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 Charlie Knox26, m, resident of spa, northern ireland, a thinker, who tries to be real, enjoys the company of nala(left), indebted to jesus for his grace and instruction in life and whose, amongst other things, studying sports science at UUJ. enjoy rugby a whole lot! |
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Just got myself a fotolog. I can only upload one photo per day but not bad for this service being free - a good way to share some pics. Check out the first entry - Ricey old lady style!!! thanks to jordoncooper.com for the idea posted by charlie | 7:22 PM | Going down under Had a great afternoon on Sunday. Some folks from Newcastle told me about some caves in the mournes. They told me kinda roughly where they were and so on Sunday along with Andy, Chris and Johnny, i went looking for them. After hunting around the region i thought they were in, we stumbled across a few small caves including one with a pretty tight squeeze that gave way into a bigger cavern, however none seemed to fit the description i had got from the guys in Newcastle. So we hunted further until we finally found the one they had been talking about. It tunneled back for about 20/30 metres and included a few squeezes up and down and some long caverns. Obviously they were pitch dark but kinda made you feel like you were on a big adventure - the type of stuff i read about in Famous 5 books as a kid. After playing around inside we just headed back home and got a right royal soaking on the way. After trying to stay dry for a while we eventually gave up and ending up just playing around in the rain like kids. That mtached with Andy Edgar's sponataneous bursts of humour made for a real fun afternoon. Thanks to God!! (for any of you wanting to find these caves hit this link for the relevant map - they are found in the rocks marked at where the two paths join just south of Blue Lough) posted by charlie | 1:55 AM | Thursday, July 24, 2003 As you may have gathered we're all back from Ukraine now. We've actually been back for nearly two weeks now but I've been feeling thoroughly unenthusiastic about all things online. It's likely that this mentality could continue!!! In short, Ukraine was great. It definitely didn't stand out as being way out of the ordinary this year - I'm used to the food now and often found myself quite liking it, the toilets are no worse than a trip up into the Mournes and as a far as the more spiritual side of things goes i think I'm at the stage where I don't want to get hyped up just for two weeks but rather that the time would be a natural continuation of what happens in the day-2-day experiences at home. So nothing personally outstanding about Ukraine -just a real good trip - a trip of deepened friendships both with Ukrainians and those on our team, a trip of seeing others lives blessed, particuarly the kids that came on camp and a trip getting to see a culture where life is definitely harder but less cluttered and complicated by many unimportant issues that we get ourselves bothered with over here. The second week was like a holiday for me. Great accomodation. Not a hectic camp (15 kids - over 20 leaders!!!!), Great beach with superb waves. Team full of good friends. At the start it all felt a bit weird, especially after coming of the youth camp on the first week, and i felt a bit guilty, however as the week went on i appreciated the time for the gift it was. I suppose if i was to put a little lesson down that i'd learnt though Ukraine it would be that of exposure - not in the literal naked sense - but rather the idea of becoming vulnerable and exposing those things that niggle away at us underneath the surface. Using the picture of a flourbowl - one has to get the lumps to the surface in order to break them down - in the same way we have to expose the things that get us in order for them to be dealt with. Whether that be fears, worries, insecurites, sins, questions - they all must be acknowledged or confessed before they can be challenged or healed. Practically this means being honest with myself, with God and very often with those around me. I guess this is a difficult, painful, even risky process but one that definitely pays off aftwerward. Anyway must run on here. Real life interactions call me off these 'online' ones! posted by charlie | 8:27 PM | Did you know.....?? Each cow (ukr:korova) in the world has a completely unique nose-print, much like the fingerprint in the case of us humans! posted by charlie | 8:05 PM | |
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