I’m sat in an easyeverything internet cafe having flown to Amsterdam the other day with easyjet… they just make life so easy, right?!
Well back in this great city again. The city is great and I plan to get away form this computer pretty soon to continue experiencing the place. I think a nice beer in the sun will be on the agenda. The roundtable, the reason we are gathered here in the Netherlands, has been good so far. I think for me it is about meeting people and God and getting to know new people and new sides of God. I’m getting my 24-7 passion back and I guess I need to hold on to that hard. Earlier we heard about Boiler Room visions form around the uk and around europe… we got to tell them about paying the cost once it has got started and they really blessed us in prayer. Good community growing.
YAWN… well I’m off to have some fun and chill before the afternoon/evening sessions. Ciao.
Had my hair cut today; been a long time coming and I got it cut shorter than usual as I know it will be a while before I have the spare funds to get it cut well again. In anticipation for a flight to amsterdam tomorrow I bought a magazine today and on the back was the message ‘rethink the cool’… talking about a new trainer that is coming out which will be “plain, simple, cheap, fair” unlike the big brand sneakers. Oh yeah, amsterdam… we are going for an international gathering of 24-7prayer.com family and friends. It will be cool and i reckon i’ll come back a different person, or maybe just a little closer to finding to what i’m looking for (not that i reckon i will ever actually find it… see oria about the no destination issue). The girl cutting my hair was asking what i was doing over the weekend and then got to asking if I was going to enjoy the amsterdam specialties… i don’t think the marijuana and porn culture is my thing but there is lot of good stuff about amsterdam once you get past the stigma and bad reputation.
Well the girls are making a scrapbook of the boiler room history and so i’m off to do my bit - a cd compilation of the last year in the boiler.
Big shout out for my mate Skelton Smith who was feeling generous and has subscribed me to the print edition of relevant. He also took advantage of the moment to subscribe himself too.
Wow, to be honest I didn’t really think that my little plea was going to get anywhere but I have been proved wrong and I’m not too bothered about being wrong. I think this provision thing works with small things slowly adding up. I look back and I wonder how I paid rent at my last place but then I realise that I didn’t 100%. That when it got to the very last moment, actually beyond that, and it all looked a bit pear shaped I didn’t get the money I needed. I was up some creek without a paddle. Then grace came in the form of the cancellation of most of my debt and leaving me with a smaller, more manageable amount to pay back. Thanks to Joy and Ivy. I had to help out with a few jobs but was definitely worth it.
The support didn’t come as the hoped for golden envelope and at the time I got disappointed… God asks me to live by faith and then my faith doesn’t work! But it did actually come though, my problem being that I didn’t even recognise it. Lesson: have faith, persevere and when it does come, recognise it and give credit where credit is due.