Painting
I started painting a picture on Friday night last week, I think I need to finish it soon, so that I can post a picture here. It’s nothing major, just a picture of a face, not spectacular, but colourful and fun. I hope you like it….when its done.
I think I need a new laptop
I bought a new laptop at the beginning of the year, but I bought an Asus eeePC, which while quite fun and awesome to play with and just jump on the net whenever I feel like it. It’s light, and just easy to take anywhere. The issue is that I think I need something that will actually be able to do some work – like blogging, and other documentation. The 10 inch screen of my E, is just too small for doing actual work. As such I have concluded that the E is a fun play computer, great for travelling, but not so great for actually work. (Its speed, graphics and cpu capacities are another factor.)
So that leads to my next step, finding a new laptop for work, work, and getting rid of the PC computer that is sitting in the lounge room. I’ll have to do some research 
Hope
I’ve been thinking on hope for some time. Especially since Pastor Rod was diagnosed with cancer some months ago. While the illness has not been the best (is it ever?) – it has been a true blessing and ultimately a witness to see Rod’s hope. It surpassed the hope one might have in things that don’t last – like health, family, money etc.
Rod, and his wife Liz, recently decided to resign from the current church in light of his illness and the continuing growth of the church. It is with this (and his illness) in mind, that (I feel) he has begun a sermon series on HOPE. It’s been a good look into the history of Biblical hope, not just the hope given to Christians through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but throughout the Old Testament of the Bible as well.
Faith, Hope and Love – and the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13
The first week we looked at God’s promises to Abraham AKA Abram (Genesis 12). That he would give him a land, descendants and would bless him; and yesterday we looked at the hope of Joseph in Genesis 42-46 focusing on chapter 45, where Joseph reveals himself to his brothers. Though he had been sold to slave traders by his brothers, falsely accused and thrown into prison – and away from his family and home for some 20 years – he still had hope. Would you? Would I? Hope isn’t found in our current circumstances, in the life we have here, the things we own or even the friends or family we have. None of that lasts – hope of the eternal kind can only come from something or someone beyond the laws of our current world – in someone that surpasses time and decay – in God.
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