For When Twitter Just Isn't Enough.

Hello again blog.

Might have been quite a while since my latest post but I have been increasingly disillusioned with the lack of room/characters/expression you get for your buck with twitter so I feel like I will get to put across more in this exciting vastness of a textbox that is 'the outpouring of Dale'. Forgive me while I indulge in a little silliness. How funny is it where Paul wrote that. Can't imagine him being silly in the Scriptures but what a legend for doing so.

Well I really would like to avoid sounding like my prac is coming to an end because it is quite sad for me to face. But I guess it is. I have loved teaching here more than I ever could have thought. It's crazy. So interesting what God is able to show us through even the most unexpected of circumstances and situations. I have discovered that the biggest way to read the times (intepret the signs..forget where that verse comes from but Ron Luce always talks about it) is so simple. You just have to read people. Now I am a bit weird but I have this addiction of watching people. Some will tell me that it's a clinical psycholgists's trait and others will gallantly declare me a stalker but man, people are so interesting! Maybe it's wrong to invade people's existences like that but I'm not talking an an invasive, threatening, goggle-eyes at the hot girl manner, I just mean casually obersving the who/what/how/why of people and being fascinated by their world instead of absorbed by my own for a change. In an effort to justify this habit of mine I will explain it using two points:

1. People-watching opens your eyes to new ways of thinking, doing, being.
2. People-watching gets your focus off yourself.

I don't know whether you've noticed by society can tend to be a tad self-centred. Especially in my life. I often wonder what is the antidote to sickening selfishness. Of course, it is Jesus and always has been but I've come to see that looking for Jesus in the faces of the people around us is one of the most excellent priveleges of life and relationships. I can see Him in the face of my prac teacher, my sister, my students, people on the streets, the girl I like, people in the media and especially in those acquaintances that you observe from a distance and would love the chance to get to know. Perhaps more of a startling development; the pervasiveness of God is a great revelation to behold.

It really does testify to the scripture that Jesus is 'over all, through all, in all'. Yet, how patient is God with us that He waits for us to look for him, discern his grace, sense his nearness.

Enough for now..