This sort of thing
This sort of dream
This is what I’d want for
If saying no to my dreams
Wasn’t the easiest way.
All of these
Most of those
And even sometimes
When I’m not pretending
That where I want to be is anywhere but here
Translate me
And make sense
Of the rubbish I say
Make my heart
And my direction
Clear for where you want me
This sort of thing
This sort of dream
Could it be what is meant for me?
Give me your dream Lord
Even when I don’t believe that
Your dream can come true
For me.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Something i've read before many times was in my journal reading tonight and God in his glory really spoke to me and helped me understand more than just the story.
"And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God's word, cling to it and patiently produce a huge harvest." [Luke 8:15]
To hear God's word: Am I listening and ready to hear God speak to me through his word, through his people or am I too busy doing things?
To cling to it: When i hear it - do i remember? when i read it - am i taking it in? Is God's word and truth the basis of my life and the document i can refrence with his Spirit?
To patiently Produce: am i helping others to grow? To produce we need to water, nurture, train, prune and love. Am i using God's strength to do so? It's not a quick growth but a slow process. Am i helping the harvest?
Lord, use me as a good soil! I want you to grow in me.
"And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God's word, cling to it and patiently produce a huge harvest." [Luke 8:15]
To hear God's word: Am I listening and ready to hear God speak to me through his word, through his people or am I too busy doing things?
To cling to it: When i hear it - do i remember? when i read it - am i taking it in? Is God's word and truth the basis of my life and the document i can refrence with his Spirit?
To patiently Produce: am i helping others to grow? To produce we need to water, nurture, train, prune and love. Am i using God's strength to do so? It's not a quick growth but a slow process. Am i helping the harvest?
Lord, use me as a good soil! I want you to grow in me.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Well Show one is over. My Goodness, i'm exaushted. I think the continuall rehursals over the last 2 and a half mths and the insane build up to the first show has finally hit me. Even when i left i thought i was ok, but it's just hit me.
What also has hit me was the amazing amount of support that i have in my family and my frineds. Everyone else has about... 20 people max coming to see them, and alot of thoes haven't booked yet. I have 14 plus 18 plus 24 people coming to see me and they are the people who have booked.
God has really blessed my life with people who are here to help me and support me. Even though i so often seem to suffer from too many friends syndrome and have to say no and feel bad about not being able to be there for everyone (including being in 4 places at once) my friends amazingly still want to stand by me.
So thank you to everyone who came, is coming and is continuing to support me in this show and almost everything else i attempt to do. Special mention to Steve who somehow ends up being last on my list of people to see, but manages to love me none the less. Thank you.
What also has hit me was the amazing amount of support that i have in my family and my frineds. Everyone else has about... 20 people max coming to see them, and alot of thoes haven't booked yet. I have 14 plus 18 plus 24 people coming to see me and they are the people who have booked.
God has really blessed my life with people who are here to help me and support me. Even though i so often seem to suffer from too many friends syndrome and have to say no and feel bad about not being able to be there for everyone (including being in 4 places at once) my friends amazingly still want to stand by me.
So thank you to everyone who came, is coming and is continuing to support me in this show and almost everything else i attempt to do. Special mention to Steve who somehow ends up being last on my list of people to see, but manages to love me none the less. Thank you.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Man I love hanging out with people who love God just as much as me. Needless to say, camp was awesome!! I woke up thinking - Yeah! camp is finally here!! - on Monday and i was not wrong. Camp was there and it was fantastic!! Following Steve up proved he had a strange obsession with going around round about a few too many times, and after a short, but scary moment where everyone in my car appreciated their assurance of salvation, we made it up to camp.
Not really needing to be there at 10 in the morning, most of Monday was spent having free time. :D the morning was filled with some quality jam sessions with me on Piano, Elizabeth on flube and Kris on Guitar, with random people singing in the back ground. After we tired of this, Elizabeth and I went to "town" and picked up some fish and chips for everyone.
By the time we finished lunch, Jasmine's car full of girls arrived and we played games untill about 2:00 when it was free time at QUT camp, so we wandered down to vist some people. We played volleyball for a bit, I had a chat with Jim (man he's a wise guy :)), we were invited to afternoon tea and then we headed back up to chill out some more. During this chill out, the power went off (which included the pumps that gave us water) and i had to drive to "town" again to pick some up. On the way back - the power came back on :P
At 6 we wandered down to the LINC camp where we were having dinner and our final campers arrived. The 2 americans were in mourning as their team had lost the superbowl. That night after dinner, we played a number of funky games (Rachel has an endless supply of them!!) including the snort game, the wah game and the story game. :D
During this whole time, we ate huge amounts of chocolate and sugar and ended up not going to be untill rather late. Nathaniel got eaten alive by mozzies and text emily at 3 am telling her he hated this place. Rachel put in a vote for a "bug free" campsite next year :P i keep telling her that while she's in Australia - there is no such place :D
The rest of camp (sorry melissa i'm loosing detail) was just as much fun. Ross's talks on Vision and Evanglisim were really insitful. Ross has the nickname "Reverend Ross" becuase he spent a year as an intern just following his pastor around, thinking about becoming a preist. Our training on Surveys and sharing the KGP (which inspired this moment) went fantasticlly, as did our planning for 0-week. I really feel like i have a great team this year ready for us to share the excitement of God on campus.
Memorable moments included:
Falling out of bed on the first night. on the way down i smacked my chin dead onto the chair beside the bed (i was on the bottom bunk) before my knees hit the floor. Elizabeth woke up and asked if i was ok. by that time i was kneeling on the floor still trying to decide.
Ross putting Abby's pen up his nose, and when we noticed Abby saying "that's my pen!" but when Ross tried to give it back to her, the quick correction to "that WAS my pen"
The endless number of Cups and chocolate wrappers that were left around as we spent our days binging on tea and chocolate. (humm chocolate!)
Fun moments included:
Playing Marfia untill unGodly hours of the night, trying to convince Nathaniel that he shouldn't kill me becuase i was the Cop and Emily being a cold marfia for the 4th time in the row.
Abby doing kungfu streaches at 6:30 in the morning while Jazz and i ate "before breakfast" sinckers. (hummm chocolate)
Singing Happy birthday to Nathaneil while he was still in bed on Tuesday morning. Suprising him at morning tea with a cake, eating all but one peice which was left for Steve (the maker of the cake) which Nathaniel promptly forgot and ate 2 hours later.
Edgar doing a great job of vaccuming the whole place we made a mess of, and the amazing way we all cleaned it up so well.
Bring on 2007 at Griffith!! we are ready to take the campsus for Christ!!
Not really needing to be there at 10 in the morning, most of Monday was spent having free time. :D the morning was filled with some quality jam sessions with me on Piano, Elizabeth on flube and Kris on Guitar, with random people singing in the back ground. After we tired of this, Elizabeth and I went to "town" and picked up some fish and chips for everyone.
By the time we finished lunch, Jasmine's car full of girls arrived and we played games untill about 2:00 when it was free time at QUT camp, so we wandered down to vist some people. We played volleyball for a bit, I had a chat with Jim (man he's a wise guy :)), we were invited to afternoon tea and then we headed back up to chill out some more. During this chill out, the power went off (which included the pumps that gave us water) and i had to drive to "town" again to pick some up. On the way back - the power came back on :P
At 6 we wandered down to the LINC camp where we were having dinner and our final campers arrived. The 2 americans were in mourning as their team had lost the superbowl. That night after dinner, we played a number of funky games (Rachel has an endless supply of them!!) including the snort game, the wah game and the story game. :D
During this whole time, we ate huge amounts of chocolate and sugar and ended up not going to be untill rather late. Nathaniel got eaten alive by mozzies and text emily at 3 am telling her he hated this place. Rachel put in a vote for a "bug free" campsite next year :P i keep telling her that while she's in Australia - there is no such place :D
The rest of camp (sorry melissa i'm loosing detail) was just as much fun. Ross's talks on Vision and Evanglisim were really insitful. Ross has the nickname "Reverend Ross" becuase he spent a year as an intern just following his pastor around, thinking about becoming a preist. Our training on Surveys and sharing the KGP (which inspired this moment) went fantasticlly, as did our planning for 0-week. I really feel like i have a great team this year ready for us to share the excitement of God on campus.
Memorable moments included:
Falling out of bed on the first night. on the way down i smacked my chin dead onto the chair beside the bed (i was on the bottom bunk) before my knees hit the floor. Elizabeth woke up and asked if i was ok. by that time i was kneeling on the floor still trying to decide.
Ross putting Abby's pen up his nose, and when we noticed Abby saying "that's my pen!" but when Ross tried to give it back to her, the quick correction to "that WAS my pen"
The endless number of Cups and chocolate wrappers that were left around as we spent our days binging on tea and chocolate. (humm chocolate!)
Fun moments included:
Playing Marfia untill unGodly hours of the night, trying to convince Nathaniel that he shouldn't kill me becuase i was the Cop and Emily being a cold marfia for the 4th time in the row.
Abby doing kungfu streaches at 6:30 in the morning while Jazz and i ate "before breakfast" sinckers. (hummm chocolate)
Singing Happy birthday to Nathaneil while he was still in bed on Tuesday morning. Suprising him at morning tea with a cake, eating all but one peice which was left for Steve (the maker of the cake) which Nathaniel promptly forgot and ate 2 hours later.
Edgar doing a great job of vaccuming the whole place we made a mess of, and the amazing way we all cleaned it up so well.
Bring on 2007 at Griffith!! we are ready to take the campsus for Christ!!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
after yet again breaking my car some more i feel like i have the most serious case of human stupidity ever. I really just want to skip all this learning and all this chaning and all this stupidness and go straight to the way God sees me. Why can't i fast forward the growing and just stand before God and have him say "you are just how i always imgained"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZG1en6IZZY&mode=related&search=
[i was going to be fancy and put in a link, but i'm too silly :P]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZG1en6IZZY&mode=related&search=
[i was going to be fancy and put in a link, but i'm too silly :P]
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
13/01/07
Hebrews 11:39
"All of these people earned a good repuatation because of their faith, yet not one of them recieved all that God had promised."
Faith is so hard in itself, but even harder to comprehend is that when it comes to God, sometimes we aren't going to live to see what he promises us.
Yet no one laughed at the memory of Abraham, Jacob, etc, after they died, saying they had wasted their lives for something that didn't come, on the contray, even though it did come to pass later on, they were considered to have great faith not great stupidity, for believing in something they never saw.
God I want a faith like that!
I don't want to be worried that people will laugh at me now, like people laughed at Noah when he was building the ark, but I want to follow you so much that when I die and your judgement comes, people will say - so that's what she was waiting for.
Hebrews 11:39
"All of these people earned a good repuatation because of their faith, yet not one of them recieved all that God had promised."
Faith is so hard in itself, but even harder to comprehend is that when it comes to God, sometimes we aren't going to live to see what he promises us.
Yet no one laughed at the memory of Abraham, Jacob, etc, after they died, saying they had wasted their lives for something that didn't come, on the contray, even though it did come to pass later on, they were considered to have great faith not great stupidity, for believing in something they never saw.
God I want a faith like that!
I don't want to be worried that people will laugh at me now, like people laughed at Noah when he was building the ark, but I want to follow you so much that when I die and your judgement comes, people will say - so that's what she was waiting for.
Friday, January 12, 2007
My Timetable
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My timetable is as yet unfinished. It currently spans over 4 days, many hours and also includes a clash :D
Yay for uni!
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My timetable is as yet unfinished. It currently spans over 4 days, many hours and also includes a clash :D
Yay for uni!
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Criteria for getting into Heaven
1. Believe in Jesus
2. Repent of your sins
3. let Jesus take control
So many people want to know what it takes to get to Heaven. They keep trying to do "good things" or "the right thing", but who knows how much of that will get you over the line?
When it comes to these three steps, it's easy for people to do the frist and even the second step. Believing in God is something that comes easily to us. Acnowlaging we have done wrong, if only in private, is also something most of us can get our minds around.
Step 3 on the other hand is hard. Who wants to let go? Still, if you wnat to take the first step seriously enough, why not?
People are strange and i don't try to understnad them and i'm not sure this post is making sense... but it's what i'm thinking about.
1. Believe in Jesus
2. Repent of your sins
3. let Jesus take control
So many people want to know what it takes to get to Heaven. They keep trying to do "good things" or "the right thing", but who knows how much of that will get you over the line?
When it comes to these three steps, it's easy for people to do the frist and even the second step. Believing in God is something that comes easily to us. Acnowlaging we have done wrong, if only in private, is also something most of us can get our minds around.
Step 3 on the other hand is hard. Who wants to let go? Still, if you wnat to take the first step seriously enough, why not?
People are strange and i don't try to understnad them and i'm not sure this post is making sense... but it's what i'm thinking about.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
This is an Excellent Song :D
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow (around you)
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the world dissolve (around you)
Despite those nets of tuna fleetes
We thought most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasy fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have learnt to sing
Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side in life's great gene pool
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow (around you)
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the world dissolve (around you)
Despite those nets of tuna fleetes
We thought most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasy fish
If we could just change one thing
We would all have learnt to sing
Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side in life's great gene pool
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long
So long so long and thanks for all the fish
Sunday, December 31, 2006
I'm Back :)
Yep, back from Bundy yesterday. It's a long drive, even when you have others in the car, although i have to say that i've done fantastically in buying my car, becuase it made it up to bundy on a half a tank of petrol! :) weee!!
I guess i'm not really here to say much important, but i'd like to reflect on something that i've started recently (before the new year :D hehehe).
Journaling. I've wanted to get into it for a while - probabaly since the start of the year - or in april or something, but i was sorta never able to get into the habbit of writing, or reading or having time with God. I think in that respect Project really helped, beucase every day we had time for it. There was a whole hour and a half for us to do a quiet time in. Doing it every day, and then seeing how i could fit it in, how much it helped and how much it got me into God's word really made the difference. Now i do it every day.
I will probably fail at some point (espcially when uni starts and life is busy again), and i'm not braging that i've done 27 days in a row (almost a month!!), but it is something that has made a difference to God's part of my life. Brining him in every day is so important, and when i make a point to do it in one part - journalling - he is usually so much more present in the other parts - as he should be. (look at my new addiction to dashes!! --- :P)
If you do nothing in the new year - be committed to God.
Yep, back from Bundy yesterday. It's a long drive, even when you have others in the car, although i have to say that i've done fantastically in buying my car, becuase it made it up to bundy on a half a tank of petrol! :) weee!!
I guess i'm not really here to say much important, but i'd like to reflect on something that i've started recently (before the new year :D hehehe).
Journaling. I've wanted to get into it for a while - probabaly since the start of the year - or in april or something, but i was sorta never able to get into the habbit of writing, or reading or having time with God. I think in that respect Project really helped, beucase every day we had time for it. There was a whole hour and a half for us to do a quiet time in. Doing it every day, and then seeing how i could fit it in, how much it helped and how much it got me into God's word really made the difference. Now i do it every day.
I will probably fail at some point (espcially when uni starts and life is busy again), and i'm not braging that i've done 27 days in a row (almost a month!!), but it is something that has made a difference to God's part of my life. Brining him in every day is so important, and when i make a point to do it in one part - journalling - he is usually so much more present in the other parts - as he should be. (look at my new addiction to dashes!! --- :P)
If you do nothing in the new year - be committed to God.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
This is my fantastic big country Sista Sarah looking so cute as Fiona takes her photo at mt Cootha. (woah this is a great song!! long time no... hear... :D) Fiona and Sarah did a bit of a day trip while my parents picked up steve, they went to Mt Cootha and then over to a servo to by chocolates. Then they went to the local fire station and gave the chocolate to the fire guys. The Firemen were fairly shocked (as i imagine i would have been :P) but overall, it was a great guesture done by fiona and sarah and i'm proud of both of my sisters. :D (i think they have plans to do the ambulance people next Christmas... or is that next public holiday??)
I still can't believe Fiona wanted to take this, but this is the start of Christmas day at my house. :) Big moment in history for the life of Paula, but how pretty does she look while it's happeneing!! :D
The classic: everyone try to squeese in and smile :D My sisters are so beautiful. :)
Saturday, December 23, 2006
For Melissa :D
Back in the New Testament
Parody of "Back in the U.S.S.R." performed by the Beatles and written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney (Matthew 5:17, Galatians 3:24-25, 2 Timothy 3:16)
Ooh I finally finished readin' the O-L-D Hebrew Testament last night
All the way I prayed that God would have mercy
Man, I'm glad that we've got Christ
I'm back in the New Testament
You don't know what you got till it's gone, boy
Back in the New Testament
Genesis was long -- I hardly noticed it
Gee, it didn't seem that long
Three weeks later on I'm stuck in Exodus
Wonderin' what the heck went wrong
I'm back in the New Testament
With Matthew, Mark, Luke and then John, boy
Acts of the Apostles, next the Epistles
Last the Apocalypse of John
Well, the Jewish laws came from God's own mouth
Please don't get me wrong
But God's own Son came to live 'em out
He told us that in Ma-ma-matthew 5 verse 17 all along
I'm back in the New Testament
We're only half done with this song, boy
Back in the New Testament
Well, you can't have Jesus Christ without
The Old Testament
The Law was given to point sin out
And lead us all to Christ - Galatians 3:24-25, my oh my
Moses' laws, the Psalms and Prophets they all count
Take them as your Daddy's word
Genesis through Malachi - I read them all
But admit that I prefer
To be back in the New Testament
You don't know what you got till it's gone, boy
Back in the New Testament
*NOTE: To get this song to rhyme correctly, whenever the word "Testament" appears in the chorus, you should pronounce it like this: "Test-a-MONT," so it sounds kind of French. Try it; it works! When the word appears in the verse, just pronounce it the regular way.
Matthew 5:17
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Back in the New Testament
Parody of "Back in the U.S.S.R." performed by the Beatles and written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney (Matthew 5:17, Galatians 3:24-25, 2 Timothy 3:16)
Ooh I finally finished readin' the O-L-D Hebrew Testament last night
All the way I prayed that God would have mercy
Man, I'm glad that we've got Christ
I'm back in the New Testament
You don't know what you got till it's gone, boy
Back in the New Testament
Genesis was long -- I hardly noticed it
Gee, it didn't seem that long
Three weeks later on I'm stuck in Exodus
Wonderin' what the heck went wrong
I'm back in the New Testament
With Matthew, Mark, Luke and then John, boy
Acts of the Apostles, next the Epistles
Last the Apocalypse of John
Well, the Jewish laws came from God's own mouth
Please don't get me wrong
But God's own Son came to live 'em out
He told us that in Ma-ma-matthew 5 verse 17 all along
I'm back in the New Testament
We're only half done with this song, boy
Back in the New Testament
Well, you can't have Jesus Christ without
The Old Testament
The Law was given to point sin out
And lead us all to Christ - Galatians 3:24-25, my oh my
Moses' laws, the Psalms and Prophets they all count
Take them as your Daddy's word
Genesis through Malachi - I read them all
But admit that I prefer
To be back in the New Testament
You don't know what you got till it's gone, boy
Back in the New Testament
*NOTE: To get this song to rhyme correctly, whenever the word "Testament" appears in the chorus, you should pronounce it like this: "Test-a-MONT," so it sounds kind of French. Try it; it works! When the word appears in the verse, just pronounce it the regular way.
Matthew 5:17
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
Thursday, December 21, 2006
RAHH!!!
I spent this morning cleaning up. Cleaning my room and the bathroom and toilet. Now (unlike when i returned from my 3 week absense) it is all very clean.
And then my dad comes in to my room and suggests i clean something... I'm not sure he understands. I cleaned all the things he asked me to clean already!! RAHH!!! and why were they messy - becuase i'd been gone!!! Honestly!! Go tell my sistes to clean something. I'm not looking for recignition but i'd like some respect - I'm 20 years old and i know when to clean stuff. When it's dirty. If anyone needs telling, it's my sisters becuase for over 3 weeks, they have been using a dirty bathroom and toilet.
RAHH!! don't tell me what to do - i'm old enough.
Rant rant rant :P and you know, i don't know what to do with this new blogger beter. What is the point?? it wasn't confusing before - why did it need to change. :P
I spent this morning cleaning up. Cleaning my room and the bathroom and toilet. Now (unlike when i returned from my 3 week absense) it is all very clean.
And then my dad comes in to my room and suggests i clean something... I'm not sure he understands. I cleaned all the things he asked me to clean already!! RAHH!!! and why were they messy - becuase i'd been gone!!! Honestly!! Go tell my sistes to clean something. I'm not looking for recignition but i'd like some respect - I'm 20 years old and i know when to clean stuff. When it's dirty. If anyone needs telling, it's my sisters becuase for over 3 weeks, they have been using a dirty bathroom and toilet.
RAHH!! don't tell me what to do - i'm old enough.
Rant rant rant :P and you know, i don't know what to do with this new blogger beter. What is the point?? it wasn't confusing before - why did it need to change. :P
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Hello People
Project is going wonderfully well, forming the best realationships with the people in my group, espcially the girls who i'm living with, Pauliene, Erina, Anna and Steph. It's be awesome to get to knwo these people and see how God is using them :D
One of the coolest things about Erina and Pauline is that they both hear me sleep talk at night and then tell me about it in the morning :D So i just wanted to share some of this fantastic dream i had the other night with you :D:D
I was going to an opear or something at southbank and i was at garden city to catch a bus but for some reason i was wondering aroudn the car park. so i say to myself "come on paula! a car will never get you there in time! quick go to the busses so you won't be late" so i start to go back into garden city (using the fire, exit near woollies) when these 2 guys come up behind me, and glancing over my shoulder, i see they have a shot gun!!
So i say to them "what are you doing!" and they said to me "we are giogn to shoot people!" and i said "you can't do that! i won't let you in!" and they said "yes we can! let us in or we will shoot you" and i said "no i'm not goign to let you in! i'm going to pray for you!"
so i start pryaing for these guys and then they SHOOT ME - with a shot gun in the knee!!!! so i'm falling on the floor, being shot, the guys with guns are walking through garden city, people are screaming, security are running and i'm thinking... i'm goign to be late to catch the bus!!
Thankfully though this story merged with another story in dream land like dreams do and i was on my way to somethign with steve which was half his formal and half his 10 year reunion and half a big celebration for the broncos (who steve was apart of - during the night they kept coming up to him and saying "great game steve" and "nice save there in the second half!") and it was being held at this big old house with these strange goasthy looking people. And there was this girl who looked suspiciosly like liza minelli from caberet who kept teling me she was goign to steal steve and i said, "you can't do that, he's with me" and anyway she sat next to him and he didn't do anythign so i said, enough of this i'm going and the girl threw sequins in my hair (as opposed to the usual food or water or somethign) and instead of having an effect where my outfit was ruined, i looked quite good :D
so i'm walking out with these pretty sequins in my (strangly long straight and black) hair, and i see my sisters, but then steve comes up to me and tells me he's really sorry about the girl but his mum may or may not be addicted to alchole and he would really like my help beacuse she likse me but he dones't want me leaving to send her over the edge...
It was all very strange adn i woke up soon after. :)
Project is going wonderfully well, forming the best realationships with the people in my group, espcially the girls who i'm living with, Pauliene, Erina, Anna and Steph. It's be awesome to get to knwo these people and see how God is using them :D
One of the coolest things about Erina and Pauline is that they both hear me sleep talk at night and then tell me about it in the morning :D So i just wanted to share some of this fantastic dream i had the other night with you :D:D
I was going to an opear or something at southbank and i was at garden city to catch a bus but for some reason i was wondering aroudn the car park. so i say to myself "come on paula! a car will never get you there in time! quick go to the busses so you won't be late" so i start to go back into garden city (using the fire, exit near woollies) when these 2 guys come up behind me, and glancing over my shoulder, i see they have a shot gun!!
So i say to them "what are you doing!" and they said to me "we are giogn to shoot people!" and i said "you can't do that! i won't let you in!" and they said "yes we can! let us in or we will shoot you" and i said "no i'm not goign to let you in! i'm going to pray for you!"
so i start pryaing for these guys and then they SHOOT ME - with a shot gun in the knee!!!! so i'm falling on the floor, being shot, the guys with guns are walking through garden city, people are screaming, security are running and i'm thinking... i'm goign to be late to catch the bus!!
Thankfully though this story merged with another story in dream land like dreams do and i was on my way to somethign with steve which was half his formal and half his 10 year reunion and half a big celebration for the broncos (who steve was apart of - during the night they kept coming up to him and saying "great game steve" and "nice save there in the second half!") and it was being held at this big old house with these strange goasthy looking people. And there was this girl who looked suspiciosly like liza minelli from caberet who kept teling me she was goign to steal steve and i said, "you can't do that, he's with me" and anyway she sat next to him and he didn't do anythign so i said, enough of this i'm going and the girl threw sequins in my hair (as opposed to the usual food or water or somethign) and instead of having an effect where my outfit was ruined, i looked quite good :D
so i'm walking out with these pretty sequins in my (strangly long straight and black) hair, and i see my sisters, but then steve comes up to me and tells me he's really sorry about the girl but his mum may or may not be addicted to alchole and he would really like my help beacuse she likse me but he dones't want me leaving to send her over the edge...
It was all very strange adn i woke up soon after. :)
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
As you know I've been on my mission trip for the last week and a bit and i just wanted to give you an update on how we are going. :D
There are 11 of us all up, 3 missionaries and 8 students, staying at the Bible Collage in Towoong. Every day we have been "bussing" out in Jim's van to QUT Kelivin Grove campus. The international collage here is full of students and even more come in every day to take any of the English classes offered over the summer. Many of the students intend to continue studying in Australia next year by beginning bachelors degrees. It has been really good to get to know the students though things like conversation classes, soccer games, inviting them back to "base" (the Bible Collage) for movies and dinner and other fun outings that we have organised.
Many of the students share similar problems or troubles in coming to Australia; homesickness, English difficulties, finances etc. But a lot of them also have a common factor: They don't know Jesus. Many students we have talked to have said that they believe there is something bigger out there but they don't know what. How great is the opportunity God has given us to share with them that knowledge!!
The members of our team have had the chance to share the gospel with a student which has been a challenging experience for all. I met a lady named Alison last week. She is a TAFE teacher from China and was studying English teaching methods. She has a 10 year old son. I was privileged enough to talk to her about Jesus and God. She had many questions for me, like what God is like and why he tells us to do what he does. I spent nearly 2 hours talking to her about how God loved her like a father, just like she loves her son, and how he tells us to do things for our own good, so we don't get hurt. It was amazing to be able to share with her how God feels for her!
Over the next week and a half as we continue with our mission it would be great if you could carry on praying for us.
Praise God for the amazing opportunities that he has given us to share his word.
Ask him to continually renew us with the Holy Spirit, so we can show God's love in our actions.
Pray for the Christianity Explained courses that are being conducted to further explain the Gospel to students.
Thank God for those opportunities and ask him to open the hearts of the students on this campus, that they might hunger to know him more.
-- In ChristPaula
There are 11 of us all up, 3 missionaries and 8 students, staying at the Bible Collage in Towoong. Every day we have been "bussing" out in Jim's van to QUT Kelivin Grove campus. The international collage here is full of students and even more come in every day to take any of the English classes offered over the summer. Many of the students intend to continue studying in Australia next year by beginning bachelors degrees. It has been really good to get to know the students though things like conversation classes, soccer games, inviting them back to "base" (the Bible Collage) for movies and dinner and other fun outings that we have organised.
Many of the students share similar problems or troubles in coming to Australia; homesickness, English difficulties, finances etc. But a lot of them also have a common factor: They don't know Jesus. Many students we have talked to have said that they believe there is something bigger out there but they don't know what. How great is the opportunity God has given us to share with them that knowledge!!
The members of our team have had the chance to share the gospel with a student which has been a challenging experience for all. I met a lady named Alison last week. She is a TAFE teacher from China and was studying English teaching methods. She has a 10 year old son. I was privileged enough to talk to her about Jesus and God. She had many questions for me, like what God is like and why he tells us to do what he does. I spent nearly 2 hours talking to her about how God loved her like a father, just like she loves her son, and how he tells us to do things for our own good, so we don't get hurt. It was amazing to be able to share with her how God feels for her!
Over the next week and a half as we continue with our mission it would be great if you could carry on praying for us.
Praise God for the amazing opportunities that he has given us to share his word.
Ask him to continually renew us with the Holy Spirit, so we can show God's love in our actions.
Pray for the Christianity Explained courses that are being conducted to further explain the Gospel to students.
Thank God for those opportunities and ask him to open the hearts of the students on this campus, that they might hunger to know him more.
-- In ChristPaula
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Today is the big Bundy Day!! i didn't sleep much at all last night... *sigh* stayed up late (trying to make myself tired) with Tamora Perice. :) Good times, Good times.
Before that i read Pslam 71 which i think might just be the pslam that discribes exactly how i feel about God. Check it out :D
"Yes, you have been with me from birth, from my mother's womb you have cared for me - no wonder i am always praise you! My life is an example to many, becuase you have been my strength and protection. That is why i can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day long." (71:6-8)
"Oh God, don't stay away. my God, please hurry to help me." (71:12)
"I will tell everyone about your righteouness. All day long i will proclaim you saving power, though i am not skilled with words. I will praise your mighty deeds, O soveregn Lord. I will tell everyone that you alone are just. O God, you have taught me from my earlierst childhood, and i constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.Now that i am old and gray, do not abandon me, O, God. let me proclaim your pwer to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me." (71:15-18)
Before that i read Pslam 71 which i think might just be the pslam that discribes exactly how i feel about God. Check it out :D
"Yes, you have been with me from birth, from my mother's womb you have cared for me - no wonder i am always praise you! My life is an example to many, becuase you have been my strength and protection. That is why i can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day long." (71:6-8)
"Oh God, don't stay away. my God, please hurry to help me." (71:12)
"I will tell everyone about your righteouness. All day long i will proclaim you saving power, though i am not skilled with words. I will praise your mighty deeds, O soveregn Lord. I will tell everyone that you alone are just. O God, you have taught me from my earlierst childhood, and i constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.Now that i am old and gray, do not abandon me, O, God. let me proclaim your pwer to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me." (71:15-18)
Monday, November 06, 2006
I have offically had my licence for 4 days. It is the most insane thing that has ever happened to my life.
I think it all just adds to me growing up - something which i think i want to put off for as long as possible. :P (incidently, i was filling up my waterbottle today and i was reminded of when my parents were away and i acutally filled the jug in the fridge up with filtered water instead of just from the tap and i thought "i live better with out my parents" - how strange is that!! Maybe i've come to the point where i really do live better (maybe that's not the right word) without my parents and that means i have grown up. Maybe that's what growing up is all about - it's not about the house, the car, the wedding, the job and the kids - it's about being able to take care of yourself... AHHH!!!!)
"You made the wind, you made the sea; why do you make so much of me?"
Happily though, i got an email today from a guy i don't really know very well, but i'd meet a few times with Student Life at uni. He just (very randomly) decided he wanted to email me and tell me he was inspired by the times that he did meet me. I think it's tiems like that - when i get emails/texts/conversations in which people say to me "i see God in you, and that's great!" which make me feel like i'm doing what i'm made to do. Like i've grown up enough to get my full time job exactly how God wnated me too.
I'm glad i'm working for Jesus and people can see that.
I think it all just adds to me growing up - something which i think i want to put off for as long as possible. :P (incidently, i was filling up my waterbottle today and i was reminded of when my parents were away and i acutally filled the jug in the fridge up with filtered water instead of just from the tap and i thought "i live better with out my parents" - how strange is that!! Maybe i've come to the point where i really do live better (maybe that's not the right word) without my parents and that means i have grown up. Maybe that's what growing up is all about - it's not about the house, the car, the wedding, the job and the kids - it's about being able to take care of yourself... AHHH!!!!)
"You made the wind, you made the sea; why do you make so much of me?"
Happily though, i got an email today from a guy i don't really know very well, but i'd meet a few times with Student Life at uni. He just (very randomly) decided he wanted to email me and tell me he was inspired by the times that he did meet me. I think it's tiems like that - when i get emails/texts/conversations in which people say to me "i see God in you, and that's great!" which make me feel like i'm doing what i'm made to do. Like i've grown up enough to get my full time job exactly how God wnated me too.
I'm glad i'm working for Jesus and people can see that.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
"Cos i'm fine,
Living on the back streets
Holding on to all that's mine
Hope just hasn't yet arrived
For me"
Woah... so i'm at uni... waiting for 11 o'clock to come so i can be in class and i'm listening to the classic sounds of radioy and wondering if Steve is going to order the cool shirt i want from thinkgeek.com. :) "To all th rest who have a mother and father..."
Kelly emailed me today and asked me if i don't believe in evoloution if i had another theory as to how the earth got here. I told her i had no idea (pretty much) how it happened, but i know why it happened. :) isn't that all that matters? I wonder why humans are obsessed with putting blocks in the way of things when all we really need to know is why:
Becuase God Loves us!! (it's the reason for everything - almost like 42 is the answer for everythign... except different :D)
I was reading the Screwtape Letters last night (by C.S. Lewis) and Screwtape mentioins to wormwood that "The Enemy" (aka God) wants servents who become Son's while their "Father" (aka Satan) wantss slaves. Intersting contrast
He also said that the angels told him that if they understood that the reason God did things was beucase of Love - the war between heaven and hell would end. so true. Cool as. Liked that book i did. :)
Anyway... i guess i should go and figure out how to change the language setting in word back to enlgish (how it got set to spanish is beyond me :P) so i can check my Latin American Music assignmetn and print it and what not... Bye!
Living on the back streets
Holding on to all that's mine
Hope just hasn't yet arrived
For me"
Woah... so i'm at uni... waiting for 11 o'clock to come so i can be in class and i'm listening to the classic sounds of radioy and wondering if Steve is going to order the cool shirt i want from thinkgeek.com. :) "To all th rest who have a mother and father..."
Kelly emailed me today and asked me if i don't believe in evoloution if i had another theory as to how the earth got here. I told her i had no idea (pretty much) how it happened, but i know why it happened. :) isn't that all that matters? I wonder why humans are obsessed with putting blocks in the way of things when all we really need to know is why:
Becuase God Loves us!! (it's the reason for everything - almost like 42 is the answer for everythign... except different :D)
I was reading the Screwtape Letters last night (by C.S. Lewis) and Screwtape mentioins to wormwood that "The Enemy" (aka God) wants servents who become Son's while their "Father" (aka Satan) wantss slaves. Intersting contrast
He also said that the angels told him that if they understood that the reason God did things was beucase of Love - the war between heaven and hell would end. so true. Cool as. Liked that book i did. :)
Anyway... i guess i should go and figure out how to change the language setting in word back to enlgish (how it got set to spanish is beyond me :P) so i can check my Latin American Music assignmetn and print it and what not... Bye!
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