*Sighs*
I have had the most up and down birthday I hope i'll ever have ... so, my Papa (My Grandad Holt) died on April 6th - funeral (due to pilgrimages, ashy skies and coroners) was held up until the 21st April. Just three days before my birthday.
My family are amazing. They were all super strong and the hardest part was when the vicar said something that made us laugh - we pretty much burst into tears. Anyway!
*Smiles*
So then, for my birthday, we went to London. I say we. Mel :D , Iona :D , Rob and Yan - and Iona's fabbity friend Mary went to London - we had tickets to go and see Lord of the Rings 2 at the Royal Albert Hall, played by the London Philharmonic. It was wonderful. London is an amazing place. I genuinely LOVE it. It reminded me of a lot of ace people too ... Annie and Lauren, Andie and Ilsey to be rude and quote a few, but really, all my amazing DTS maties - you're all beautiful and strong and I love you all.
*Glint in eyes*
Camden Town.
Oh Camden Town. I want to live there. How freaking fabulous. What a place.
Iona and I wolfed down food like we'd never seen it before - it tasted so good. We had Indian *grins* and Mexican (where the guys asked Iona was she from Sweeden-pahaha). A.maze.ing.
I shopped and bought. I loved and took pictures.
I might, possibly, potentially, maybe, be in LOVE with Camden.
*Thinks*
I hate to quote Eminem - but I thought I'd heard it in a song - apparantly not! ... 'These times are so hard and they're getting even harder' ... I feel like right now, whatever it is that is going on is a lot. I feel like, sometimes, I'm floating way above myself - searching for the ground below ... It's so weird. 60 minutes week something bad always happens to us. My car was stolen; Mel's was broken into; Amy's was broken into; My car; Thugs peed on Amy's, threw stuff at mels and jumped on mine; the house was vandalised ... something bad always happens after we have our 60minutes prayer meeting.
God IS doing something. Satan is trying to stop it.
*REQUEST* please!
Please pray that Satan will not be able to attack our house - or cars - or us. We want to continue praying - becasue we know that something is happening. We just need divine protection.
Ooo and for my Grandad Piekos who is really poorly ... :s
*Ending thought*
I am happy. I have a God who moves; amazing friends; a good workplace; a wonderful family and health. I am happy.
Sorry this is so up and down :D
Bye then.
xxx
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Coffee, Music and Lyrics - withough any Hugh Grant
Settled down with a coffee and thinking about up-dating my life ... Terry Macnamara says I make the best coffee. I do. Well, the machine does. But I do have expertise in flicking the 'on' switch.
Since YWAM I feel like I have been journeying God on an everyday basis. That, at first, was kind of weird given that I'd arrived back from such a beautiful country where I met God every day in the most bizzare spiritually weird scenarios - and also somehwere that i've potentially left my heart ... but as time went by, I gradually fell back into a routine. If you're thinking good work - then stop. This is bad. Routine is, firstly, not what I want in the slightest, secondly, not helpful in helping me pursue a relationship with God.
Whatever, that time was pretty stagnent - so I was just sitting. Waiting for something to happen. Then I moved into my house with some amazing girls - Mel Cassidy is one of the most beautiful, amazing women I have ever met. Amy Clark is the sweetest, most bubbly girl I have EVER met and Katie B - who I can be genuinely real with, have honest conversation and who consistently surprises me! And I began my journey with God - my journey to climb that mountain, to be more like Jesus :)
I joined the worship team at church where I get to sing alongside amazing people like Ruth Hill (she has a stunning voice and a genuine character. I love her).
More recently I had a dream that I was filled with the spirit, you know, like the people that shout and twitch and fall over in response to the spirit. The people I have always thought 'thank the lord he hasn't asked me to respond like that' towards....well, I had a dream that that happened.
...
Little did I know that my time was to come and that God was only flipping preparing me for something I was clearly ready to move on to ... haha. Good times. Anyway, since the Gathering 10 - God has been moving me and I feel the spirit ... sounds weird. Can't express it as well as i'd like to right now.
Listening to a song by Miss Li (Is this the end) on a big speaker in my kitchen, and because there's only one speaker it started in a REALLY attractive quiet way - just her singing ... I'm going to have to re-start it!! Really emotional when the music finally kicks in!
Speaking of music, I am really seeing beauty in music at the moment. I really think that it's such a way to express feelings and emotion. I was listening to classical FM yesterday morning (judge on your own accord, I am happy!) and the way that the music moved flooded my soul - it's the ONLY way to describe how I felt.
Anyway, my point on music was that there is this truely beautiful song - Pledge by Marcus Meier - and the chorus feels like such an anthem:
'This is my prayer, it's my solemn vow,
with all that I am, with all that I have,
I will love you, I will love you.
With all of my heart, my soul and my mind,
I pour out an offereing of worship and cry:
I will love you, I will love you.'
Anyway, this week and next my brother is over from Hull Uni, love having him around, we get on now we're older. After scratching each other eyes out, pushing 'each other' off bunkbeds, drowning and so on ... we really get on. It's nice just to hang out. And worship God together - I am so, so, so proud of the man he is becoming.
Nowadays I feel God fully setting up a future for me ... Jeremiah 29:11 'For I know the plans I have for you' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.'
I know it's true and I am ready and raring to go!
Maybe I could say more, but I need to mark some coursework - as that is my job and I do get paid for it.
Good to be back! xxx
Since YWAM I feel like I have been journeying God on an everyday basis. That, at first, was kind of weird given that I'd arrived back from such a beautiful country where I met God every day in the most bizzare spiritually weird scenarios - and also somehwere that i've potentially left my heart ... but as time went by, I gradually fell back into a routine. If you're thinking good work - then stop. This is bad. Routine is, firstly, not what I want in the slightest, secondly, not helpful in helping me pursue a relationship with God.
Whatever, that time was pretty stagnent - so I was just sitting. Waiting for something to happen. Then I moved into my house with some amazing girls - Mel Cassidy is one of the most beautiful, amazing women I have ever met. Amy Clark is the sweetest, most bubbly girl I have EVER met and Katie B - who I can be genuinely real with, have honest conversation and who consistently surprises me! And I began my journey with God - my journey to climb that mountain, to be more like Jesus :)
I joined the worship team at church where I get to sing alongside amazing people like Ruth Hill (she has a stunning voice and a genuine character. I love her).
More recently I had a dream that I was filled with the spirit, you know, like the people that shout and twitch and fall over in response to the spirit. The people I have always thought 'thank the lord he hasn't asked me to respond like that' towards....well, I had a dream that that happened.
...
Little did I know that my time was to come and that God was only flipping preparing me for something I was clearly ready to move on to ... haha. Good times. Anyway, since the Gathering 10 - God has been moving me and I feel the spirit ... sounds weird. Can't express it as well as i'd like to right now.
Listening to a song by Miss Li (Is this the end) on a big speaker in my kitchen, and because there's only one speaker it started in a REALLY attractive quiet way - just her singing ... I'm going to have to re-start it!! Really emotional when the music finally kicks in!
Speaking of music, I am really seeing beauty in music at the moment. I really think that it's such a way to express feelings and emotion. I was listening to classical FM yesterday morning (judge on your own accord, I am happy!) and the way that the music moved flooded my soul - it's the ONLY way to describe how I felt.
Anyway, my point on music was that there is this truely beautiful song - Pledge by Marcus Meier - and the chorus feels like such an anthem:
'This is my prayer, it's my solemn vow,
with all that I am, with all that I have,
I will love you, I will love you.
With all of my heart, my soul and my mind,
I pour out an offereing of worship and cry:
I will love you, I will love you.'
Anyway, this week and next my brother is over from Hull Uni, love having him around, we get on now we're older. After scratching each other eyes out, pushing 'each other' off bunkbeds, drowning and so on ... we really get on. It's nice just to hang out. And worship God together - I am so, so, so proud of the man he is becoming.
Nowadays I feel God fully setting up a future for me ... Jeremiah 29:11 'For I know the plans I have for you' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.'
I know it's true and I am ready and raring to go!
Maybe I could say more, but I need to mark some coursework - as that is my job and I do get paid for it.
Good to be back! xxx
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