Monthly Archives: March 2010

Excited – Finally

Posted by Andy on March 6, 2010 1 comments

After a wicked lunch with a good friend yesterday, and a lovely card from my sister, I am finally excited about my trip.

The last few weeks everyone has been telling me how very excited I must be. Now I actually am.

I’m excited about the unknown, and how much unlike a boring, safe, wellington life that is. I’m excited that I don’t know where I’m going or who I’ll meet and when, if, or what I’ll do when I come back. I’m excited about the lack of commitments. I’m excited that God is going to mess me up some more.

One season of my life has ended and another is already beginning.

I am excited.

Hope, stars and a Falling World

Posted by Andy on March 3, 2010 None comments

People say that the years after you leave home are some of the most defining years of your life. You learn about the world, you decide who you want to be and what you think. You discover and assess and grow and choose. I guess that’s me.

Over the last few years, I’ve been unable to shake to growing feeling that the world is declining. That so many beautiful things are being destroyed. There is so much fear, so much greed.

But a few nights ago I wandered down the road outside my parents house, and watched the dusk fade. The silhouette of the hills were razor sharp against the fading sky. And then the stars appeared, like pin-pricks in the silk heavens. And shouted at me: “We will still shine down on you if every last tree is cut down, we will still glimmer, more beautiful then diamonds in the upturned eyes of your children.” And I realised again, that God is more constant even than the hard silver stars, that beauty will remain in this world. And I found hope in the falling world.

This I will live for: for hope, and for beauty, and for love.