I can't believe that I hadn't updated my blog in over a year. Well actually a lot has happened in that time and it would rake me forever to write about it. So let's move on to where I am now. You guessed it.

I am in Nepal again. There were many obstacles in me getting back here. Some good and some not so good. The main one being that I had intend to be at home for Christmas and I couldn't get a ticket in my price range but could before Christmas so I took the 22Dec. So here I am having my first Christmas in Nepal. I have forgotten how cold it can get.

Please pray for my family and friends in Christchurch New Zealand as they come to terms again with more earthquakes rattling the city. I think if I had heard before leaving for Nepal I would have cancelled my trip here and gone home to family. Perhaps finding out mid flight was just the way it was meant to be. It does answer the question of, am I meant to be here. The answer is a definite yes.

It feels good to be here. Nepal has become my third home.

And yes today is Christmas day. If church was anything to go by yesterday I can well imagine what Pastor Raju has in store for all of us today. I am being picked up at 9 am to head of to a church Christmas party which goes all day. Over 2000 people. We are lucky if we get a hand full of people. Ps Raju rans 2 services each Sunday, and has a number of smaller churches out stationed throughout Nepal with much smaller congregations.

We talked about humility. We don't see a lot of this today. Certainly not in the west. Humbling ourselves for others not just God. Getting rid of that pride that has become so in intrenched in all of us. We need to check and ask how do we serve sacrificially? Check out Philipeanz, 1 Peter. Lots of goodvstuff around humility.

Now it is time for me to get some sleep. Blessings too you all and let's think of what Christmas really means to each and everyone of us. How do we serve others sacrificially? How do we give?
Have a wonderful day with family and friends, if your driving stay safe and may God bless each and everyone one of you.

Despite not understanding Nepalise I did manage to take home the message.