Meanderings & Musings: April 2007

Whoa, a new post! Yeah, it has even shocked me. Certainly I agree that my attempts at keeping this blog updated have been utterly failing over the past weeks. However, the blog is not alone in its neglect - I have failed to post to the church website, to write another email update, and to even have some sort of communication with friends.

So, perhaps it is time for a renewed effort at these and other unnoted items. Thus, here goes the first simple blog update in some time. I hope to follow with an email update following the coming week's trip to the Land of Auz.

Yup, a trip to Australia. It's definitely "business" related, however I am very much viewing it as a break. It's past my due date for stepping away from the Base for a much needed rest. Sunday to Friday is the duration, perhaps only long enough to begin to get my head back on straight. Now this isn't to say that the past weeks haven't been positive or good - oh they have been - yet full to say the least.

The present week's conference is held northwest of Sydney, Australia, near the Blue Mountains. It's called Proclaim YWAM Conference and is simply a time for YWAM staff of the South Pacific (Aus, NZ, and Islands) to seek the Lord for His next Move. Those of us attending from YWAM Oxford are very much looking forward to it! Off we go bright and early in the morning.

Packing has commenced for the trip and during the current lull of debating whether or not to actually sleep tonight, I very much felt it well past time to complete some sort of rushed update.

Life here is continuing to go well in all respects. It is busy at times, it is frustrating during some minutes of the days, it is challenging in more than one respect, and it is good. Difficult to think that I have been here in NZ now for 3 and 1/2 months - ahh, where did that time go?

It's difficult to some up things into a note and then expect it to be worth reading. I am sorry for those of you who I have, quite literally, dropped off the face of the earth - you know who you are I think. My apologies too for keeping this something less than what I desired - change is coming, but ever so slowly!

Here's a few pics from the third or fourth time I have actually made it into the NZ wilds since arriving back here. A group of us attempted to go up Mt Oxford a week ago Sunday. I say attempted because the path which we though would allow us to summit in a reasonable amount of time was certainly not the path we chose to take - we blame it on the low visibility of the path marker. Really, don't ask - just know we had a grand time, and nearly made it up the roundabout way...