"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11.28-30.
For the last few weeks i've felt like i've been going through a spiritual valley. Every day has been a struggle, struggling for joy, struggling for grace, struggling for peace. Waking up in the morning and reading my bible and almost falling asleep, trying to focus and not being able to.
But on Tuesday night i went to the BIG bible study. I went into the other room to pray before we began and as i sat there pleading with God to be my strength and my provider and everything else i realized that, WHOA, hasn't He already said that He IS? When i gave my life to Jesus all those years ago He became my peace. He became my provider. He became my strength. That reminder was a huge encouragement to me! Psalm 23 says "Even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me" (Verse 4a).
So even though i feel weak and downtrodden (love that word!) i know that that's when God is strongest in me, and it is a pleasure to just rest in His presence and be renewed!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Phase ?
Listening To: Phil Driscoll - I Exalt Thee
I was thinking this morning how amazing it would be if a body could store up sleep, "all-nighter? no prob! i have 13 hours of banked sleep!"
Too bad it doesn't work that way.
However, the last little while was really been great sleep-wise. I've shifted myself down to 4 days of work a week, i now have 2 days off in the middle, totally breaks my work week up into manageable sections (not that i couldn't manage it before of course...). But i've been sleeping a lot more than i thought possible, the first night i catch up on lost sleep and the second night i just sleep because i can. Awesome!
I changed my hours for a number of reasons. The first being that i really felt like i was taking my job far too seriously (especially easy to when you work in the family business), just the thought of going to work in the morning was enough to send my mind into over-drive (thinking about the messy back and how i was going to deal with it, and the stressfulness of having a dad for a boss and a brother as a manager). Also, i've been wanting to make a shift toward being at home more, having more time to do stuff around the house, baking/canning/cooking/cleaning/etc. Stuff that i feel is more important for me to be doing than having a full-time job.
Not to mention i can spend more time up in Summerland and Kelowna with the family contingent up there....:) The first week my new hours were implemented my lovely little niece Elise Marie Davies was born to Yvonne and Sam. i woke up that morning with a text from my co-aunty Rebekah B saying that Yvonne was in labour. Let me tell you, i was gone within half an hour! I had the privilege of holding Elise when she was just a couple of hours old (something that i missed with Jonas, i didn't even see him until he was 2 months old!) and then staying with Yvonne for a couple of days to help out where i could. What fun!
Today, being a Thursday, is the last day of my weekend. I've booked myself in for a haircut, i have library books to return, a room to vacuum, some Sufyan Stevens tickets to pick up tonight, and a brand new camera lens to play with. i did all my laundry and cookie baking yesterday, enjoyed the sunshine immensely (it is raining today), so thats basically all i have to do today. Maybe i'll research the dutch language a bit.
I was thinking this morning how amazing it would be if a body could store up sleep, "all-nighter? no prob! i have 13 hours of banked sleep!"
Too bad it doesn't work that way.
However, the last little while was really been great sleep-wise. I've shifted myself down to 4 days of work a week, i now have 2 days off in the middle, totally breaks my work week up into manageable sections (not that i couldn't manage it before of course...). But i've been sleeping a lot more than i thought possible, the first night i catch up on lost sleep and the second night i just sleep because i can. Awesome!
I changed my hours for a number of reasons. The first being that i really felt like i was taking my job far too seriously (especially easy to when you work in the family business), just the thought of going to work in the morning was enough to send my mind into over-drive (thinking about the messy back and how i was going to deal with it, and the stressfulness of having a dad for a boss and a brother as a manager). Also, i've been wanting to make a shift toward being at home more, having more time to do stuff around the house, baking/canning/cooking/cleaning/etc. Stuff that i feel is more important for me to be doing than having a full-time job.
Not to mention i can spend more time up in Summerland and Kelowna with the family contingent up there....:) The first week my new hours were implemented my lovely little niece Elise Marie Davies was born to Yvonne and Sam. i woke up that morning with a text from my co-aunty Rebekah B saying that Yvonne was in labour. Let me tell you, i was gone within half an hour! I had the privilege of holding Elise when she was just a couple of hours old (something that i missed with Jonas, i didn't even see him until he was 2 months old!) and then staying with Yvonne for a couple of days to help out where i could. What fun!
Today, being a Thursday, is the last day of my weekend. I've booked myself in for a haircut, i have library books to return, a room to vacuum, some Sufyan Stevens tickets to pick up tonight, and a brand new camera lens to play with. i did all my laundry and cookie baking yesterday, enjoyed the sunshine immensely (it is raining today), so thats basically all i have to do today. Maybe i'll research the dutch language a bit.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Back To School (but not me!)
Do you ever feel like you're going absolutely nowhere with your life? Sometimes i feel like that. These days especially. I always become slightly morose and depressed when school starts, simply because i'm not in school and probably won't ever be and i feel marginally left behind....
Heather and I came up with an idea once upon a time. Ever so often we'd get tired of explaining what we do to people (Heather would get tired of explaining medical school and the complications of all that jazz and i'd get tired of getting the cold shoulder when i explained that no i wasn't in school, i work full time and want to be a housewife), and we'd switch places. I'd pretend that i commuted to Antigua for my med school and Heather would glorify my work position a bit. Pretty sure we actually only did it once or twice but it was a fun thought, broke the monotony of life. You should try it! You might find it to be slightly addicting...:P
It's raining outside.
And pretty sure if it's still raining tomorrow afternoon i'll be going for an epic rain walk, or dance, with my epic rain-dancing wellies! i'm stoked about Fall happening soon, i'm a bit sick of the summer and the heat, i've been wearing my favorite hoodie to work for the past little bit and i realized how much i missed it. So comfortable! So green! So warm! and i broke out the red wellies for my Summerland visit this past week, went for a long walk, jumped in some puddles, it was great. :D
I'll just leave you with a good verse here, from Romans 6.14
"For sin shall not be your master, for you are not under law, but under grace."
BOOM! Now THAT is awesome!
Heather and I came up with an idea once upon a time. Ever so often we'd get tired of explaining what we do to people (Heather would get tired of explaining medical school and the complications of all that jazz and i'd get tired of getting the cold shoulder when i explained that no i wasn't in school, i work full time and want to be a housewife), and we'd switch places. I'd pretend that i commuted to Antigua for my med school and Heather would glorify my work position a bit. Pretty sure we actually only did it once or twice but it was a fun thought, broke the monotony of life. You should try it! You might find it to be slightly addicting...:P
It's raining outside.
And pretty sure if it's still raining tomorrow afternoon i'll be going for an epic rain walk, or dance, with my epic rain-dancing wellies! i'm stoked about Fall happening soon, i'm a bit sick of the summer and the heat, i've been wearing my favorite hoodie to work for the past little bit and i realized how much i missed it. So comfortable! So green! So warm! and i broke out the red wellies for my Summerland visit this past week, went for a long walk, jumped in some puddles, it was great. :D
I'll just leave you with a good verse here, from Romans 6.14
"For sin shall not be your master, for you are not under law, but under grace."
BOOM! Now THAT is awesome!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Bye-Bye Gardening!
My gardening frenzy has sadly diminished....not due to lack of gardening opportunities however. The yard waste bin at home was completely full, jam packed with grass cuttings from Jing the Lawn Guy. Said grass compacted and went moldy after failing to fall out into the recycling truck and had to be shoveled out into the garbage bin at work. And then i just didn't feel like digging in the dirt anymore....
Maybe it will come back?....Maybe?....
Maybe it will come back?....Maybe?....
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Gardening Frenzy!
Recently something has come over me. Something that i don't understand and something i don't know the origin of. I've been hit with a gardening frenzy!
I have spent hours out in our front garden pulling up 2 ft long poppy roots and prickly borage plants. Literally hours! And only in the last week.
This is a completely random and "un-Alpha-ish" state to be in. I previously hated gardening because every time i pulled out the shovel the spiders would come running. The session would end with either me running in terror from the unholy amount of creatures in the garden or limping back into the house with a sprained bum muscle. I kid you not!
Now, however, I've discovered that i really enjoy it! I wear a great pair of gardening gloves to keep my hand feminine looking and i spend hours at a time out there having an absolute ball. It's rather scary when i think of it, considering what i was like before...
And this is an open invitation to any of my friends that like gardening too...come join me! i still have all the back garden beds to do, and that mint spells mighty pleasant when you pull it up ;)
Keep it green folks!
I have spent hours out in our front garden pulling up 2 ft long poppy roots and prickly borage plants. Literally hours! And only in the last week.
This is a completely random and "un-Alpha-ish" state to be in. I previously hated gardening because every time i pulled out the shovel the spiders would come running. The session would end with either me running in terror from the unholy amount of creatures in the garden or limping back into the house with a sprained bum muscle. I kid you not!
Now, however, I've discovered that i really enjoy it! I wear a great pair of gardening gloves to keep my hand feminine looking and i spend hours at a time out there having an absolute ball. It's rather scary when i think of it, considering what i was like before...
And this is an open invitation to any of my friends that like gardening too...come join me! i still have all the back garden beds to do, and that mint spells mighty pleasant when you pull it up ;)
Keep it green folks!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
What's YOUR Blog About?
Listening to: The Revelation Song by Kari Jobe.
This evening i made a purchase which i am considerably stoked about. Or maybe i should say 3 purchases. I bought 3 new music albums! WOW Worship 2009 (because of the aforementioned song which is one of my new favorites), Phillips, Craig & Dean's Greatest Hits album, and Avalon: The Greatest Hits....and yes, mix albums can more often than not be based around a few core songs with the rest just being "fillers" BUT i was pleasantly surprised to find that almost EVERY SINGLE SONG i have listened to so far i have loved! What a win purchase!
Other things that happened today:
-i tested a hair dryer that sounded like a ferrari, i kid you not, it was great, but obviously something wrong is going on inside it.
-I found a mouse head outside and half the guts of the poor victim. Dice the ferocious beast strikes again! sometimes it really pays to forget to feed him sometimes...he really goes on killing rampages. (and don't worry, i'd only forgotten for about 2 days, and he had plenty of little critters to eat outside. case in point: mouse head.)
and well nothing much else happened except that i just wasted a full minute of my time staring mindlessly out the window with my mouth half open and eyes glazed over as i tried to summon up some memory of what else happened today. all in a day's work!
and really, i'm actually feeling my creative juices flowing like a river, this is great! and on that high note i'll end this post, no sense in letting the creative juices dry up and turning this post into a wasteland.
Good night!
This evening i made a purchase which i am considerably stoked about. Or maybe i should say 3 purchases. I bought 3 new music albums! WOW Worship 2009 (because of the aforementioned song which is one of my new favorites), Phillips, Craig & Dean's Greatest Hits album, and Avalon: The Greatest Hits....and yes, mix albums can more often than not be based around a few core songs with the rest just being "fillers" BUT i was pleasantly surprised to find that almost EVERY SINGLE SONG i have listened to so far i have loved! What a win purchase!
Other things that happened today:
-i tested a hair dryer that sounded like a ferrari, i kid you not, it was great, but obviously something wrong is going on inside it.
-I found a mouse head outside and half the guts of the poor victim. Dice the ferocious beast strikes again! sometimes it really pays to forget to feed him sometimes...he really goes on killing rampages. (and don't worry, i'd only forgotten for about 2 days, and he had plenty of little critters to eat outside. case in point: mouse head.)
and well nothing much else happened except that i just wasted a full minute of my time staring mindlessly out the window with my mouth half open and eyes glazed over as i tried to summon up some memory of what else happened today. all in a day's work!
and really, i'm actually feeling my creative juices flowing like a river, this is great! and on that high note i'll end this post, no sense in letting the creative juices dry up and turning this post into a wasteland.
Good night!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Weekend Ho!
Today the most catastrophic image-reducing event occurred to me at work. I was busy down a back aisle taking apart a broken streetlight (salvaging parts) and realized that i needed to grab something (a screwdriver? a sandwich? can't remember), so i got up from my kneeling position, turned around (very hastily i might add), and SMOKED my face on a bundle of poles sticking out from the shelf! GAHH! Who could've foreseen such a thing! The bridge of my nose was cut (just a bit) and bleeding (just a bit) and the side of my nose and cheek were starting to swell up and turn red. Consequently i had to ice it for an hour or two because i was worried that my face would be permanently scarred (up-side? maybe I'd look a LITTLE bit like a hockey player...:P). ALSO I'm going away for the weekend and i don't want to be seen in public with a bruised and swollen and bloody nose! Dramatic i know. But seriously, it was a traumatizing event.
More about this weekend? I will be traversing the cerulean (hopefully) blue skies in an AIRPLANE (i love flying!) down to Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Salt & Light North American Leader's Conference. Nope, i'm not a leader, but its open to anyone in a Salt & Light church (WCCF, Glenmore, King's, many others, and us). Dad and I are leaving on Thursday at noon, arrive in Minneapolis at 7.30 and have a 2 hour stopover and then on to Fort Wayne (arriving at 10pm). The conference starts the next day and I AM EXCITED! :D
On a side note: Canucks vs. Blackhawks on Friday night!! WOOT WOOT YOU BLACKHAWKS IS GOING DOWWN!!
More about this weekend? I will be traversing the cerulean (hopefully) blue skies in an AIRPLANE (i love flying!) down to Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Salt & Light North American Leader's Conference. Nope, i'm not a leader, but its open to anyone in a Salt & Light church (WCCF, Glenmore, King's, many others, and us). Dad and I are leaving on Thursday at noon, arrive in Minneapolis at 7.30 and have a 2 hour stopover and then on to Fort Wayne (arriving at 10pm). The conference starts the next day and I AM EXCITED! :D
On a side note: Canucks vs. Blackhawks on Friday night!! WOOT WOOT YOU BLACKHAWKS IS GOING DOWWN!!
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