The Sound of Music...

Or the writing of a blog in this case :)

Been in Hull today, watching The Sound of Music at the cinema... One off special, so my auntie came through and went to it with my mum and me... My 3rd birthday outing! Haha :) SO good! I forgot how much i love that film! And Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are AMAZING! I'm going to be singing songs from the soundtrack for the next 3 weeks haha.

I had my first session with my Maths tutor this week, went really well and i found it very useful! Gave me a bit of a confidence boost, as i "caught on" quite quickly once i had had certain things explained to me... I think sometimes it's hard home schooling, only from the point that if you are doing a subject that you're parent/s aren't really very knowledgable about, and you're figuring it out for yourself, it can be hard to get past the "sticking" points, well for me anyway. Only really in Maths though... I think because of the nature of it, when you get to a more advanced level, it's alot more difficult to learn the concepts and things than say it would be to study English or History more in depth... I'm just not very confident with numbers though haha, i guess everyone learns differently, and i have no idea if this is making much sense, but hopefully you get my drift! :D

On another note... I was reading Matthew 23 in my devotions yesterday... And i thought i would share a few thoughts with you (as it seems to have become a bit of a tradition to do in the quiet world of Blog) on it, because it really challenged me :) and i speak to myself here before i speak to any of you, dear Readers...

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." - Matthew 23 v 27

The Pharisees were so concerned with how they were perceived by people, that they had become so preoccupied with "keeping up appearances", they no longer cared about what God thought of them and their heart attitudes. I wonder whether once upon a time, these men genuinely loved God and wanted to serve them, or whether the only thing that attracted them to the position of Pharisee was adoration by the general public?

In man's eyes, these men were hyper-godly, wise, knowledgable, etc. etc., yet in their hearts they were hard-hearted, cold and sinful, full of "dead men's bones".

If we truly love God, and are striving to walk more closely with Him, and be more Christ-like in our every day lives, we won't care what man's opinions are of us, as long as we are pleasing God. The Bible tells us that we will be persecuted by the unsaved, we are called to be a peculiar people, but are we willing to give in to that persecution, and forsake God for a few years of peace on earth? Or are we going to stand up for our most precious Saviour, and remember that God's opinion of us matters for eternity?

". . . . for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart."

If we are seeking to be Godly, holy, obedient to God, we will have a Godly beauty that far outshines any "whited sepulchres", a beauty that shines through into our every day life, a Godly beauty in our characters that has far more effect than mere words to a lost soul. Telling people of the way of Salvation is very important, but we must walk the walk as well as talk the talk, our actions are just as much of a witness to people as our words!

So the question that remains is this, are we whited sepulchres, only wanting man's good opinion of us, and full of dead men's bones, or are we truly seeking after God, waiting for His leading and walking in close communion with Him? Is God our number One priority, or just a "hobby"?

I hope, dear Reader, that i am an encouragement to you, as the few of you who read this, are to me :)

I'm back!

I hope!

It's been SO long since i last posted, i feel so guilty! But this post is by way of reviving the Blog, and using this to let people know what i'm up to. I'm about to delete my Bebo page, it's just such a waste of time, and i have little enough as it is without wasting it on a site that has no spiritual or educational benefits at all!

Alot's been happening with me recently... Drama, drama! But hopefully life will quieten down now, and i can just get on with studying. I've had more than enough excitement, i can live without it! But i shall blog about that slightly more in depth later, it's one of my rants unfortunately for you, dear Reader.

I've just started AS-Levels, i'm doing maths, english literature and history. I wanted to do politics as well, but i'm doing the coursework etc. via correspondance, through the Kilskeery Christian Independant School, and they don't have politics as an option. Rather disappointing as that was the subject i most wanted to do, along with history, but i may do it at night school when we've moved...

On that note, we have buyers for the house, and we find out next week what's happening, so i'll let you know how that goes! My dad still hasn't mentioned anywhere yet... I don't think people realise just HOW much we live life on the edge, not out of choice but because it's forced on us by my dad refusing to make plans for anything that is more than a week away!

Anyway, this was by way of getting back into the "blogging" mindset, and as it's rather late, i'm going to leave now. I'm going to try and blog again before the end of this week, and then hopefully i will manage to blog at least once a week after that. I'm going to use the time i would spend on Bebo to improve my piano playing skills, hopefully i should be much improved within a couple of months. I want to be able to play hymns well, so that i can play in church when our pianist isn't there!!

Anyway, i shall leave you now, i have a pooch to walk! Blog to you later ;-)