Becca's Back In Town!

Christmas - the season that we all build up to and then just like that its over again!

But as Sarah reminded me in her preach a couple of weeks ago in church - we are in the season of Advent!!! We are awaiting the second coming! We celebrate that Jesus was born! We await Easter - when we will look to His death and resurrection! And in the mean time - our lives are building up to that day when Jesus will come again! So we are...in advent - we are waiting for Him to come again!

Christmas is an interesting time for me. I think except for when I was younger - Christmas has always been a strange time of year. I was actually reflecting on it whilst with the family - just ...I dont know know really but something always seems to crop up - or I just seem to, well think deeply about things when it is the Christmas season.

Im now back at the house of 22. On the train home I was thinking how this year will pan out - I dont know! What I do know is that I have 13 and half weeks left on placement which inside im so looking forward to being over - but I cant hep but think, that really I should be embracing the whole experience rather than wishing it to be over. I just guess that at the end of the day - is what I am doing on placement really what I want to go into. This new year - haha Im going to try and make a resolution. Not about giving up chocolate, going on a diet, or whatever the "usual" things are... but I am trying to give work my all, and my best - and to try and remember that utimately all work is for the Lord. I think I shall write that out and stick it on my computer - a daily reminder to me. I mean...ok so I may not be embracing the whole work thing - but I am there for another 13 and half weeks - I might as well try and make the most of it....
Oh Lord - please help me! lol

So getting back to Christmas - it was great to have 2 christmases!!! Weird to spend it with my family in a different place - but it was nice to see ma and pa again and watch lots of tv!
Doctor Who was among the best of the tv! I mean David Tennant on Christmas day - can't really ask for more to be honest! lol!!!
Actuallly I think the highlight of my Christmas with the family was actually going to church Christmas morning and getting to know the new church family that I am now apart of - even though it is only very slightly. They are a really lovely bunch of people! And it is good to be getting to know them!
So looking back on the time that we shared - it was a good one.
And now I look forward to the New Year - and what it brings....especially what happens after my weeks on placement are over.

What will I be doing?!
Working
Travelling (please be the latter!!!!) lol
Where will I be?

Meeting Melodie

So...I managed to the next train to my home!
The little jogs from one tube to another helped adn definitely were worth it for this train jouney home.
I decided to walk down the carriage - and then as you do - u decide where you are going to sit.
I sat down - and was just about to get my mp3 out and start listening. If I had have done - maybe the conversation would not have arised...since I would have been engrossed in my music.
Then the lady seated opposite me asked me what the letters USCU meant which were printed on my hoodie. I told her that it was my uni's Christian Union. Then..she asks me what I study - i told her I study dance - oh and what do you know - so does she! And she asked me if I knew of Springs - which I was like - yes! And she is also a Christian!

The lovely thing about the journey was that for once - I wasn't just sitting - travelling, in silence as many others do on my way home, but carried out a conversation which was just fascinating!... about where she was studying/teaching. She happened to be part of this awesome company - which I actually saw earlier this year...so I had seen her dance!

We talked dance, what we were up to at the moment, God bringing us together, and we ended up exchanging numbers and email addresses. For the short 20 minute conversation - we found out a lot about each other...and it was great to talk about dance!!

I love "random meetings!" and this certainly was!
I am so glad that she just started to talk to me and that it started from there.
You never know who you might meet in this life. Who you might come across - and you do find...very often in fact - that it is a very small world we live in!

So I thank God very much for this brief encounter!