epic exercise

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Yesterday I went for a swim, my first lap swimming in over a year. I only did 500m but it was such a good feeling. I already feel addicted to it again. I thought about going again today but I didn't want to look like a weirdo to the pool staff and thought consecutive days of swimming may be a bit much. So instead I went for an epic walk. There was a huge hill and the sun was beating down on me and I was in a sweat. But it felt good too.

After that bout of exercise, I went home. But then later I walked out to the shops again. I bought a ceramic tower heater and I've got it on now and it's working wonders. I have to say though it was pretty annoying to carry home.

At the moment I'm watching a doco called Life on ABC iView. There is some pretty amazing footage. They must have tiny tiny cameras because they've got images of a tadpole swimming in the centre of a fern which has a small amount of water. I like learning about living things (animals and plants).

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blogging

I just spent an epic amount of time catching up on reading everyone's blog. It seems to me that people write shorter blogs more frequently now instead of writing one large post a month. For me I don't think my life is that interesting at the moment to allow for short frequent posts.

By the way, I wish to dedicate this post to Elsie who is still reading my blog despite my lack of posting.

Going back to school this term turned out to be quite depressing. I had such a lovely school holidays and got to go away for a weekend with Rob, and the contrast of holidays and school was just so great. But I've now got over myself and am happy to say that I've made it through the first 2 weeks of school.

Today I had a day off but I still woke up early (6:45). It feels good to have all this time in the morning. I cleaned up the study so that I can actually use the desk. It's quite a nice bright room too and it beats sitting on the couch with the laptop on my lap. It'll be better for my back too.

I don't know what else to blog so I think I'll just finish here.

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Recommendations

Wow, I haven't posted anything on here for ages. Truth is... I don't really know what to be blogging about. I feel I've exhausted the topics of early marriage and the beginnings of a teaching career. But I thought about something to blog about today - YAY! I'd like to make some recommendations:

I would like to recommend "The Pilgrim's Podcast." Search it in iTunes or on Google and you'll find it. Basically it's two Christian guys who have a 30-40 minute chat with another Christian person about stuff. And it's really good! I'm not the kind of person who is good at listening to online talks or podcasts (I start staring out the window and lose concentration) but these 'chats' are really interesting and funny. I recently listened to them interviewing Andrew Thorburn (about SRE vs Ethics, as well as church planting), Col Marshall (about the book 'The Trellis and the Vine" as well as discipleship) and Steve Chong (about his church Kirkplace as well as how he encourages ministry in his congregation). From listening to those podcasts, I've been reminded about the importance of deep relationships in discipling as well as the importance of keep the Word central. You should go have a listen for yourselves. There are lots of different topics on offer.

I've also started reading te book "A call to spiritual reformation" by DA Carson. Rob has been bugging me for ages to read this book and I've finally started. And now I can see why he has been so excited about it. It's a really helpful read on how to pray. It looks at a few of Paul's prayers to see what were his priorities and motivations for his prayers. I tell you what... Paul is just an awesome person. God truly blessed him. I have to say though that reading this book is not always comfortable, as it often challenges me about my own prayers, what I pray for and what I don't pray for. But lets not get all depressed here... just read the book and put it into practise!

Now I don't know if this recommendation is worthy but hear me out, I've gone mental over MasterChef. Yes the show is great and I don't know why I love it so much but I'm a big fan. So much so that I realised that maybe I was starting to make it an idol in my life. So here's my recommendation - Bible before MasterChef. That is, now I'm making it a priority to read my Bible before MasterChef. It's a good thing to do.

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