LOVE

what have i been up to? yesterday i went downtown. just did some window shopping at all my seattle favourites. mum and i babysat little DW last night. he was gorgeous again - but whatelse do you really think i am gonna say about him - i am the most biased and proudest auntie in the world, probably. today i went and had lunch at work with kez, then took daniel for a walk in the park - i walked, he slept. we are now back at kez and hil's where kez is busily preparing us dinner and daniel is asleep on hil's lap. daz is coming down tomorrow. i think us hailes children are going to play mini golf. how funny. i haven't done that for ages.

someone said to me just the other day that many of my blogs are not specifically religous, but more just about life. that's quite true. i think being a Christian is just about living life with a God perspective. so my thoughts on life would all, hopefully, be God inspired. just wanted to add that.

anyway, talking about not being specifically religious...

seeing as easter is on it's way, i decided, as i do pretty much every easter, to again read through one of the gospels in the bible so that i end up reading the easter story at easter time. wow. (i bet no one ever thought of doing that before). anyway, the other night i started reading through john. john's a bit different to matthew, mark and luke for a few reasons. i am not much of a biblical scholar, so we won't go there. anyway, john starts with a confusing passage about 'the word' that needs to be read a few times over so we don't get lost. then it basically records the time of jesus' ministry, which he started about the age of 30 and which only lasted about 3 years before he was crucified. last night i came across probably the most 'famous' bible verse john 3:16 'for God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life'. (side note - i say 'famous' because the older i get and the more i learn, there are SO many everyday sayings in life that are actually bible verses, i get amazed, but of course at the moment, i can't think of a single one to back up my brilliant side note). now i like this verse, it's good. well, it's the whole basis of Christianity really, but when i read the verse after it, i often wish people knew the two together, it goes 'for God did not send His Son to condemn the world, but to save the world'. what's so special about that? well i'm glad you ask. often when i talk about God with people, the idea that God is all about rules that have to be followed or about judgement comes up. and really, that's just not what it is about. God is about love. that's the best thing about God. if it was all about rules or judgement, well actually, i don't even want to think what it would be like if that's all God was about coz that would suck. (ok - so i do have thoughts about it, just not the right time or place to discuss them). anyway, point being, i hope that for all of you reading this blog that you remember this easter that God is about LOVE. nothing more. nothing less.