Peanut Butter...

isn't it a fantastic thing. Tonight I had peanut butter and toast with a glass of milk and I had the urge to blog. I've been eating peanut butter for as far back as I can remember. I don't remember my life without peanut butter. Its weird, having spent the last year in North America I realise they put peanut butter in everything. I have a huge fondness for peanut butter in a spread form but I'm not partial to the other varieties it comes in like chocolate, ice-cream etc. Its weird because its my favourite spread of all time but I'm not fond of it in other products. Maybe it could be due to the fact I've grown up with peanut butter in one format for my entire life and experiencing it in so many other varieties at once is just too much.

Then there is the age old dilemma of crunchy or smooth. It doesn't really bother me which I have, whatever is in the cupboard is fine. However, for some it must be one or the other. I found crunchy annoying when I had braces for most of my teenage years and smooth just goes down easy. There's pros and cons for both. For my North American friends there's a whole load of other varieties with the peanut butter spread range but that's for another day. This is just a toast to a wonderful food product that has impacted my life

Just some thoughts

I know I'm kinda turning into the kind of blogger I myself might find irritating but anyways I'll keep going. Sometimes we forget how privileged a position we are in as Christians or as people in general. We often let circumstance get in the way and consume us. We see whats right in front of us. A big issue or a problem. Sometimes we focus in on something so minuscule in terms of the big picture. In some cases the big issue is often something inside of us that the situation we face stirs up. How do we choose to react? Where do you put the blame? I think its time stop looking for somewhere to put the blame or for someone to blame. Lets not hide behind other peoples inadequacies or failings in order to cast a shadow over our own insecurities and fears. Its time to start examining our own hearts and asking God to reveal things to us. Don't live in the shadows any longer. We weren't designed or intended for that. We're meant to walk in the light and don't be scared that our failings or inadequacies will tarnish or dim that light. God loves us for who we are and HE is the one calling us out of the shadows into HIS light.

Technology & Time

So again technology hinders my progress in the blogging world but I have found a spot in my home where I can connect and it works. I've been thinking about time, how quickly it goes by and how much can change in such a short space of time. This time last year I travelled to Boston not knowing what the future held and sitting here a year later I had no comprehension of what could have happened or where I have ended up. It has really shown me that God can do anything. I've seen and done things I thought I'd never see happen. The biggest thing for me is seeing the change in myself. All in the space of year, its amazing how we view time as something so vast and huge yet as it goes by it seems like a flash. We often look back and say "where has the time gone?". Just don't look back with regret or what could have been but look back and remember the times that made you're face light up with joy.

Technology..

..can be very annoying sometimes. Take our wireless network or example. Dies yesterday for no reason. I spend pretty much the last day trying to get it working. Its crazy how my laptop goes from not picking up any wireless signals to picking up 5 and then finally it picks up our own network but doesn't connect. (All in the space of 1 minute). So its kinda frustrating when a load of what I want to do revolves around my laptop with Internet access. Anyways its funny how much the world around us can change in the space of a decade. How our whole world can come crashing down when our mobile phones die when 10 years ago such a device didn't exist for a lot of us. One thing is certain in this life, change. Do we adapt or do we stay set in our way? I'm finally learning to adapt.

Allergies

I know of allergies to foods and animals, I myself am allergic to certain cats. However having spent the last year or so in Canada and occasionally coming home to Ireland I've realised I'm allergic to my country or more so its climate. For years I've had problems with my sinuses which my mother has always blamed on the amount of milk I intake. However this was been ruled out. I spend 10 months in Toronto with nothing close to a cold but the second day I'm back in Ireland I'm going through a box of tissues a day (well almost) and when I return to the maple leaf city my symptoms leave. Explanation? Probably the damp climate in my homeland doesn't mix with my immune system which makes my homecoming slightly annoying.

New direction

My blogging in recent times has become stale and inconsistent so I'm going to take it in a new direction. Instead of a personal account of what's going on in my life, I'm going to blog more on issues and things on my heart. I guess stuff God is doing in me and those around me. I'm just giving myself a lot more freedom in my blogging which i always had but never truly realised that I had it. Lets hope it works and I actually do start blogging more.