Apprentice

I’ve finished up in my old job at ********. Yay! it felt good to lock up the filthy, heavy shutters for the last time and walk away from the place. I will miss the people I worked with but not the company I worked for. I’ve done enough grumbling about the place so I’ve decided [...]

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I’m quitting my job. I’ve wanted to quit for a while, mostly for ethical reasons. I can’t continue in a job where my desire for honesty actually causes me problems. I’ve written out my letter of resignation and will be handing it in tomorrow. I don’t want to storm off and burn my bridges [...]

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Organising my prayers was one of the first problems I encountered was sorting out the tangled mess of thoughts and ideas I have stored in my head into an actual prayer. I mean what do you say to God?
Bill Hybel’s book “Too Busy not to Pray” helped me a lot in organising my prayers back [...]

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I’m sorry that’s just how I roll. I like Christmas, I look forward to it, although not for the same reasons as many people in modern Ireland. I stumbled upon the animation below. It’s quite nice.

Learn how to draw cartoons, comics, and anime at Sketchfu!

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I had to reschedule this week’s meeting with Peter from Tuesday (the usual) to today. It would have been fine if I didn’t miss it. The meeting completely slipped my mind. Peter was trying to call me but I was still in bed. I felt terrible when I realised what I’d done. I phoned Peter [...]

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Peter and I just had our fourth MAP Meeting. It went quite well. Mostly we talked about my preaching on Sunday. I gave Peter one of the review forms from the MAP manual to fill out after I preached on Sunday. There was no rush with the form but Peter had it filled in and [...]

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Peter and I had our third MAP Meeting at Peter’s house. We discussed how I was doing in each of my goals.
Spiritual and Personal Development
I think I’ve discovered a way to have daily quiet time that works for me. Now I am having my quiet time in the mornings, I tried going to be before [...]

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I’ve written up a history page for the church website, which you can see here. I used a book Peter gave me at our first mentoring meeting as a reference. I’ve also asked Sam what he’d think about having a section on the site for profiles or testimonies. I think the site needs more content.
Last [...]

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I’m finding work very hard. I really don’t like my job and I’m looking for another one but it’s unlikely that I’ll find a job that

is flexible enough to allow me to go to the IBI (which means travelling to Dublin and back one day a week)
pays me enough to afford this education
is not my [...]

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Managing my time has always been a problem for me. I find when I try to create the perfect daily schedule I spend all my time doing the planning and not doing the work. I’ve found that writing a “to-do list” of about five things that I want to work on each day helps to [...]

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