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Hello! I’m still alive. Hurrah! I’ve been a bit busy, far busier than I thought I’d be this week. I imagined things would slow down after last Wednesday, which is when I handed in the last of my assignments at the IBI but I was wrong. Everything seems to be happening this week. I have [...]

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This year I come to the end of my certificate course at the IBI. If you had asked me last year what I would do I would have probably said “continue on and get the degree” but to do that I’d have to switch to full-time studies (or else finish when I’m 30) and I [...]

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As you may know, I tried for a long time to get up extra early in order to pray. It worked for a while but I had my off-days where, even if I forced myself by sheer act of will to pray, I found myself drifting in and out of consciousness. Even when I was [...]

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It occurred to me recently that I haven’t posted about my MAP Meetings with Peter in a while. Sorry. I forgot. The meetings are still going well but writing about them is basically just re-writing the notes that are already going into my MAP Journal so it’s not very productive. So unless anything unusual [...]

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This is something I’ve been working on for a while now. I’ve been very excited about this little project of mine. I should have posted earlier and, as is typical when I let things brew for a while without blogging them, this post will probably be way too short to convey my excitement.
I’ve mentioned this [...]

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As part of my Spirituality and Self Understanding Course at the IBI I’ve been asked to keep a journal. I’ve tried writing down my thoughts in a separate journal for this but keeping multiple journals is kind of annoying in a multiple-personality kind of way. As long as they don’t get too personal I’m going [...]

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Last Summer I went on my first short-term mission trip when I did Encounter run by World Harvest Mission and IFES Ireland. I had such a great time and it was really one of those life-changing events. I found myself doing things I never thought I’d do, relying on God instead of myself and seeing [...]

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Things are still just calming down here but I’ve managed to get my assignments done so now I have time to catch up on my MAP Journal. Peter and I had a MAP Meeting with Peter on Tuesday the 8th but I still haven’t journaled it from the notes yet so here goes:
Spiritual and Personal [...]

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On Tuesday I had my sixth MAP meeting with Peter. This was the last meeting we’ll have this year. Here’s how things are going:
Personal and Spiritual Development
My schedule kind of went out the window on Monday night. I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and I was tinkering with that until about 4 in the [...]

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Thanks to my fondness for my own bed this meeting has been a long time coming so Peter and I had a lot to catch up on. So here’s what we discussed:
Spiritual and Personal Development
Since our last meeting I’ve cleared away my old computer, which was just sitting in my room taking up space. I [...]

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