thursday (yesterday) was a completely crazy day. bear in mind that i am still sleeping off jet lag and re-adjusting to the heat here, which means im up at 5am and asleep by 7pm.
we had home school in the morning which is always enough to wipe me out for the afternoon, however i found out this week that my quite relaxing thursday afternoons are to be no more. i was volunteered to run a football class at the hope school co-op, this is basically all the kids who are home schooled get together once a week and do karate, music and sport for an hour. this basically meant that i spent an hour kicking flat footballs around with five year old kids who i had never met and whos parents were not interested in helping or joining in. excuse my obvious dislike for the situation, to make things worse it is during the hottest part of the day and is on the field where there is no shade. i started to think that it was all one big joke they were playing on me to see just how 'servant hearted' i am. at the rate its going my servant heart will attack.
to add to this i moved house and had to clean both the old house (in the morning) and the new one in the afternoon. i forgot to bring my towel from the old house so i couldnt have a shower after my sweaty football club and i didnt have any food. so i went out to get a burger from luckys, which is the macdonalds of cambodia. en route to luckys i saw a really bad accident on the road, no one was hurt but it still wasnt nice. i was soo tired by the end that i fell asleep at about 7pm and forgot to spray the room so in the morning i was woken by high pitched mozzie sounds near my ear and found that i had been biten all over during the night.
see what i mean...pretty crazy!
today i had an easier ride. im living above the church in the sunday school room (where there is a seperate bedroom and kitchen!) so it means i dont have to drive all the way to the office every morning. which is good but it also means im a fair distance from anything social that might happen. i started reading martin l jones's exposition of romans today, i was surprised to find it a relatively light read and flew through the first two chapters, i also planned out my readin g schedule for the next 8 months. this is something i know i have to do and stick to or else i never ever read. my faith shrinks when i stop reading. so i have romans, isaiah, ecclesiasties, john, 1+2 corinthians, daniel, galatians and ephesians to read as scheduled into my work time. im reading lots more on the side.
'let all the world look to me for salvation...for i am god...there is no other.'
Isaiah 45:22
living in third gear.
Ben.
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Wow! Even after your good description, hard to imagine what that day must have been like! Well done. Inspired by all that reading! Take care, Jeni
ben tucker. long time. good to see your still alive! sounds like your having an interesting, if challenging, time. its reassuring to see your still pretending to read highly intellectual books!! seems like yesterday when you were sat in bed at centre parks 'reading' J I Packer! good times. still havent got you back for nailing me in the rapids mind you...!
I really enjoy reading about your adventures, Ben. I think youre cool and all the character building is good (and amusing) to see...I dont mean to be patronising! It was good to see you at Christmas. Keep well my friend, we keep praying for you and the country. Our love to Steve and Midge.
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