This book I have almost finished, and it is truly phenomenal. It is about the genocide in Rwanda that occured there just over 10 years ago, and the amazing thing is that their is a move of God happening and survivors are forgiving the perpetrators. It gave me huge insight into why this atrocity happened and the power of forgiveness. This is one of those books that you wish never had to be written, it leaves you wondering how humans can do this to each other.

This is one book that is hard to put down and is not for the fant hearted, as it tells it how it was.... not holding back. But then again I would encourage people to read it as it is a great story of renewal, and will leave you challanged.

LEST WE FORGET

I was thinking, Why does it seem that we so easily forget the good things God has done in our lives? So I did abit of a search on the internet and found afew theories about why we forget:

1. Decay.- this is when we do not rehearse in our mind what happened, therefore over time we forget. Maybe we need to slow down and think more often about what God has done in our lives in the past, and stop hiding behind the the words, " I guess I have been to busy".

2. Displacement.- This is when old memories are replaced by new ones.

3.Interferance.- This is when you have two memories that sound similar and begin to worp together and distort the memories. Maybe this is like when we look back over our lives and down play Gods hand in situations and put it down to mear flook.

4. Attention( this title I made up). This is when we give the most of our attention to the most important thing going on at the time. For example if you are driving down a highway with your children arguing in the back seat, your brain will give priority to the most important thing happening—namely, navigating the busy road in front of you—and ignore less important information like the sounds of bickering kids."

Maybe our lives are getting so "busy" that we forget Gods soft hand and still small voice in situations. We need to get our priorities straight.

The only way I can think of to help us remember the things God has done in our lives is to take the time daily, weekly, monthly or yearly to remember the things God has done. In my opinion that is good blogging, hahahahahaha, just kidding.

A Table In The Presence

I read this book not long ago. The name "A Table in the Presence" comes from the scripture pslam 23:5. It is a fantastic book written by Lt. Carey H. Cash who is a chaplain in the U.S Marines who gives firsthand accounts of what happened of what happened in one of the fiercest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and also talks about a spiritual revival that happened to his battlion of Marines in the Kuwait desert.

On the back of the book it left a a thought prevoking quote.

" This was no place for God; This was enemy territory. But when the smoke settled, God's footprints were clearly visible."

I think you can almost relate this quote to hard times in our lives, when we feel alone and just dont know what is going on in your life, God is also there to bring you though.

This is phenominal book, I would recommend it to anyone, it takes a little while to get into, but once you get into it you will find yourself absorbed in it and not able to put it down.

Heart Stuff

Well I have offically decided to enter the world of blogging. Afew weeks ago in one of our practical biology classes we discected cow hearts. It was a heap of fun, and also made the class stink. Yet it left me thinking how amazing the heart is. When I opened it up it looked ugly as at first, But when I really began to look at it, I realized the beauty and order of it.
So now I decide to share some heart facts with you:


>The adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute - approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day - throughout the body.


>When attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on their left chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. The bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest.


>The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.

>In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times


>An adult woman's heart weighs about 8 ounces, a man's about 10 ounces

>A child's heart is about the size of a clenched fist; an adults heart is about the size of two fists


Our God is good.