Politics!

Ok so for those of you who know me really well, u know i am not into politics at all and i think they are all a bunch of liars and we cant trust any of them. BUT.... i went to a council chamber meeting today. u will be proud to know, i sat through 4 hrs of a meeting and didnt fall asleep!!! i went to support Aaron and one of my teen cell girls Hannah as they were speaking at this meeting. the bulk of the agenda was 33 people speaking to the council to get them to give money to build the 3200 social housing units they PROMISED Vancouver when we won the bid for the Olympics. they promised this and now they are saying there isnt enough money to build all of these 3200 rooms/units etc for low income housing to eliminate homelessness.

it was really interesting cuz i actually got what people were saying and understood it cuz i see it everyday. Aaron and Hannah did a really really good job speaking on behalf of our friends down here, as did lots of other people. but to me, it wasnt really politics. this is people fighting the injustices.

i was very annoyed at some parts of it. the Mayor left for most of it, was not there to hear people. it just shows how apathetic he is towards this issue and its very sad. the chairperson was an interesting lady. it was funny, cuz from the start, she said it would go for recess at 6:00 if we are still going. when 6:00 rolled around, all the speeches were done, there were a few questions from the chamber ppl and then they would have voted. 30 mins longer, but she still wanted recess. one of the guys in there moved for a motion to not have recess but she was very adament in her prior agreement. in her words, she said " We already made a prior agreement to have recess, so we will have recess".... i am like "HELLO, WHAT ABOUT THE PRIOR AGREEMENT TO HAVE 3200 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS BUILT!!!!". wish i could yell that out. pity they cant keep all their agreements, only the ones that suit them!!!!!

needless to say, it was really interesting and worthwhile!

Being Stretched

well i have been sitting here for awhile thinking of what to say... and i thought i would just say 2 things:

1) I am at New West for a few days getting away from Xculture cuz i need more sleep than 6 hrs a night, so i am hanging out, chilling and relaxing at the officers house out here. its fun.

2) Thanks to my good friend Holly and her weekly update to the session, i have decided i want to be stretched more so i can grow more in Christ.

That is all... i dont know whether anyone actually reads my blog anymore, hmmm....

Our Father

Well firstly, just a side note about my cat. he was spotted yesterday near our house but it seems he doesnt want to come home. maybe he just knows i am not there... he he. kidding. Pray that he comes home. then we will lock him in the house for awhile.

well yesterday i was at the Whites just hanging out with the kids and we were watching The Lion King. i dont think i have seen that since i was like 12 yrs old or something. obviously i wasnt a Christian, but now i have watched it from an older, more spiritual perspective and i never knew how spiritual that movie is. there was 1 line in it that fully got me and made me think alot. it was after Simba's father had died and Simba had just met that crazy monkey/babboon character who told him that his father was still with him and he ran out into the field and Mufusa came like a cloud. and this is what he said to Simba " YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME BECAUSE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO YOU ARE."

One thing this year that i have been doing is finding out who i am in Christ. and its been an interesting journey. right from day 1 i have been learning new stuff about me and learning about my capabilities in Christ and my gifts he has given me and stuff like that. and sometimes i lose myself in the world, by longing to fit in and trying to be like everyone else. i forget who i am because i add myself to the messy big blob that is the world and i just kinda make myself fit in and look like everyone else. i am not set apart. when that happens, i totally forget truly who God is in my life.

so the moral of this blog is, DONT CONFORM TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.

do you want to be in the big messy blob and forget your father or do you want to be set apart from the world, living truly who you were made to be and remembering your father?? i know which one i want.

The Bus

I catch the bus ALOT these days... i think i catch it everyday almost. and almost everytime i catch the bus i get saddened by some people that i see on the bus. And i have seen alot of people on the bus in the past month. and today just took the cake. i saw 2 girls hop on the bus and they were probably 14.... i am not kidding. 1 was talking about moving out as soon as she turns 16, so obviously they were younger than 16. but they were making sooo many disgusting, sexual comments, every 2nd word was a swear word. they were teeny boppers. it was soooo bad. it made me really sad. these girls were 14. i really wanted to shake them or tell them to get over themselves and find something worthwhile in life. but i didnt and that was ok. God made it clear it wasnt my turn to talk.

some other bus experiences have included: lecturing these 2 15 yr old boys on how there is so much more to life than just doing drugs and telling them they will wreck their lives if they dont get on the right track, noticing how materialistic the world is, seeing fake people try to act all cool, gangster wannabes and seeing people who just act like they dont care.

if people dont care about life, what is the point? what is the point in being on this earth?

Timmy

Yesterday i got a phone call from my mother to say that my kitty got let out of the house as usual yesterday morning and he never came home.

Soooo Timmy is missing and i am really really sad. thats all for now.

First time for everything

THIS BLOG IS ESPECIALLY FOR MY FRIEND ANDREW!!! IN YOUR FACE ANDREW, I TOLD YOU QUEENSLAND COULD WIN! FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING AND THEY DID IT LAST NIGHT!!!! YAY GO QUEENSLAND!!!!

if u r Canadian, please dont worry about this blog.... if you are Australian, u will know exactly what i am talking about... well maybe not the ppl in Perth or Tasmania, but everywhere else has a fair idea!!!

Obediance

All week i have been meaning to blog, but i have been a bit lazy and i have sooo much that i could blog that i get overwhelmed and cant choose anything, so then i dont blog at all.... maybe i should blog more often, then i could tell you guys more stuff that i wanna tell u. i know people dont like reading long long long blogs, so i try to keep it short as possible.

God this week has been teaching me more and more about obediance. and over the last few weeks, there have been quite a few times when i havent obeyed God, mostly with some little things. like on the bus, he will tell me to tell someone that they are beautiful or the other day he asked me to tell these 2 15 yr olds about how stupid and destructive their behaviour was.... keep in mind, i didnt know these people, so it makes me nervous. needless to say i did give those 15 yr olds a bit of a lecture. but i didnt tell the woman that she was beautiful. its just small things like that. this morning at church i went to the mercy seat and committed myself and told God that i would obey him because he knows better than me. but its one of those tough things to do sometimes. and not just in the little things, but i have to trust God is some of the bigger things too. i took a bit of a step of faith today... i dont really wanna mention too much about it... maybe later though. but i took it, so i am on the way to being obediant....

i think thats all i ahve to report... sorry i suck at blogging. i will try to blog more often!!!

Forgiveness and Grace

This week has been an interesting week in regards to my beautiful teen cell girls. there has been some fights and arguments going on and mostly, it all come back to a lack of forgiveness and grace. so i have been thinking about this and thinking about how in general, as humans we have a lack of forgiveness and grace for each other all the time. and i have been looking at some bible verses on grace and forgiveness and contemplating how it applies to my life.

Ephesians 4:31,32 says: Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

I have come to the conclusion that you need to get rid of all you bitterness and rage etc to truly forgive. i guess we all know that but this really applies to me right now. There is some unforgiveness in my life, and most of it springs from my bitterness and anger towards this certain person, because of what they did, i make the choice to be angry and bitter towards them, which makes me not want to forgive them. i need to work on ridding myself of the bitterness and anger before i can actually truly forgive this person in my life.

Letting go of the anger and bitterness is always the hardest step... however it is the first step to forgiving. i wish forgiveness was simple... and i wish i was better at forgiving.