A small update:
So for the past couple weeks I have been searching for jobs. Well, technically, I started the search last semester. You would be surprised how hard it is to find a job in Sydney. By the time I got one call back last semester, I was about to visit home for 2 months. So anyways, I have been praying about it for a good while now, and with prayer and handing out my resume to what seems like a thousand different stores, I finally have a job! :) I'm going to be working at a café. I know mom is concerned with my already busy schedule, but just know that I am learning time management through it all. :)
I have lots coming up in the next couple of weeks. Right now I am waiting on my tax file number to come through so I can work. Colour Conference (the Hillsong women's conference) is coming up soon and I will be serving. That begins March 11. So don't expect to hear much from me during that time. :)
Please keep me in your prayers, as I am a bit under the weather at the moment. My sinuses and allergies are flaring up. Also, pray for my job - that everything will run smoothly with that! :) I really appreciate those of you who lift me up in prayer! Can't say how much that means to me! I love all of you back home and miss you!
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Tidbits
This semester has been so exciting thus far, and I can't wait to experience everything that is going to happen throughout 2010!
Currently, I am working with a team of college students to promote the college via a college blog, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and re-doing the entire college website, as well as preparing for online open day. I'm going to be overseeing the Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Blog, as well as doing some photography, which, if you know me, you would know I am STOKED about!
Another thing I am really excited about this semester is getting my connect group going. I just started one last Tuesday, and I am so excited to continue and grow it! Connect Group is the same thing as small group, Bible study, etc. I love Connect Groups, because in such a huge church, it is the best way to get people connected and feeling like home. It's a great way to keep a big church small.
Life is so busy right now, but I am enjoying every moment of it. College is great, as is church! I'm learning so much, and growing in God more and more each day.
(A PICTURE I TOOK OF WORSHIP DURING ONE OF OUR COLLEGE CHAPELS THIS PAST WEEK):
Check out my church's vision for 2010:
http://www.myhillsong.com/visionsunday
Also, I was reading this quote tonight, and I thought I would share with you; It really spoke to my heart:
Currently, I am working with a team of college students to promote the college via a college blog, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and re-doing the entire college website, as well as preparing for online open day. I'm going to be overseeing the Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Blog, as well as doing some photography, which, if you know me, you would know I am STOKED about!
Another thing I am really excited about this semester is getting my connect group going. I just started one last Tuesday, and I am so excited to continue and grow it! Connect Group is the same thing as small group, Bible study, etc. I love Connect Groups, because in such a huge church, it is the best way to get people connected and feeling like home. It's a great way to keep a big church small.
Life is so busy right now, but I am enjoying every moment of it. College is great, as is church! I'm learning so much, and growing in God more and more each day.
(A PICTURE I TOOK OF WORSHIP DURING ONE OF OUR COLLEGE CHAPELS THIS PAST WEEK):
Check out my church's vision for 2010:
http://www.myhillsong.com/visionsunday
Also, I was reading this quote tonight, and I thought I would share with you; It really spoke to my heart:
"When you were a child, you might have sat on a small stool and looked at your mother's embroidery. From your point of view, it was a confusion of zigzags, knots, and loose threads. Then your mother, to help you understand, turned the embroidery on the right side so you could see and appreciate the design.
You must stop looking on the wrong side of things...Lift your hearts to heavenly places and look down upon events from that vantage point. You will see life's temporary sufferings as a gathering of pearls and jewels with which we will be adorned in eternity."
- Richard Wurmbrand
Imprisoned for a total of 14 years
Romania, 1940's, 50's, and 60's
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Matchless Love
First I must say a big CONGRATULATIONS to my Aunt Faith and Uncle Michael, who are pregnant with their 3rd child. YAY! I love children. I love family. What a great thing to look forward to this Christmas!
Secondly, Happy Love Day (aka, Valentines Day)! Though a well-known holiday thanks to major marketing schemes and card companies, it nevertheless is a day to reflect and savor the love we have in life. Again, thanks to Hallmark and the likes, Valentines Day is usually signified by romantic love, and due to this many feel an increased sense of loneliness on this day. To those of us who are single (myself included), how about we relish the love that we do have in life? - such as friends, family, and ultimately, the matchless Love of God, who is actually the very definition of Love. Sometimes, I ponder what the world would look like if we all knew just how God loves us, without any restrictions, boundaries, walls, limits, fear, or facades, and then how it would look like if we could give that love right back to Him and the people in our world. Then God reminds me to wait a bit longer: Heaven is approaching more each day.
I am reminded today that I will not settle. When it comes my time for the romance, I want to make sure I have waited for the right man, and nothing less. Just because something good comes along doesn't mean it's the best for me. Through the years (I know, I sound like a geezer using that phrase) I have learned through experience, taking the advice of those who go before me, observing others, and following God that the hard decisions are the most rewarding, and boy, do I have so much more to learn! God, give me wisdom through it all. This song is one that I have always kept the lyrics to in the back of my mind. They give me a hope that I am on the right track and always encourage me that I am going to have an amazing man:
I know life isn't a chick flick, where the girl waits by her window for the man of her dreams and the man goes on this long journey to get there, and when they meet, they live happily ever after. No. That's not how it works. And sometimes I think, "Shame on Disney for forming that ideology in my head as a child." Still, there is something pure about that kind of love and passion. There is a reason little girls are so ready to accept it. There is a reason why young teenage girls these days are buying into the lies boys are whispering into their ears. There is a reason for the naïveté. It is not sheer stupidity. It is a longing to be deeply and truly loved. The reason so many girls (and even guys) go in circles, in relationship after relationship after relationship, is because they are looking for this matchless love that only God can give. Sounds so cliché, but the reason it's been uttered so many times is probably because, well, it's the only timeless, undying truth. True love, God's love, will never die. It is the only consistent thing on this earth. Better than love from your family, friends, or lover, God's love is matchless.
My prayer is that you enjoy this Day of Love, or Valentine's Day - whatever you choose to call it - with the people you love, with the realization that God's love is even greater.
Secondly, Happy Love Day (aka, Valentines Day)! Though a well-known holiday thanks to major marketing schemes and card companies, it nevertheless is a day to reflect and savor the love we have in life. Again, thanks to Hallmark and the likes, Valentines Day is usually signified by romantic love, and due to this many feel an increased sense of loneliness on this day. To those of us who are single (myself included), how about we relish the love that we do have in life? - such as friends, family, and ultimately, the matchless Love of God, who is actually the very definition of Love. Sometimes, I ponder what the world would look like if we all knew just how God loves us, without any restrictions, boundaries, walls, limits, fear, or facades, and then how it would look like if we could give that love right back to Him and the people in our world. Then God reminds me to wait a bit longer: Heaven is approaching more each day.
I am reminded today that I will not settle. When it comes my time for the romance, I want to make sure I have waited for the right man, and nothing less. Just because something good comes along doesn't mean it's the best for me. Through the years (I know, I sound like a geezer using that phrase) I have learned through experience, taking the advice of those who go before me, observing others, and following God that the hard decisions are the most rewarding, and boy, do I have so much more to learn! God, give me wisdom through it all. This song is one that I have always kept the lyrics to in the back of my mind. They give me a hope that I am on the right track and always encourage me that I am going to have an amazing man:
Love, where is your fire?
I've been sitting here, smoking away
Making signals with sticks and odd ends and bits
Still there's no sign of a flame
Imposters have been passing,
Offering a good-feeling glow
But I'm holding out for what you are about,
An inferno that burns to the bone
Some urge me to be temperate,
But luke warm will never do.
'Cuz I wanna blaze with you
So I'm holding my heart out to you
I'm holding my heart out...
- taken from Love, Where is Your Fire? by Brooke Fraser
I know life isn't a chick flick, where the girl waits by her window for the man of her dreams and the man goes on this long journey to get there, and when they meet, they live happily ever after. No. That's not how it works. And sometimes I think, "Shame on Disney for forming that ideology in my head as a child." Still, there is something pure about that kind of love and passion. There is a reason little girls are so ready to accept it. There is a reason why young teenage girls these days are buying into the lies boys are whispering into their ears. There is a reason for the naïveté. It is not sheer stupidity. It is a longing to be deeply and truly loved. The reason so many girls (and even guys) go in circles, in relationship after relationship after relationship, is because they are looking for this matchless love that only God can give. Sounds so cliché, but the reason it's been uttered so many times is probably because, well, it's the only timeless, undying truth. True love, God's love, will never die. It is the only consistent thing on this earth. Better than love from your family, friends, or lover, God's love is matchless.
My prayer is that you enjoy this Day of Love, or Valentine's Day - whatever you choose to call it - with the people you love, with the realization that God's love is even greater.
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