Five Minutes

It's been a while ... Man what has happened in the past two weeks.
Well the main thing that I am pleased to say that has happened is that I
passed my driving test. Something I feel God was really behind. I
stuffed up the test pretty badly, clipped the curb, stalled the car. You
name it I did it. The examiner though was genuine and could see I was
so nervous.

Just seconds after I hoped out the car in disbelief

So I have been out on the road traveling around in my little Panda. Life is good!

The
day before my test we had a youth service for all the youth groups in
Ulverston. I was playing. It was a great event and just such a privilege
to play but also watch all the young people we minister to worshiping
God. It was a great lesson in trust, we changed the key of three of the
four songs just before the service started and I effectiley had to learn
three new songs in about 10 minutes. However Vic my boss could see that
I was stressed out so came and prayed for me. It went great! I only
stuffed up one of the three songs.



It was also great to watch the
drama that Urswick youth have been preparing for a good few weeks now.
Again a fantastic bunch of kids who weren't afraid to declare their
faith in front of all those people. Apart from that Vic and I have been
traveling around all our usual youth groups, thinking about new ways we
can engage and generally thinking about the future. There are so many
things to look forwards too.

Aside from work, I went with Arve,
Jonny and Kristin to Carlisle and Scotland the other day to see
Brittany's open mic night. We ended up playing two songs as well under
the name, A Columbian, An English man and a Norwegian girl walk into a
bar ... We had a great time. It was good to spend time with these guys!
I'm so lucky to have good friends close by. Then yesterday Mark and I
went down to Preston to present our presentations for our course we are
doing. Again great to catch up with Mark and just chat with him. Now I
am about to cook dinner and head into the next few weeks of pre
Christmas chaos :) I love this time of year!



The second
part of this blog is devoted to something that I came across the other
week and is what the blog is named after. I came across a band called
The Defiled a few weeks ago the did the worlds first gig on a floating
iceberg, how cool is that ... no pun intended. Anyway they have a song
called Five Minutes that I checked out after watching that gig. It's a
heartfelt song about never being able to forget the loss of someone.
Anyway they released the music video for it the other day and as well as
it being a performance shot video there are sections where it flicks to
people holding cards of what they would say to people if they had five
minutes with the people they had lost. Now I haven't lost anyone
recently but this really pulled on my heartstrings. It got me thinking
about who are the people that I am most greatful too? Who haven't I
spoken to in a long time? If I had five minutes with someone what what I
do? I think the message that I was getting from God in all of that was,
appreciate your time here. Always be grateful and thankful. Always
encourage people and try not to be negative. I think if I had five
minutes I think I would like to spend it with the Grandfather I never
got to meet.

Who are you thankful for? What would you say to someone if you had five minutes?