Do Difficult Things

I am officially unemployed now. Today is my first day of slackerdom and so far so good. I went for a walk first thing in time to enjoy the beautiful colours of the sunrise. I had some tea and a biscuit - cookie to you but I need to get used to English English now eh! I went to the Forks and bought some shoes. And I started work on a new dress made from a sari I brought back from India in '08.

I have the entire month of March to myself. My father is driving out during the last week to help me pack and put my things into storage and we'll drive home to Thunder Bay on Thursday 31 March. That will give me a nice long visit with my parents before I fly to London on April 14.

I've been praying that I will not waste this month off work that I have. I do want to be productive and have a list of things to get done, many of which involve spending time with friends since I'm going to be gone for a while.

In church yesterday Pastor Todd preached on the topic of prayer. As Christians we can get complacent about our relationship with God and stop reaching for excellence and start thinking that we've gone as far as we can in the faith. Todd encouraged us to "do difficult things" because when we attempt things that are difficult we find that there is always more to know about Jesus and more excellence of character that can be had.

So this month I want to try something hard and that is memorization. I memorized a lot of scripture as a child but got out of it as an adult. But our minds cannot be renewed and our character shaped without God's word so it's important for us to "hide God's word in our heart." My goal for March is to memorize the book of Ephesians. I already have a good start on chapter one but there are six chapters in total so it will be hard. That's something you can pray about for me if you are so inclined!

Ok, time to get out of here - ta ta for now.