Work

I was working today in carphone warehouse and due to new phone technology I was able to sit and watch Spiderman 2 on a mobile phone and claim I was working as I was demoing a phone! also boy was there some classic plebs in today:

"I bought this camera off you [meaning me personally] last week I’m not sure what wave length its on was hoping you could help me" – We don’t sell cameras and what camera has a wave length!

"There’s a wee door at the back of my phone" - referring to the battery cover

"Hi you may remember me I have a grey puppy!" - eh can't say I do!

"My phones broken I would like a new one…" – the phone was switched off!

More than we ask, hope or imagine...

I just love the verse from Ephesians 3v20 :
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
There have been 3 or 4 situations this week I have been in or trying to sort that I just thought were hopeless and could see no way out of and in most of them I did pray that God would blow my mind and that he would do more than I could ever ask, hope, imagine and even think of and he did! I am in awe of how great he is and how superior he is to us… and there I was doubting and worrying! He is an awesome God who reigns from heaven above with wisdom, power and love- What a thought

50 Feet from Coldplay!

The Coldplay concert was FAN-FREAKN-TASTIC! As you can see from the picture we were but 50 feet from the stage! We [Stu, dave, drew and myself] arrived down in good time had a nosey round and joined the end of the que and very surprisingly ended up getting passes to the pit at the very front of the stage. The first warm up band were good enough but the second one Interpol were rubbish the best thing about them was they wore suits on stage! There was 20,000 people there the biggest crowd to date Coldplay have played to- It was in a big open park on the south side of Dublin. We had the scientist, clocks, In my place, yellow, til kingdom come, daylight [To which Chris Martin forgot the words- TWICE] swallowed in the sea and fix you to name a few- The band played for a good hour and a half. The sun was shining, the craic was mighty and worries were none. Here�s to eating lots of ice creams like you�re a kid on holiday, good friends, singing along with 20,000 people to yellow, getting jumped on my a half drunk/naked Irish man and hearing clocks live- Truly immense is how ill sum up the day. Check out the photo album for more excellent quailty camera phone pictures!

' God loves... the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible '

William Booth

How im feeling... explained

Im almost ready to give up and throw the towel in regarding Ukraine, the race is nearly over but im tired and beaten. The past 2 weeks even the simplest of things has gone wrong [So badly that my computer won't copy and paste devotionals sent to me in emails for a daily reading book for the team yet it'll copy and paste everything else!] Now we're thousands of pounds short in our budget and all the hard graft of fundraising seems a waste. My brain feels like a dried up pea. Im down but im not out. Satan isnt happy that Im taking 46 people away to serve the Lord, and for all to see how great our Lord is and for hundreds of Ukrainian people to see and hear about Jesus, and for 46 people to experience new things and to return home fired up and ready to get stuck in at home. Would appreciate prayers for preparation over the next week and a half as there's much to do and time is sliping away espically as ive to work in carphone for 4 days next week and that all this going round in my head won't effect my sleep- Thank you. On the up here's to Coldplay concert on Wednesday!

How im feeling:

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My beloved Ukraine...

In just 3 short weeks ill thankfully be over looking this sky line in Xhmelnitsky, south western Ukraine. With 2 weeks a head of me to serve the Lord in an area of the world I love. Here's to meat patties, water fights, randomness and the famous 7 smells!!

And so it commences… AGAIN!

The realisation hit me yesterday that I’m running the Lisburn 10k on 15th June and since completing the Belfast Marathon Relay I’ve been to busy to keep up the training properly so I got on the ball yesterday and went for a run followed by another one this morning- its going to be a painful few weeks!

Ukraine draws even nearer...

This day 4 weeks we will have arrived in Kiev! The dreams have started again. Last night I dreamt we left one of the team members behind! You’ve a 1 in 46 chance of guessing who it was!

Bristol baby!

I just returned last night form a few relaxing days in Bristol with my bgf’s Emma and Claire. Good times were had by all and thankfully the twitch in my left eye stopped! [I kid you not- all last week it was giving it dixie!] On Monday we went and supported Claire as she completed her first triathlon followed by a BBQ at night, shopping and the OC on Tuesday, more shopping and Napoleon dynamite on Wednesday. Had a close call at the airport- Due to my boredom of waiting for my flight to be called I phoned a good friend to fill in time, the next thing I hear is “Could passenger Kirk on flight 445 to Belfast please proceed immediately to the departure gate" I was so embarrassed the entire plane was waiting for me!