Good Friday

I could insert something profound here about it, but... no.

Why is it that something so important as the Easter message can become so... normal and comfortable to me? I was sitting through church this morning and just couldn't connect with it. I know the whole story, and it was almost like it had lost all meaning. I dunno how much of it is because of the fact that I've been letting quiet times etc slip recently and haven't really felt that connection, and how much is just being numb to the whole thing from growing up hearing the story. But yeah, it's kind of annoying how I spent most of the service this morning noticing what should have been done better from a production perspective, rather than focussing on what really matters.

Got home, finished my assignment that was due at midday. Yay ECU for allowing lecturers to make assignments due on Good Friday. Got it finished before midday. Went to submit it online. It doesn't work. Submitted 10 minutes after midday on 4th attempt. If I get late penalties, or not marked because my earlier submissions failed (the receipt at the end told me it was the 4th file I'd submitted to the drop box, so there's probably 3 partial-zip-files in there), there will be hell to pay. Can you tell I'm really impressed with uni at the moment?

Slept for about 4 hours (really should try and figure out what the deal is with me sleeping so much and why I'm always so tired).

Went out to "my spot" at sunset, prayed for about half an hour (not sure exactly, my mobile phone which doubles as my portable timekeeping device stayed quite deliberately at home). That was cool just to get away from distractions for a bit and do that. Got a stack more out of it than this morning's service too.

And there's my "stuff of today" post.

Children of God

"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." -1 John 3:1-2

I know there's more in the New Testament too that calls us sons and daughters of God too, but this one seems to work for now. It's just something that I got reminded of (probably by the spirit) during worship at church tonight. Being a child of God. The imagery of that, of the unconditional love and acceptance that God has for us... yeah I "know" it, but still sometimes I don't know it. And tonight I think I "got" it a bit more tonight when God brought that to memory. And it was good.

Heh, this past month. 1 John has just come up everywhere. 1 John 4 especially. I dunno what it is but for ages I just kept going back to it in my quiet times. Then it came up on camp. Then in small group. Then at church tonight. And now when Anthony found the above passage for me. Interesting that.


On another note, it's been a while. Sometime I'll get around to a "what I've been doing" post. It involves not getting to sleep until almost 5am on one of the nights in that space, just as a random exerpt :p