Little report

It's hard to get internt at in-opertune times. I am about ready and wanting to go to the pool in the sun and swim (yes probably with the wetsuit, because when the sun goes behind our hill it's COLD)
But I'll try and do a bit here to at least pop in and say hello. I still have knee problems. I think it could be PCL. I have a few physio numbers and I've texted the girl from the school to see if I can see her first before trying to schedule a very expensive one elsewhere. Plus our DTS team is leaving for Jeffery's Bay Sunday to next Friday. I'm stoked. There's going to be over 250 people in this small base there. It's some nations to nations conference, so perhaps like I've mentioned before, I don't know what that entails but I'll fill you in after :)
We finished our lecture week on GRACE with Chris, and let me tell you, I felt like I was a child again. I went back to being 5 and hearing about God and all those terms like Jesus is the Lamb of God and Jesus died for you or even Jesus is now inside of you, FINALLY clicked in my life.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but I am starting at the beginning, Genesis and reading the Bible from front to back. We'll see how long it takes.
I would like to say that so far, it's completely intrigued me! I'm loving it. I have so many questions. It also clearly applied to this week so I got so much out of Chris's lectures. But, I must finished the relationships probably before I jump around.
I totally forget where I left off, but I want to go back to my notes again, and just put what I have about how Love is Grace in Action. If I already wrote about it, then great, it's never bad to hear it again.
Love is...
True love denies ourselves. Not put ourselves 1st. Mark 12
Love is also action. Mathew 16:24
This means, your life is no longer about you. (I heard this theme again this week with Grace ;)
Are we the center or is Jesus? 1 Corinthians 13
Back to my parents again. Why is it that to really look at love, you should look to your family. It's easy to be in the street and greet people with smiling faces and be kind, but to really see love, go home.
"Honor your father and your mother" is one of the 10 commandments. If you do this, there's a blessing attached. This shows how our life is lived and coincides with honoring your parents. This shocking statistic said something to me about why our nation hurts:
90% of the prisoners in the USA will describe their relationship with their Dad as terrible.
When we devalue our parnets, we devalue ourselves. They made YOU. Just as God made you, your parents made you. Whether they're kind, meant to make you, abandoned you, whatever it is, you at least were MADE by them. Start the honoring from there. Now that doesn't mean you need to trust them. Doesn't mean you must obey everything they say because that's what God says. No it means as a very basis, LOVE them. Honor them.
I loved the example of Zidane in the World Cup. Why did he lash out and head butt the other player? He insulted the greatest thing to him...his mother.
Honor Parents: To respect that they are made in the image of God. Respected that they made someone valuable.
Trust is earned.