As i sit outside....

I hear many things! not really, its the country side! i hear the birds sing and a gentle breeze and just now my txt msg tone!!!!  As i relish these few moments i have at home, i like to thank God for the wonderful family he has provided me with.  Many of my friends don't have the stable background i have.  I commend them for the strength that they have to keep battling along! 

And so it was Easter time! and Easter used to be my time of the year to get closer to God with Easter Camp! Now it is my time to clock up O2 hours and family time! I often wonder where i went wrong in terms of my life, or if indeed i did go wrong, maybe it was just my time to move on! i've been a drifter now and again.  I will always look back fondly at my times at Easter camp, from the first moments i realised God was real, the first time i realised my brother was a real human being and the times when i got to be the youth club leader and the sitting up to four or five some nights keeping watch on the rowdy boys dorms! Fun times!!!!

I have to say honestly, the past years that i haven't been at camp, i haven't really missed it at all! But this year was different, i actually did miss being there! But it was good to pray for the guys at camp! even though half the youth probably wouldn't know who i was!  It fills me with great joy that there are still young people wanting to learn more about God and to be challenged! It fills me with joy that the same youth club leaders that were there in my time as a youth, still have that same burning passion today as they did 6-7 years ago!

Enough about camp!

I have to say it has been a special week for myself as i was able to catch up with a very good friend of mine over Easter, someone who i have always loved deeply and someone i will always think highly of! we share a similar story in terms of where our faith has gone over the past three years! to look at us both now you'd probably laugh if we told you we were christians! i think if you both asked us, we'd give you a pretty straight up answer, we love jesus, we muck up, we're human.  My friend and I, we laughed and we shared this week! Our hopes and aspirations, our faults and our flaws, we have a friendship that will last the times! Who do i thank this friendship for? My Lord Jesus Christ, who had instilled a vision in some persons minds to use the Ulster Hall in Belfast as a place for young Christians to come and meet God once a month! Yes Mannafest! God does look after his sheep! My friend has been there for me and im sure she would say the same about me!  

On a side note: All day every day i hear of what a christian should be, christian guys should be this this and this, im sorry to disappoint you all but im not this this and this.  I am Niall Kissick, sinner condemned and unclean, but by gosh i am forgiven! I find rest and comfort in the shelter of Jesus, and no matter how i struggle, how i run, the fathers arms are always open!

Thats enough for today!