A Really Great Day

Today has been a really great day!

First of all, I went down to our tree plantation (we live on a farm) and did a hour of work down there. After that, I came back home and spent some time looking at my university options. Mum and I have decided that I should do university via the internet, since it’s easier for homeschool students to enter university in that way, rather than through all the tests and year 12 exams etc. I looked at what units I would need to study as an introduction to online study, my necessary study-schedule, costs and so forth.

At church we met a young man who’s just come into town and has the same interests as me- history, politics, worldview/philosophy and cricket. So we invited him to come over one day so he and I could talk. He came over this morning and after showing him the house and our tree plantation we had a great conversation about Christianity and philosophy.

We discussed a Christian’s perspective on warfare, some philosophies we had read about, blocking, accepting or transforming secular culture and some of the reasons we have human conflict. It was fantastic. I really enjoyed discussing these deep issues with him, and I think he did too.

So now I’ll do a bit more schoolwork, and go to work to finish off some lawn mowing I couldn’t do yesterday (lawn was wet).

Do you guys have anybody you know you can have meaningful discussions with? Other than this man, there’s a few people in my church (including an older man from Bible Study) and most of all, my parents who I occasionally have meaningful conversations with, and I really value them for it. What about you guys?

2:21 PM - Aug. 20, 2009 - post comment

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That's awesome. Glad you had such a great time! And yeah, seems like there's never an overabundance of people you can have really deep, meaningful conversations with. My closest friends tend to be the ones who can talk about that kind of stuff.

~Beth

writer4him - 1:46 AM - Aug. 21, 2009

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Hey!

I talk with my mom a LOT about deap stuff. But our conversations are pretty much about the same thing every time, which is totaly fine. :) I like having them.
We say that you can't ask my mom a question without getting a bible study along with it. lol Which is pretty much true. :)

Thanks! I'm glad you like my pictures. :)
It's actually not a lantern in that one picture. It's a humming bird feader and the bird in the picture is a humming bird. :) The other bird is not a humming bird. It's called a finch, I think. :)

Well the rabbits in our garden seem to be not too scared of us, so I can get pretty close the them.
The only reason we haven't scared these rabbits away is cause they haven't been doing any damage, or any that we've notived. ;)

Okay! I've actually gotten almost half way through the second book! :) It's hard to read a book after watching the movie SO MANY times. The battle at Helms Deap seemed to be a little strange to me in the book. Anyways...I can't wait to see anything else you might put up about LOTR. :D

God Bless,
Sheilla kiwi

Rachsters - 6:21 AM - Aug. 21, 2009

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Finding like-minded friends

It is exciting to see God providing you with older men who can talk to you and pull you on, not only with your quest for knowledge but also in your love for God.

I'm so glad you had a great day, especially the time with our new friend.

Love
your Mother

belindaletchford - 6:21 AM - Aug. 21, 2009

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Friends