A favourite place

A favourite place,

School gates
When children
Come pouring out,

Waiting areas
Where parents
Wave and shout,

frantically

fantastically

They're all special

Honesty in performance, pride in service

Jesus Predicts His Death

21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Element - gospel

22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

Element - fear 

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Element - ungodliness

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Element - two ways to live

 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Element - judgement

Another lesson in doing the right thing. How could it come any way other than experience

lawlessness

thoughts that sum up this weeks state of affairs

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/tennis/107109630/officials-are-scared-veteran-tennis-official-seething-over-serena-williams-spat

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2018/09/carlos-ramos-correct-us-open-final-serena-williams-naomi-osaka-controversy/76919/

and here's the context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVcJg6AyS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCm3BemDlj8

my heart goes out to Ramos and Osaka. Serena, I still respect you as a tennis player. Please speak for women in a way that is right, when it is right.

[21:43, 9/15/2018] Hannah: i was like crying
[21:43, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 1) so proud to see osaka win
[21:43, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 2) so moving to see serena push
[21:44, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 3) so disappointing to hear the way serena talked to the chair umpire (for the record I really respect this umpire and serena but this is not how tennis is meant to be)
[21:45, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 4) also disappointing that the tournament umpire (the "officials" who ran onto court when she disagreed with the chair umpire docking her a game point) did not overrule the chair umpires call. I think the chair umpire was right to give serena a warning like that for the way she was speaking to him. But given the stakes in the match, it would have be wiser for the officials to overrule it.
[21:46, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 5) shocked she was docked a game point at 4-3 in the second set so crazy
[21:49, 9/15/2018] Hannah: 6) Disappointed that she tried to spin this into a women's rights thing
[21:53, 9/15/2018] Hannah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irEIoJEM6bU
[21:53, 9/15/2018] Hannah: this is what makes me proud of my sport :)

confidence

I guess the real question is
do i want to become like AS
or like JC

and I already know the answer
Plus the HS is working it out
in me

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly host
Praise F, S + Holy Ghost

:)

4-6 weeks to think of my next steps?
stick close to Jesus
sleep sound in Jesus
listen hard for Jesus
all will be well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-6qbUHVww

stick close to the angels

The Baptism of Jesus

9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son;[d] with you I am well pleased.”

The Temptation of Jesus

12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

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anyway

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Arthur Kleinman's recommended reading is enlightening. It was written in 1890.

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I like this part:

If habits are due to the plasticity of materials to outward agents, we can immediately see to what outward influences, if to any, the brain-matter is plastic. Not to mechanical pressures, not to thermal changes, not to any of the forces to which all the other organs of the body are exposed; for nature has carefully shut up our brain and spinal cord in bony boxes, where no influences of this sort can get at them. She has floated them in fluid so that only the severest shocks can give them a concussion, and blanketed and wrapped them about in an altogether exceptional way. The only impressions that can be made upon them are through the blood, on the one hand, and through the sensory nerve-roots, on the other; and it is to the infinitely attenuated currents that pour in through these latter channels that the hemispherical cortex shows itself to be so peculiarly susceptible. The currents, once in, must find a way out. In getting out they leave their traces in the paths which they take. The only thing the can do, in short, is the deepen old paths or to make new ones; and the whole plasticity of the brain sums itself up in two words when we call it an organ in which currents pouring in from the sense-organs make with extreme facility paths which do not easily disappear. For, of course, a simple habit, like every other nervous event - the habit of snuffling, for example, or of putting one's hands into one's pockets, or of biting one's nails - is, mechanically, nothing but a reflex discharge; and its anatomical substratum must be a path in the system. The most complex habits, as we shall presently see more fully, are, from the same point of view, nothing but concentrated discharges in the nerve-centres, due to the presence there of systems of reflex paths, so organized as to wake each other up successively - the impression produced by one muscular contraction serving as a stimulus to provoke the next, until a final impression inhibits the process and closes the chain. The only difficult mechanical problem is to explain the formation de novo of a simple reflex or path in a pre-existing nervous system. Here, as in so many other cases, it is only the premier pas qui coute. 

premier pas qui coûte
: it is only the first step that costs: only the beginning is difficult

shopping/ wishing / stopping

https://www.10ofthose.com/products/17564/humility-audio-book [liz]

https://www.10ofthose.com/products/12597/disciplines-of-a-godly-woman

https://www.10ofthose.com/products/23873/i-am

sad
sad
sad

sigh.

https://www.10ofthose.com/products/20453/chequebook-of-the-bank-of

https://www.10ofthose.com/products/21457/a-chance-to-die

calling

where in the world
is the word
vocation
used nowadays?

is it like the german system of apprenticeship?

"In many societies in Southeast Asia, contra Weber, professionalization has thus not necessarily entailed a withdrawal from state and power; on the contrary, vocational professionals are more frequently socially oriented. Doctors who move to dabble in politics often find the transition from one to the other is never really complete; their politics and medical practice are rarely mutually exclusive.
The nature of their training no doubt played a role, too. Early generations of indigenous doctors, like lawyers, were highly educated, and occupy an important social strata as a professional nationalist intelligentsia. They were mobile subjects, often educated abroad and exposed to many different forms of government, social systems and ideological influences; yet the medical training they received disposed them to view their sociopolitical environment as a subjective plurality through which ran the rational, objective truth of modern science" p.2-3 (bold mine)

https://www.academia.edu/2976472/Healing_the_Nation_Politics_Medicine_and_Analogies_of_Health_in_Southeast_Asia_version_1.0_