32/365

God being bigger than the way i am

this book:


reading aforementioned book at work

chats with sians

31/365

fam!

realising driving time is time for worship (multitask mm-hmm)

fumbling the opening lines of a conversation with brother on God that i'm sure will last a lifetime

philippians 4:7 being true in really practical ways

22/365 - 30/365

would you rathers. babies for heads and heads for babies. God's glorious sovereignity, opening doors i didn't know existed. dawn and beyond. the land/night train/bus. the covered area. cake ministry. pebbles. being 15. it being like a little bit of heaven. praying in the middle of roads. raising holy hands. impromptu water fights. good advice. lozenges for feet and bears for lozenges. being awake against the odds. talking God really easily with a 14 year old. getting progressively more ridiculous. brie and grapes and nail varnish in bath. heart stoppingly beautiful others. learning quietly. waiting on the Lord.

21/365

continuing aforementioned God chat on the bus to romsey rapids

getting paid to go to romsey rapids

one group not turning up so we had the right amount of people on the coach to...romsey rapids!

coming home and finding scones and clotted cream

20/365

having a lie-in (till 7.15...!)

sausage and egg baps

thinking about CEx past and future

a 3 minute God chat with a guy from work right in the middle of starbucks...to be continued...

the smell after the rain

late being better than never :)

19/365

going to bed before twelve

18/365

minibuses going quite well

"my flavourite"

reminiscing about the sideways bird and other school shenanigans

17/365

pimms o'clock on the swingy chair with mumsy and dadsy

four packets of sour chewits for 50p

finally booking ireland (though it was an absolute nightmare) woo!

16/365

walking to trafalgar square with fellow yellow shirt tom, in the baking sun, talking about how next time we do london we're gonna bring way more to drink....and then the nice visit scotland shop giving away free water!! i was sooooo happy!

eating lunch with my feet (and aforementioned free bottle of water) cooling in the fountain

15/365

"bears can't eat other bears for lunch!"

home in time for neighbs :) (sorry bish)

14/365

it being my job to do this...



dancing in the cathedral

chicken nuggets

13/365

it being my job to take people here...


...and here...


presents in the post

today's coach driver, who was an absolute legend

corfe castle being the place to be (for half an hour at least)

calippo shots and sausage sandwiches

our God who loves to forgive

the fact that i'm going to turn my computer off for the night in about 5 minutes and do something useful

12/365

getting woken up by a phone call from work (bear with me)...which subsequently meant i was awake and able to do all the things i've been putting off doing for ages like ordering books for next year. hurrah!

the glorious provision of having my bikini on under my clothes ready for romsey rapids, then romsey rapids being cancelled so going to play football, and then being able to rescue the ball from the other side of the river because i had my bikini on! hurrah!

remembering there was a post office in laverstock so i didn't have to sit in queues in town for ages. hurrah!

watching sigur ros with no shoes on :)

11/365

being paid for the uni open days! had completely forgotten about those!

driving really fast over the hump-backed bridge at the bottom of my road, so it feels like a rollercoaster. twice.

coming home to a bedroom that is (slightly) less full of un-unpacked stuff than it was yesterday

jenny letting me keep my bike at 78 pitters. God provides even for stuff i've forgotten :)

10/365

genuinely worried as i drove home about what my 365 would be today. the coach driver waving at every single other coach driver we passed? the farm shop on the A36 that had the sign 'local food for local people'? the pub with naomi? the view coming over a hill in west wiltshire onto the plain? finding carrot cake in the cupboard when i got home?...

...anna changing her msn subtitle to 'nicola r u there-show urself???' :)

9/365

the brilliance of the cathedral dominating the skyline as we drove back into salisbury, and hurrah for whoever decided that nothing else could be built above a certain height, so it could always be seen

emptying my bag when i got home and finding there were minstrels left!

mother reminding me i'd left my bike chained to stevie's house in reading and was supposed to pick it up by tomorrow when her contract runs out....panic! then realising jenny from cell is moving into the very same house! hurrah!

discovering that our tentative dates for ireland trip neatly coincide with the dublin fringe festival. hurrah!

8/365

trying to have a meeting about the weekend's trips after working twice as many hours as we've slept.

big boss man: and then you point out the college to them
kyle: where's that?
big boss man: *points on map* here
kyle: that's a post office
big boss man: have you ever even been to oxford?
kyle: no, that's why i wanted to go
rest of us: *giggle hysterically*

going to sleep knowing i don't have to wake up in 5 hours time :)

plans for IRELAND!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

7/365

lunch break in the school with a girl from Kazakhstan, a girl from Syria, and a lady from Poland, them teaching me how to say 'i love you'. thinking this is for you Jesus...cheesy i know. them showing me where they live on a world map and just being amazed at all the countries, knowing i can't stay in sunny salisbury for ever, despite the cathedral/fields/ridiculously easy jobs

"i will pray for chickens"

6/365

my list of things to do this afternoon before going back to work, which went: eat, nap, spreadsheets, Bible, eat. there's something nice about that, it's everything i need to sustain me. (apart from spreadsheets, they're definitely disposable) the nap was goooooood. as was Bible. wish that didn't always surprise me.

5/365

sitting in a cafe on bournemouth beach, gloriously sunny with a nice sea breeze, eating a solero (exotic flavour, not the red ones that taste like sick). getting paid for it.

...and more to the point, being able to share something of what God means to me with fellow slacker/'yellow shirt' worker Emma. hearing her say "Christians just seem to have this deep inner happiness." being completely inarticulate and unable to answer her questions but just trying to be real, and overcome my fear of saying 'Jesus' in a crowded public place.

and being able to text for prayer, enjoying the sense that we all fight alongside each other in this battle which is already won.

4/365

the looong walk home after a looong day of whatever my new job is called, stopping to sit with my feet in the river. "be still and know that I am God."

brother making me an omelette while i flounced around in a fit of heat induced self pity.

3/365

page 8 in the july-september new frontiers magazine; steve oliver's recent church plant in Maseru, Lesotho. 375 new converts in one weekend, exciting times... a seed of a thought that one day i might be back there.

rea leboha morena jesu, hoba o re hla tsoa ka mali a hau

realising at tonight's prayer meeting that Jesus' commission isn't something we can ignore, which i have been trying to do since church this morning/maybe since coming back from Lesotho, because the Bible isn't something we can ignore. "go and make disciples of all nations". remembering that "there are no closed countries". being excited that there are people just waiting for the gospel. a sense that the gospel can spread like a bush fire. being excited!

2b/365

sorry, i'm cheating :)

sitting outside in my pyjamas doing spreadsheets until midnight, accompanied by bats and a hedgehog, until all the candles went out and i really couldn't see what i was typing. all made possible by the fact that the internet is "in the air"...

2/365

the day isn't over yet but i'm pretty sure this will be the best bit...

when karena asked me at the women's breakfast what i intend to do after uni,
a) being able to say i have no idea and being completely content in that (God knows, i don't need to!) and more than that,
b) being able to say that fam could keep me in reading, despite the fact that it lacks a cathedral/any fun for non-students/fields/the sea/job prospects.