Weekend

Last weekend was good. Good but tiring.
I drove up to Wollongong after work on Friday, went to Sal's house and role played, continuing our campign which was fun. It is good to be able to see the dudes from Wollongong again.
After role playing, Mark and I went to TOD (boys house) and hung out, waiting for the uber awesome lan party weekend which Mark W had organised. Friday night we stayed up till about 2:30 in the morning playing various arcade games on Tim's custom made arcade machine. One of the best games was Puzzle Fighter. Kind of a variant of tetris but with a street fighter kind of vibe. You challenge the other player and whenever you get a combo of blocks being removed it adds blocks to the other players stack.
Saturday was fun too. We played some Warcraft 3 tower defence and some battlefield. We of course ran into the usual lan problems of non-compatibility, firewalls and the rest but overall it was lots of fun.
Sunday morning I went to Al's house and he made me a tasty omelette and we watched some Seinfeld (most recent season out) which was fun. Drove home about 12:00, had 45 mins of sleep and went to church.
Last night bible study was on the last 2 weeks sermons in Provervbs: Husbands and Wives. It was a good study but we finished probably 45 mins later than planned. Work again at 7am this morning.
I'm tired.

Posting

Hi All,
As promised I am trying to post more often.
Enjoy.

Proverbs 31 Man?

Last night's sermon at church was on Proverbs on the topic of 'Husbands - A few inconvenient truths'. And I have to say that it was really good.

The sermon focused on the references to Husbands in Proverbs (of which there are only a few) together with a biblical overview of marriage generally and the good old Ephesians 5. The really interesting (and helpful) tack that the minister put on it was by looking at the different ways in Proverbs that women were referred to and what sort of man would encourage or discourage certain behaviour.

The inconvenient truths that he spoke on were:
- How husbands are to live like they are married, not single by the way they spend their time and money. How much time do you spend away from your wife? Stuff like that.
- Who you should spend time with when you are not with your wife. Are there friends or groups that encourage you to be dissatisfied with your wife.
- If you have some sort of issue, are you avioding talking about it with your wife and discussing it with someone who is not your wife.
- What images you are presented with telling you what is beautiful. He spoke on how the world inundates us with images of what is beautiful. He said that whatever your wife is, that is what should be beautiful for you. If she is short, then beautiful is short, etc, etc.
- He also spoke about the power of words and how although he would never hit his wife in a million years, he has said things that were very hurtful and was ashamed about that.

He used lots of good examples, but one of the ones that really hit me was when he talked about the woman of Proverbs 31. He spoke saying 'What sort of man would the proverbs 31 woman be married to? He took a couple of examples like verses 16+17 "She considers a field and buys it out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks." What sort of man would her husband be like? The minister said that he doubts that her husband would be a slob who sat at home and did nothing all day which, of course, is a great point. What sort of man would inspire and encourage that sort of woman?

Although I am not married I believe that this sermon is great for 2 reasons. The mainstream reason people give is that one day I may be married and so it will apply later. Sure, but I believe that there is a better reason in that the kind of man that makes a good husband also makes a good brother in Christ. The kind of things mentioned: how you spend your time and money, who is helpful for you spend your time with, what images are going into your head, and how you speak with people are great things for all Christian men to be working on.

Will the Christian men out there join me in trying to be a Proverbs 31 man?

I snow what you mean

I had the day off yesterday. For the first time ever I couldnt get to work due to the fact that the job was snowed out.
On my way to work, the police had blocked off the road and turned everyone back because of the snow. I didnt see any actual snow which was sad but some people who made it in before they closed the road took some photos.

This is the on-site concrete batching plant.

And this is one of the perimeter roads.

Kind of weird but way cool.

Long Weekend (Queens Birthday I think)

This last weekend, as a long one, meant that I was able to go up to Wollongong and spend some time with friends up there.
Sat lunch time I drove up and caught up with Kester, Al and Dave Gray. Sat night Jon invited people over to his house for pot luck dinner which was good. Sunday was fairly cruisy with a visit to the gym and then church. It was nice to catch up with people I havent seen in a while.
Monday was role playing with the boys which I had missed. It was probably more enjoying to be able to hang out with them than the playing itself but I admit that the playing was pretty good too.
I called Dad for his birthday during the day. It was nice to have a chat. He was going well but my uncle had had a fall which was unfortunate.
After that I went up to Sydney and stayed at mum and Terrys. I got the car serviced Tuesday and got back to Canberra yesterday afternoon.
Not an action packed weekend by any stretch but it was really good to see friends and spend time with them. It had been too long.