What's your theological worldview?

Brad had done this on his blog, so I did it too. I am apparently strongly alined with the evangelical holiness/wesleyan theology. Yeah, I'm pretty sure if William Booth took this he'd be the same...oh, for some reason I couldn't get the pretty graph on my blog, I was not technologically savvy enough to fix it. So if you want to take the test, go to brad's blog and the link is there.


You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan
You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavly by John Wesley and the Methodists

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 96%
Emergent/Postmodern 71%
Reformed Evangelical 71%
Charismatic/Pentecostal 61%
Classical Liberal 61%
Neo orthodox 57%
Fundamentalist 54%
Modern Liberal 46%
Roman Catholic 32%

been a bit busy

so i haven't blogged for a little while. apologies to my faithful readers. things have been quite busy. between work, wedding plans and trying to exercise there's not too much spare time in the week, hence no groceries in my house..must find time to go shopping.

i've had more great news this week. two of my friends are pregnant. for the time being they shall remain nameless. though kylie (from work) annouced hers on facebook, so i think it's ok to mention her name. the other will be a mystery for now...but great news for them both!

after last week mentioning about one of my newest friends from the neighbourhood, i was maddened and saddened by an incident that matt witnessed this week. matt was walking down the road and saw three men being very rough with my new friend, whom he also knows. it took him a while to get close enough to realise they were undercover cops. to cut a long story short, it looks like they busted her for drinking on the street. last matt saw she was cuffed and in the back of the car. i'm not sure what happens now, i haven't seen her since that day. i guess it depends on a few different factors.

i'm reading the alchemist at the moment. i'm finding it not that exciting...yet. i am hoping it's going to get better. i've heard numerous people say it's a good book. we'll see. but it has got a message across so far about dreams. living them and waiting to see them fulfilled. about the choices we make and roads we take. i hope my new friend can make some good decisions and get a few breaks this week.

a new trend & a new friend

one of the latest trends about the place is to be aware and fighting against human trafficking. a new (well, it's getting a little old now) trend. one thing that amuses (and saddens) me about these kinds of trends, is that they really are that - they come and go. how canwe be so stupid. anyway, some of my more consistent blog readers would remember that not so long ago i blogged about this issue a little. i have been determined not to let this just be a following the trend thing in my life. raising my own awareness of this issue is a little easier than figuring out my real ability to be able to make a difference.
so my efforts, i decided, you may remember, were to make a difference on my own backyard, or more literally, on the streets where i live and work. truly befriending some of the girls that are working in the industry. i thank God for the opportunities He has brought me so far, and for at least one relationship in particular.
one of my newest friends has been on the streets and in the industry for a few years now. she's just 21. i am thankful that she now knows my name and knows that she can, and has, come to me for help. just yesterday though, matt and i had a conversation with her that left me feeling sad. while befriending her, i don't have any interest in befriending her 'boyfriend' (also known as a pimp). this cuts me though, because i know he needs just as much help, if not more?, in his life as she does in hers. yesterday when we were walking with her, she tried to get her boyfriend to say hello to us. he knows who were are and wasn't very interested in saying hello to us. he was also with another girl.
my new friend, i sometimes imagine what her life could have been. i prefer to imagine what it still could be. she really is just a young girl, who wants to be happy and free and live life. but she's caught in a trap. pray for her. pray for me and my relationship with her.

one life at a time.

my birthday

last night we (me, matt, geoff, sandra, zoe, colin, maeva, grace, rob, anya and asheley) went and saw a midsummer's night dream in the park. it was good. well, at first it was good, then it got a little boring, then it got pretty good, thenit was hilarious. so end result. it was good. it was nice to do something different. and fun that lots of us went. that was yesterday, but monday, my real birthday, was just as good. we had ice cream cake at work for my birthday and i got a lovely summer's dress from matthew for my birthday. then that night matt and i went and saw the new harry potter. i liked it a lot. i love harry potter.

well, tonight i am off with julie to do the running room 20 minute challenge. hopefully it will be fun. the half marathon training is going pretty well. i have done a few longer runs now (14kms last sunday) though i am not running as fast as i'd like to be (i'll blame it on the humidity...which will be gone by oct). hopefully i'll fix this soon.

have a great day.

my first happy birthday phonecall

so one of my best friends, jayne, was the first to call me to wish me a happy birthday. i awoke this morning to ring of my phone. she sounded so excited to be wishing me a happy birthday. it was midnight and she was going to be and realised if she'd called she'd be one of the first to wish my a happy birthday. so she enthusiastically then said i've got the right date don't i...i nearly said yes. but i said no. doh. it was the 15th where she was and i had to tell her it was the 16th.
but it's a good way to start my birthday celebrations anyway.

thanks jayne. love you!!!! having birthdays in different time zones can be confuzing!

p.s. for me 2 sleeps - for any australians, 1 sleep.

a mouse in the house

to my horror - there's a mouse in our house. i saw the evidence before i went to bed last night. and so delayed bedtime to clean and tidy my room. after getting to sleep very late, i awoke at about 3.30am. i heard a noise in my room. i tried to block my ears. i tossed around in my bed to make noise. i took my hands off my ears. it was definitely a mouse. aarrgghhh. i turned on my bedside light. i stood up on my bed. petrified. i jumped little to make more noise. i was sweating. my heart was racing. then, out the corner of my eye i saw the offender scurry across my room. aarrgghhh. i freaked. i couldn't move. though it was obviously trying to go away to wherever it's been hiding i knew if i lay down and went back to sleep it would come back. i keep jumping on the bed. frozen. sweating. heart still racing. what could i do? i managed to work up the courage to put one foot on the ground so i could reach my phone. would i really do it? yes. a really concerned 'hello', 'everything's ok honey, except there's a mouse in my room and i am stuck standing on my bed'. what a brilliant fiancee. turns out he comes over to rescue me. by this time i had made it downstairs and found the mouse traps. matt set them for me, then i proceeded to head down stairs to sleep. what a man. comes over at 4am to save me from the horrible mouse.
so now, i am about to head home, hopefully it will be dead in the trap. i will clean every inch of the house - well until i have had enough of cleaning. why clean? well surely a clean house won't have any mice. and while i clean, i'll stomp around loudly and play loud music. this is all irrational i know. but so is my fear of mice. whatever.

btw - 3 sleeps to go...

THE CAT EMPIRE

last night i went and saw a melbourne band - the cat empire. they were SO FANTASTIC!!! i love them.
their music is really great, lots of fun. i went with mike and esther. and some other of mike's friends. i was proud to be australian and even more proud to be from melbourne! my hometown boys.
the only slighty disapointing part was that they didn't bring their regular brass section. my friend ross plays with them, so it would have been good to see him. and i think kieran (who went to school with my brother and ross) also still plays for them. anyway. they were brilliant. their skill was mezmorising. (is that how you spell it?).

after they played, michael franti and spearhead were on. they were no way near as great as the cat empire. but they were ok. actually, some of their songs were pretty good and they had a great guitar and bass player.

well guys, only 4 sleep still my birthday.

empty nest + racism

today i helped the last of my three igniters out of the ministry house. steph left today. she's heading to NZ before heading home - then hopefully she'll come back. i think i will have a bit of emtpy next syndrome over the next few days...
a few wedding things have been happening.
my dress is in.
i got my shoes (thanks mish).
we purchased my wedding band (as in my ring, not a group of musicians).
that's 3 things this week. not doing too bad.

anyway, back to wonderland. it was so awesome. I LOVE rides. my favourite was TOP GUN. on this one your legs dangle (just like the lethal weapon at movie world on the gold coast). but then there were so many others. the fly - forwards and backwards, the sky ride - where you are harnessed in standing up!!!, tomb raider - where you are harnessed in lying down!!!, and then all the regular ones too - the vortex, some mine ride, dragon fire, cyclone, death trap, blah blah blah. i LOVED it. there were so many rides to go on! i didn't even get on them all. though i did make it on top gun three times! ahh. great times.

there was one event however which got my mind racing about racism. how prevalent it still seems to be in our society. this event lead to a discussion on our 'natural tendancy' to be racist. and how unless we are conscious of it, most people tend to be more racist than not. i would like to think, no, actually, i do think, that it's not our natural tendancy at all. rather it is our sinful nature that leads us to be racist. when we are living for God, or living as God intended, race doesn't play a role. we are all one. i am not naive enough to suggest that all non-christians are racist and all christians aren't. far from it. but i do believe that racism is intrinsically involved in the fight between good and evil in this world.

i had to check my thoughts on this yesterday. and i will continue to check them.

where are you at?

baseball

so i started the baseball day really well, i caught the first dude out. seriously. i did. there were cheers of aussie aussie aussie filling the ground (well, kind of, it was just rob and sasha).
then when i went in to bat, i made it to first base. i think i may have got out then, only because it was 3 out. i never made it home. it was a fun day. unfortunately we lost our first two games, which meant we were out the comp, but i was quite ok with that because
1) we actually played pretty well (really should have won at least one game, doh)
2) we then got to go and have bbq and go swimming in the lake
so it was good.

today i went to canada's wonderland. i will have to blog about that tomorrow - IT WAS AWESOME. I LOVED IT.

got to go.

fee.