Resolution

Praise God! Life is back to relatively normal (cept for no money!)following some MAJOR worries!! today I had my major abdomenal scan, which was traumatic due to an infortunate incident with a needle…a vein burst and now I have a LOVELY black mark on my left arm!!! iCK! Anyhoo, its done, over with, kaput and a clean bill ofhealth has been given..still dont know why my stomach has been hurting, but as they say no news is good news, at least for now! Also, centrelink issues have been resolved, so pending a good clean up of my office, its FULL STEAM AHEAD with my uni work, and its going to have to be, cos ive slacked off the last few days with all these troubles and now Im a unit behind and I have to study for an online exam, and I have another assignment due AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

*breathes* but God is good, and will find me an extra 12 hours in each and every day to get stuff done….wont he??? (*worried smile*) back to work!!!

Inspirations!

God is so good! This morning I had the most awesome time at church The people in our church are just so incredibly awesome, and I was on worship team, so that was heaps fun. In the middle of it, we just lifted our voices and it was soooooo amazing just to bask in God’s light for a moment…I was shaking all over and the hand that I had raised got all hot and stuff – I felt completely renewed inside and out. After recent worries, woes and troubles, it was exactly what I needed! We’ve got financial issues, we’ve both got health issues, we both are trying to make our way when everything either goes wrong, or breaks down, and yet we can still lift our hands in worship to a God who we know is in control….thats so powerful! And its not on our own strength either…if I was working on my own strength I think I would have collapsed into the foetal position never to rise again about a month ago! It is a testament to God’s strength flowing through this broken body of mine!

I have another busy week set this week. Mentorship with Amanda, ultrasounds, doctors appointments and tomorrow morning my first consultation with brenton about recording my demo (eeeeppp whoo hoo!) He is going to help me set up a myspace music page also, so stay tuned for that! Speaking of which I better get back to it…assignments coming out of my ears!!! Stay tuned!

Late night ramblings…

Thanks to an ill timed cup of coffee, it is 12:35am and I am still awake…not for much longer I hope, just long enough to write this blog and crawl into bed. Been working long hours on my social policy assignment, and I think im making progress. I am well into question three, with two questions to go. I know Im going to have to do some serious cutting on it though…its way too long anyways, today I finally was able to plug in my brand new home phone after charging the handset FOREVER and then finding out the batteries werent in it properly anyways! How annoying! I got my mate Ben to call and leave a message…was so cool I know…I have no life, getting all excited over a phone, but Ive never had my own answering machine before.

Tomorrow is my assignment day…left pretty much free to get stuck in to assignments without interruption. I am hoping to get question three and four done, leaving question five for saturday and some cleaning up of my other asisngment too ready to email to learning services on Monday. Phew! And thats above and beyond course work which involves readings that are RIDICULOUSLY long!  Like seriously,….you wouldnt BELIEVE how long! It looks like Amanda is going to be mentoring me for a while…I think its something I really need, after my baptism of the Holy Spirit last weekend…..Oh did I mention that? I recieved the baptism of the Holy Spirit last weekend…was amazing, I shook for hours!

Anyhoo…..I think im finally spent….write again soon!  

Goals Review

It being the third month it is now a quarter of the way through the year, so I thought it was time to see how my yearly goals are doing…and so far, I think im doing quite ok! 

1. Going to the gym daily – I am going to make this membership COUNT! Have now scheduled gym every single day and I AM going So proud of me!

2. Daily bible study and private prayer – has to be regular! Ok…still working on this one! But I am doing the affabel study online once a week…my little contribution

3. Continue with the points and be strict about it – while I havent been PERFECT I think my weight loss and change in appearance i think speak for themselves.

4. Drink plenty of Water – also working on this but going to the gym almost forces me to do this anyways.

5. Remember everyone’s birthday and where possible send a card - so far so good, have remembered everyone on my mum’s side!

6. SAVE FOR NZ VERY IMPORTANT – stick to the budget after our little blow out over the camera in January I am pleased to say we’re back on track….almost 800 in our first quarter even WITH that setback..very pleasing

7.  Achieve as many lifegoals as possible this year iceskating and martini are set for after AGMF….NZ coming along nicely, weight is coming off etc….working on it

8. Get a casual job also still working on this….keep the prayers up!

9. Tithing every week….set up so that it comes out automatically this has been done and has been coming out which I am very pleased about

and above all else, start enjoying life to the FULLEST and accept NO compromises in my life I think so far this has been the theme of my life this year, and will continue to be so as I work towards a brighter and better future for my family.

Things are basically on track….pretty happy. NZ and a slimmer me, here I come!!!

Phew!

Well, its saturday night here at the tough houseold, and I have a few of my most yummiest things…….my hubbie, subway, and johnny depp in prates of the carribean dead mans chest….mmmmm I was given some very sage advice the other day by my very good friend amanda on the subject of saying or leaving and careers….her thoughts were that by me anticipating moving away I was not only not trusting in God’s providence here where we live, I was also putting a negative slant on everything, and doing things on my own strength instead of God’s. I think shes right, so we’re staying put until such a time as God really really wants us to move, and if THAT is the case I wont have to plan it really anyways.

So, we’re staying at home, and I am very glad! We love our house, and our town, and we’re more than happy with our church We’ve been very blessed here, and I have to trust implicitly that God will bring the perfect apprenticeship along. On interesting news, Amanda is opening up a country clothing business, and shes called on me to sing some country music to commemorate and advertise the opening I do SO love country music I will be gathering all the backing music I can Im excited, and Amanda has promised to pay me a small amount for doing it, which is nice too Anything to perform, I am TOTALLY up for!

Well, back to the movie I suppose Tomorrow is sunday, and I am singing at church again How blessed we are!