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08 Oktober SmileHey everyone,
Its been a while hey, much happening at the moment and I'm excited!
This last weekend I've been at the Global Leadership Summit learning about leadership skills, the characteristics if a great leader, how to build non for profit organisations, how to live for Jesus and why do it? I'm excited! There's so much to know, so much to learn, so much to do better. So I'm left where I started, fired up, willing to serve, hungering and thirsting in my spirit for life walked intimately with Jesus and a desire see people free and living free!
I read kezza's blog the other day, deffinatly check it out and keep her in her prayers as she goes and ministers to the needy and hungry in scary scary Zimbabwe.
I start prac tommorow at south perth community hospital. I'm keen! I expect I'll be watching many surgaries over the next 4 days and running out of energy after standing and staring and looking interested all day. I love surgery, I find it absolutely increadible wat happens in theatre - how the bodies intricacies can be fixed up and yet there's so much to know about our anatomy and phisiology. Our creator is so EXCITING!
Its Jarvis's birthday today, sweet 16 and never been kissed? hehehe Who knows, I think I'll leave that one for him hehehe. Many peoples came around some swam in the pool, we shared the joy of eating mud cake and singing happy birthday, woohoo!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARVIS!!
We also got back from SPORTSFEST 2006 last weekend. Stoked! What a ripper weekend! 18 Como type peoples came down to play a wide variety of sports over the weekend as well as 7 very generous adult volunteers who gave their long weekend to help the games run smoothly. Thanks so much to all of you guys who came and participated and made the whole weekend fantastic! Extra congratulations go to Paul Taylor who in a stunning one minute flat won the grand final of chess against a well seated apponent. Also to the wallyball team who got runners up after an eventfull grand final against the overall victors Bentley! The sportsmanship made the event great!
As a side note I was injured in the second AFL game of the weekend when I ran backwards for the ball in a contested mark against my direct apponent. A team mate [thanks Ant, I know u were goin for the ball] squished both me and my apponent and I ended up the worst with a displaced right clavical at the AC joint. It sounds not so bad but once I get the goery photos up you'll see what I mean when I say that I was unable to play sport for the rest of the weekend, I had to go to the ER and have XRAYS and made an appointmet with an orthopiedic surgeon when I got home. You'll like the photos... they should be up soon.
In other news, Pete has got an eyebrow and lip piercing since his 18th and I reakon the eyebrow one is pretty cool. The lip isn't quite as great but good on ya bro. Maybe I'll try find a photo of that too.
Tomorrow night after much surgury observation I get to chair my first executive meeting for church, How excitement!! Its a lil scary coz the new senior pastor will be there as a visitor but thats ok, He knows I'm a junior in this role and seems ok with mentoring people up so it should be all good. He [ his name is alan johnston] spoke this morning and it was great! Thanks Alan! look forward to hearing you heaps more often when you come back from NSW!
Right now I'm hanging out with "the cousins". Woohoo!. Scene a lot of Amara recently which is quite excitement! Their family got a new dog recently, Samie is the second dog to join the family this year and there was small talk of a third in the near future... who knows... Amara and I are organizing a crew for Perth Planetshakers 2007 so if you would like to join us we'de be stoked to add you to our group rego. and keep those fees down.
Ok foods ready, many kudo's to Nina and Amara for cooking...
As a final ponderation for your thinking minds please consider checking out the Christian concept of supplamentory attonement... its a key to doing life with God, its what Jesus came to do so check it out. For a general introduction to the concept check out www.twowaystolive.com by matthias media! Its simple, takes 10 minutes and it'll change your life forever...
Love ya, bless ya,
Jono out...
17 September I miss you Luke...[this blog has been written over quite a period of time and represents a progression of things that have happened. i didn't get from introduction to conclusion in a day or a week and where i was at the start of writting emotionally and spiritually is different from when i finished... you can change too... it doesn't happen over night but it can happen... read on...] LUKE BENJAMIN ASKWITH
I've tried to be strong and I'm not... i've tried to hide it but you can't hide something that is staring you in the face... To all of those who have seen me trying to be strong... Its probebly as obvious to you already as it is for me now... I'm not strong, not this time, not me. One of Lukes favourite Bible versus, one they used at the funeral and put on the booklet and a verse that means a whole heap to me from my early growing up days is Joshua 1:9 where God says to Joshua: 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. If there is any strength in me, if there's anything thats couragouse in what I'm doing with my life its only because God is with me wherever i go. Tonight I went to church and I cried... something I can't do at my home church yet but its coming... And I cried because I'm desperate... I'm desperate for Jesus to come and heal up these wounds... I'm desperate for Jesus to help me out cause I'm discouraged and afraid... I'm broken on the inside, broken and in need of a spirit mechanic... I've taken my eyes of the goal and the only One who can get into my deeply fractured heart and start putting some of the pieces back where they're supposed to be... So tonight, again I fell on my knees and cryed out to God to be God in my life again**. Psalm 51 says:
17 The sacrifices of God are [c] a broken spirit; I don't expect that tommorow will be any easier. I don't expect that I'll miss Luke any less or that the hurts associated with the pain in me and the community that I live in will just dry up and move on. However, I do expect that with a truer perspective of how life is - that God is God and He is the way the truth and the life and that I don't have to hide my pain or desguise it behind "strength" or hold in the tears or pretend that I can get through this without God - that truer perspective will help me turn to Jesus for comfort and to Jesus as my best friend who I can share my utter frustration and pain and questions with. There's people who'll be reading this and wondering where its coming from, people who know me well and didn't think I'm struggling spiritually or emotionally. People who I love that I wish I could have shared this with in person. Brothers and sisters i want to and we still can share this journey together. i want to appolagise to my Young Adult Como brothers because I've been distant and kept myself busy and gaurded myself because its still a fresh wound and I haven't really known what to do about it. May this be a beginning and something to start deeper more couragous disscussions by. I still believe that God is using me in my home church and in the community of people that make it up, I'm continually amazed at the great outpurings of grace and mercy that God continues to show us. Its deffinately not perfect and its not meant to be - its the church its not God - but as the church we are supposed to do our best to love God and love others inside and outside the family of God. We get it wrong... I get it wrong... I loose track... I wonder off and do my own thing sometimes and God ends up calling me and guiding me back onto the narrow path again because He loves me... Lets listen for Gods call and be ready to seek it out when we hear it... Matthew 7:7-8 says Ask, Seek, Knock: 7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Lord God, I ask that you would help me and the readers of this blog to deal with the pain, grief and loss in our lives. I'm sorry that I've wondered off and tried to fix my own problems and made it worse. You are God and only you can fix my brokeness from the inside out. I ask that you would do that work in me. i also ask for Your love, I know that You love me heaps but I ask because I want to be able to show love to others around me in a way that reflects the love that You lavish on me. You are awesome God, not awesome as in cool but awesome like when I'm in kalbarri and look up at the giant red goerges, like at night in a paddock down south when i look at the billions of tiny stars, like the time I swam with the manta rays in corel bay, and they're mere snippets of your awesomeness... thanks God that in Your awesomeness You care for me, thanks that I don't understand some of the mind boggling things that happen in this world and thanks that I don't have to. (**He always was and is and will be God - in my prayer I don't change that but my heart cry is that because it needs to shift its vision, it needs to get back in perspective, it needs to see the truth that God is still God and reaquaint itself with that truth...) 23 August Home & 20Hey there blog readers and readerettes,
So I'm back at home and back into uni.
Crazyness has ensued since last blog, much to be done, little sleep to be had but good times enjoyed by all...
Justin returned home with Krispy Kreme doughnuts almost bursting out of his hand lugauge and oh they were good, my hat, so soft and they melt in your mouth... Prior to that I continued to inhabit his house and it wasn't all smooth sailing. I tried to do some clothes washing and managed to snap the front loaders handle with my CLOTHES INSIDE! So that went off to my uncles to get fixed and the clothes were removed before they rotted through which was a bonus. My car got broken into and my backpack got stolen overnight after youth group, nothing hugely valuable was taken as far as money goes, just a whole lot of youth work papers which represent many an hour of preperation - frustrating to say the least! And finally I clogged up the kitchen sink with who know what, apparently that happens quite frequently and the plumbing isn't exactly top notch but I didn't know that at the time and stressed out a bit. Sorry to everyone who had to put up with my complaining and rushing and worrying...
I'm glad to be back at home now and don't think I'll be moving out until I get full time work or get married, whichever comes first. My prefferance would be to get married because it kinda gets lonely all by yourself in a house and learning how to do life without family is an experience I think I wanna share with someone rather than face it on my own. But I supose thats not really up to me and I'm sure Gods got those plans all sorted out for me in His time... Bring it on God :P
I had the privellage of hanging out with Jax and Sam all the way from New Zealand recently and that was great fun. Jax is cousin of the morine family - as in both the Amara and Alyce varieties. Its always refreshing to meet new people with different perspectives and opinions. So we watched lots of DVD's and I took them to the bell tower and to heathcote and we even went to scitech although I wouldn't recommend that for anyone over 15. The planaterium is pretty cool, its like a 360 degrees movie screen experience thing and we watched a presentation on MARS which was cool.
The recording has also hit full speed over the last couple of weeks with the final tracks being done on friday and editing, mixing and post production to come. Sportsfest forms have also been coming in from all over the place and thats very exciting as we lead up to the weekend away at the end of September.
I turned 20 on Monday the 21st of August 2006. It doesn't feel any different, just like every other birthday - in reality its just another day. But it was a great day! I felt pretty special, thanks everyone who was a part of that! I recieved presents and mara came over for dinner and mum got some chocolate pudding which is my favourite desert eva... And heaps of people txt'ed me wishing me well and congratulating me on my achieving a milestone... Awwww thanks guys!
Now I'm at uni in the computer labs and its 12:30, time to call mara me thinks...
Jono
25 Juli House Sitting... Day 6Hello Readers!!
Yeah thats right, I'm not typing this at 1AM at home in my room after a long hard day sleeping in and doing some uni work... its 4PM and I'm drying clothes, looking at recipies on the net (www.chefs.com) and people are over watching a DVD... I'm house sitting...
I'm learning so much about things I've never really paid much attention to... I've been food shopping twice and food stuffs are expensive!!! Like i got some steak, and I got the cheaper one coz we're going to cut it up into strips anyways but it was still way expensive... And who would ever buy yellow capcicum at those prices... my hat...
The rains been great BUT how hard is it to dry clothes when its raining!! Justin has two electric heaters that are really bright but they don't seem to emit much heat at all. They been drying for two days now...
And it feels like I been washing dishes constantly for a while now...
But there are some really cool things about doing the bachelor thing... Like having mates over... They just drop in and its like yeah hang out, watch TV, play XBOX, eat left over food... I'm a people person, I need people around otherwise I'de get lonely and quit this gig after a week...
So tonight Amara and I are cooking for our good friends Steve and Beck (yes the same steve who's in the recording studio photos). How exciting! And this is just a practice run for more entertaining on the weekend...
I've been thinking about learning to cook for a while now... It seemes to be something that takes some practice, and repitition seems a bit of a key to making it stick in my brain and developing recipies from textbook plainess to gourmay speacialities. A while ago I made my first cook book purchase and I took a while choosing, in the end I went home with Nigela Lawsons "How to eat". On reading I found it pretty confusing and the one recipie I've tried out of it was a desaster. Self saucing chocolate pudding, but it was yuck because it tasted to cocoay and flour powdery... But being the novice cooK i decided that it was my fault and tried again... twice... after adjusting some instructions like using a beater to mix the dry with the wet ingredients and using less cocoa it was almost edible but not the same as grandma's recipe that I make all the time and always seems to work.... Hopefully there are better ones in there...
I also found www.chefs.com which is pretty cool... Beef stroganoff followed by steaming hot chocolate brownie and icecream seams to be on the menu tonight... I'll let steve and beck be the judge on how that goes...
Well, time to go make the house decent for guests and pick up amara for some extreme cooking...
cya next time you drop by bachalorville...
Jono, Master Chef 20 Juli The Scope Blogs… Episode #1Welcome to the first step of our journey, our first day in the studio and the first time we’ve done this whole recording thing.
We arrived at loop studios at 6:20ish PM… Steve having had Macca’s and me, I was gnawing on some Nando’s ribs. We sat in Steve’s car, caught up on the day and prayed about everything, especially the recording session that is currently underway.
My phone buzzed and it was my schedule, 6:30PM, time to go and meet Kieran the Audio Engineer for some recording action. We enter and Kieran’s sitting behind the whopping great mixing desk and a rather large monitor doing his thing. Steve starts setting up his guitar in the cool little booth that Kieran designed for this recording. I decided to take some photo’s while everything happens around us.
(Check them out below)
I was surprised just how many mikes Kieran is using to record the one acoustic guitar track, I think there’s a total of four.
So after Steve was set up and tuned up and Kieran was happy with the mix he’d created (apparently it was big and fat and full … I agreed) it was time to pray it up before we got into the first take for Steve’s Song EJLH. Kieran went first and I don’t usually comment on how people pray but this guys deep, he prayed from what I could only imagine is a pretty intimate relationship with Jesus… I’m glad this guys producing our CD… God’s got this in control.
The guitar track for EJLH took longer than planned but apparently it’s a good thing we decided to do two of the acoustic parts tonight because it’s the setup that takes the time… Unfortunately time is money, I’m sure both Steve and Kieran could do this forever and I’d so love to give them that opportunity… maybe Gods got a plan like that for heaven… All the angels singing songs so glorious and worshipful and Steve and others of Gods mates who’s hearts speak a universal musical language playing their favorite instruments to join in the praise and Kieran sitting in His God given booth mixing it up to produce a sound that warms the heart as it emanates the amazing love of Jesus Christ and the joy of flowing on the waves of the Spirit… big, fat and full… Glorious!
So EJLH was a take… Steve came in and we all had a listen of what we got… Kieran sorted out the messy bits and all that was left to do was record some extra bits to fill in, Steve had it down really quick.
Then it was time for song #2 of tonight, Song of Reflection… I totally fall in love with this melody every time I hear it… And Steve's first take is a bit of a ripper... A couple more like that and some musical genius as Kieran decides steve shouldn't use a pick for a while to give iit that "indie, we're doin' it for the children" kinda feel... apparently??... Even though i'm not really sure what indie sounds like or why we're doing it for the children there in lied a moment of joy for me. Seeing two musically gifted minds work out something that sounds fantastic and creative, a "feel", reasured me, encouraged me and made me thank God for His big family and everyones unique talents... I have no idea what they were talking about or how they went about it but it was pretty cool...
With some more preliminary mixing and a happy Snap for the church newsletter we were finished our furst ever session in a recording studio... and it was great... more goodness to come... We're due back in the Loop around August 14th so keep posted for news on our progress and then look out for the CD in late september!
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