It comes and it goes.

I'd really rather be at Moore College. Just, really. Some days I am so fed up with uni. It just frustrates me. The subject matter - the way we think about the problems of the world and try to imagine solutions that are destined to failure. I love theology, I want to go into ministry, why am I stuck here? I know, I know, you don't have to tell me. But some days...

It probably won't happen.

Living in a local caravan park would be most excellent. Think about it. What a fantastic opportunity for ministry. If I were married and my husband wasn't too weirded out by it, I reckon living in the Fairfield caravan park for a year or two would be great because we could meet so many new people AND it would be stupidly affordable. Caravan parks are their own contained communities, but you could absolutely just go around meeting everyone and making friends, even easier than if you moved into an apartment block or something. I'd have a barbecue the first weekend I moved in and invite everyone. Tara and I were joking about this last night and I baulked at the thought of her even suggesting we holiday there in jest but this morning on the train I couldn't stop thinking about the possibilities and I thought, 'I can't wait to tell Tim Booker (who led our SWEATCon elective on innovative evangelism) that I totally have a new idea!'

This also makes me happy because it reminds me that no matter what you're doing, when the rest of the world thinks it's crazy, if you're doing it for the sake of the gospel it's a damn good thing to do and it has meaning. At ReachOut we were told about the ministry of Filipino maids in middle eastern countries who are able to speak to the women who hire them while their husbands are out and they share Jesus with them. The world says that working as a maid for your whole life is not a life at all but one big giant fail. But the Christian says, get me in there, this is the greatest ever because it means I get to talk about Jesus with people who are otherwise completely inaccessible. I love that! I love that so much.

And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free - John 8.32

That's freedom. The freedom to live your life without caring about what you have, what you might get, where you will go, wondering what the point of it all is. I know why I'm here - to be in relationship with God and share the good news with others. I know where I'm going - to be with God forever. Everything else is temporary and ultimately doomed to destruction. Feel my excitement people! I'm living for something.