Moving

i'm moving. i'm 20 years old and i'm moving for the 11th time...

the longest that i've lived in one house in one town is 4 years. i'm about to go into my 5th year in bendigo but my 4th house here.... little excessive i think.

i used to hate moving, esecially in the same town to a different house. that's just annoying. but this move i'm excited about. should be fun. a new adventure.

how many times have you moved???

what's the tiredest that you have ever been?

The tieredest that I’ve ever been was a while ago. I was in my first year of and and working at maccas 4 nights a week till late, like 1 in the morning as well. Most mornings I was also getting up early to get to uni or other commitments. On Thursdays I was up at 6 to get to an early lecture then working till 1. I did this all semester….

I was also out every night doing something. Sometimes it was bible study groups, church and other stuff as well as work. The mornings I wasn't up early for uni, I was up early for something else. I was very enthusiastic though so I kept doing it.

Staying up all night then early mornings for a whole semester is not the wisest thing to do. But then when it came to exam time and I was studying I literally fell asleep on a textbook. I was just closeing my eyes for a moment and woke up a while later.

I had sat myself on the ground so I wouldn’t be comfortable and so I would stay awake to study for an exam that I was stressed about, and I fell asleep. (I passed the class, but only just).

I learnt my lesson, I can't do everything... although I do try.

What’s the tieredest that you have ever been????

what holds you back???

i was reflecting yesterday on different things that i'm doing in my life, and where i'm at with them. some areas hadn't moved forward, some had, some are now non existent which wasn't a bad thing, it was just i had moved on or am trying to.

but in some areas i was wondering why i was still there, why nothing had happened and what was holding me back...

for some it was fear of rejection i guess, or just fear of the outcome. but as i thought and prayed i relised that my fear was silly. i shouldn't be afraid, Christ is in my life and all things are possible with him. i had nothing to be afraid of. i felt challenged to step up to the plate. to be bold. and i'm taking on that challenge. no holding back now. Gods power will be eveident in my life.

i was thinking also that life, and different things such as the values of our society can get in the way. the fast pace of the world and the push to leave mistakes in the past. that doesn't always happen. the past sneaks up on us, and we relise that we have been carrying around all this baggage for years. deal with mistakes and problems when they come up. don't leave it. it stays with us and we grow bitter. deal with them then and there, its much easier.

then i thought about Gods call and why we don't respond. there are so many reasons. fear is one, mistakes of the past is another. but also we just let life get in the way. if God wants us to be involved and do something to make a difference, to reach others, then we shouldn't worry about life and all the demands that have been placed on us. trusting God is the way. place your faith in Him and let Him lead. He created the universe He can supply your needs and my needs, whatever they are.

i'm not going to let anything hold me back.

some random stuff

some cool random things in reply to Travs blog

* knee high toe socks
* fudge
* any good surprise
* favourite songs on the radio
* mail (that isn't bills or junk, but real letters)
* text messages
* 5 cent coins
* questions
* long walks

INTROVERTS Vs EXTROVERTS

what are you introvert or extrovert????

the collins paperback dictionary and thesaurus (1994) says defines them as:

Introverts - person concerned more with his or her own thoughts, or feelings than with external reality

Extroverts - lively and outgoing; concerned more with external reality than with inner feelings.

extroverts generally get their energy from others and love being around people. they don't need as much space and don't mind making their thoughts known. introverts generally sit back and think more and don't speak up as much (although there is the odd introvert who don't mind making their opinions known). introverts need space and get their energy from spending time by themselves and need more reflection time.

do you agree?

which are you???

Questions

do you think that people can be rich, powerful and famous and still be humble???

does God call some people to be poor and others to be rich???

does God want us to have more stuff/money/power???

love

a friend sent me this quote a while ago by C.S Lewis "love is being vulnerable"

then asked me what i made of it. well i thought of it for a while and thought that unless you are volnerable with some one and ready to open up, you don't know them. you have to let some one know you to be really able to love them for who they are.

we also have to be able to talk openly. this is being vulnerable. letting people see you through the struggles in life and talking with them about how you're feeling. that can be hard. and it is vulnerable, putting yourself out there with all the risks in that.

another friend thought the same thing and said this

" how can you love someone without truly showing them who you are... doing that makes you the most vulnerable you will ever be"

i also think that love is more than an emotion, more than just feelings, but an action.

the bible says in corinthians 13
'love is patient, love is kind, it is not jelous, it does not boast, it is not proud. love is not rude or selfish.... '

all of these are actions, that is, more than an emotion.

Jesus had the ultimate act of love when He died for us.

"Greater love has no one than this than he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

to stick through things in life, the ups and the downs, love needs to be more than what we're feeling, but a commitment, a promise, a devotion to those we love.

if love was just a feeling, we would all be loving people one day, and not the next.

purpose

do you think that your life has purpose????

are you actively working towards something? actively seeking for Gods purpose and direction in your life and seeking to go forward?

God has a plan and a purpose for us all, we just have to seek it and grow our faith as we head towards what God has for us.

i asked a friend on Sunday if his life has a purpose statement. when we do activities and run different things like ministries a purpose statement helps to focus what we do, and to really achieve something. it also provides a way to measure what we do and the impact that we make.

i'm not sure if it applies to us, that we need a purpose statement, but i do think that we need to think about what the meaning of our own person life is, and where we are heading.

God has given us a plan and a purpose... but are we living it??? i'm asking myself, am i living it?

how many of you procrastinate???

i'm procrastinating right now... i have an exam tomorrow and another to hand in on monday and lots to do other than that, and here i am blogging...

it's not a healthy thing to do, it puts people under a lot of preasure to get things done. but that is when we do procrastinate. when we have lots to do.

then how do you prioritise what needs to be done, and what you do do..?

it's the busy people in the world that get things done. people who don't do anything i wouldn't ask to do something i felt needed to be done, cos they don't do it. it's those who know how to work and those who do lots that many ask a favour of, ask to do things, cos they know that they'll get things done.

oh well that's enough.
i'm just procrastinating....

back to the exams and study... or email...