Hey Home dogs!!
Sorry it's been a while... my internet screwed up a couple of days ago and then I thought it had run out and that I had to buy some more and havn't been able too.... and then I realised that I actually don't!
Sooo.... where to begin!! This past week (like the one before) has been totally and utterly life changing! This place is starting to feel more and more like home! Cabin 5 is definitely the better girls cabin ;) despite the slight hike we have to embark on every time we need to make a trip home! I luurrrvvveee my roomies Mimi and Marit Carrot! We are definitely one of the messier rooms... (Much to Noemi's dismay) but we are fabulous none the less!!
Some of the funnier moments during the week include accidentally cooking a pen... Bahaha which is now proudly kept in our room! Kyle (our resident hunter who has already caught a possum and two eels) accidentally breaking a vase with a toy hippo, having an epic sock wrestling match for our combined girls small group this week (we unleashed our inner animal!)... Hmmm there has been lots more hilarity but by golly I can'y remember it!!
Other highlights include watching Tarzan and The Prince of Egypt, having my first bite of a peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwich! Thanks J-dog... it was a beautiful moment! drinking LOTS of tea and discovering that black english breakfast tea and honey is AMAZING!! tryyy itttt! jamming in a local Matamata coffee shop with Steph, Jacob and Henk, and of COURSE hanging out with all of the amazing people here!
But of course the BIGGEST highlight is the amazing stuff that God is doing..... Myyy gooodness!! We are all going to be totally transformed people by the time we finish this DTS! The speaker that we had last week was this awesome guy called Josh Coles!
Maaannn God gave me revelation after revelation about Him and his absolute power and authority and his BEAUTY!! and just the fact that God enjoys me?!! He doesn't just love me because he's my Father and he has too, he actually likes me... as I am... and enjoys me??!! This totally blew my mind!!
I just have this sense that God is totally starting to deepen my relationship with him... that's he's pulling out the roots which need to be pulled out (I had this real time of healing last thursday... where in my mind I wasn't even sure what was going on, but I could sense God doing things in my heart and I was just weeping uncontrollably!) and planting seeds which need to be planted!
God also really spoke into my life through others last week revealing some of the stuff which he's got planned for my future... I won't go into them here but if you wanna know about it flick me an email and I'll let you know! I'm excited!! :D
We've also started splitting into our two courses during the weekends (Music and Worship/Outdoor Pursuits) So while the OP guys were swinging from a rope somewhere in the tree tops, us muso's went on this river walk for inspiration for song writing (which when compared to what the OP's were doing sounds kinda lame, but was actually amazing!) we all just did this walk at our own pace with God and it was BEAUTIFUL! Like it was stunning... and we all kind of had this really intimate time with God while enjoying his beauty... And when we got to the end (despite the winter-ish temperatures at the moment) we all jumped into this water hole! Bahaha it was so funny and FREEZING!! aannd then we went to get COFFEE which was worth mentioning because the company and the coffee was outstanding!
ANYWAY! Our little mission for the next 24 hours after that walk was to write a song... many of the people including myself had not really/never written songs before, but when we were all got together on Sunday evening I was blown away by the songs that were totally God inspired and beautiful! Like actually it was amazing! And... yes... I did write a song despite my limited guitar knowledge (with God's help) which was pretty exciting! God's going to do amazing stuff through the Muso's... I'm sure of it!!
Anyway... despite all that, there have been struggles... being brutally honest I'm struggling a little bit with pride (eeek.. don't like saying that!) and putting God completely and utterly as Lord in my life... there's still part of me that's holding onto this goal of living an accepted and successful life by worldly standards (you know... things like getting married!) when I really just need to release these things up to him and allow his will to be done!
But yeah that is a BRIEF (believe it or not) overview of what's been going down in Hannah town recently! Arrg there was so much more stuff which at the time I was like 'I must include this in my blog!' but alas! My memory is failing me!! I'm going to try and apdate this more regularly to avoid these rather long rambly blogs!! Sawwweeeet!
Love you AAALLL!!!!
Ola Vache!!
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