Kidney Kar Rally

I have waited a while to blog about this one because I was waiting for the photos to turn up on the Kidney Health Australia website and they are now finally up. In August i spent close to two weeks traveling five thousand kilometers across this beautiful country via dirt roads. I was an entrant in Kar 56 in the 2010 Kidney Kar Rally.

The event is a fundraiser for Kidney health Australia and attracts car enthusiasts and more predominately rally enthusiasts from across the country who all unite in raising funds for Kidney Kids Camps which are held for children aged seven to seventeen who are effected by Kidney Disease. Each year this amazing group gets together and competes across the country all in the name of Fundraising for this fantastic cause.

In 2010 the rally started in Swan Hill Victoria in mid monsoonal weather and saw the next two weeks take us through South Australia, The Flanders Rangers, up into Queensland and then back into NSW. The rain made this event interesting and added to the experience of camping in a swag.

The Rally barley touches the asphalt roads and takes us through days of off road, waterlogged, groat trails and country dirt roads. The Rally is taken seriously with many vehicles crashing, rolling braking down or having other sorts of issues all of which add to the experience. Each Vehicle is fitted out for the ordeal with roll cages, navigational equipment (for the co driver) four point harnesses and the beloved orange flashing light to name a few. Teams have to build and fund the vehicles themselves which makes the fundraising that much more impressive as I estimate each teams minimum set up costs to be around $7 Grand per car.

In 2010 the combined efforts of all the competitors and fundraisers raise $500 thousand. And Im proud to say i was part of that.

I Can Take it

I will admit a significant period of time has lapsed since writing on this and that has been caused by many distractions however it has been nice to realise how may people do keep a spare eye on my Blog as at social outings I have heard the question asked "So you have not posted any blog posts in the past new weeks?" Well my friends wait no more here it is the all new and improved Blog post.
Sorry for amping that up a bit unfortunately this post has very little in the way of life or world changing progress to report on at this stage or at least that which i am willing to report on this blog (past experience has taught me that some aspects to my life a best off kept to myself for a while (not that I'm doing a very good job at that))
So I have decided to post a little on the where i am at now and how i plan to take on the challenges to come. The past few months were hard, challenging and immensely rewarding. The Lord has taught me a few lessons I simply did not want to learn however the advantage of Sovereignty is i don't get too much of a say and his will be done. So after months of battling through that, harbouring and releasing bitterness, developing my identity and all the other academically boring stuff that has gone on i am now in a good place which God, my faith and majority of those important to me.

The minor hick up i am now facing is that whilst battling though the more difficult times i assumed in the back of my head "once i get though this little bit it will be OK" and was not expecting to be in a place that i feel is where i am meant to be and still be on the receiving end of criticism. My personality does not handle that overly well I take any form of criticism as a personal attack on me (unfortunately some people know this and deliberately do it in an attempt to hurt to me) One such in counter came a few weeks back where i had laid out what of thought of someones behaviour and challenged them on it. The response i received was the one i expected of hostility and in an attempt to remove the attention from themselves to me, spat out the accusation that i led a meaningless and pointless life. Fortunately others were involved in the in counter and it defused quickly. I am not overly bothered by that comment because i know that at just 25 i have already changed the world and i have many more years ahead of me to do more. God has not finished with me yet.

I have concluded however i do need to work on the receiving of criticism as i came to a very serious realisation this week and it came from my mentor through the Church. He said
"If no one criticises you, then you have not impacted anything" For someone to stand up and have a go at me it means that I must of some how impacted them. The statement in its self "you live a meaningless life" is contradicted by the fact that obviously my actions mean something to my critic otherwise they would not bother to comment. So I am OK with it, I'm no pew sitter, I am changing the world and if you want to have a whinge at me about it feel free.