howie’s halfpipe

8 days until my blog is 2 years old.

yay me.

Tomorrow is davids bye bye dinner, sunday is davids bye bye at the airport. Monday is office all day then Athens meeting in campsie. Tuesday is a daytrip. Wednesday is fly to tasmania day, for youth foundations training, then sunday youth foundations begins, the following sunday is fly back to sydney day.
Back in sydney for 2 anda bit weeks then fly to Greece dor 3 weeks. then come back for 3 weeks then fly to tassie for one week.

my poor little body, its lucky i’m so buff.

I was thinking about heaven this afternoon, and it was like right now as we plod around on earth all the people who are in heaven already are getting the place ready for the big influx of people that will arrive when Jesus goes and gets them all.
There are people putting up banners, and old ladies in hats setting up these tables with scones on them, while these old guys in braces and tight grandpa pants set up the earns for tea and coffee. There is a big green patch of grass where there is some big white trucks and guys are pulling rigging and scaffolding and staging out of the truck for the big “welcome home concert”. The heavenly bands are doing sound checks and the big search lights are tested each night. The “heaven womens auxiliary” are photocopying and folding the programs for the big concert. There is a big OB van where they are getting ready to do a live mix of the concert, with lots of giant screens.
On the other side of the green patch there is builders working day and night building Truman show style housing for us all to live in, with little picket fences and stuff.

God walks around with a clipboard seeing how all the preparations are coming along. And Jesus is off running the childcare program while all the other get ready building houses and playing in bands and folding programs.

People with mental disabilities don’t have a disability, they are the most able people on this planet. How many people with a mental disability do you see judging people, holding grudges, blackmailing, twisting, hating.
Never, thats when.

People with mental disabilities are who we should be getting our mentoring and guidance from especially illness like down syndrome. People with down syndrome just keep on loving and smiling, sure they can get grumpy but the grumpiness never turns into a grudge or a prolonged hatred. It lasts for a very short amount of time. There is always love. You could do something to upset someone and 20 seconds later they hug you and embrace you. The past is forgotten.

Why is it that the people in this world who are the best examples of loving other people are the people we class as being “sick” and “disabled” and suffering from an “illness”.
Being able to always love is not an illness, its us who are ill. Not them.

Jesus tells us to love our neighbor, thats everyone!! Jesus loved everyone, why cant we?

You don’t need words to love,

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

‘m not sure why i had this sudden outburst but i was thinking about it the other day.