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The power of choice
I was just listening to a podcast from the Citylife church website on the Eve, The power of choice by Nicole Conner and was so blown away by the things she said, especially this last bit at the end I’ve typed out below.
The transformation process is a process, it’s a journey, it’s something we partner with the Holy Spirit on. We come to meetings like this and God puts some seed in our lives and our hearts. Don’t let the everyday life now as you go out steal that… Don’t let the enemy snatch what God has started to do in your life. Sometimes we get so caught on method, “well I need to do this, I need to do that”, sometimes you just need to put aside and say “Holy spirit, help me to protect what you’re doing in my life”. Don’t let bitterness, don’t let anger, don’t let offence, don’t let circumstance steal what’s happening right now…
-Nicole Conner
It was about Eve, about the women, about our place in God’s created world, about hurts, about circumstances, about the ‘grass is greener on the other side’ syndrome, about so many other things that I needed to hear. I fully recommend listening to the podcast if you have about 30mins to spare. I listened to it while cutting my nails and ironing my laundry 
Click here to hear it.
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rain and shine
It’s tueday, already.
I really don’t like the feeling – of feeling like there’s never enough time.
I reckon time moves too fast. I find I can’t keep up. Too many things happening.
You get sucked up by daily routine. And then you forget the smaller things.
One of the things I struggle with is keeping up with friends from over the years. Keeping in touch. Feeling connected. I don’t just mean the superficial chit-chats, the hi’s-and-bye’s-the-end, but meaningful heart-to-hearts. Sharing of lives. To enjoy one another’s company. To be transparent. To laugh, to cry. To encourage and be encouraged. It’s one of the things that is dear to my heart. We were made for relationships, not isolation. And so I thank God, for the breakfast dates and the coffee dates, the movie nights and the games nights, and the lunch dates and late-night suppers, and also semi-long drives in cars. It’s such a precious thing I sometimes take for granted. I thank God for the people that I’ve met along the way, ones from different seasons over the years – the friendships that weathered the storms, and especially for the ones that didn’t. Because out of each one was something to learn. And the sun always comes out after the rain.
I’m a work in progress. I’m learning to be patient. I’m learning to treasure what I’ve been so blessed with. I’m learning to be less independent yet more independent in different ways, at the same time. I’m learning so many things. Yet there are still so many things I don’t know. Many things I have yet to learn, yet to discover. Many things I don’t do right, and things that I keep doing wrong time and time again. But His grace covers all that.
And for that, I am thankful.
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Resolution
My newest resolution is:
- To reply all online messages and emails within 48 hours.
- To reply all sms’es and phone calls within 2 hours.
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Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see
Give me your eyes; Brandon Heath
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Chocolate mad
I’m not a big fan of chocolate, but I jut baked a Toblerone chocolate cake for tonight. Most people like chocolate right?
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What have I been doing?
Good question. Heh. So it’s close to two weeks since being back, and the weather’s been treating us real well – cept for today (high of 38degrees), which is why I’m hiding indoors from the heat and baking a cake instead.
Daddy was around the first week, so we spent time looking for new storage furniture on top of other things. We got to get out of the city quite a bit to eat, to walk, to enjoy the sunshine so that was nice. And after that the second week was spent doing manymany things. I cleaned out my room, even though it took me a whole day! I went to orientation at the university, which totally drained me with the many hours of talks – although, the free coffee was a nice touch on their part! I’ve been meeting up with friends for coffee, for meals, for chats. I’ve been running many errands, doing little things here and there like making sure I keep up with the emails and messages coming through (which I’ve always been really bad at!). I’ve been grocery shopping and cooking dinner at home instead of eating out! And my newest hobby is baking to fill up time before university starts again and before I find a job.
Even though for this semester I only have 3 days of school a week I’m really looking forward to getting back into a routine, a schedule again – and studying of course!
Photos if you keep scrolling down!
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My room, all cleaned and packed up
City Life Church Hobson’s Bay celebrated its Fifth Anniversary on Sunday
One of the orientation lectures at the university
I baked a carrot cake for the post-missions team meeting tonight but I forgot to take a picture of the finished cake before it was eaten though! It actually turned out really well for a first-time recipe.
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From my room its
7 steps to the kitchen
2 steps to Tracy’s room
3 steps to the bathroom
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