And on life goes.

Hello you people who actually still read my blog, even though I've been quiet on here again. Yeah, lets not talk about that, okay?

 

So, last week, it was my birthday, which means i had to celebrate a day of basically...getting old. Yes, fun times. I ate a lot and i mean a lot of good food, too much really, but you know, your only young once and all that. Right?

 

Last Thursday I finished college for the Easter holiday, yes finally, I'm just hoping the good old sun decides to appear sometime soon for us. So I have two free weeks now and absolutely nothing planned. Grand. Well nothing overly exciting. But, we do have a sponsored charity walk this Thursday that I'm doing with a bunch of crazy youth from church. So i guess i do have something to look forward to.

 

Who else feels like they don't have a life sometimes? I said that to someone the other day, and they were like, "But you do! You have Jesus!" and all that, so yeah, i should quit complaining and start rejoicing everyday...ya know, rejoicing, with loud music and gummy bears, and mental emotions where i cry about what a mess i  feel and then laugh uncontrollably with joy of Gods awesomeness. Yeah, that kinda rejoicing.

So yeah, i shall try and talk more. #Don'tSpeakTooSoon

 

And oh my life, Happy Easter guys!

 

- Jesus is alive - #ohyes

What I've been up to.

Lately I've been trying to make practising playing the piano a priority, but I can't exactly say I've achieved that, 'cus well, I just haven't. So then I have to try and come up with some excuse to my music teacher as to why I haven't been practising. Yeh. #embarrassing

This week I've been writing a lot. I wish I could say that some of that writing involves writing blog posts, but it doesn't. I'm sorry, I will try harder. Oops. So I've actually been writing up essays for college and revising for exams and all that boring palava, but hey, it's gotta be done. Just please tell me it'll all be worth it...? #writersblock

Today I went to church, 'cus, well, it's Sunday. I worshipped alongside my crazy friends, then sat with my brother to listen to the preaching. It was all good, it always is. I just generally love being at church, I prefer being there than at home to be honest. #Godshouse

Look at this / Listen to this / Read this

I don't really know how many people read my blog, or if any ones even noticed that I haven't blogged in weeks, but if you have noticed, then I'm sorry. I will try harder, I might get a couple of guest posters on here too. ;)

xo

145 posts.

This is my 145th post. wow. Nearly my 150th post, but not quite yet.

So, it's now Decemeber, where did the time go? How'd it come so fast!?

 

I'm sitting here in the cosy green room, shivering because though it may be kinda cosy, its also kinda cold. I'm listening to "Yahweh" by Kari Jobe and the words are meaning a lot to me because there sang so truly and with so much heart and passion. If you get me. ;-)

 

I went to church today to worship and hug and praise and listen to the word of God and to listen to the Pastors message (which happened to be very good). Today, though i did enjoy the service, i just wanted to go home and drink tea and sleep and just basically be lazy.....haha. So thats what my afternoon has and is consisting of...laziness, tea-drinking and soon, sleeping. It's nice.

I'm normally always busy and rushing around, keeping myself busy on purpose because i actually hate and i mean hate having nothing to do, it bores me.  But, funnily enough, today, i like it. Yes. Just doing like, nothing. So, as i'm all chilled and quiet i thought I'd blog as it's been a week since i last posted anyway. So yeah.

 

I'm going to make another brew now and go snuggle up to my little sisters and tickle them and winde them up till they get grumpy so i can make them laugh by tickling them again. Hehe.

 

Adios lovelies... xoxo

 

'Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time; casting all your cares upon Him, because He cares for you.'
- 1 Peter 5:6-7

The sun is rising.

I've been wondering around just pondering and thinking about God, people, life, faith, prayer...I guess I've had a lot on my mind and had a lot of torment that I'm not what i should be and the enemy has been using people to get to me and try and pull me down rather than build or lift me up.

 

When i look back at these past few weeks, they seem to be full of all that rubbish, all that rubbish that i shouldn't have been carrying around with me, just things that people had said to me that I'd been holding onto. Or things that I'd felt or seen, i just wasn't letting go of, i was praying and forgiving and releasing and giving it to God then taking it back again and letting it get to me, which i know was like stupid. It's crazy how much stuff that we let get to us, isn't it!? Even just the little things. I laugh about it now. lol. But it is quite crazy really.

 

But also in these past few weird weeks, God has been working in me and changing and molding me into the daughter he wants me to be. Which can sometimes be scary because you can feel yourself changing and you feel different and you want to tell everyone but you cant always really explain what Gods doing in you because you cant see it but you know its happening because you can feel it! Incredible!

 

God has been using people to bless me and touch me and speak to me too. Different speakers have given words that have spoken to me. About two weeks ago me and some of my friends went to a meeting to hear a Guy preach (Bishop Eddie) and we all got prayed for and i got really emotional and just cried, then laughed, then cried some more then kept laughing! Then i got the amazing chance to see Hannah get filled with the Holy Spirit and get really touched too which really blessed me!

Then this week a guy called Peter Gladwin (see website) came to speak at our church and his testimony is so amazing, and he gave me a word that God had given him at the end too which really just blew my mind!
Then the worship that Daniel was leading was brilliant too, i love worshipping God and its great to see how God is using Daniel to lead people into worship in such a way! True worship is amazing!

 

So there's a lot happening, all good, all different, all exciting!

 

"The sun is rising"

"People get ready"

 

About Sunday

I'm sitting here on the sofa in the green room. All the other kids are sitting in the living room watching an episode of the Waltons. Ive just finished a brew and now i'm ready to write. I'll start with a picture..

 This picture doesn't have anything to do with what I'm gonna write.. i just thought it was cool ;-)

On Sunday the youth lead the service, which was like really fun. Each one of the youth played a part, whether they sang, read a bible passage, shared a testimony, shared communion, or whatever. Yeh it was a good day. 

But oh, the build up to Sunday - we were all nervous, well, i certainly was, on the Saturday when we did the last practice, i felt physically sick and couldn't eat anything. 

Not a nice feeling.

I had to write a testimony and share it in the service, that was the problem, i had to stand, on my own, with a microphone, on stage, in front of the whole congregation and i hate public speaking! Eee! 

But on the Sunday it was like amazing because as i got up to speak, i just felt so much peace, i knew that God was with me, so as i stepped towards the microphone stand, i took a deep breath and said like the shortest prayer ever in my head then i began my testimony. We'll ignore the bit about not being able to look at anybody and staring at the paper the whole time. 'Cus hey, im still learning!

 (my testimony, id rather you didnt try to read it :-P)

Oh, and heres another cool thing, we all (well the girls) wore the same top, that we'd brought the day before...so that was aweomse.

 The WILD stands for - "Walking in (the) Lord's direction" Neat huh?

We all wore like loads of bracelets too, we just did silly, girly, fun stuff, lol. :-)

So yeh, Sunday was just the-bomb-dot-com.

That's all im writing for now. Im due-for-a-brew.

 

In great company

 

On Saturday me, Zsara, Hannah, Dan, Cassie, Zezi, Rebekah and Ken took part in a sponsored walk around Tittersworth Reservoir to raise money for Christian aid. I think it was about 5 miles. So we met at church at 9:00am and all climbed into the church mini-bus. 

 We got their around 9:30am Registration. The walk officially started at 10:00am. On we went. Woo. We had till 1:30pm to finish the walk, so plenty of time. Which meant we could stop and take as many photos as we wanted (awesome), stop for a drink of water/snack whenever, laugh and talk as much as we wanted. Super. 

 

 (me and Hannah)

So we did, lots of pictures were taken, there was a whole lot of laughing and taking and singing going on. Yes singing. Lots of random singing. I even recorded/filmed some of the singing but i may not put it on here, its a little embarrassing and i dont know if the others would be so keen with me putting it on here. 

Yeah, we were tired and some of the up-hill walking could be a little hard but hey, it was all good fun and for a good cause, so it was definitely worth the, tiredness, sweat and aching legs and feet. :-P We stopped around half way at the dam for a quick snack and a drink. We all sat on the wall, legs swinging, rosy cheeks, worn out but still smiling. Rebekah took that opportunity to take some pics.... Thank you Rebekah! :-)(oh and the very first picture was also taken by Rebekah..awesome huh!? ;-)

So, a tiring day but we had perfect weather, we had great company, it was super fun and good exercise and between us we managed to raise around £500. Basically a day full of awesome-ness!

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105

oh...and i get to see THE HUNGER GAMES with Hannah!!!!! eeeee!