Well, there have certainly been some happenings since I last posted. Although I still haven’t re-read Ally’s post I mentioned in the previous post, I still have some things to say.

[sarcasm] This week at College started positively [/sarcasm] with a geography fieldtrip… To Hanley. Of all places… Hanley. I mean, I don’t like Hanley at the best of times, but in the rain at on a Monday morning/afternoon, it definitely scores pretty low. I have distinct memories of the first time I drove through Hanley, when I thought, “What a terrible place, this is the worst place I’ve ever seen.” I don’t hate the Stoke quite so much nowadays, but if you offered me a house just about anywhere else in the world, I’d seriously consider your offer. I mean, google maps says it all really.

I’ve been tired all this week, and I’m still tired now, so this may be… less than coherant. Sorry. Speaking of tiredness though, I did have officially the weirdest dream ever dreamt by a person (I think this even beats Mark’s famous weird dreams). I dreamt I was camping in a magical land populated by multicoloured mushrooms which were in the shape of unicorns and could fly They had no knees, like Rayman. The land was terrorised by a giant shellfish that had escaped from its shell. It had little versions of itself that bit my toes. The shellfish ate the unicorn mushrooms. I promise you, I have never taken acid in my life.

I think I should just get to bed. I’m too tired to write anything coherant. I’ll get back to this tomorrow maybe…

And congratulations to Mark, who got a first on his final Occupational Therapy placement. Mark was awarded the world’s one and only Peter Roberts obnoxiously large virtual platinum star of commendation, which he later sold to Google for an awful lot of virtual money.

I’m determined to understand the recent post by Alastair on the subject of providence, because it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Ally knows some stuff, and this is a practical post, but it’s just so long.

I’ve read it once, but I think I’ll have to read it again. I’d strongly recommend that you do take the time to read what he has said, because all my observations are based on isolated verses and things, which, while I’m sure they are helpful, are not nearly as good as observations which have had conclusions made from them and are based on a deep knowledge and wisdom concerning the Bible as a whole, which is what Ally prays to have, and faithfully pursues.

I don’t agree with Ally on everything, but I think he has a lot more authority to challenge us on our views than I do.

Something that’s really been challenging me from the scriptures recently is how the Holy Spirit unites our will and our actions, and how the Spirit is not intended to bring us under a constant struggle to do God’s commands without God giving us any freedom to do these things willingly. I believe God enables us to delight in doing God’s will, so that we don’t want to do anything else, if we submit our wills to Christ; although this is a gradual process and we’re not perfect yet.

I don’t know what you think, and I know that a paragraph which mentions God’s enabling so often can often just be assumed to be correct, and we say ‘Hallelujah, that’s so true’, but if you do find anything wrong with what I’ve said, please tell me, because I struggle with this issue too, and these are just my first observations on an issue which is so immense I doubt we’ll be able to comprehend it in eternity.