So I havent updated my blog in weeks! As i settle down to include my latest entry I've been thinking back to my mental month of March! I posted on the blog a while ago, Pete McK's thoughts on "Whirlwinds," it really blew me away! (Excuse the pun!) but not only that it made me think about when God was going to bring a whirlwind to my own experience/life.
That came a few weeks ago...
No one's seen me, heard from me, xboxed with me, drank much coffee with me or generally had a radar bleep because i've been so absoloutely snowed under.
The PhD is ticking along at a rate of knots, when i say ticking its counting down to an explosion of nuclear proportions lol, we might just get a bit Jack Bauer on it and save it seconds from disaster!
The school front began this month with a general inspection. Cue Sy bricking it and getting himself all ready only for Mr Inspector man not to come anywhere near him! Why are you complaining I hear you ask!?! Because I was a hero and had my entire broom cupboard sparkling and ready should any demonic inspectoral force come a knocking! (Its not that inspectors are demonic, its just we teachers find the whole experience a little distressing!). Anyways my special needs work is great and I'm working away on that in the background!
Oh! I also had camp! Camp was fantastic! The usual kids all came back for the craic and we had some new ones too. It was based on Big Brother and all went swimmingly. However Sy had burnt himself out by the end of the Saturday night and was totally wrecked from 9pm that evening until he went home the next day. It might have been the fact that he's doing too much! But 5 kids became Christians and thats always cool. I hope our kids really keep going with God when they go home.
And then there was Warick! What a mental experience! So i'm going to a congference on SEBDs (Social, Emotional and Behavioural Disorders) in children and its in England and I dont want to go. People i dont know, etiquette I dont know and just general hassleyness! Anyways, God introduced me to a lady who was very cool. I basically knew there was another person from NI coming over and to be honest i never gave much thought to it, i was worried about me being on my own but also that maybe this person wouldnt want me hanging around just because we had a similar accent! Turns out she's from really close by me! She also works as a Spec Needs teacher in the school round the corner from mine and is so enthusiastic about my PhD work! God really helped me by letting us meet, and now i've got my very own PhD mum lol. Its cool :)
Warwick was a very interesting joint in that even though the climate is kinda the same and it wouldnt look out of place at home, the whole feel of the place is very different. It sounds wierd but you can almost feel the secularism of the area/nation and its feels quite Godless to be honest. I just know that if I had to live in England, it wouldnt be great, I'd just have to muddle on. There is SUCH a difference between the two places. It makes you appreciate Ireland so much despite the bombs and the bullets and the goin's on.....
God has been teaching me LOADS lately! Its quite freakish how he's working in my life and helping me reassess ideas, concepts and issues around my personal theology and how i practically live my christian life. He's made me see my church is my home and I shouldnt feel the need to run off around other assemblies but to stay and be committed no matter how infuriated i sometimes feel.....
I've been thinking about trust, hearing from God, feelings and such. I suppose it brings me to the real crux of my mental march....girls. Lol
I know, I know, McLean and his women! Like a dog chasing cars, once he gets caught up with them he doesnt know what to do! Actually thats how Gary's Lightbody's dad saw him when he was a teenager and it gave Snow Patrol the inspiration for Chasing Cars supposedly. But yeah there's a girl, and she's awesome! I'm not going into too much detail but I think its safe to say she's got beautiful looks and a really sweet and Godly personality. But despite all this lol "Girl X" as we shall call her has had Mr McLean up, down and round and round and inside out! She's challenged my religious beliefs, she's challenged me to get a grip on reality and trust God more, she's just been used so much of God to wise me up and help me connect with the real world instead of getting hung up on all the rubbish that makes Sy tick!
There's nothing going on of course and I really must stress that, but yeah, anyone who can make me think differently and challenge my views really intrigues me!
So all in all there's an update and some changes afoot. As i say often enough of late, God is up to something, i dont know what it is, there's a blowing in the wind. I think its a wind of change. Maybe it'll blow through me and blow me clean again, maybe i'll change direction and course.
I dont know but to be honest I dont want to miss it, God's doing something cool and I want to be right in the middle of the Whirlwind
Good to see that the real mr mclean has finally stood up (again)!
Posted by: Michael Johnston | March 30, 2007 at 08:02 PM
Definitely good to see you blogging again. The bleep on the radar nearly knocked me for 6...
Posted by: Stephen | April 03, 2007 at 09:53 PM
Big Sy, are you sure that wind isn't just a big mammoth fart? Get your arse back online and it will all be sorted! Oh and check out my blog-trying to be all hip and cool with it-just like you big lad!!!
Posted by: Molar | April 25, 2007 at 09:35 PM