinks, thats 18000 litres of product! thats filling my pool to three quarters full! mmm yummy.
so there we go. I thought id share that with you!
three years passed, with no plans of leaving!

i was playing chess, glaring into the computer, wondering what glorious move i was going to pull next. Jordan was on the couch, lying down, staring at the ceiling. Ben was figiting, doing something, on the other couch. We were talking, uno, having a good chat about anything and everything. The time was 4:12, and jordan and i were done for the day.
Thinking of where my bishop was going to gravitate to next, Jordan was talking about his dance career. He spoke of youth alive and dance lessons. He talked about honoring Jesus with his dance, and giving it to him. He said it was a weird thought thinking of Jesus dancing.
That caught my attention. I stopped the chess, and swiveled my chair to face him. He was still staring up to the ceiling. I had never thought of that before. Jesus dancing, what a cool thought.

See the thing is, Jesus made jordan, the way he is, with his dancy bones and all. Jesus placed Jordan within a culture that appreciates 'dancy bones'. No use Jordan being born in 16th Century france would it? jesus reckons dance is cool and wants to use it.
So, Jordan, go for it bro. Jesus is like, the man. He can do airflares for five minutes straight! no jokes!
Jesus dances. Trust me. Ive seen it.

Jesus is the nosiest brother you'll ever meet.
- Reggie Dabbs