Procrastination

Why is it that I can never seem to do the thing that I am meant to be doing??  When housework needs done I have a repulsion to housework but can quite happily spend time reading and finding out things, but when I need to read and find out things (e.g. for my dissertation, which I am supposed to be working on right now!) I have a repulsion to that and suddenly housework seems very appealing!  And when both need done all I really want to do is watch mindless soaps and faff about on facebook!! 

I Googled “procrastination” and came across a couple of pages that are actually pretty helpful, so I thought I’d share them with my fellow procrastinators: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/procrastination.html and http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/procras.html and if they don’t help and you want to procrastinate some more then watch this YouTube clip, It’s so freakily true…

 

Christ is risen…

…He is risen indeed!  Hallelujah!

These words have been proclaimed today by Christians all over the world as we celebrate Easter Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead around 2000 years ago.  He died in our place for our sin in order to reunite us with God, and in rising again he defeated death.  Jesus said, ”I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26) and  “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3).

This morning I went to the church I’ve recently begun to attend, Queens Park Baptist Church.  It’s a large, busy and active church in the South Side of Glasgow which I felt led to join recently (although I’m missing my former church, St. Silas where I was for 6 and a half years).  It’s quite hard joining a new church, especially one so big and busy, and especially for an intravert like myself who usually takes a long time to make friends, but I’m trusting God that it’s the right move, having known from the start that it was not always going to be easy and that I was going to bring my ‘issues’ with me whatever church I ended up in!  The service this morning was really good.  A baby was dedicated, and then three teenagers and two adults were baptised, which made me feel quite emotional!  It brought back memories of when I was baptised as a teenager at Dumfries Baptist Church.  I used to have a recording on tape of my baptismal service but in my early 20′s I ran away from God and church for 5 years and during that time threw out anything ‘Christian’.  I so regret that now and I’ve been praying that a tape of the service is still in existence as I would love to listen to it again…  Looking back I’m amazed at God’s love and forgiveness, taking me back like the ‘Prodigal Son’ after I rejected him so deliberately, and turning my life around from despair and hopelessness to acceptance and freedom.  He is truly amazing!

I’m back in blog-land!

Welcome to my new blog!  I stopped my last one due to the yearly fee I was being charged, but have got this one for free so I’m back!  Watch this space!!