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New Years Eve 2006
Kia ora Friends, Well I decided to go sample the big night out with all the other idiots out to have a good time. Lived in Tauranga all my life but other than a few years in the dark distant past when I was a teenager... I hadn't been to the beach for New Years. When we used to go we would park up down the far end of the beach and light a big bonfire. We would sit around it singing, snogging (Kiwi slangfor heavy kissing) and drinking. Squeezing in eight to a car and crusiing up and down the main street, yelling out windows and being a right royal pain in the ass for all the residents. We never had enough money or access to much alcohol and were all pretty good kids (smirk) so we didn't do anydrag racing, or throwing of bottles. Others did though. Well over the years apprently the number of youth doing this and the easy access to alcohol (not to mention the lowering of the drinking age) meant that things got progressively worse. Putting me off going to see what all the excitmentwas about. However since they started free concerts and alcohol free zones its turned into a real family night out. So on to now. Well I knew it wasn't much good to drive over to the beach. You end up parking miles away and walking. So thought I would catch one of the special buses. Forgot to check where and when though didn't I. So trotted off to town at 8.00pm, waited at the bus stop from 8.20 until 9.00pm whenthe first bus arrived. Brought a return ticket and we were off. Well what a great ride. The bus was full of young teenagers through to mid to late twenty year olds. Had a large bunch who had come together in the back of the bus singing all the way over. And in harmony on appropiate songs. The whole bus cracked up when boys decided to do the girls parts (in high squeeky voices) and the girls did the boys. made me grin all the way. I thought I was back at school. Took my umbrella, which is just as well as we had rain on and off. This of course didn't deter the young ones. They were still out there in thier mini skirts and crop tops, all made up and looking real pretty. The boys in thier sexy board shorts and muscle shirts. It was so much fun watching them break out and have fun. They were yelling and singing, running up to strangers and wishing everyone a Happy New Year. The event had two stages. The main one on the beach and a second one at the end of Marine Parade, right under the Mount. the music was great - even I recognised most of the songs and had a few wiggle, jiggle arounds in amoungest thecrowd (in between showers, cause the umbrella tends to cramp my style and other peoples eyes LOL). The space under my umbrella was appropiated a few times by groups of wet teens, all in a joking friendly manner. Then they would move on with a Happy New Year. They had quite a few amusementsand rides from the Circus there and that kept the thrill seekers busy and out of trees and off balconies. The funniest thing though was the main stage set up on top of the toilet block. I know its a good place to set up, the top of the block is flat and is used as a viewing platform, but I couldn't help but chuckle to myself to see the bands playing on top with people coming and going beneath them. The band SubZero played most of the night and I kept wondering if that had anyconnection with the temperature of the toilet seats. LOL. All in all a great night. And congragulations on the local council in putting together such a well run event. The last bus from town was 10.00pm, deliberately I think as the booze tent was pretty full with a long line up and not many were able to bring in alcohol as if you get caught you can be locked up for the night. So by midnight most of the crowd had either sobered up or at least not got worse. I guess the rain helped out a bit too. It did stop at 11.30pm which was a real blessing as the last half hour was great fun. Then they had the fireworks. Of which I only got one decent photo. blast. I will be going back thats for sure. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! ka kite ano, Wendy
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The Pope and his book report...seriously
Part 2 of how things unfold. The pope was giving a lecture on a text and then would reflect what his views were. As it was stated, the selection of text he choose to quote in the first part of his speech was and is the triggering factor to the violence some people feel justified in doing. A simple book report that leadto death. As Christians I believe and know that how we react will dictated the future, this isn't just a religious revelation that people of the faith will have. Everyone we know at school and at work react and behave accordingly to the decisions they have made. I believe we live in a societythat makes choices and that we live in a free enough choice within reason. An online devotion I found interesting in regards to the choices we make in life and how we react and think goes a long way. http://www.crosswalk.com/faith/1426800.htmlMaking a Mess of SuccessDr. Gary Smalley“What is taking so long?” I fumed as I waited for the doctors to arrive to begin my kidney transplant operation. I was lying on a bed in a pre-op room, wearing one of those wonderful hospital gowns — you know the type. The room was fairly cold and the nurses were bustling about doing what nurses do, not paying much attention to me. I was in sort of a twilight zone, but it seemed as if I had been cooling my heels for hours — and patience had never been one of my strengths. All I knew was that I was cold, uncomfortable, and apprehensive about the transplant and that I wanted to get it over with. What I didn’t know was that at that very moment, in the room next door, my son Michael was fighting for his life. As the doctors removed the kidney that Michael was donating to me, one of his lungs collapsed and his situation became perilous. While they were working to stabilize my son’s condition, I was grumping and grousing in the next room about the inconvenience of having to wait. I open with this story because in a lot of ways it sums up amajor crisis in my life that had encompassed my physical, emotional, and spiritual health for years. I hadn’t intended to end up self-absorbed, physically sick, emotionally out of balance, and spiritually isolated, but that’s what happened. I was angry, impatient, disappointed, and frustrated with a lot of things in my life — and I was under a ton of stress. Along the way I had stopped relying on God and began to lean heavily on my own understanding and my own resources. The results were a major spiritual and emotional burnout and some very serious physical problems. I want to share my story with you because I’ve found that most people, in one way or another and at one time or another, find themselves in similar circumstances: fed up, burned out, frustrated, and out of step with God. Maybe you are going through a similar struggle in your own life right now. Perhaps you, too, have experienced the joy that comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ. Then, through the busyness of life, being pulled in every direction, you’ve lost your bearings and drifted away from God’s best plan for you. If the truth be told, we’re all susceptible to drifting. There are so many voices in our culture that compete with God’s voice for our attention. We begin to believe that we need more to be happy. More power. More love. More sex. More food. More travel. More things. These voices grow louder and louder, and soon we ignore the voice in our spirit that cries out, “No! We don’t need more things; we just need more of God.” As Jesus said, “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”[1] It can happen suddenly, or gradually. If our guard is down, we can easily fall prey to the whims of the world. I know firsthand what it feels like to succumb to the temptation for more things, more money, more recognition, more comfort, and more leisure. Though I achieved just about everything I could possibly want in a material sense, I lost life’s satisfaction and the enjoyment of God’s blessings for a period of about ten years. I was miserable, and I wasn’t sure if I could ever regain the joy I had once known. Fortunately, that’s not the end of the story… If this were only my own story of wandering away from God, it might be of limited use or interest, but I have seen the same principles— both positive and negative — played out in the lives of so many of the people I have counseled over the years, people who have read my books and attended my seminars. My hope is that if you hear the inside story — and the rest of the story — it might inspire you to draw closer to God and to experience the same renewal, refreshment, and revitalization that I have experienced… I’ve counseled enough people over the past thirty years to know that getting off track is a common problem. Still, it’s embarrassing to think about how far I actually wandered before God got my attention again. After all, I’ve been to seminary and served on a pastoral staff, and like a lot of other Christians, I’ve heard some of the best Bible teaching anyone could possibly hear. But even with all that, it didn’t take much for me to become distracted from my relationship with God by all the cares and concerns of life. The success itself became a distraction. The process was so gradualthat I couldn’t see it for what it was — ugly, sinful, and destructive — until it was almost too late… By the mid-1990s, Norma and I had moved to Branson and had begun a new organization, the Smalley Relationship Center. My three children— Kari, Greg, and Michael — had become involved in the ministry, and all indications were that we would continue to grow and prosper. We had already accomplished more than I had ever dreamed of, yet my personal walk with God had grown progressively colder and more distant. I felt spiritually dead inside. My motivation to continue with my ministry was gone. I was discouraged and confused. Boy, was I confused! My relationships were suffering severely. After delivering a message at one of my seminars on how to get over anger and stress, I headed back to the hospitality room with my two sons, who were sharing the speaking responsibilities with me. Just minutes after teaching about anger, I had a disagreement with Michael and Greg about something and I lost my temper. That was the pattern in my life at that time. I let all my negative thoughts control me. I remember Greg stepping back and saying to me,“Dad, why don’t you reread the book you wrote fifteen years ago called Joy That Lasts” I felt the sting of his words, and it made me even more angry and irritated… In the wake of all this, I started to think that whatever I was going to accomplish in life I had already done. I didn’t have any new material to write about, and I didn’t have any really big dreams. I decided that God must be done with me, or at least I was done with ministry. It was like I plateaued. I just ended. I sat in ministry meetings where everyone was discussing my retirement— or even more discouraging, discussing what would happen when I died! I began to believe I was done. I lost my vision for what God had called me to do. I lost my hunger for God’s Word because I had lost sight of who I was. I went to church, but usually I would end up critiquing the sermon… I often reflect on this ten-year period of my life and wonder how I survived. Thankfully, God provided the wake-up call I needed. He knew I needed a crisis to shake me out of my preoccupation with myself. Your Relationship with God1. Does a close relationship with God come naturally to you? What can you do to draw closer to God?2. What priorities in your life do you feel you have placed above God?3. On a scale from 1–10 (10 being the highest), rate your level of stress. How is your stress level affecting your relationship with God? Key Verses:Read Matthew 19:16-26Prayerfully consider what earthly things might be coming between you and the Lord. Consider how you identify with the Rich Young Man. We will never understand or comprehend some of the things we choose and I would like to say choose not forced to do may have the"butterfly affect". I believe that everything has a purpose. We are given choices to say yes or no to them because that's what God had intended for us. He didn't make a human cookies cutter factory so that we can be manufactured to talk, walk and worship alike. He liked different flavors of life and sometimes the life we are given are not what we envisioned but just the same we live content with what God has given us. Choices are what make up most of our days and choice will belike the butterfly affect. From various websites they have similar definitions for this. If I sneeze - will that affect the future? Yes it will. The fact that you are reading this web page right now instead of doing anything else is affecting the future in profound ways. Because of your decision - everyone in the future will be different people than they would have been had you made a different choice. This article will explain this concept called"Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition", otherwise know as the"Butterfly Effect".http://www.perkel.com/nerd/butterflyeffect.htm Thebutterfly effectis a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion ofsensitive dependence on initial conditionsinchaos theory. Small variations of theinitial conditionof adynamical systemmay produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.The phrase refers to the idea that abutterfly'swings might create tiny changes in theatmospherethat ultimately cause atornadoto appear (or, for that matter, prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effectThe Pope made a decision and now we are reading and facing all these questions. These are descision we are faced everyday. Now it will our turn to react or just ignore this situation. Some may say if you don't talk about it then it will go away or the media will make it disappear because they will realize that sometimes the ratings have to be sacrificed for the sake of humanity sometimes. As it was stated in the bible with many characters there are always consequences and rewards for the choices we make. I will clearly state not everyone is perfect in how they treat others. We tend to distance ourselves and give short answers to people who we don't want to associate or do the some to others when we are out of our comfort zone. I learned the hard way from both ends and it is up to my choice I will make in how I will react to them.