Sisterhood

On Monday evening, I went out to dinner with 5 wonderful sisters in Christ.  Looking through the pictures every time make me smile.  I have gone through them like a dozen times as I was making this collage.  I am truly blessed with these relationships I have with these girls.  We are a number of years apart, yet we have one unifying bond, our Lord and Saviour.  We can actually call each other sisters, and these ladies are that to me.

We have been through lots together, in varying degrees of course.  We have grown together, laughed together (esp. on Monday night), supported one another, cried together, served together, and prayed for one another.  Right now, looking through the pictures and the thinking about the time we have spent together in the last couple of weeks, I can not even put into words how their love and support has meant to me.  The times when they challenged me is probably the best times we have had together.

Katherine, serving with you for the coffeehouse really brought us together just to rely on God.  Although of course, nothing goes as planned when we do it, it was awesome to see God work tonight and I am thankful that I was able to work with you on this "project."

Kelly, thank you for always being there to listen to me and agreeing to meet up and talk with one another.  We have been through lots and grown so much, and I am so thankful that God has put us together all those years ago.

Priscilla, thanks for organizing this dinner to Korea-town in Mississauga!  Your faith in God is something I admire as I wish I had that trust when I was in the situations you are in now, graduating and such.  Continue trusting in Him, I know that He is going to great things through you, wherever you end up and in whatever you end up doing!

Sam, serving with you on committee was stressing at times but you were always there to keep us on track.  There were tough times that year, but I am glad to have gotten to know you better during that time, and I know that God is going to do wonderful things in your life in Hamilton!

Vinci, oh dahling, you challenge me so.  Your passion for prayer is something I really admire in you and wish I had when I was your age.  I love you for your quirkiness and the questions you ask that make me think oh-so-much.  

Ladies, you are definitely a blessing in my life and I thank God for putting each and everyone of you in my life.  May I challenge/bless/edify you in a way that is a fraction of what you have done for me.  Love you all!

New

A new year, a new start.  I needed today.  Two hours spent reading books and the Bible.  It was a good evening.  

The last two weeks I have been off, as you can probably tell from my previous posts.  The feelings I have now can be analogous to how I felt whenever I came back from MAC during the Christmas break and summertime.  My routine is thrown off, everything seems unfamiliar, my schedule is out of whack, so many things to do, and this is when I crumble and fail.  Talking with two wonderful sisters today I verbalized it to them, well writing it to them, and it made me feel so frustrated at myself.  Only a month ago it was so fine and dandy, but that means I have further to fall I find.  And now it is just sucking bad.

But tonight I pray that it will be another fresh start towards drawing even closer to God.

Discipline

It's been a rough couple of weeks for me spiritually.  Because I was sick and such, it was really hard to read the Bible consistently and pray without falling asleep because of the medication.  I was reminded of my spiritual disciplines today from teaching Sunday School, and how I do need them.  However, I have not been able to open up my Bible or pray consistently even after I was healed a few days ago.  But, today was a good reminder.  I was also reminded about it in my conversation with Kev tonight.  Thank God for he has put people in my life to remind me of such things.

Cards

The last few days have been filled with two very fun card games.  Oh, the things that amuse me!

I was introduced to "BANG!" after Christmas dinner at the Li's and we had lots of fun playing with the cousins and BFs.  My cousin is so funny, she made it totally obvious that she was the renegade when she could have taken a lethal gun away from the sheriff and instead decides to take a horse from someone else.  I really enjoyed the time we had together as a family.  I do not think that we have really hung out like that in a long while, if at all, and now with busier schedules, significant others, and the such, it makes it even more difficult.  But that night was definitely fun!

Last night I was introduced to another game, "Dutch Blitz", where Kelly has already renamed it, Double Blitz, and she has brainwashed everyone into saying it.  It is pretty easy to pick up and can get quite intense when people snip you.  Lots of fun indeed, except when you get a ton of negatives!

Tired

Not enough sleep.  Fighting illness.  Tutoring in the mornings.

Results in a very tired girl that just wants to sleep.  Maybe I will take a nap when I get home.

Irony

Who said our God isn't funny?

Today after coming home from shopping with my dad, I go to check the mail and guess what is in the mailbox?  You guessed it, my police check that I have been waiting for!

Oh the irony, the first day of Christmas holidays for the kiddos and I can only email my teacher contact and see how we can proceed in the new year.

God was definitely teaching me patience.  But now I don't know what to do except wait once more.

Thoughts

I am up at this hour because of the bbt that I drank at 10pm.  This is utter destruction.

However, I am also inundated with thoughts, about an array of subjects that is also keeping me up.  Lots of things that have happened in the past few days, lots of things that have been talked about, things from the past weeks that resurfaced and requires attention once more, just lots and lots of stuff.  From one thing to another, there is just a lot to think about and mull over.

Further, this results in even more things to pray about and to lift up to God because although I am not necessarily worrying about it, it needs to be prayed about, and needs to be put into my daily prayer life.  God answers in his time, but I have to do my part as well.

I am excited and anxious for next year, as I reflected back upon this year, and how much God has pruned me, shaped me, moulded me, disciplined me, challenged me, and blessed me.