I love hats!
It's amazing what you can do to a pub full of students when you put your mind to it...
Here's what we did in JCs last night! :
Here's what we did in JCs last night! :
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Welsh Jokes...
When you can see the coast of Devon from Swansea it is going to rain. When you can't, it is raining already.
...maybe you have to live here!
...maybe you have to live here!
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Don't you just love lectures...
I am in the gap between my second and third lectures of the day (yes it is only 11.00!) but I just have to blog some of the gems my lecturer (Professor Brain - no really!) said in the lecture today!
A warning against anthropomorphism...
"people often say ah, owls, they are so wise, BOLLOCKS, they're just chickens.... and eagles they're just bloody chickens too!"
We also learnt about sado-masichism in elephants ...
"whipping the male into a frenzy with her trunk"
And learnt quite how great we are at zoology...
"So... can anyone tell me what a cow is?" ... *silence* ..."a cow?"...*silence*..."ok well they are 4-legged hoofed animals who live in fields."
HURRAY for a University education!
A warning against anthropomorphism...
"people often say ah, owls, they are so wise, BOLLOCKS, they're just chickens.... and eagles they're just bloody chickens too!"
We also learnt about sado-masichism in elephants ...
"whipping the male into a frenzy with her trunk"
And learnt quite how great we are at zoology...
"So... can anyone tell me what a cow is?" ... *silence* ..."a cow?"...*silence*..."ok well they are 4-legged hoofed animals who live in fields."
HURRAY for a University education!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The Vision - Pete Grieg
So this guy comes up to me and says, “What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?”
I open up my mouth and the words come out like this...
The vision?
The vision is Jesus:obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is of an army of young people.
You see bones?I see an army.
And they are free from materialism—They laugh at nine-to-five little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.They wouldn’t even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the West was won.
They are mobile like the wind.They belong to the nations.They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting, dirty and dying.
What is the vision?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.
It makes children laugh and adults angry.
It gave up the game of minimal integrity long ago to reach for the stars.
It scorns the good and strains for the best.
It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, from every conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps—their Satan games.
This is an army that would lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day, its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great “well done” of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They don’t need fame from names.
Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”
And this is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making, foundations shaking, revolutionaries dreaming once again.
Mystery is scheming in whispers, conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground.
And the army is disciple(in)ed—Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.
Winners.Martyrs.Who can stop them?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed?
Can fear scare them or death kill them?
And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulfuric tears and great barrow loads of laughter!
Waiting.Watching.24-7-365.
Whatever it takes they will give:
Breaking the rules,Shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide,Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs,Laughing at labels,Fasting essentials.
The advertisers cannot mold them.
Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late-night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive on the inside.
On the outside?They hardly care!
They wear clothes like costumes: to communicate and celebrate, but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their lives, swap seats with the man on death row, guilty as hell: a throne of an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as though it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses Jesus.He breathes out.They breathe in.
Their subconscious sings.
They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping malls.
Don’t you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdoes!Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes!
They walk tall and trees applaud.
Skyscrapers bow.Mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the Hound of Heaven and evoke the dream of Eden.
And, this vision will be.
It will come to pass.
It will come easily.
It will come soon.
How do I know?
Because, this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the spirit, the very dream of God.
My tomorrow is His today.
My distant hope is His 3-D.
And, my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking, great “AMEN!” from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself.
And He is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
I open up my mouth and the words come out like this...
The vision?
The vision is Jesus:obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is of an army of young people.
You see bones?I see an army.
And they are free from materialism—They laugh at nine-to-five little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.They wouldn’t even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the West was won.
They are mobile like the wind.They belong to the nations.They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting, dirty and dying.
What is the vision?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.
It makes children laugh and adults angry.
It gave up the game of minimal integrity long ago to reach for the stars.
It scorns the good and strains for the best.
It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, from every conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps—their Satan games.
This is an army that would lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day, its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great “well done” of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They don’t need fame from names.
Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”
And this is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making, foundations shaking, revolutionaries dreaming once again.
Mystery is scheming in whispers, conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground.
And the army is disciple(in)ed—Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.
Winners.Martyrs.Who can stop them?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed?
Can fear scare them or death kill them?
And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulfuric tears and great barrow loads of laughter!
Waiting.Watching.24-7-365.
Whatever it takes they will give:
Breaking the rules,Shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide,Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs,Laughing at labels,Fasting essentials.
The advertisers cannot mold them.
Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late-night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive on the inside.
On the outside?They hardly care!
They wear clothes like costumes: to communicate and celebrate, but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their lives, swap seats with the man on death row, guilty as hell: a throne of an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as though it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses Jesus.He breathes out.They breathe in.
Their subconscious sings.
They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping malls.
Don’t you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdoes!Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes!
They walk tall and trees applaud.
Skyscrapers bow.Mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the Hound of Heaven and evoke the dream of Eden.
And, this vision will be.
It will come to pass.
It will come easily.
It will come soon.
How do I know?
Because, this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the spirit, the very dream of God.
My tomorrow is His today.
My distant hope is His 3-D.
And, my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking, great “AMEN!” from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself.
And He is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Dreaming of a white christmas?
Don't you just love those evenings when it is freezing cold but the air is so clear and fresh that it doesn't matter, when it is only 5.00 but the sun is already setting and the moon is already out. It just reminds me of Christmas and late night shopping...only 7 weeks and 4 days till Christmas!
Here is a shot from the uni webcam
Isn't Wales beautiful?
Sitting in the library, listening to student radio, eating hula hoops...happy :)
Here is a shot from the uni webcam
Isn't Wales beautiful?
Sitting in the library, listening to student radio, eating hula hoops...happy :)
