Get real!

Tonight I entered into my first experience of ‘the sisterhood’. If you don’t know what this is all about then I strongly recommend you type in the words ‘sisterhood’ into google and see what comes up. I love being a part of something that is so much bigger and greater than I’ll ever understand and that something would be missing if I didn’t do my bit.

Anyway during worship I happened to glance over and this lady had tears streaming down her face. I didn’t know her or her story but I could tell she was getting real before her creator and that he was doing something within her. I think it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen or will see. People doing business with our almighty God and people allowing Him to move and change them.

I think that’s where it all starts. Us getting real. We can try and hide and sugar coat life and the things we’re facing but in the end where does that get us? Nothing gets resolved or dealt with,it just gets pushed to the side. We need to pull it out into the open and sit it at the foot of the cross and little by little bit by bit deal with it and let God move in His mighty way. That’s when things start happening.

And when we start getting real-He can start using us. To move and fight for the things that matter. On that note I’ll leave you with this:

While women weep as they do now,
I’ll fight
While men go to prison in and out in and out,as they do now,
I’ll fight
While there is a drunkard left,
While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets,
While there remains one dark soul without the light of God,
I’ll fight-I’ll fight to the very end
- General William Booth

He comes through…

To be honest sometimes I find it hard to trust that He’s going to come through in time.

At the moment there are a few things happening in life which are making me think ‘God when are you going to show up, when are going to provide me with what I need’. And it gets frustrating at times.

The other day I can’t remember where I was whether I was on my way to work or at church or just doing day to day things, but I remember what He said to me clearer than maybe anything else He’s ever said. ‘when have I ever not come through? I am more faithful to you than you give me credit for’.

What a slap in the face that was – but it was what I needed.

I just need to look at any part if the bible to see how faithful God is. But even if I didn’t and just looked at my own life I can see how God has come through for me time after time after time.

I guess we as humans like to think we know better. But how on earth could we know better than the one who created the universe-more than that created each and everyone of us!

So next time you think ‘hurry up – I’m ready for you to provide for me right now’ know that Gods timing and ways are perfect and that He IS in control.

I used to write…

I used to write a bit. Nothing of great depth or insight. But about things and life.

For some reason I stopped. I liked to blame it on ‘writers block’ but I never really was a ‘writer’. Thinking about it more I came to realize that I stopped looking and that I stopped being open.
I’ve been challenged that this year needs to be a new year and for some reason deep in my soul I feel that writing needs to be a part of my new year.

To you these just may all end up being a bunch of useless ramblings but for me this is a way to get things out. To realize what God is teaching me and the things that are happening around me.

I don’t think words need to be long and complicated for them to mean anything. I’m a big believer in keeping things simple. So i’m not really sure what I’m going to write about or how the words will look on a page but I am determined to put pen to paper and write again.

Family..isn’t it about time..

Easter  was so great this year.  Our family stayed out at Shearwater for the weekend  and it was so relaxing. Bike Rides, Spa’s, competitions on the Wii, chocolate and family – could there be anything better.

Monday was the greatest.  Start it off with a sleep in. Then an amazing brunch (french toast, bacon, eggs and toast..yum) with some lovely friends..This was followed by the arrival by my Aunty, Uncle and cousins from Smithton and my Nan and Pa. We chucked some meat on the barby and had a nice little picnic…

My darling little cousin took my phone and took some pictures…this is the result:

The Photographer Herself

I love my family. Most of the rest of Mum’s family arrived later that day…it was brilliant..

Lovely..

This weekend was such a lovely weekend…some full busy times. But also a nice amount of time to do nothing but sit down and relax and watch Friends.

Friday night was a lovely girl from works engagement party.  It was a Bush Dance and it was a lot of fun.  It was great to catch up with my parents – but some how my mum got so into dancing that she tore her calf muscle.  I know that it’s not really funny when someone hurts them selves – but this was a little bit funny.  Especially when it was done so Bush Dancing of all things.

Saturday was such a great day – but at the same time..it was incredibly tiring..  This day was Adam and Kaylene’s wedding, or more commonly known at Snips and Kayz.  It was such a beautiful day.  I’m a big fan of weddings.  They are so lovely and romantic.  It’s a bit of a wedding season at the moment.  I’m in one of my closest friends weddings in two months…and then another close friends in three months.  It’s all very fun and exciting.

But any way it was such a great day of hanging out with friends, eating yummy food and seeing love displayed in such an amazing way…

Although I realised that my camera is pretty much dead.  So the photos equal terrible. Some of them aren’t too bad..but yeah…you can get the idea of it from these:

Weddings some how take it out of you though. We were all pretty zonked by the reception. So it was nice to climb into bed that evening.

Sunday was a great day of Elliot cooking me breakfast then a little bit of cleaning and then lots of watching Friends and then church in the evening.

All in all…a beautiful weekend, spent with some beautiful people.

those were the days…

The lovely Emma Broughton reminded me of this lovely photo earlier today.

It was so much fun to look at and be reminded of a time when things were so much simpler.  It was college.  Your week was pretty much set out for you school, homework, friends and then work of a weekend.  It’s crazy how much changes in between those years..and then being out in the ‘real world’.  There seems to be so much more uncertainty. You’ve actually got to fend for yourself and start being an actual grown up.

Those years hold some of my dearest memories, but I believe my best years are yet to come. That exciting and new things are in store..

I wait in anticipation..

Easter…

Just now I have consumed my first Easter Egg of the season…I think I had forgotten how good chocolate is…

Yummm..

I hope people are getting into this chocolately goodness as well..

like a breathe of fresh air..

a few pictures (some stolen) from my brief catch up with Tegan Maree Churcher on her pre-birthday…

Georgina Fabian

A few weeks back one of my closest friends migrated south.  Not just for the winter – but for the next few years.  I told her I had the whole post planned out in my head and it was going to be quite the dedication to her.  But since then I have tried to write and nothing comes out.  I’m not really sure why, it may just be a block.  It may be that I’m scared that I won’t be able to share all of her amazing qualities and gifts.  But I think it also might be that I’m scared to admit she’s actually gone.  I know she’s only a 3 and a half hour drive away and we didn’t really see her much.  But it’s knowing that I can’t just shoot her a text and say let’s go eat McChicken Meals and get the burgers stuck to our teeth and then go ‘parking’ and talk for hours. I know I’ll still see her. It’s just sad.

So I have decided to do this post in pictures.  It will be probably be that no body but me and her will find this interesting.  It’s the journey of our friendship and a snap shot of some of the amazing times we’ve had together.

The Camp where it all began…

5/6 2007

My 18th

What a team.

9/10

ohhh what memories

9/10 Summer

Easter

Road Trip

Caddie and Justin’s Wedding

The Goodbye.

Georgina – you’ve been an amazing blessing to me. We possibly have one of the strangest friendship filled with a lot of sarcasm and love.  You are one of my greatest friends.  You’ve got passion that is rare to find in people these days and I know that heart and the God that gave you it is going to take you to some amazing places in life.  I hope that Hobart is good to you – if not I’ll come down and kick it’s butt!

which road?

Today I woke up early, well earlier than I normally do.  So I decided to chuck on my shorts and hoddie, grab my i-pod with only one ear-phone working and sunnies and set out for a morning stroll on the beach.  I got to the ramp and took a look for about 20 metres the beach was absolutely cover with sea-weed (which hadn’t really surprised me as the smell has been extremely potent of late on the coast).  But after the sea-weed there were just a few rocks and then the beach was absolutely flat and beautiful.  I had a choice, toughen up and treck through the sea-weed to get through to the lovely flat beach which would then make my walk much more pleasant or turn around and go home.  

I decided to go for it – I tried to find the little spots of sand so i didn’t have actually tred on the sea-weed but there was one point where I just had to go for it and treck through and hope that I didn’t slip or that it was swallow me.  I went and it was disgusting.  But i got through it – to the other end, to the glorious flat beach.

I love how God can speak to you through something so simple like this.  How it can be through day to day things that we learn life’s greatest lessons.  

In life we can come up against things like gross sea-weed and we’ve got a choice to go through it or just turn around go home and hide.  We can even try and dodge it a bit – but sometimes we’ve got to trudge straight through it so that we can get to the glorious beach.

We too often just want to take the easy road but where is the learning in that, where is the challenge and I think maybe where is the fun?

Yeah the tough road can suck and be incredibly hard and when we are in the middle of it we can even wonder how on earth we are going to get through it, or even if we ever will.  But it’s all a choice and you’ve got to choice to stand up and fight through it, and deal with it.  And it’s at the end when we get the chance to look back on all the stuff we’ve walked and fought through we get to reflect and see how much we have grown and probably wouldn’t take back all that hardship.

In the end it is worth it…..and it’s your choice whether you’ll take the easy or hard road.