My plan of action worked out reasonably well yesterday. Tress and I had a very late night on Sat, getting to bed only well after 1am. but I still crawled out of bed on Sunday morning at about 6am. I went into the study, and spent some time before the Lord.

Tress and I were a bit excited when we took off just at 9.45, which was I think a great sign.

We pulled into the car park about a few minutes before 10 and to our surprise, the place was crowded. In the study earlier that morning, I had also turned on Light FM’s early morning broadcast which had a message on Pentecost Sunday. The crowd, Tress and I were told by a very friendly lady seated next to us, was because of Pentecost Sunday celebration.

The fact that this church celebrated Pentecost Sunday by involving kids and to teach them about the advent of the Holy Spirit and did this on a church wide celebration involving everyone, was another comforting sign. Also, the interpretation of the events of Acts 2 was done in such a confident and clear manner, bode well. 

At the end of the service the friendly lady seated next to Tress walked us out into the foyer and introduced us to the senior minister. We had a quick introductory chat and Tress and I later said this was promising.

The first step to my plan of action has turned out very well…

We were both very pleased but there was then the spectre of an ugly afternoon in my previous home. I had wanted to stay away from that foolishness but like Al Pacino famously said in Godfather III, “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in”. But I told myself this was just to be with a dear brother as he journeys through this foolishness perpetrated by others. So Tress and I went to that circus.

We kept our eyes on our plan of action however. I’m looking forward to wait before the Lord to see how the rest of this plan plays out. Only He can make it happen.

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Focusing on this Sunday meant clearly forming a plan of action. I had shared this with a few people and I think they like the plan.

I’ve also just noted how expensive litigation can be. Yet, a well planned, well researched approach to a lawsuit usually yields the right result. I could see the end result of the lawsuits were going to be good… should be ending soon…

I have been rather busy at work recently.

From tonight onwards however I’d have to start focusing my mind and effort on a very important task for this weekend.

Note to self: Focus and work on that important event on Sunday arvo…

I hear a remake is under way…

Statistics can be a funny thing. It can make one sound important. It is as though when stats are pulled out, one needs to justify a position. But statistics can be totally meaningless as well.

“Chelsea Football Club this morning became the first club to win the Champions League and the Europa League back-to-back“, so I heard on the radio this morning. I was saying to myself then – what was the point of that data? It was totally meaningless.

But my mate in London would be pleased one way of another. I know he hated Benitez and this victory is unlikely to change that but he would be very happy with this achievement all the same. Good on you, Alex.

I wonder now how things might have panned out, had I quietly obeyed my erstwhile employer’s directive for me to go work in the London office. For weeks I was poring over flats for rent in SW6, in the Fulham area of London. I noticed it was so close to Stamford Bridge. Tress and I had been to that city a few times and while we enjoyed the holiday, the idea of living and working in London couldn’t have been further from our minds.

Many young people in Australia want that opportunity. In fact I have a lawyer in the team who worked there for many years. He still speaks with an English accent. He is a towering fellow so other than craning my neack to look at him when he speaks, I also have to listen carefully to that wonderful resonance of that crisp English accent. He went over thinking it would do his career a lot of good. I guess it must have but I also wonder if the trend of looking towards the “old country” was partly responsible.

Maybe it is because the grass on the other side often appears greener.

I used to say to my colleagues who wanted to hop over to a competitor firm or bank, that the grass is greener on the other side for a reason. It is possible that there is more manure on the other side which allowed the grass to look greener.

So as Chelsea chases Wayne Rooney’s signature, I hope Rooney sees the vastly superior statistics of Man Utd and the grass in Stamford Bridge may look greener because of the manure Abramovich heaps on that club…

 

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