Blog Yellek

This post marks the end of the trial period on this site and announces that the blog here is open for business. I have put redirects on the old site to here so if you have made the journey over, welcome. Have a look around and tell me what you think. I’m still working on a few areas so stay tuned for more updates on the new platform.

As I’ve been going through my posts categorizing them for the new site some of them have caught my eye and I’ve thought to myself: “That is still good, did I really write that?”. One of the posts that has struck me that way was a post that I did back in 2004 entitled “The Gap”. It came to mind because of a conversation that a few of us were having at life group around the difference between where we know God has given us the victory and our expectations. The conversation arose out of a message that we watched tonight from T.D. Jakes on the last night of the Influencers Conference in 2004 where one of the things he said was that Satan tries to get us to settle for less than complete victory, to stop and be satisfied with only a little of what God has for us.
Again and again we let ourselves get sucked in by Satan’s lies that we can go so far and no further when in actual fact if we would just get mad enough and dissatisfied enough with failure that we could see the victory that God had planned for us all along. I know that I am guilty of this in a lot of areas in my life and more than for myself I want to see in the lives of my group the victories that God has for them. I want to stand with the people in my group in support of each of the members against the things that Satan is trying to use against each of them to stop people acheving what God has prepared for them. I want to cultivate that sense of anger and indignation at Satan’s attacks that won’t accept anything less than God’s best for each of them and myself.

God help me to stand against apathy, increase my dissatisfaction with the corruption of this fallen world and goad me on to the place that you have prepared for me and those around me in advance.

Something about the cold, the rain, the darkness etc. At least we won. An embarassment of subs helped.

Tonight at fitness we did a 5k road run, the first one we have done at this distance. Predictably I didn’t bring my iPod so I could motivate my self with some “really cool choons” so I was running solo. As my fitness has been improving I have been waiting for an opportunity to try a long run without stopping and tonight proved sucessful. It might have had something to do with improving fitness but I think it had a lot more to do with a desire to beat Baton Assassin (BA) running in front of me.

There is nothing like seeing someone you really want to beat running that tantalisingly close distance in front of you at about the same speed. Little by little I reeled her in over about 3K, passed her at that weird artistic bus stop on Prospect Road and then had to hang on all the way to the finish because I knew she was right behind me.

Victory was mine Muahahahahaha!

Placeholder post. I’m working on getting this site up and running. Until then check out http://users.on.net/yellek

No the theme isn’t pretty. I’m porting the old one to the new site but I’m lerning a lot about PHP and CSS as I do it . Who knows I might even release it if it is good enough.