I guess this is my last post while I'm here in Dublin. It's cloudy outside, and I suppose that's fitting. I'm a little bit sad, especially when I think about leaving all of my friends that I've made here. I went to listen to Paul Washer speak last night at the Revival Conference. It is definitely a blessed end to a trip that I will never forget. He spoke on the importance of knowing the Gospel and what it really means to be a Christian. I went into the talk a little bit skeptical because he was scheduled to talk for 2 hours and I have been to conferences before where the speaker lost my attention in the first 10 minutes. I found out shortly through Paul's message that this would not be the case. After he had been speaking for an hour and a half, I looked down at my watch expecting to have been there for around 30 minutes.
He emphasized how man alone is not good in any way. Genesis 6:5 says "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Our thoughts of our hearts are evil continually. Without God we are absolutely evil beings. Anything good in this world comes from God and God alone. God would still be just if he let every person in the history of the world be condemned to hell because of their rebellion against him. It is amazing to know that I serve a God who is so incredibly loving that He has saved me from my own destruction even though he didn't have to. Nothing about me deserves to be with God, but because of Jesus Christ I am found clean in His eyes. It terrifies me to think about the judgment that I deserve, but it brings me inexpresible joy to know that Jesus is the atonement for my sins and I will spend eternity with the creator of the universe.
There are so many thoughts going through my head right now, but I can't get them all down because I am thinking so many of them so fast.
Anyway, the talk last night was really good and I'm glad that I got to go.
My time here in Ireland has been awesome, I'll miss everything about it. I don't want it to end right now, but I don't think the airlines will push my flight back until I say goodbye to Jill. It's hard to say goodbye, so I won't say it, or put a period on the end of my last sentence. Maybe that will mean I will get to comeback someday
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
You'll make it big eventually Ben Reel
Tim got here yesterdy and Todd and I were late picking him up from the airport. We got to the bus stop in time, but it took way too long to get there so Tim had to wait for a little while. We ate some pizza from four star pizza and then went to bed way too late because the laundry was taking a long time.
We picked up our rental car this morning and I felt like everything was a little bit unorganized from the beggining of the trip. We woke up earlier than we planned but then we realized that we hadn't really planned any details at all about the trip so everything was a little bit frustrating from the beggining. We didn't have a road map, we weren't sure where our hostels were, we didn't know where to park and we all found out later that Ireland has way too many roundabouts. We finally picked up the car and then picked up John at the spire in the middle of town. I was kind of nervous driving on the left side of the road and at the beggining I kep drifting to the left side of the lane because I'm used to sitting on the other side of the car. We had tiger bread and cheese for breakfast and then we ate tons of cookies and chips and stuff on the way to Galway. I feel like this is turning into a ramblefest so I'm going to highlight the rest of the trip.
Roundabouts are ridiculous and I am glad there aren't very many at home. The huge ones are alright but the medium sized ones stink bad. I drove around one roundabout and I ended up driving into someones driveway instead of the road to Galway.
We decided to try to find this national park called Connemara which is right next to Galway. We drove for a while trying to stay by the coast but I ended up taking us inland somehow. The fields and bogs or whatever they were outside looked awesome, so we found a random side road and got out and hiked through a giant bog where there were tons of rocks and bog and wet. I liked it a lot because it was like we were in Ireland a long time ago or something.
Some more things happened also but I feel like this is turning more into a journal where I ramble on about every detail of my day. Today was pretty eventfull though, so maybe that's ok sometimes.
Galway is nice. I'll post some pictures of it later. My shoes got real wet but I dried them in the bathroom dryer. Some guy did some serious business in one of the toilets at the hostel and smelled up the entire hall which is about a quarter mile long. I'll end it there.
We picked up our rental car this morning and I felt like everything was a little bit unorganized from the beggining of the trip. We woke up earlier than we planned but then we realized that we hadn't really planned any details at all about the trip so everything was a little bit frustrating from the beggining. We didn't have a road map, we weren't sure where our hostels were, we didn't know where to park and we all found out later that Ireland has way too many roundabouts. We finally picked up the car and then picked up John at the spire in the middle of town. I was kind of nervous driving on the left side of the road and at the beggining I kep drifting to the left side of the lane because I'm used to sitting on the other side of the car. We had tiger bread and cheese for breakfast and then we ate tons of cookies and chips and stuff on the way to Galway. I feel like this is turning into a ramblefest so I'm going to highlight the rest of the trip.
Roundabouts are ridiculous and I am glad there aren't very many at home. The huge ones are alright but the medium sized ones stink bad. I drove around one roundabout and I ended up driving into someones driveway instead of the road to Galway.
We decided to try to find this national park called Connemara which is right next to Galway. We drove for a while trying to stay by the coast but I ended up taking us inland somehow. The fields and bogs or whatever they were outside looked awesome, so we found a random side road and got out and hiked through a giant bog where there were tons of rocks and bog and wet. I liked it a lot because it was like we were in Ireland a long time ago or something.
Some more things happened also but I feel like this is turning more into a journal where I ramble on about every detail of my day. Today was pretty eventfull though, so maybe that's ok sometimes.
Galway is nice. I'll post some pictures of it later. My shoes got real wet but I dried them in the bathroom dryer. Some guy did some serious business in one of the toilets at the hostel and smelled up the entire hall which is about a quarter mile long. I'll end it there.
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