Learning How To Live

For reasons i won't explain,lately I've been visiting people in the latter stages of life, some of them have been living for so long they no longer wish to be doing so.The fact that they are going to die stares them in the face everyday and they have all the time in the world to think about it.

But even though death is a part of life i have to say i don't think about it that often. I only tend to in times of great tragedy or when it happens to a member of my extended family (which it did last Christmas). But if I'm honest i don't think about it because i don't want too. Even though i know my eternal destination i have to admit that i have always been a little scared of death. I think this would explain the feelings of fear I've experienced when visiting the elderly people. Even though i've been living with this for a long time i'm starting to realise that:

Before you can truly live , You have to accept the fact that you are going to die.

This is something my College lecturer shared when talking about the death of his wife. At first look it seems a little morbid, but it isn't. Once you can come to that realisation its possible to move forward and Truly Live.

2007, A Good Year For Movies?

Here is a list of movies that i'm excited about this year:

• The Good Shepard
• Spiderman 3
• 300
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Filmed at the same time as Flags of our Fathers)
• The Simpsons Movie
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Hope Is A Good Thing

The start of a new year always prompts me to think about hope. I hope that this year i will meet that special person who i will spend the rest of my life with, also that the England Rugby team will defend the world cup. But in the great scheme of things neither of the above is that important. What's important is that we have the right idea of "Christian Hope". I read in my devotional book the other day that Hope is not just the absence of despair ,it's the presence of something greater. We have something greater because one can rest in the knowlwdge that no matter what people may choose to do to us God has his hand on our lives. For me, that is a good reason to have hope.

That's quite a deep start to my blog, but i look forward to sharing with those who are interested what God is doing in my life.