First Post - An Explanation

This blog is for me. I’m not sure whether anyone else will want to read it or if they do whether they will gain anything from it. I want to use it to give some direction to my bible study, to give an aim to aid me in my study. Yes, I will miss speaking this year while I’m in a temporary setting (I don’t expect anyone to trust me enough on first meeting to let me speak to their church!) and that is part of it but there is more to it than that. I am still entirely unsure where I am headed in life (though had an interesting bible study the other week with new house group about vision and direction and the general census seemed to be that actually we couldn’t cope with too much vision and God just gives us bite sized chunks. This seems to be a lesson that I keep learning! Or rather, failing to learn…) and one of my purposes of this year is to spend a lot more time with God and get involved in a church while I’m not working too much. (I’m looking at working 1-3 days a week on average I reckon. Sadly it is more at the mo.) A lot of the spending time with God part will be private but I know I’m better able to really knuckle in to study if there is a fixed goal - yes, I’m an exam girl rather than a coursework girl and I think that applies to my spiritual life too.
So my first goal that I’m setting myself for this “public” study is Luke. I bit ambitious length-wise I fear but I suddenly realised that I haven't ever REALLY studied a Gospel, I'm always going for New Testament letters or Old Testament Prophets. I will spend time with the Bible and with other resources (currently rather lacking there due to having left all my books at home boo hiss but will see what the internet and library can do for me) and have some thoughts and put them up here.
So that should explain it for anyone who knows me but a quick bit of history for anyone who doesn’t know me who has stumbled across this page… I have recently moved to New Zealand from the UK for a year. At home, I was in the privileged position of being allowed to speak at my home church. I am not a vicar, I am not a lay reader, I have had no formal training just some experience of spending time with God, listening to what he has to say and sharing it with other people. I have been brought up in a Christian family and have been a Christian most of my life (there have, of course been ups and downs) and am on the lookout for new ways to express my love of God and to expand my knowledge of Him and relationship with Him. So…let’s see how it goes!