There’s a lot of talk about silent prayer and personally I have always found it hard to pray silently. It’s not that I think praying silently is wrong, I just consider it a higher discipline. I don’t know about you but most of the time when someone asks you to bow your head and take…
The pressure is constantly on here at college, but some students, who shall remain nameless to protect the “Innocent“, have excelled in field five. Field five is the study of pranks and practical jokes. So far only tutors have been targeted but who knows where this will lead?! Todays comic is somewhat of an inside…
Uniforms are obviously discussed a lot, what to wear, when to wear it. Going caroling there have been a bit of confusion about the storm jackets that prompted this cartoon. Please do leave a comment if you enjoyed it (or if you didn’t)
College seems to be getting on everyones nerves, including mine. I think the biggest issue is the fact that there is precious little time for us to reflect, digest and contemplate all that is being said in class and not the actual fact that we are taught many things that turn our beliefs up side…
We are doing our social placement this week at Springfield Lodge (Splodge) and so far it has been a great experience. It is good to be among youth again and (Un)Normal people. People here at the college are just far to grown up for me. But then again to classify our session as normal is…
Angelina walks in to our bathroom yesterday morning asking, What are you doing? Shaving…. (confused stare from Angelina) I am taking off the hair from my face, I say Angelina nods gravely and says, It is good! There are so many things I want to write, so many things happening with us. College challenges us…
Today I went with Angelina to Wesley Owens in Croydon to attempt to make a dent in our reading list. So far we have been given half a dozen study guides and they contain at least 24 A4 pages with literature to read with roughly 10 books to a page that makes 200+ books that…
First things first.. An appology to all of those of you who are waiting for me to respond to emails facebook requests etc… I am still not fully connected, wich means that I acan steal a few minutes every few days to actually sit at a machine connected to the Internet. We have started College!…
So here we are a week has passed, we still have no Internet but at least we can check our email on our blacberries now (Thanx Warren!!) We have nearly unpacked and we are starting to get to know the people in our building. The place is great for the girls and they have found…
It is so frustrating to be in a foreign country. We are trying to sort out some internet connection and mobile phones which is proving to be extremely difficult unless you are a citizen. You cannot get a phone without a credit rating, you cannot get a credit rating until you have had a bank…
So here we are at William Booth college. It is a strange feeling to stand in our new flat filled with boxes and every surface covered with knick-knacks and do-dawds. I don’t even know how to put words to all the conflicting emotions and thoughts I have at this point. Two weeks ago I was…
Last night at 22:40 we arrived at Stanstead airport. The first thing we did was violate national security by taking a picture at border control which will not be shown here because they made me erase it. Then we went to the hotel Anja asleep since the flight but Angelina awake and very excited. Now…
So today is travel day, tonight we sleep at a hotel at stanstead airport and tomorrow morning we move in at WBC. It seems unreal that we are not heading back to Latvia after our little mini vacation. London, in my mind at least, has a kind of mythical quality to it, like it is…
Four days, I mean it’s completely nuts! In four days we will move in at William Booth College on Denmark Hill in London. We will put our kids in day care and start college. Wow that is just a complete brain reboot. And the OS is going very slow right now because of the heat.…
So I missed to write yesterday ….. Well yesterday was a big day for Angelina. For the first time ever she went in to the sea and let go of her footing, she had inflatable arm rings and a Mickey Mouse lifesaver and she let go with her feet. I said Angelina look at you…
And counting, and counting….. Little colder today only, well about 29 degrees. Swimming (technically I am not allowed to swim so I got me a pair of flippers so that I can only paddle with my feet) and drinking lattes on the beach. I know we should start thinking about college but here we are…
Today we went shopping in the morning and bought a DivX enabled DVD player for our room here in Croatia. We decided to take it easy today and not go to the beach. So we stayed in the house in the afternoon. I got some time in on the training cycle and we got some…
Croatia is showing her best side with sunshine and warm water, and today it cooled of a little so it was not to hot. Angelina and Anja are enjoying the incredible freedom of the beach and the sea, Angelina has turned into a fish and she wont get out of the water until she is…
Oh dear, What a ride. We had a lil farewell gathering at our empty apartment the last evening we had a picknick on the empty living room floor and had general fellowship. Our friends had made a goodbye gift in form of an album with images from our entire stay in Latvia and it was…
Since we have holidays in Croatia and then moving to WBC in London where our internet options are very limited it might be a while before this blog is updated, We might also be very slow in answering emails, have faith…. We will be back! uq mail
Today is my last day in Latvia, I’ve had my last lunch in the small hall, my last sit down with Edvins and Edgars, my last salary and made the last call on my cell phone before handing it in. The last boxes has been loaded on the truck and we will have our last…
After an Outrageously furious week of doctors appointments, packing and last minute arrangements it seems we have entered the final stretch. Tomorrow morning the moving company arrives to pack whatever we couldn’t (or wouldn’t as the case may be) and on friday they take the load on a truck to London. We leave Saturday morning…
As a clarion call throughout space and time 2 Cor 6:17 challenges us to be different, to be separate. The more I try to shake the verse out of my mind the harder my mind is held captive by this simple statement that simply turns my life upside down…. Step out from the ranks of…
I found this quote here, and it really spoke to me, it is the core beliefs of Opus Dei,1 Whatever one is to think of Opus Dei this statement rings true to me. This would be how I see holiness, and as I see Knighthood as being a holy warrior this quote illuminates the way…
The move to England is drawing closer with every tick of the clock. As I survey our slowly deteriorating home I am overwhelmed with panic. There is absolutely no way that we can finish up everything that needs to be done before we send of the first truck to Sweden for storage on the 9th…
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