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.

1 week down

so summer assignment is definitely underway and we have had a week of it already. my week has been fairly decent. definitely some ups and definitely some challenges. today i am not in a very happy mood.

i am doing a War Room shift and God is speaking to me, which is cool but i just wish i wasnt doing this war room shift out of a sense of duty because no one else would volunteer. my attitude isnt that great, cuz i should be doing this out of love and servant hood, but instead i am doing this cuz i was the last resort and everyone else said no. so i know my attitude has to adjust, but this is a community war room. it shouldnt have to come to the last resort to fill a shift. i think the reason why i am a last resort is cuz to get to the war room i need to either walk 40 mins or spend $2.25 on a bus ticket.

sometimes i wish there were some more people who are jumping at the chance to be in the war room, and not just leaving it to half the community or whatever. but i know i need an attitude adjustment when it comes to having to do shifts like this. God blesses people in the war room whether they are expecting it or not. but i am the one missing out when my attitude stinks.

And so it begins...

So summer assignment has started. i am starting to feel it after my 1st day of warrior academy. for those of you who dont know what warrior academy is, its the home schooling program for the kids in the community aged like 2 onwards. but 1 day a week Domonic, who is 1 comes as well. so i have the privaledge of looking after the little kids all day and i love those little kids.... they are sooo great. but i am soooo tired as well.

i had a moment with Noah today ( he is 2 and sooo cute!). he wanted to see his mummy who was teaching the big kids upstairs... this is how our conversation went:

Noah- I WANT TO SEE MUMMY
Lisa- No because mummy is upstairs teaching the big kids.
Noah- BUT I WANT TO SEE HER.
Lisa- well you will see her soon
Noah- I WANT TO SEE HER NOW.

he was very stubborn about it. he even held onto the hand railing and wouldnt let go. now i was thinking, man are we as Christians ever that stubborn about seeing and talking to God? do we ever want to talk/see God sooo bad that if ppl try to stop us, we just keep going and going til they let us? Noah was sooo passionate about seeing his mum cuz he loves her soooooo much and cant stand to be away from her for ages.... is that wat its like for Christians? isnt that what its meant to be like?

next week is gonna be a bit hectic as Aaron is away and i have to organise and lead cells for monday, wed, thursday and friday. intense!

An interesting weekend.

i have been very saddened this weekend by a couple of really poor decisions made by people around me. and not just this weekend, but in the last couple of weeks. like we all mess up and we make mistakes but a few people have made some HUGE decisions and its just not good. the enemy is working.