noise, giggles and family

so I'm at home at the moment...got here late last week after a pretty long trip. It was good driving to Jo-burg consumed in my thoughts and many questions about life and such things...plus the scenery once again had me in absolute awe! How could anyone believe that such perfectness could have been created randomly without any intention and forethought?

My welcome gift to Botswana as I crossed over the South African border was the most magnificent rainbow...a rainbow truly apt reminding me of promises...There's always just excitement in me when I drive through town to my home, sort of like how little children get over a cute cuddly puppy...

Its so lovely, here I am sitting at the dining room table typing away whilst my sisters and dad are being taught how to play bridge by my mum I'll have to learn to play next time, although it all sounds rather complicated...where's dead head when you need it?

I'm quite missing everyone in Grahamstown, often wonder how everyone is!! I hope you're all good wherever you are in SA or anywhere else in the world...

dreams...

I really have been trying to work, ever since I got back to my room at 7.30 and finished eating my take-away Wimpy chicken burger, but it hasn't really worked out as planned.

I'm quite excited about life, excited about what it has in store for us, what's out there, the plans that God knew even before we were born that we'll sometimes not even realise until they've gone and happened...

Whats brought this train of thought along you may ask...my sister! Yip my youngest sister Leigh...for those of you who don't know her, you should know her. Actually you guys should just know my whole family as they're pretty amazing people. But anyways, back to Leigh. So Leigh is 5 years younger than me (well actually only at some part of the year, sometimes she's only 4 years younger than me)...she's in grade 10 at the moment (i think that's what you South African's call it...I get confused with the whole educational system here). She just asked me if I knew what her plans were for when she finishes school and as we haven't spoken for a long time I didn't.

Being asked if I know what my sister is planning with her life and getting her amazingly awesome answers made me realise the big dreams we weren't afraid of dreaming when we were younger. The dreams that made us work on our own mini-projects during the holidays or the fascinations we'd grow when we felt that "this is what I'm going to be when I grow up..." Why don't we dream like that anymore? Why do we restrict things to what we think are going to be feasible, what we think would be the 'best' thing considering the circumstances...now really...would a God who had big enough plans and ideas to create a whole entire universe as well as the smallest and strangest looking inch worm really want us to just settle into a role, just because?

I think not...actually I know not...I'm excited to dream, I'm excited to know what plans there are for not only myself (although thats pretty exciting for me in and of itself) but I'm excited to hear about what other people want to do, their big ideas, their big plans to contribute, their big ways of living life...aah I'm so very excited!!

So I think I've in a nutshell said what I felt like saying, maybe now I'll be able to get down to some work...I doubt it, but that's alright...life's exciting guys...there's so much out there!! I think we need to dream and also hope BIG!!