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Hello

2007-11-22T09:44:00.000-08:00

Heyo ive been away from writing for a while but i think i may start back up again, it is a good way to talk things over in ones head.
I have a new lady, she is laura. She is amazing, she is a perfect person, well as close to perfect as you can get. anyway she is wonderful!
Since the last time I wrote I am a little older, not much wiser, but a more complete person I think. I am probably going to do some Guitar work as my drumming is going well, I want to branch out and become a better guitarist too. I want a job, well a better job then I have now.
See you around
Peace out

I Took a TEST!

2007-05-31T07:56:00.001-07:00

Your results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern		75%
The Flash		70%
Hulk		70%
Superman		60%
Iron Man		60%
Robin		58%
Spider-Man		55%
Catwoman		55%
Batman		55%
Wonder Woman		53%
Supergirl		38%

Hot-headed. You have strong
will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Who are you?
It just so happens that my favourite superhero is the Green Lantern! Kick ass!

Morning, well evening, or even nite!

2007-05-29T14:44:00.000-07:00

Hiya well a lots has happened since I last blogged, I am a little older, a little wiser, but most importantly, i have felt like crap. I don't really know how to say it another way, I don't really know why I am saying it, but i suppose that one day it must leave my system. In all honesty I have felt bad, and majorly low, but i don't know how to vent it, through anger?, frustration?, I don't know, its no mistaking that the last few months have been hard. I have found comfort in as few people so thank you, you know who you are! Particularly when it comes to walking, watching football, bloke stuff and also biblical verses,
for example

Jeremiah’s Complaint

7 O Lord, you misled me,
and I allowed myself to be misled.
You are stronger than I am,
and you overpowered me.
Now I am mocked every day;
everyone laughs at me.
8 When I speak, the words burst out.
“Violence and destruction!” I shout.
So these messages from the Lord
have made me a household joke.
9 But if I say I’ll never mention the Lord
or speak in his name,
his word burns in my heart like a fire.
It’s like a fire in my bones!
I am worn out trying to hold it in!
I can’t do it!
10 I have heard the many rumors about me.
They call me “The Man Who Lives in Terror.”
They threaten, “If you say anything, we will report it.”
Even my old friends are watching me,
waiting for a fatal slip.
“He will trap himself,” they say,
“and then we will get our revenge on him.”

11 But the Lord stands beside me like a great warrior.
Before him my persecutors will stumble.
They cannot defeat me.
They will fail and be thoroughly humiliated.
Their dishonor will never be forgotten.

12 O Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
you test those who are righteous,
and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets.
Let me see your vengeance against them,
for I have committed my cause to you.
13 Sing to the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
For though I was poor and needy,
he rescued me from my oppressors.

14 Yet I curse the day I was born!
May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
15 I curse the messenger who told my father,
“Good news—you have a son!”
16 Let him be destroyed like the cities of old
that the Lord overthrew without mercy.
Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,
17 because he did not kill me at birth.
Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb,
that her body had been my grave!
18 Why was I ever born?
My entire life has been filled
with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

I don't know why it is comforting, maybe its because my life is not as bad as his even though it feels like it sometimes, also because of verse 11, its like my dads bigger than your dad stuff, God is our protector, he is our father and also our comforter, he comforts us in new ways everyday, not only by direct chat but through other people, and a huge thank you for the verse and any subsequent verses that may come my way!

Also thank you for reading this, feel free to leave a comment, in fact feel compelled.

Anywho Peace out

Practise makes perfect

2006-09-28T09:32:00.000-07:00

Hello, today is thursday, or as they call it in France "le thursday".

Monday we had a Nazarenes practise in anticipation of JC's, I thought it went really well. We have chosen eleven songs for the night it should be good. we will even be playing new songs!!

Tuesday we had worship team practise, it was great! we carried on over usual time but it was AWESOME!!! We played our God is an awesome God, and I played a phenomenly fast double time fill which was amazing.

And today is thursday, we have got a prayer meeting in place of bible study tonight, I have high expectations STePHeN.

Any way see you all on sunday Rob Pickles is speaking and my very good friend John Pickles is coming down with his dad so I should see him too, its been too long mate.

Ah well.
Peace out
or as they say in france
"Le Peace OUT"

hello

2006-09-11T05:04:00.000-07:00

hello.

i passed my exam which is goood all i need to do now is get a job. please pray for this.
Dya think the nazarenes should put songs which are a working progress on the website?

Let me know.
dya wanna book the nazarenes? let me know too.

Peace out

Ray mears!!!!

2006-05-16T04:56:00.000-07:00

I remember many years ago when i was a lad,
"Twas my first day at Halesowen college and later at UNIVERSITY also. The tutor decided to play one of those annoying ice breaker games whicheveryone dislikes but goes along with because they feel they have to. the game was you are lost on a desert Island and you have to pick one other person to be with you, who would you pick? well the thoughts which went through my head were amazingly complex, do you say your girlfriend, a member of your family, a fat guy so you can eat them if food is in short supply, But I chose RAY Mears! He is a survival expert and he rocks."
A peon said "whose ray mears?" what a fool was my reply how can somenone not know who Ray Mears is, However i did explain and it was all good.

Maybe I should have chosen Jesus maybe i should have stood up for my faith, but in thinking this and feeling guilty i suddenly thought.
I do not have to choose Jesus to go with me to a desert Island because he chose me, No matter where i go however LOST i feel Jesus is always there supporting me.

I wrote a song not so long ago when i felt down, it goes like this-

Fragile
Delicatly placed, so precious to hold more valuble to me than warmth in cold, tightly cluthed into my chest, keep it safe nothing but the best, This way up make sure its safe, put exactly in its place, placed in a boxkeep it for a while, because my life to me is so fragile

Its so fragile

Helplessly left nothing to loose, by myself trapped in a world of blues, nobody cares bout what offerings i bring, by myself im left to sing, read the manual directs where to go, a real life to you i'll follow, not looking back but seeking your smile, because my life to me is so fragile

its so fragile

Confidently step into that upper room, act like i am on top of the moon, pass the cup say not what i want to hear, asks why my life is so full of fear, shows me how to be honest with myself, to act like im poor not like i have much wealth, relise that i am so insecure, im held up by your miracle cure

miracle cure

Realise you hold me not my strength but yours, without you my fragile heart would be torn you called me to you, you have chosen me, you sent your son he has set me free!!

copywrite to Andrew Hayward 2006

On sunday I was a little down because i missed an exam because they changed the date and I didnot realise and i do not know what i can do now. As i was listening to other peoplein the sharing time i was staring into space a i noticed i was looking through my 12" tom tom skin which is mirky because it has been played a lot and also it has two sheets with oil between them, anyway it is mirky it is difficult to see through and i realised that this is like our lives, sometimes we cannot see what is ahead clearly or see what lies ahead at all but we have got to be faithful to God because GOD is always Faithful to us, we need to trust that he knows best for us and what may seem strange coincidences are really GODINCIDENCES, No matter of the dark clouds which seem to hang above our heads, the sun is always shining!

Dont forget that.

SABIAN!!!

2006-03-28T03:25:00.000-08:00

The title of the post is the make of my preferred cymbal manufacturer.
At the moment i am also looking for some Istanbul cumbals, they sound nice to.
Why have i wrote this?
I do not know why.

Last night, the young blokes from church went out to have a balti, it was good.
Also, My field trip went well. Tonight i am playing percussion for sunday's service.
that will be hard to fill beckys shoes despite them being a size 5. I think they are anyway, come to think of it are they? it is quite hard to guestimate peoples shoe size. It also doesnt matter.
Anyway becky is really good at the percussion, i have been listening to the things she has been putting in to the music, and i can only try to keep time and make my own sound, yet at the same time keep it consistant with the music which is played at the same time.

Jack is doing well on the drums, he has a natural talent (if you can say that hitting stuff with sticks is a talent) for drumming. This is good, so people be patient with him, he also has a lack of confidence which is really needless as he is in my list of top drummers of all time. If you want to see my list, leave a comment and i will add it onto my next post!

Anyway i have been reading my bible recently, and i have came across the verses which talk about gods armour, and to watch for the fiery darts of the evil one. This seems like we have all read it before and we dont really read into it but it sort of sits in the back of our mind. But it is something we need to be mindful of. We are often really vunerable in what we think we are strong in. The fiery darts analogy is good because it makes me think of not big sweeping blows, but little blows which gradually wear us down. It is like this often. W e generally find that we are more resistant to major blows as we have an immediate defence system, however the smaller blows seem to take us down slowly, wear us away while we dont really notice.

I have felt like this rercently, just drained of everything, like its just to much hassel to keep going, but it realy isnt. everything we do is very important, and it is because of the reason we do things. As long as our heart is in the right place, that is half the battle, the other half is to work constuctivly, by building each other up, by suppport mainly through prayer.

This probably doesnt make sense to people, but i have got it out of my system,

Peace out. Andy

qwerty

2006-01-06T06:40:00.000-08:00

How blessed do you feel right now?
How blessed do you feel when you first become a christian?
When you can really see the way that God is working in your life.
How do you feel when you are struggling?
When you cant see the way God is working in your life.
Do you doubt your faith?
Do you doubt your faithfulness?
Do you doubt the relationship you have?
Do you ask why you are feeling this way?
Do you wait for the answer?
Do you hear what God has to say?
or do you LISTEN to what God has to say?

The first question is a very important question. How blessed are you feeling right now.
This has been a question along with many others that i have been ponduring.
There are times in our lives where we may seem so strong, reliable, that we will never let anyone down. This is very trying and tiring. However when we step back and look at the bigger picture we can see much more than ourselves. often we can do so much to encourage other people without even knowing it. For a short time now i have watched a friend grow enormously. For a time i felt somewhat disbanded from God. I couldnt understand why i felt so drained, so powerless, so on my own. Then i began to spend more time with someone. And when i stepped back and looked at the bigger picture i saw something. I saw that when we work for God, God works in us, through us. When we feel so alone, we are not alone. God is carrying us. And through something which may seem so mundane or everyday i have become so blessed. Often although we may feel down, we dont understand why we feel this way, its because our focus is on ourselves. But when we step back and we see how God is working through us our battery's get recharged. Our blessed meter spirals out of control. We see that God is doing a tremendous work in our lives. And through an everyday event we are blessing others.
At the moment there is someone who is belssing me and they dont even know it.
to that person i say Thank you.

something else!

2005-11-25T03:51:00.000-08:00

hello all,
what would people think of a nazarenes concert around christmas?
please leave a coment.
stuff is cool at the moment i advise you to look at ollys blog as it is cool.
he is doing wicked at guitar at the mo, and he is writni9g songs too.
i am pleased cause i got a new job teaching drums. this is cool as i enjoy playing and teaching. i look forward to the fact that i will be supplying hundreds of bands with drummers. thats what the world need, more drummers!

As most people know i dont enjoy reading at all, but last night i found out that i have read a book, a classic in nfact that my wonderful mrs has not, yet she loves reading. nevermind.

also i have been encouraged with ste's recent posts and bones too. those pictures are stuning.

we have been writing many songs recently for the nazarenes, and i have even wrote a carol!

anyway im looking forward to christmas and learning songs to play just in case peeps want a concert.
peace out andy

Oakham youth

2005-10-24T03:59:00.000-07:00

Hello, if you are from the Oakham youth group than this applies to you.

As the youth work progresses i feel that there are certain discrepancies which must be rectified in order for us to have a successful and fruitful future.
First i feel that as a leadership we must not be too pushy. The weekend away is a good example of this. We had lots of fun and it was all positive, accept that on the meeting on the night it seemed too pushy. Some people did make a comitment, however the follow up work was not conducted at all. Therefore it seems unfruitful. This is because of two main reasons, first, there was no personal development already made with the people and so it was like strangers talking and so no background knowledge of their lives was known. Second if no one was there with the appropriate skills to council then no one should have done it! Next we see that there has been a sense of pushing for particular things such as praying out loud. This is no big deal. This is just a confidence thing. I have been a christian for 9 years, i never prayed out loud until i spoke for the first time about 18 months ago. Do not feel pushed into it, but just tackle it when it comes, as with anyhting in life dont let any one push you into things.

The next problem is a feeling that the youth group are not spiritual enough. This is a major MISCONCEPTION, of the word, the individual and the state to which it is applied.
It is not ones personal opinion to whether other people are spiritual or not spiritual, it is a feeling within ones own heart which no-one can see but God!
if one meaning of spirituality is used to determine whether a person posses the gifts of the spirit, than this is wrong and that person needs to read thier bible. The gifts of the spirit are given to and taken away by God alone, a person cannot turn them on or off at will. These gift are given for times when it is necessarry and taken away when they are not needed. If you do not posses any of them, this is nothing to worry about, as you may never neeed them, God will give you the tools needed in your life. This yearning to posses gifts is a yearning for the gift not the giver, it is not biblical!
To me spirituality is when you arrive early for an event to set up and leave late after the event to pack away. This is the real way to show a servents heart to the local community. It says in the bible that you will be known by the works that you do, this doesnot mean a literal sense with qoutas for crossing old ladys across the road but it means that if people in communitys see how the church reaches out and acts as servents for them they will be more likely to find out about God because all these loverly people go to churhc, etc etc.

lastly i see that there are several cliques within the youth and if the work is to progress fruitfully than we must try to break down these barriers. We must work together for the greater good rather than on our own. For instance JC's. This ebvent was set up by G.I.F.T. therefore it should be decided upon by G.I.F.T. not by individuals. This leads to people feeling pushed out, or not feeling good enough. Sadly this is all part of life and people tend to gravitate towards some people and not others. We should not take these things personally, but they inevitably do!
Myself i feel pushed out a little as i dont seem to be in any of these cliques, so i think that i can say these things as they apply to all the youth (including myself) and im not focusing on any individual but the whole, trying to point out the problems that are there without upsetting anyone.

If i have upset you then i am sorry, but these things needed to be said.
Feel free to leave a comment.
Peace out.

germany continued

2005-10-24T03:56:00.000-07:00

yeah sorry my computer has been playing uip so i couldnt blog. however germany was good. We played a few songs on stage, played in a football competeuiion and saw a kick ass band from england named after the front lady Judy Baley. Dieter was good.
peace out.

germanic madness!

2005-09-26T13:30:00.000-07:00

yo, a big up to all my friends out there.
sorry that there has been no blogging but last week every time i went onto blogger the explorer crashed, today it is good. Well since last i posted a lot of cool stuff has happened.
i have finally finished my summer project, which was supposed to take 6 weeks, but due to safety restrictions it took 3 months. Because i was in a stinky river i could not go into the river if it was a particular depth. Then i had to do the chemical testing, really boring!

I had my first drum lesson off a friend called chris. he owns the den studios in dudley. a very good place to reherse if you have a band and also for drum lessons.

my aunty had a birthday party for her 21st birthday. well that was in 1976, i think that is right. sorry if it is not. Anyway nearly everyone from the church went down to their house, we had an open air band, (all the youth we played, we sung, we rapped.) it was a themed party, we all dressed as homeless people, some of us looked more convincing than others, unfortunatly i wore clothes that i used to go out in to look cool, oh how times have changed!
So that was a wicked night. A week later some of us flew to Germany.

Here is the first edition of the trip to the Dusseldorf CVJM.

are sitting comfortably? then i will begin.

Me, Myself, my aunty and uncle, james and ben went to the CVJM in dussledorf.
We were supposed to go to the airport by taxi. this is a warning, NEVER EVER BOOK SPASTIC TAXI'S. For legal reasons i cannot say the name of this taxi firm but i can te

MORNING!

2005-09-13T16:03:00.000-07:00

To all who know and understand, MORNING!
I am gonna try and start blogging again as the last one seemed quite irrattic.
I think the best way to start anything is with a word of scripture, i will use my favorite verse's out of the the Bible and they can be found in Proverbs CH3, vs 5 and 6.

"TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART;DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL YOU DO, AND HE WILL DIRECT YOUR PATHS."

Amen.

A little bit about me, MY name is andy, i am a drummer, i have a girlfriend named amy,i am a christian. I attend Oakham evagelical church. I study at Birmingham University, Bsci in Environmental Geoscience. Basically rocks and the environment.

I would like to encourage anyone reading this blog to visit the soon to be up and running website www.thenazarenes.co.uk (launch date, friday 16th September). This is the rockin website of my band.Created by our bass player matt, his website is www.voodoobeard.com.

The Nazarenes are a band from Tividale, oldbury, west midlands, United Kingdom.
We write and perform our own songs, also a very close friend writes for us his name is JON. read his beautiful work at boneyard.org.uk. We also play worship songs with a bit os a zip to them. We are quite punky and ska'ry. The other members of the band are Stephen on lead vocals and guitar, his website is snickett.blogspot.com. And Aimee, backing vocals and Becky percussion (keeps me in time) and backing vocals.

Peace out and keep on rockin!

Week away

2005-09-13T08:48:00.000-07:00

Hi yall, This last week has been cool. Firstly I went on holiday with the Amy down to paignton for a few days, that was cool. We went to, a town called cockington, little thatched roofed houses / shops and things. Then we went to kents cavern, which was entierly disapointing,then we went to some waterfalls, which were very pretty, and an Abbey, not so pretty but informative, and finally to Paignton zoo, this place rocks!

The we came home and went on a youth weekend from our church. This was cool, a bit of football, basketball and a frisbee related game.
The time spent there was really refreshing as we all got to know one another a little better. One thing i have learned is no matter how big you are, a gang of girls can take you to the floor when there is a frisbee loose.

Myself and as few lads had a short prayer time after the meeting, (done by james and nat) in a small sweaty stinky room, quite uncomfortable, buit still in the presence of God. I supose that could be a sort of metafore or something, as when we were in Gods almighty precence we felt uncomfortable! Also the bible study was cool.

We did Matthew 22,1-14.
we all had some thoughts whilst reading and shared them. It talks about a great feast. About the fact that many are called and few are chosen (verse14). This means that many people are called to Gods table, but few choose to eat.

It was a cool week, and today i found out i passed my resit and continue to laze the day away as a student!
Also can you pray for myself and a team from my church who are going to Germany in a few weeks to teach some kids to play worship songs.

Peace out!