Here is a question for your ponderage (should you find it worth the brain time)… When push comes to shove, which do you think prevails when making decisions in life, logic or desires. Mind or heart? If you are anything like me, when you want something, you will twist and turn around in little logic paths to get what you want in a “logical” manner. There is a proverb (22:13) that talks of a man who is a lazy person, saying that there is a lion in the streets outside, and that he would die if he went out there. This is all just of course an excuse to be lazy. There is no lion outside, he just tweaked reality so that he could continue doing what he wanted. I am inclined to say that when push comes to shove, the heart wins out, and our desires and passions really control what we do. Lucky God is so great and worthy of our desire, or else I might be making up stories about how there is a snake in my computer chair and lice in my mice and an electric shock coming from my computer so I cant do any work… When the heart is desiring God and his ways, perhaps we don’t have to resort to such petty false reasoning to get what we want, because what we want is/will be God. Hmm….

Anyways … speaking of what people want… Hayley wanted some Tupperware, so Hayley got some Tupperware…. (things seem to work like that around here, and who am I to upset the balance) … Boy did she get the motherload!

My parents are moving to Brissy! And dad is even going to be the associate pastor at my church. And guess what!!!?!!!! The other BlogginBro will be livin a 5 min bike ride up the road!!! Yeeeeee Haaaaaaa!!!

Other than that, I haven’t really been going anywhere or doing anything… In fact I have been receiving letters that have travelled further than I have (and probably ever will) in my entire life… perhaps I need to get out more like these three just did…

What do Schoolies and Tadpoles have in common? … they are both at a crucial age of development..

Each year, school leavers(otherwise known as schoolies) flock to surface paradise on Queenslands Gold Coast to have the biggest party imaginable. You need no invite to attend, it cant be gate crashed, and thousands upon thousands of young people head there after what would seem for them to be the big turning point in thier lives. Out of School and into LIFE!

For many though, “schoolies” isnt what they thought it would be, and many schoolies start to realise that there is more to life than getting drunk and hanging out with your mates. Alot of schoolies come “unstuck” (to quote a good mate of mine.. Thanks Jim) and end up in a bit of strife, be it the victim of rape, fights or just being way to drunk to work out which way home is.

Each year a number of students from QUT Brisbane and UQ Brisbane go down the coast to help the schoolies out. Blogs of a few students that are down there can be found on my blogroll, and by clicking through some links on thier pages you can find some others. Student life is the group that they do it with. In the previous years I have done it, it has been fantastic, and many, many students realise that there just has to be more to life than just partyin. And in those times I have had the opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them, and talk with them about the realities that really matter.

Please be praying for those that are there with that precious message now, that they remain safe, and have opportunities to share the good news. And be praying for the schoolies as they party away, pray that they may hear the message the world so desperately needs and accept it as the truth that it really is.

School leavers indeed are at a crucial age of developement. A transitional stage. Just like tadpoles….

See Hayley, I told you that I saw some with legs!!!