Thoughts about factoids

Who is Nat?

My name is Natalie Husk, although most people call me Nat (except my parents!). I was born and raised in Cornwall and am proud of it! I have always been involved in the church, whether going to my local village chapel in Common Moor, joining with bus loads from Cornwall at MAYC events, helping at the District Children’s Holiday or even attending Synod a few times! I am very thankful to the Cornwall District, the Liskeard & Looe Circuit and of course Common Moor chapel for being such valuable parts in my journey of faith.

Today I live in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where I work as a youth worker for the Methodist Church. I run after school clubs, youth clubs, a youth fellowship, do outreach work and organise trips away. Not long ago I was asked by a youth group, to give them a weekly topic for reflection, an email containing something to focus them on God for the week. So every week I sit at my computer and write down my thoughts! It started quite small, with just the young people receiving them, and now lots of people of all ages find my thoughts in their email inbox!

It is a huge privilege for me to find that people enjoy and are challenged by what I have written, especially that I can now share what God has done for me with those who walked with me at the beginning of my journey. Ultimately these reflections are aimed at the young people I now work with, but if God can speak to others through them, how great is that!!

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December
Advice
I Love You

November
38. Bald is beautiful
37. Fire
36 Sleep
35 Music

October 2006
34. Stupidity
33. Painting
32. mmm Pasties
31. Built to last
30. Phlegm

September 2006
29. Meetings
28. Crime thoughts
27. Colours
26. Unwanted guests

August 2006
25. Comparison
24. Waterproof Mascara
23. Tasty MSG
22. Helplessness

July 2006
21. Attraction
20. Hair
19. Hero
18. Laughter
17. Factoids

June 2006
16. Voiceless
15. Bruises (ouch)
14. Sunburn
13. Mistakes

May 2006
12. Arms
11. Willow Tree
10. Eurovision
9. Chicken
8. Addictions

April 2006
7. Age
6. Celebrities
5. Language

March 2006
4. Commonwealth Games
3. Decisions
2. Drizzle
1. Trelawney

Factoids

They say that you learn something new everyday. For example did you know that Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer, or that a slug has 4 noses, that it’s physically impossible for a pig to look up, that map gas burns at a higher temperature than propane, or that Barbie’s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts?? No, well you do now!

There are so many facts out there, so many bits of information all battling for our attention, and it can be a struggle not to be overwhelmed. Why is it when you need to study for a test, exam, presentation, interview or something else important, that your brain goes dead – there is nothing there. But you can recall all the words of songs from years ago, the jingle of an irritating advert, the phone number of someone you’ll never call again and the fact that penguins can jump 10ft in the air, all of which are highly irrelevant! Why is it that the important things you learn at school are lost the moment you get out of class but the character plots from a TV show sticks with you for years?

Maybe it’s not what you know but the way you learn it. I mean the greatest lessons about love, life, growing up and finding out who you are cannot be taught. Your parents handily tell you to learn from their mistakes, but you can’t. These are all things that you have to learn for yourself, often by making those same mistakes, in order for you to grow and develop as an individual. I guess that’s what makes us humans and not robots. You can programme a computer to do just about anything, but it can’t feel, it can’t live.

In the same way God gave us free will to choose whether or not to love Him. He didn’t want us to be robots loving Him because we were programmed to, but to love Him because we choose to, because we want to. You can read about all the amazing ways in which God has worked, you can listen to fantastic preachers sharing the gospel, you can watch others living for Jesus, but you can only truly discover about the greatness of God by learning for yourself. By taking that leap of faith and by living it. By making mistakes and getting it wrong. Only then can we learn what the gospel really means, only then can we learn the greatest fact of all – what is means to be loved by the creator of the universe! What could be more important than that?

All my love Nat xxx

(if you know any good facts to further clog up my brain, let me know!)