Wed, Nov 05, 2008

My hands smell like apples because we have fruit soap in the bathroom.

While this is kind of old news, I realised I haven't actually blogged about it yet. Some of you may remember this plan of action from an earlier blog. Here's the conclusion in dot point form.

• So I got the name of the guy who I leant the book to from Mum.
• Step 1 was facebook stalking him... to no avail.
• Step 2 was phonebook stalking him... bingo!
• Had the number sitting there ready to call for a week or 2 until I finally found an afternoon to call up.
• The guy wasn't home, however his wife answered the phone - so I told her the full story.
• She instantly knew what I was talking about, and had grabbed the book in a matter of seconds! She said they'd drop it round when they next came past my house! Awesome!
• Then we chatted for a little while, I updated her on the status of the entire family (her and her husband knew us as kids I think, and were/are friends with Mum) and it just so happened that there was another common connection between us (we both knew a family that lived close by). Adelaide is just so small!

So that was that! A couple weeks later I arrived home one night to find my long lost Illusion book on my doorstep, wrapped in some nice packaging. After I hastily unwrapped it, I found inside the book, as well as a note and... another book!. The note basically said "thanks for lending me this book to me for such an extended period, here's a book that I found fantastic when I was your age, feel free to keep it for an extended period of time - forever!"

Just really cool! The book, The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (The title being a paradody on the famous "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"), is absolutely fantastic. I (figuratively) can't put it down. You know how we always have those questions or thoughts about God and life that just seem too "stupid" or "silly" to mention? Well this book mentions them all and provides answers and provokes thoughts and just generally makes you laugh. There are so many situations covered in this fictional story of a Christian man living in Sussex that I can relate to. I highly recommend it!

And it's all just another example of God's big plan. He uses such interesting, unexpected and adventurous ways to bless me. Who would of thought that by lending a book to someone in my "terrible tantrum" years would have resulted in me being given a new encouraging book when I was 20? Not me. But God did :P

Eye See, Do You See? (the Illusion book) is just as awesome as I remember it to be - filled with many wonderous and mind-boggling illusions and puzzles. It was definitely worth reading through again. And I just love the fact that there's this big story behind such a simple, yet extremely cool, book. :D

If anyone wants to borrow it from me - just sing out! :P (You never know what God has planned...