22.06.06

All Me

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:48 am by Sarah

I’ve know I haven’t been writing many ‘what I’ve been up to’ type posts, but I figure people will get bored. Then again, this happens to be the only place I really record anything. I don’t take photos or write in a journal. So this is it…

This last week or so, to be honest, has been difficult. I don’t know whether stress at work was the cause, but it certainly didn’t help. The campaign I’ve been managing has not been going well, there are a number of reasons for this that have nothing to do with me. Basically it got canned in a round-a-bout kind of way. It kinda sucked, and I wish my supervisor had told she was expecting it.

Last Friday and Saturday found us being the hospitable hosts we are. I was really looking forward to it, but realised later I was not really up to it. I was overly ambitious with the meal on Friday night, my favorite homemade gnocchi.. but it was appreciated. Plus we re-discovered the yumminess of Italian bread dipped in olive oil.

Saturday we had my in-laws over so I spent the morning washing up from the night before (it was alot) and frantically cleaning, while Haoran shopped for lunch. It was nice having them over, but since it was the first time we had really had them over for a meal, I was stressed and couldn’t really relax, even during a game of Spy Alley (which H won again! grrr).

Church on Sunday was excellent, our visiting speaker, Paul, was quite inspiring for us both. His description of what he and Lyndal have been doing as missionaries is very similar to what we would like to do in ministry ideally. There was also a quite obvious wake-up call afterwards during dinner. Our congregation is very much directed at those who don’t fit anywhere else, in a family or youth congregation. We are small but hopefully supportive to those who do come. Haoran and I felt quite helpless after hearing one person’s current struggle and being told that we could only pray for them. I guess we are both ‘need to do something for you’ type people. It’s good practise for us to learn to listen and pray first.

This week has been gradually normalising. Work pressure has gone down for both of us which is a relief. Lucy and I went walking twice this week which I really enjoy. And I’m looking forward to going out to Yum Cha tomorrow morning, and relaxing ;) .

15.06.06

Grumble Guts

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:00 pm by Sarah

I’m so tired.

 Possible explanations I’ve come up with so far are:

  • I’m suffering from mid-winter blues
  • I’m getting a fluey/cold type thing – or at least fighting it off
  • I’m having a glandular relapse
  • I have African Sleeping Sickness
  • I’m not getting enough sleep.

Anyway tiredness makes for no motivation to blog, and when my blog crashed yesterday after I wrote an entire entry – all I felt was apathy. It was kinda sad…

Thankfully, they are having birthday cake in the dept next door and I scored a piece. Chocolate makes everything better..

07.06.06

#1 and #3 and possibly some other stuff

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:11 pm by Sarah

Feeling a little run down and tired having forgotten to take my medication twice this week.. unfortunately I can’t blame anyone but myself. It is very frustrating when I can’t concentrate when I’m doing work/at bible study/having a conversation. I always forget what a difference those tiny little pills make.

My point is – vagueness may appear in this blog entry. And also – this is for Nic. Read the rest of this entry »

01.06.06

Good Intentions

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:01 pm by Sarah

Well… I’ve been meaning to blog.. really I have. I’ve had blog-ideas and everything!

Things that have been going around in my head;

- The phenomenon in the Christian culture that values people who ‘do’ things. Are people who aren’t involved in Church rosters/youth/kids leadership/Bible study for good reasons valued as much as those who do?

- Where is the ministry balance in the first year of marriage? Should I continue to try to cut back on doing things or should I avoid the tempation of using it as an excuse? (sidenote: I just discovered that Jews used to have a ‘honeymoon’ year after marriage where they withdrew from any responsibility to concerntrate on their marriage.)

- How people do value themselves? – Is it the amount of people they know, how smart they are, how many boyfriends/girlfriends they have had, how occupied they are during the week.. How do we change our thinking to value ourselves by how God sees us?