Exams starting on thursday and i am well freaked
I just realised there about a half an hour ago i lost my notes for one whole subject
As you can imagine i am so happy!!!
I am so hoping and praying i left them in the college library or else i will be screwed!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ya ya ya ya i know its been like at least 6 months since i blogged. So do not expect me to fill you in on everything that has happened since then, however i will give a brief run down of what happened since like last september.
I finished working for O' Flynns to go to college. At first i was like ahhh education thats like disgusting and would rather stay working. Now i am like this is the job, flute around all day. Saying that i would like to be back at work. Then on like the last weekend of september two loaded cars of me and other people whom seem to follow me around went to none other than the best in the west......Achill Island, were men are men and women are not far off. Ya that was a great weekend. It was me, Panda, Denise and Daz in pandas (old) car known as the pond, with and Liam, Dan, Jonathon Ger and Emer, Gemer if you will all squezzzzed into Liams car.
October was wet, thats about all that happened there.
For information on November please see October!
December was grand, had christmas exams so had to study. Nothing beats a bit of cramming the night before an exam. Ahh this the lovely freedom of college, leaving everything till the last minute. Between sometime in late november to december i started going to the friday night youth meeting with Denise and Rachel to be a 'friend' to Jason and Lewis and since then have been given the title of 'Youth Leader'. Then done my exams and passed them all, and who says college is hard :-). Then it was time for santa to do his rounds. I swear if i was half as good as santa i'd be delighted with myself. For New Years a few of went to see Ricky Lynch/ Lynch Mob. That was well cool.
January was grand until the christmas holidays was over then it was back to college. Nothing spectacular happened in January really. It was cold, thats about it.
February was a whole different ball game all together, it was spring. The time were stuff begins to grow again and lambs are born, all that stuff....On another note, Sharon Stones conference was on at the start of the month, she is a really cool prophetess(not sure on the correctness of that term) Then the youth went up to Teen Street Ireland Beyond 48. It was myself Panda, Rachel, Emma, Elizabeth, Jase and Lewis. We shared a bus up with Grace Fellowship and a Baptist church which was cool. I really enjoyed and had a great time at worship. Dan and Suzie or Duzie as they call themselves had great teaching methods i thought to keep the youngens entertained, it did the trick for me anyway.
Its the last day of March now(isn't time flying). I think that 07 so far has been great personally. For myself towards the end of 2006 i was feeling distant from God and was really struggling, I was finding it though. But this year i felt that i have just got a new passion for God. I am finding it hard to put it in words.
So thats like a an update for the last 6 months. Youthstorm are coming for a week after paddys weekend, i am so totally freaking out here. Well thats a small exageration. O i finally used the gym in cit which is free. I went Monday and this morning before college, and i will prob go friday too. Thats my new thing, going to the gym before college, haha maybe it will last. Oh and i will more than likely be working in O'Flynns again this summer. I might try get a bar job too and just save like my mad for next year. I do like to work after all. I better finish up, its nearly as long as an essay. Sake like.
Talk to ya soon ya spoon(probably within the next 12months anyways)
Toodles
I had for the second time posted on my time in Canada and America, but it did not post. ARGHHHHHHHH
I am happy cause i now have wireless in me house. Thanks to Doug. I owe him a few pints or a bottle of wine. Anyway i could not be bothered typing for the third time about the travel, well not now. Maybe someother time. Neil
Its only over a week till we leave for Canada, 10days to be exact. I am beginning to get excited about it. I suppose i wont feel totally hyped about it until we reach there but i'll probably be wrecked after the flights, but i dont mind. It will be exciting hopefully and hopefully we will be all touched by it. I really want to get something from it between me and God cause i feel that i have just been lagging behind lately letting everything skip ahead of me and not be phased by it at all.
I find it hard to accept that i am forgiven for my sins even though i keep continuesly commiting the same sins over again. In are bible studies in the Heffs we have been covering Law and Grace, and mainly books written by Paul. In Romans we studied that we are dead to sin and that we should not let the sin reign over us (along those lines), that we are forgiven. We should accept we are forgiven and continue on, not dwelling on are mistakes. When i learned this a month or two ago i was like going okay i have been forgiven and would do my best to put it to the back of my head. But i am finding it hard to do so knowing that i am sinning. I feel as if i have used all my return tickets up with God, and that he would never keep saying "its okay i forgive you". I dunno i just find it mind boggling that i will be forgiven all the time.
I just think this week away with God will do me the world of good, that God will be able to reach me away from all the usual day to day things that i let get in my way to be with Him.
Last friday week i was out on a work night out in the Maradyke in town. I took some photos of the night and the next day when i was looking at them i was like cool cause there were angels(orbs) totally visable in my photos. On monday i got photos off anothere worker who took some and they were visable in them too. How Cool is that?????
Anyway i will try to keep blogging while i am away(esp after being threatened by Rachel).
I am getting excited again. Pray that it all goes cool and that we all enjoy the time with God
Bye for now
Neil
Yestersday nothing great happened i was one of the lucky ones that did not have to anything for the day. I think that Valentines day has kind of gotten a tad bit crazy. If you are in a relationship, it can be one of the most expensive days of the year. Its not the fact of doing something for that someone else, it is that you are expected to and if you dont you can get yourself in hot water. Like for instance if you do little special things through out the year for your girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever then why is valentines day so important? If i did have a G/F its not like i would not do something for her on valentines, but the whole concept has gotten a bit crazy.
As i was saying yesterday all that i got up to was eating some of Bobbys pies that Marie made for him after the bible study. Its not like i was robbing his pies from him. I must say that they were scrumptious. Marie made a Banoffe pie and a Cherry pi for bob and i tasted both. I willl have to get marie to make me a pie. I think there is a waitng list already. So compliments to marie.
At the meeting yesterday evening there was a real emphasis on soaking during worship. I kind of am not too found of soaking cause i cannot focus to easily with out getting distracted by something.
Last night was no different than normal, but after a while i did get into the worship. Which i found was brilliant.
I then began to pray for a new intimacy between me and God after feeling a real desire for it. The desire was very strong and i began to think to myself that i have never felt i have had this intimacy between Him and me. So i began to repent and ask to be cleansed. I got this small kind of picture of something dropping in to like a river of water. I do not think it was a vision more of a picture. I never exactly thought of want such intimacy with God, but now i feel i really want it.
The freaky thing is Eilish then got up after making some of her crazy breathing sounds and began to pray over people. When she prayed over me she prayed for a cleansing. Which i think is cool.
How does some reach such intimacy? I would love to reach such intimacy like in Delirious' song "Inside Outside" Thats what i really want, but how do you reach it??
Today i decided to take a day off work to go to Shannon airport to see Denise and Phil off. Its my first non official work day off. (Yay) Thankfully with a bit of help from God they got through customs. They had a couple of problems so i heard but got through. I shall miss them while they are away. Its going to be quite here in Cork while they are gone. Steve will be leaving for Dublin for a couple of months soon aswell.
Over the last week it was a bit hectic while my parents were over in Lanzerotee and so i was left to take care of the house, the animals and the 2 brothers but i survived. We had great fun playing poker here a couple of times. However i did not last very long. We played 2 games one night and Colin knocked me out on the first hand of both of them. I had good cards just colin had better. We went all in with the chips and i lost, twice to the same hands both times. Do not worry i shall win the next time. I shall be victorious.
On saturday just gone we had a great meeting in the Mc Carthys house, Timothy and Irene were over from Oxford for the weekend. Everything in the meeting was superb. On sunday Me Denise and Phil went to Mahon for a meal, which was very nice indeed... But the stupid restaurant for some reason had only like 1/3 of the tables being used and had a queue out the door for people waiting to eat. How stupid.?????
Last night we had a going away party for the two who abandoned us, up in Denis and annes house. It was great having everybody together saying bye to them. We had loads of junk food, it was great.
You can check Denise and Phils blog out from the links. Pray that they shall be safe and enjoy themselves while they are away from home.
Anywhoo toodles for now.
Sincerly Neiliboo
