Here is a picture of me and my model friend Gemma Ward... well actually it's Jen... but I reckon she really looks like Gemma Ward in this picture.
actually... Jen looks much better :)
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
challenges of life
Recently I've found it so amazing and so challenging and so comforting that God has a plan for my life and that he leads me in different directions.
All the talks I've been to this year and all the bible studies I've done just seem to be so relavant to me. At first I thought it was pure coincidence, but now I realise that God really has been speaking to me and trying to challenge me. I guess it also just goes to show that the Bible is living and active.
I think after high school... I was in this real crucial point in my life where I was thinking really deeply about all the relationships that I'm in. At the beginning of the year... I heard talks on matthew which made me rethink how I was going to relate to God this year. I also had talks from matthew at ISCF conference and apparently the talks for women's convention will be from matthew too. Then at MYC I was challenged about the purpose of marriage and contentment in being single (which has come up a lot for me this year).
For basically my whole high school years... I think I was very unhappy about being single and I think this is a problem with our adolescent (sp?) culture today that so much importance is placed on 'who you go out with.' Here were my mood changes:
- singleness is crap
- you can serve God better being single... so deal with it
- you can serve God better in a relationship
- singleness is mad... you get to hang out with your girl friends and chat more
- singleness sucks when you're the only one single
There is a really challenging passage in 1 Corinthians 7:25ff which basically says, if you're single... stay single because it's good and you can serve God better, and if you are married... keep at it and serve God in that way. I'm still not sure what I think about this passage... I think it's something I have to mull over for a bit.
So at the moment... I am quite happy with being single, and I'm trying to work out how I can be serving God in my singleness... because it's such a blessing that I don't have to worry about a guy and that I have so much time to do things that people in relationships probably would have less time to do.
One thing that confuses me are single Christians who say "I plan to get married and have kids etc" but they don't consider the fact that God may want them to be unmarried and that they may be able to glorify God better while being single. Like who are we to say "God... please get me into a relationship."
I dunno... thats my confusing (and slightly controversial) spiel. This basically came up because my bible study group seems to be overly preoccupied with relationships. I don't know if it's helpful.
but in all this... Yay for God! Because he loves me.
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p.s: I remember being given an article to read on the 'joys of being single' which said stuff like... "when you are single, you have more time to serve God" and "you wont get as tempted" and other random stuff which made me feel really angry because it said something that I didn't want to hear. The great faults in humans... is that they want to live their own way and not just follow God's perfect plan for them.
All the talks I've been to this year and all the bible studies I've done just seem to be so relavant to me. At first I thought it was pure coincidence, but now I realise that God really has been speaking to me and trying to challenge me. I guess it also just goes to show that the Bible is living and active.
I think after high school... I was in this real crucial point in my life where I was thinking really deeply about all the relationships that I'm in. At the beginning of the year... I heard talks on matthew which made me rethink how I was going to relate to God this year. I also had talks from matthew at ISCF conference and apparently the talks for women's convention will be from matthew too. Then at MYC I was challenged about the purpose of marriage and contentment in being single (which has come up a lot for me this year).
For basically my whole high school years... I think I was very unhappy about being single and I think this is a problem with our adolescent (sp?) culture today that so much importance is placed on 'who you go out with.' Here were my mood changes:
- singleness is crap
- you can serve God better being single... so deal with it
- you can serve God better in a relationship
- singleness is mad... you get to hang out with your girl friends and chat more
- singleness sucks when you're the only one single
There is a really challenging passage in 1 Corinthians 7:25ff which basically says, if you're single... stay single because it's good and you can serve God better, and if you are married... keep at it and serve God in that way. I'm still not sure what I think about this passage... I think it's something I have to mull over for a bit.
So at the moment... I am quite happy with being single, and I'm trying to work out how I can be serving God in my singleness... because it's such a blessing that I don't have to worry about a guy and that I have so much time to do things that people in relationships probably would have less time to do.
One thing that confuses me are single Christians who say "I plan to get married and have kids etc" but they don't consider the fact that God may want them to be unmarried and that they may be able to glorify God better while being single. Like who are we to say "God... please get me into a relationship."
I dunno... thats my confusing (and slightly controversial) spiel. This basically came up because my bible study group seems to be overly preoccupied with relationships. I don't know if it's helpful.
but in all this... Yay for God! Because he loves me.
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p.s: I remember being given an article to read on the 'joys of being single' which said stuff like... "when you are single, you have more time to serve God" and "you wont get as tempted" and other random stuff which made me feel really angry because it said something that I didn't want to hear. The great faults in humans... is that they want to live their own way and not just follow God's perfect plan for them.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Threadless!
You may have noticed me wearing some cool shirts all the time. Just click on the link to see the site... sign up and buy shirts... then you can be as groovy as me!
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Friday, August 25, 2006
few!!!
I checked the apple website and my laptop battery doesn't need to be replaced. What a relief...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
the future for a 19 year old...
28/8:
-Motivation Essay due
-Post-natal pregnancy exercise presentation
30/8:
-Motivation Presentation
1/9:
-Aural transcription due
-Harmony analysis due
-I turn 20
3/9:
-Creative thinking report due
4/9:
-Concepts of physical fitness and health exam
-Keyboard journal due
5/9:
-Orchestra concert
8/9-10/9:
-Katoomba Women's Convention
11/9:
-Keyboard test
my last days of being a teenager... and I can't enjoy them. being 20 sounds drab.
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-Motivation Essay due
-Post-natal pregnancy exercise presentation
30/8:
-Motivation Presentation
1/9:
-Aural transcription due
-Harmony analysis due
-I turn 20
3/9:
-Creative thinking report due
4/9:
-Concepts of physical fitness and health exam
-Keyboard journal due
5/9:
-Orchestra concert
8/9-10/9:
-Katoomba Women's Convention
11/9:
-Keyboard test
my last days of being a teenager... and I can't enjoy them. being 20 sounds drab.
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Friday, August 18, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
myc'06 - irelate
Here is the long awaited recap of what I learned at myc:
The topic was relationships... and we pretty much covered all relationships you could think of - boy/girl, parents/kids, brothers and sisters in Christ (church), relationships with the world, relationship with God.
We learned that God is a relational person, and this is seen through his relationship with himself in the trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since we are made in God's image, it is only natural that we are relational beings too. God wants us to relate to him and to others just as he relates to himself, in love. But these relationships are not just for our pleasure, in all our relationships we should seek to glorify God, as the trinity does as well. God seeks to have relationship with us, but we stuffed up big time. There is nothing we can do to enter into a relationship with God. Lucky for us... God loved us so much that he sent his Son to pay the price for our stuff up. Jesus came to Earth as a man, and was crucified. Our wrongs were paid for. But he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead, overcoming death so that we could be raised to life with him. God is King. And he calls us to have relationship with him. For more info you may want to check out http://www.christianity.net.au/
The tough challenge now is to try and glorify God in all our relationships.
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The topic was relationships... and we pretty much covered all relationships you could think of - boy/girl, parents/kids, brothers and sisters in Christ (church), relationships with the world, relationship with God.
We learned that God is a relational person, and this is seen through his relationship with himself in the trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since we are made in God's image, it is only natural that we are relational beings too. God wants us to relate to him and to others just as he relates to himself, in love. But these relationships are not just for our pleasure, in all our relationships we should seek to glorify God, as the trinity does as well. God seeks to have relationship with us, but we stuffed up big time. There is nothing we can do to enter into a relationship with God. Lucky for us... God loved us so much that he sent his Son to pay the price for our stuff up. Jesus came to Earth as a man, and was crucified. Our wrongs were paid for. But he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead, overcoming death so that we could be raised to life with him. God is King. And he calls us to have relationship with him. For more info you may want to check out http://www.christianity.net.au/
The tough challenge now is to try and glorify God in all our relationships.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
brain overload
I've just come back from ISCF Conference and MYC (Mid Year Conferece). Both were awesomely cool for different reasons.
but for now... I need rest! I've had so much information going into my brain and I plan on using the next week to process it all. So be on the lookout for a "what I learned" blog next week.
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but for now... I need rest! I've had so much information going into my brain and I plan on using the next week to process it all. So be on the lookout for a "what I learned" blog next week.
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
the happy camper...
for my switch camp memoirs... check out http://juniorswitchgirls.blogspot.com
to see my face be critiqued... check out http://www.radiantvista.com/archive/daily_critique/260/
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to see my face be critiqued... check out http://www.radiantvista.com/archive/daily_critique/260/
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