Thanks for all the fish

I have been thinking a bit about the end of my travels and the return to real life especialy as I leave for London this afternoon. I guess it has been a long time to be travelling but strangely I don't feel that familiar tug to return home at the end of a holiday. You know the one, where you know that you've had a good time, but it's time to go home? I feel as if I could just continue for another couple of months at least. Strange.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I don't feel as if London is my home anymore. Home isn't where you own a house or even where you have a job, home is where the people that you love are. That's not to say that there aren't people in London that I love, I do, I have some great friends who I love very much. But they're all getting on with their lives and starting their own homes and me, well I'm still yearning to be on the road again.

Or maybe it's because overall, I have had such a good holiday that I just don't want it to end. I thank God for the many lessons that he has taught me. I have enjoyed going through "The Purpose Driven Life" book with Charlotte, I have learnt a lot about the need to have God as my priority in life and to seak to glorify him in everything I do. *sigh*, I don't, but I have been encouraged that even when I mess up, I can get up, take it to God, and continue going.

I have also had it reinforced that God has a purpose and a plan and he will take care of me. There have been a couple of rough spots in the holiday but I have seen God working through his people to encourage me and get me out of them. Thanks God, thanks friends.

And finally, I have learnt once again, the comfort of being a part of God's family and enjoyed the hospitality that it brings. I hope that I can take these lessons and apply them to my life and become a much more hospitable person. I have been thinking of having more dinner parties at my house and I must make that desire a reality.

So that's it, I board the Singapore Airlines plane in Sydney in 6 hours time for my mammoth flight back to London. Please pray that I have a safe flight and that I am given the opportunty to glorify God in some way during the trip.

It's been good,
Vaniah