Christmas Without Christ

Is Jesus really selfish?? I am very privileged to work in a company of varying faiths. The main two faiths I have picked up on within our company is Hindu and Christianity. This is put into a very big melting pot of pressure and can create a beautiful mix at times. We get to share each others holidays and I really think its amazing. I have learnt so much from the people here who are not christian and they seem to reflect more of Christ than the Christians I know. Weird hey??


Anyway as we know Christmas is coming up. And the regular rush of shopping is happening and the regular "Christmas has lost Jesus" or the other one, "Christmas is so commercialised". Well I have only one response to that. BULLSHIT!!! I think if any thing the commercial side has done something that the church is struggling to do bring people in to the church and also getting people to celebrate Jesus's birth. I think Jesus would rather all people whether Muslim Hindu or Christian celebrate his life. Cause that is what Christmas is.

Does Jesus become selfish with his birth?? I don't think so isn't amazing the first people to see Jesus were not even christian in fact followed stars. Could you imagine the same attitude of our Christian society waiting at the stable door saying, "Excuse me Sir's do you have your baptism certificate, your belief statement, your bible and your encounter with the spirit"?? The travelers response would probably "No I followed a star, all I want to do is see the baby" and our response would have been " Sorry you do not qualify to celebrate in our Jesus's birth". Why are we making Jesus selfish.


So whether you Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Or Whatever enjoy Christmas. And enjoyed time spent with the people we love and MERRY CHRISTMAS

Cricket Lovely Cricket

Anyway so today we went to cricket (Sunday 17th December 2006). It was Jaron ( My brothers friend who i have really started to enjoy spending time with) , Amber (My brothers fiance sister who is up from Cape Town) , Jenny (Denver's Fiance & Amber's sister) And Denver (Jenny's Fiance and my brother).

Was really cool except India are doing well. anyway here are some pics from the day.The whole day got me thinking. Isn't amazing how something so simple in life, can give a person life. What is it about these things that rejuvenate the body and soul. But what is it about us that the same things that destroy us can be masked in the same cloak of life. Why is it that we do things that we feel are good for us but in fact are extremely bad.

Although my thouht process has led me to believe that, when our actions involve the upliftment of others in a positive way, we find life in ourselves. That's why people feel hope amongst friends, rejuvenation in solitude because they can embrace people with a new love and hope. This is the challenge for me is to start weeding out the masks that are not showing their true face.

Life As It Is Now

So it's now the weekend and I am just about to go and just relax after a hard week at work. But I thought i should just fill you in on a couple of things. Well I love Ultimate Frisbee and I was playing quite a bit until i felt sharp pains in my legs. Well needless to say I had serious shin splints and ultimate had just seemed to just bring it to the fore. Anyway I have been going for the last couple of months to get dry needling done. Let me just warn you the following clips are not for sensitive viewers

I get this done twice a week. Yum Yum and the best part is that I got another 2 months to go.

Anyway I am writing a book at the moment and this is my introduction. Basically this book focus on God's ability to be wrong and say sorry.

Here is the intro.

For years Jesus has been a mystery. People have been struggling to come to terms with how God could manifest himself in Jesus. The search to try understand Jesus has led creation on some wonderful, some controversial, some that brought God closer to us and some we feel has set out to disprove Jesus. However the question still remains. Who is Jesus?

For me this journey started in a very fundamental light. That God was God and that was the be all and scripture was Gods word and thou shall not question scripture. I have been fortunate that I have been able to learn from great theological minds and slowly I learnt that the brain is a beautiful tool from God. A tool where we could explore scripture and put it to the test. I love the story where there is a meeting about the legitimacy of Jesus’ message and whether or not people should act to try stamp it out before anything happens and a very wise man stands up and says if it is truth it will stand the test of time and if it is false it will wither. The same with scripture it needs to be bought to the light to be questioned and opened up. This is true faith like a child.

Anyway the journey I have been on has shown me many things about myself. I am a very emotional person. My view I feel are a collection of deep thought and deep emotion. I write what I feel not to be right but to open with my thoughts and have them criticised. My greatest difference from you is my greatest gift to you and your greatest gift to me is your difference. You might not agree with anything in this book but keep and open mind and just listen to what it has to say. I am in no way claiming to be God’s voice I think he could just use what I say to minister to you. I think that a lot of this book boils down to how you view God. How you interact and how you live within Gods presence.

I have been wondering whether or not God could be wrong. Not wrong in the sense well he is not God but rather in the sense that God could be wrong in some of his thoughts. I think that this doesn’t make God less God but brings us into a greater relationship with God. I feel we are not controlled by some dictator who zaps us at the first sign of human failure but rather a God, who understands, cares, listens, and values our opinions and then together with us makes a decision that affects us. We as humans though do have the power in ourselves to become a dictator and leave God out of this decision making process. We are not just a creation but we are part of the creator in the creator’s creation. This book hopes to show that.

Jesus is Gods way of trying to understand humanity and by doing that God had to make a mistakes because God never new what it was like to be a human he only had theory knowledge. For example a parent can make a child but doesn’t mean that they know how it feels to be them. This base of all thinking within these pages is that to be wrong is not to sin infact to be wrong is to embrace our humanity. We as humanity breed mixed personalities. We breed them by what we say and how they stand brought to the light of what our interpretation of scripture is. How often have you heard that we learn from our mistake? Infact we are told to embrace and learn from them. How come it is that we tell our children that they got to be perfect because Jesus didn’t make a mistake? That goes against our logic chain of thought and what we are taught. Mistakes equal learning how could Jesus therefore learn what it was like to be human. What if Jesus was wrong? What happened if he did make mistakes? Doesn’t make him less perfect but it does make him more human.

I hope this book bring the sorry that the world is desperately in need of and brings the healing that God gives because he understands through his mistakes.

Please tell me what you think.

More Photos

Let me just say incase you don't know i hate hate hate photos, maybe its a self image thing but i hate being captures in time and the majority of time its when i am at my worst. Anyway here is more.

This is my sister at her Matric Farewell

and this is my Marsha and Farsha at there wedding

In The Begining Was The Tree

My Moms family is busy putting together a family book. Which is pretty cool to know that i come from somewhere and i didn't just happen. (Cause that's what our parents make us believe). You can call her Sally but i being Family say Auntie Sally. I am posting the photos on here so she can get them.

Enjoy it ok.


Picture 1 is my Ma and my Aunt Val
Picture 2 is me Marsha me Farsha and me Shishta
Picture 3 is my Gran (Fanny Pearl Giles) and Grandpa (Who died before i got to meet him). Ladies please nit i carry these genes and you can see i am a well bred steed.

Now just for you who aren't part of this great family here is game you can play. It's called spot me or for those of you who know me so well you wish you were me it's called spot the idiot. The first one who can spot me gets a whole lot of ???.

So It Starts

In the beginning there was the word, and the word was with the Blog and the word was the Blog. She was the Blog in the beginning.

So here i am the Blog Virgin. Can you handle 23 and still and Blog Virgin but alas i have now broken and am free to experience the world through my little blog. Well this blog will be more like a journey of life and a journey to the future as i share in part of being a citizen in the world. You might not like what I have to share but I hope we can grow together. So I hope this OK for a first write in this amazing and very humble Blog.