Abounding In Love

I've decided to jump feet first on to the blogging bandwagon! Partly due to the zillions of pointless thoughts I have to share with people, the amazing blogs some of my friends keep, and my love of procrastination.

So before I tell you about my lovely day, I'll explain the name... I didn't take too long picking it in all honesty. It's pretty straight forward - 'Abounding in Love' is one of my favourite descriptions of God. He is love! He created us, and we disobeyed Him, He sent His ONLY son to DIE for us, and even once we are saved we still continue to go our own way and sin against Him. Despite all of this, all the hurt we cause and all the sin we commit, regardless of the number of times we turn our backs on Him and go our own way, He is ALWAYS there, patiently calling us back to Him in His mercy. If that isn't love, then what is?!

Back to my lovely day... It started off with a standard rubbish morning in college with pointless lessons that I didn't pay much attention to, then I got locked outside my house in the pouring rain because I forgot my keys (again) and haven't yet perfected the art of picking a lock with a hair pin, none of which were particularly 'lovely'. However, I then went for lunch and spent the evening with my friend, Becky Roberts. In short, she is amazing! We had a great catch up :) She told me all about how God's working in her dad's life, which I loved hearing! And although (hopefully) she didn't notice, I couldn't help but tear up as she was telling me (in a good way). A bit embarrassing really, considering we were chilling in Debenham's Cafe at the time. But I love seeing and hearing how God is working in someone's life, it's always such a massive encouragement and a challenge (something I really needed today!), and this in particular is something so many people have been praying for. I love seeing answered prayer :) Becky used to be my Dad's P.A, so we spent ages talking/laughing about our memories of him, something I'll definitely write more about soon :)

Another less enjoyable part of my day was the realisation of the amount of work I have to do. As mentioned earlier, I am a massive procrastinator! If it was a sport, it'd be the only one I was good at! When exam season hits, my room is always spotless, I find facebook actually interesting and even trips to the gym become vaguely enjoyable! I'm working on it though.

Ooooo, while I was at Becky's I had a super exciting phone call to confirm that I'll be spending much of my summer in Kenya! I'll be volunteering with an orphanage on the coast near Watamu (about 80km from Mombasa). I'm really excited to get involved in such a worthy project and experience another culture, though I'm a ridiculously fussy eater and they apparently eat a lot of goat. And they don't have ketchup. This could genuinely be an issue. I essentially have the attitude to trying new food that a toddler does. It scares me. However, the place is BEAUTIFUL, the work exciting and I know that once I'm there I'll never want to come home! At least a one way ticket will reduce the cost somewhat...