First things first

Hello there.

Today as I write this, I am sitting at the kitchen table, with another cup of strong coffee, and looking out over the city.

It is the first day of winter, in Dunedin nz, and the sky is so blue, and there's not a cloud in it. It is also queens birthday this weekend, and typically after that the weather does turn sour for winter.

But I'm going to enjoy today, and I hope that you are too.

Make sure you enjoy the weekend whatever your up to, if it's work enjoy it.
If you're not enjoying where you are, at the moment, find ways to bless people.

You don't know what goes on, in their lives, being kind to them might only be the chance they get, to have something nice happen in their lives.

It might be that you need to pull back on some comments, or it might be that you need to pull your sock up and do your job, and stop being lazy.

It might be that you need to move totally out of that place where you are, and just extend yourself, yes moving away makes your grow up, explore different ideas, find what God is really saying to you.

I was at the beach the other day, just talking to my friend in timaru, we were both going out that night at the same movie time to see the same movie but in different towns.

As I looked over the waves, I just let all the worries, and the things inside, just take hold, and surrended them to the waves, letting them take them in and out, far far away.

I am an over thinker, some people call me a ''mother''  have you got this, have you got that, how much sleep are you getting at night? are you cold? do you want food? have you got enough?

 Yes, I am always asking questions.

And if something is wrong I want to fix it.

I'm a girl, not like my brothers, I am not a man, I  don't have an accounting digree, or a digree in journalism.

I am a chef, a baker, a home maker, a chief irioner,  a duster, a gardener,   and I work in a kitchen where there's only guys.
and yes I do feel like Daisy in Downtown abbey at times.

If money wasn't an issue, I'd support right now a work friend to go professonal  in ice hockey.

But first things are put first, why?

Because God made me to care, that's why.

I want to share with you, a story, that my dad told me, when I was sitting on the floor a bit sad for myself, looking around at the marvoulous things that my friends are doing, and wondering where my time will come.

I believe it's soon.


Anyway this story.

It was back, in perhaps the 1940s, where my uncle used to play rugby, for his school boy team, X11 and all that.

My dad and his brothers had a very kind person in their lives, called ''uncle Stan''  who wasn't a real uncle just a business man who liked my dad and his brothers.  The rugby team had their tournement coming up, and it was away from hastings.
So instead of fundraising for it, uncle Stan came up with cash, which was quite a bit, and put it in a bag in the kit, and walked away, he paid for every single boy to go away and play rugby in that tournament.

Someone in the team, stole that money, and you guess it,  the dissapointment of those boys, was very low.

What did uncle Stan do?

He went away, took out more cash, that was needed, and  did the same thing, walked over and put that cash, in the bag, and paid for those boys to go away and play in the tournement.

When we are in the middle of it all, and we step back, what would you have done?

Would you get annoyed and point the finger, and say " well that's it, nice try Bucko?"  or would we do what Uncle Stan did?

Not let it get to us?

We can only do so much because we are human, we can only achieve so much because we aren't super heroes, and God if we wanted us  to be super heroes, would have made us born with capes, and with powers.

But we have powers, we have the power of Christ in us, no matter what sort of situation we are in, no matter if we fight, and we keep fighting, and we find out that we can't do it, because we weren't made to fight.

If people care about you, and are worried, not as in knuckle bitting, haven't slept for a month worry, but are Godly  concerned, about you, then let them.

They aren't doing it to annoy you, just let them in, it doesn't really need to be much, just a crack, and a bit of trust.

 cause chances are my friend, you and I know, that we are blind to the signs, and our friends might just be looking out for you, cause they pick them up on their radar.

So be an ''uncle Stan'' today, without counting the cost.