...: June 2006

Friday, June 30, 2006

Blog changes

This blog has undergone some changes recently, these were not intended. All information, posts, links and other stuff are up again. However, the commenting option is not present at the time. I did not want to change my blog, but in my blog business I completely erased everything therefore, I had to start all over again. I'll try to add a way of commenting soon. Thanks for the patience. - Willem

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

coming and going

Today at 3:00 pm, the time to leave Ancaster has come. It was a good five weeks at Redeemer a bit boring sometimes, especially when I only had like 8 hours of work a week, but I should not complain. Tonight I am going to the TDCH graduation and tomorrow I am going to the WCHS graduation (cousins). Then I get to relax and chill for a few days at home and I start camp on sunday!! I'll come up with a higher quality post sometime before that. I guess the reason I haven'tn updated has to do with the Portugese ability to make a football match look like a WWF show. England better teach these theatric pretty boy's a lesson.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

My Netherlands

This is the first map in hopefully a series of maps. It is a map titled my Netherlands, for all the people that still want to know where I am from this should give you an idea. Let me know what you think about it. (click to enlarge)

Thursday, June 15, 2006

detour

Sometimes you need to start all over, begin at the beginnning. I am slowly figuring out why? I am slowly being tought why? It is not the strong on this earth that survive, it is the strong in the Lord God Almighty that will last forever. C.S. Lewis writes about nearness in likeness and approach to God. They often seem very alike, however, it can be very betraying. I think sometimes you reach a point were god is teaching you so much, where God is showing you so much, where God is loving you much, where God is working through you so much, that you kind of start to feel "godly". Your ways seem to be alike to those of God, and you think that you can make the difference by what God has tought you. This is where the betrayel is, you can not make the difference by what you have learned. Your nearness in likeness is not something that is godly, it might seem very impressive, it is however nothing more than you earthly desires that have surpassed your desire for God.

This is when you are not near in approach anymore you are just near in likeness. It is like standing on the edge of a cliff with the beach where you want to go right below you, however we can not descend the cliff, we must take a detour. That detour (approach) is the path that Jesus took for us, he became human and suffered trial and tribulation to return to his father. Being on that cliff we are so close to our destination (God) in likeness we are near, however we have a long way to go, we have to take the detour (approach) to get where we need to be. Are ways have to be like God, not our appearance. Sometimes we need to start all over again, we need to stand on top of that cliff and start taking the detour, instead of trying to stand so close to the edge, trying just to be more like God.

Let's take a detour, Jesus took quite the detour to come back home, he gave us the perfect example, in likeness he was the same as God, still he showed us how to be near to god in our approach. It is like practising that piece of music, that one move, that one jump, that one play, that one scene, we will keep on failing until we take the full detour.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Oranje!!!!!!!!

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

So today the world cuphas finally begun, maybe I should have not moved to Canada, it is surely a lot easier to follow the World Cup in Holland. I am however, still very excited about the world cup. It is fun to be able to share previous world cp experiences, to share your opinion about certain players, countries, cultures. It is a celebration.

Here are some examples of "Dutch soccer pride".

This is the Dutch embassy in Berlin. The orange lights become a light show during Holland games, the fans projected on the left side will leave the stans when Holland is not playing, and will cheer when Holland won!

This is the replica 2nd World War German army helmet that has been fitted to suit Dutch fans.

There is a good change that many fountains in Germans cities will turn orange, like every world cup Holland takes over the cities that they play in.

Oranje = Orange = Dutch = National colour = Dutch Pride

If you buy coffee, you get free flip flops that print "HUP Holland" in the sand (Go Holland).

Thursday, June 08, 2006

A random meeting

Mercy met Judgement

Righteousness met Sin

Light met Darkness

Humility met Pride

Love met Hate

Life met Death

A cursed One on a tree met The curse that originated from a tree

The sting of death met The antidaote of resurrection

- Dutch Sheets

Jesus interceded for us, He created a meeting, a meeting of reconciliation

Monday, June 05, 2006

My names

Your Hawaiian Name is:

Lono Kai

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Omega Butcher
You Feast On: Tofu
You Lurk Around In: Flocks of Freshmen
You Especially Like to Torment: Pop Stars

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Your Italian Name Is...

Raul Greco

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Your Hillbilly Name Is...

Billy Bob West

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Your Japanese Name Is...

Souta Saionji

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Your Irish Name Is...

Lugh Fitzpatrick

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Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Aqua AlbinoYour Superpower is SolarYour Weakness is SailorsYour Weapon is Your Celestial SawYour Mode of Transportation is Canoe

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