Hold you tight and breath

It seems that so many of my friends are going through a difficult time at the minute.

It's like there's some sort of heaviness in the air, in the atmosphere. Though, it hasn't touched me.

I've read various blogs by various lovely people. What they've wrote is so honest and open, but so heavy and painful. Reading what they've wrote and then I'm wanting to tear my way through my computer screen and get into their world and push everything that's causing them such heaviness and just hold them really tight and give them chance to just breathe, but I cant. Only Jesus can do that. So I'm praying that Jesus would just get through to them and that he will be the person to push all the heaviness away and just hold them really tight and give them a chance to breathe. Love you all xoxox

 

Midnight Musings - 2

I dont really care that its not exactly midnight yet. It sure does feel like it.
Here we go.

- Midnight musings post are really fun, i can be random and silly and nobody cares
- I have multi-coloured nail varnish on right now 
- Guy made me print lots of music but i kept printing it wrong like 4 times 
- My eyes feel a bit sore
- I love white chocolate chip cookies 
- I like nice perfume  
- God's showing me a lot about having authority over 'bad stuff'
- I talked to myself a lot yesterday cus i got bored but then i got embarrassed so i stopped
- I had a *ahem* slight disagreement with my sister today 
- Spent all afternoon wondering why my eye felt so weird then realised i had an eyelash on my eyeball
- I'm really tired
- I need another cookie 
- I wrote a song the other day about caterpillars cus i just felt like it 
- I love the WILD church youth
- I'm playing piano in worship tomorrow (yikes!) 
- I need to go to bed

.....and on that last note, i think i will. Good night. Flippers flip too much because jammy yam. Hey, its midnight, i can be as random as i want. ;-)
xoxox

Learning to be content

I found that quote on We Heart It and i sat and thought about it for a bit (there's me thinking too much again, lol) and how right it was, its simple really. Yet i so often do the opposite, i try to impress people, who dont even like me, the kind of people who dont give me a happy relaxed feeling when I'm with them but i wanna impress them and maybe hang around with them because they might be more popular or talented. Which is stupid really, cus ive got a whole bunch of amazing people who are my friends, and they're all awesome and talented and cool in their own way. 

The quote also made me think about God, i dont have to impress him, he already loves me and thinks im wonderful, even if myself or anyone else thinks that I'm not, he does! I havent got to try and act different or try and be something im not or try to be cooler or funnier, i havent got to do anything to impress him. He says we need to just come as we are and he'll accept us with wide open arms full of love!

Spending time with God and 'hanging' around with him does make me happy. Cus he gives me joy and peace and hope and love and courage and everything else i need. I dont need anything or anyone else when ive got him. I think God's teaching me to just be content no matter what. No matter what ive got or haven't got, no matter what wall i may be walking towards, no matter how i feel, i just need to be content and now the scripture comes to mind... 

"I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Philippians 4:11

Unchangeable

When i was at New Wine there was a guest speaker doing a seminar on one of the evenings, and it looked interesting so i decided to go, she was talking about how God is unchangeable and how he is forever the same. It was really good how she explained it and went through the reasons why he is unchangeable.

She explained about what it means to change, so, say if someone or something changed, they'd either changer for the better or the worse. But think about it, were talking about God now, so if God changed, then he would either change for the better or the worse, if he changed for the better then that would mean that he wasn't good enough in the first place but it says in the bible...  

"As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless." Psalm 18:30 and  "...therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48. 

So we've now established that God cannot change for the better because he is already perfect and far more than good enough, he couldn't be any better! Also God cant change for the worse because that would mean that he must have slipped up somewhere, somehow. He must have done something wrong that has caused him to not be quite as perfect. But he is perfect, as it says in the scriptures above, the bible also says,      

"...the gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance..." 1 Thessalonians 1:5.  His word is true. 

It says in Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

God is perfect, holy, spotless, amazing and unchangeable! and he always will be!

 

Awakening (part 1)

Yes, its happening and its scary, but I can feel it happening deep inside of me, its slowly getting stronger and expanding and its making itself very obvious, its a unique feeling that can't fully be explained without it sounding like a load of gobbledy-gloop. So yes my friend, its happening, slowly but surely, it has started, the awakening has begun. This is it! 

Things to be happy about:

I've decided to start focusing on the happy things rather than the not-so-happy-things because I've discovered that dwelling on the not-so-happy-things isn't the best idea!!
So..

Things to be happy about:

// sunny days // flip-flops // ice-cream // amazing friends // Gods blessings // Godly parents // slow walks // ridiculously cute siblings // Job 1:10 // spots and stripes // caramel // spiritual mommas // earlier nights // pianos // open arms // summer // oranges // grace // tea // picnics // laughter // silver // cheese-cake // love // random moments // socks //

What's on your happy-things-list today? :-)