God provides in funny ways.  I’ll always be grateful for HT because he’s like my little brother, ha ha!  BKT dinner was good.  I think I felt sad but blessed that I could say: Comm is the bestthing that has happened in my OCF life, and there was semisortof surprise around.  You know in some stupid way it’s almost like you have this lofty sentiment that – I would lay down my life for the Comm (haha laughatme)…  Just because I feel like I see so much and so many different aspects of God’s character from each person’s life.   

Of course, as the indomitable Nan from L.M. Alcott’s Jo’s Boys (only true devotees of Little Women would have wept over the whole series) once remarked: ‘Boys [people] always say they’ll die for you.  It’s the living and working that is much harder.’  

Then again, it’s early yet, ha ha.  But yeah…  I AM getting ready to leave OCF.  Perspective is important because it dictates what we hold onto and what we see as priorities (thetradeoffeffect)    

‘Happiness or sadness or wealth should not keep anyone from doing God’s work.  Those in frequent contact with the things of the world should make good use of them without becoming attached to them, for this world and all it contains will pass away.”

 

1 Corinthians 7:30 – 31 (NLT)

ThePursuitofHappyness:  it was good but not as good as I thought it would be?  I guess it takes a certain kind of movie to really touch me: to make me think and probe. 

WillSmith is a fantastic actor – especially at the last bit when he (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) makes it…  The whole glazed over eyes, almost imperceptibly trembling clenched jaw…      

Being a wordphile I would have made something of the fact it was happyness with a y (‘the place that they don’t spell happiness right’) and not an I (‘there’s an I in happiness) – I was waiting for some pithy saying along the lines of (wh)y do we run after happiness so much, or the ‘why’ is at the centre of the pursuit of happiness because often… it’s like you’re running after this idea that you’re not even sure will make you fulfilled at the end of it…. Kinda like…  reaching to holdup the sky for the sake of it?

Maybe ‘I’ is central to the pursuit of happyness – is it entirely a selfish affair?

…I don’t quite believe in happy…  I believe in contentment and joy.

Luke 18 Persistence.