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Somehow Pain Intesifies Beauty...
Saturday, 30 August 2008
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Currently Listening
P.S. I Love You
By Various Artists
see relatedPrayer Please...
Hey, just a quick note and request for prayer to my friends...Karla Yoder and I are getting together this weekend to prepare for a workshop that we were asked to hold at Borderland Ladies Retreat in Fort Frances, ON. We're going to be sharing about purity...beauty...modesty - so we're VERY excited about it -- nervous too though, to get two individuals' minds to get together on one topic! Please pray that we would be sensitive to the Spirit - would have soft hearts to know what the girls will need and respond to. Thanks so much!!
Friday, 04 July 2008
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GASP!! She's updating!! : )
Yes, I am...and I'm quite excited about the new addition to my life!! I BOUGHT A CAR!! Ok...I'm in the process of buying a car
. Pretty crazy feeling - I'm pretty sure I'm closer to being grown up now...whether I like it or not. No, I like it - it's worth it I believe.
Here 'tis!And again...its a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am SE
And here are some other pics...cause I like pics...and I don't have anything else to write tonight
Jess and I's adorable puppy, Bailey...
...who is depressed right now because Jess is gone for the weekend!
Some pretty amazing kids!
My wonderful family...
...don't ask me what's up with Meg??!!
Some people I really miss...
Be blessed and filled with the truth that God cares about what you're going through...I've been blessed this week by the knowledge that God is in charge - of everything...He sees and knows and IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE to cry out to Him. God be with you all - let Him be Lord of ALL...
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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Currently Listening
Passion of the Christ: Songs (Original Songs Inspired by the Film)
see relatedHow often do you stop in the middle a moment and realize that it's wonderful? I had a moment like that this weekend - I actually stopped and thought about where I was and realized that given the choice, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else on the entire planet. It was extremely...filling. Want to know where I was? I was laying on my roof. Two wonderful people I'm blessed to call my friends were on either side of me...we were laying on a blanket and covered by a blanket (well, I was covered, being in the middle - they were only mostly covered!
) - looking at the stars. Yes, it is still winter here. It was prolly about -10*C. But it was perfect...and cold...but so beautiful! The stars were glorious...even through some clouds...everything was quiet...and I knew it was a perfectly safe place for me - between my two friends. No expectations...demands...just being right there, right then...
Here's to Jess and Lesley for helping me have a wonderful weekend...thanks for making me feel cared for and not alone (hey, Sioux Lookout is kinda far from everywhere!). Guitar Hero...deep conversations...ice cream & strawberries (you're so bossy, Jess!)...time on the roof...deep conversations. ..scaring young girls...spontaneous moments...climbing trees...deep conversations...small amounts of sleep...getting stuck on the roof (still don't know who locked that window)...almost missing the bus...did I mention lots of good deep conversations and not a lot of sleep? I loved it - felt so blessed - and I'm so grateful to you guys for being here and just hanging out.
This is me...thanking God for my friends....these two...and all you others who so know who you are...
...and here's a picture I wasn't sure if I wanted to post on xanga, but since I look the worst of the three...
guess who...LOL
Sunday, 20 January 2008
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I'm an Auntie!!
Ok, so I'm not really an auntie...but I'm pretty close - I "feel" like an auntie
. (not that I know how it feels) Anyways, my dear almost-sister, Delilah Yoder, had her precious baby boy on Thursday, January 17. His name is Bryson Cole - he's the first boy in a very long line of girls in the Schrock/Yoder families...but somehow I think he'll hold his own just fine - I know his proud Daddy will be a big help in that area!
I'm REALLY far away from Virginia...really far away, but so goes life - and I still feel like a proud auntie!for some pics go to her real aunties site... www.xanga.com/Orioles_fan1
God bless you today...may you delight in His presence.
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
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Currently Listening
Comatose
By Skillet
see relatedVBS was really, really great this year....
We had an excellent group of teachers - they cared so much about the kids and were so committed to making it a wonderful two weeks for them...they did a good job...
..Sweet faces..
..Precious Lives..
It was a very blessed, very beautiful two weeks...praising God for what He did...and praying protection for the seeds of truth that were planted...praying they'll remember the love and safety they felt here..
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I cannot praise my Saviour enough for being sovereign...and CARING for me even when I don't like His sovereign will. I don' t have words to describe His faithfulness and love and constancy in our lives the last few weeks - the way He's just held us...and kept us going through each other...Grief doesn't go away...no, it may actually intensify as time goes on...but God doesn't leave when we cry. God doesn't leave when we ask questions...He comes through every time. "It may feel like He's failed you - but He hasn't failed you YET...don't you know there's another chapter in this story of your life?" (-beautiful truth from our pastor's sermon 2 weeks ago) I heard this song by Nicole Nordeman today and it just fit...hope it blesses you...
I believe in the rest of the story.I believe there's still ink in the pen.I have wasted my very last day.Trying to change what happened way back when...I believe it's the human condition.We all need to have answers to why.More than ever, I'm ready to say that I will still sleep peacefully.With answers out of reach from me...until...Someday all that's crazy.All that's unexplained.Will fall into place.And someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass.Will be clear at last.And sometimes we're just waiting.For someday...We are born with a lingering hunger.We are born to be unsatisfied.We are strangers who can't help but wander.And dream about the other side of...Someday all that's crazy.All that's unexplained.Will fall into place.And someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass.Will be clear at last.And sometimes we're just waiting.For someday...Every puzzle's missing piece.Every unsolved mystery.More than half of every whole.Rests in the Hands that hold you for someday
Carrie's sister Caitlin is getting married on Saturday - yes, so much grief and so much joy! Pray for all of us, please, if God brings us to your mind - thanks!
...Live fully...Seek God...
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
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Carrie Matilda Mitchell
January 12, 1986 - June 12, 2007
...in Christ there are no goodbyes, in Christ there is no end...so I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I am, to see you again...to see you again.......I've never been more homesick than now...
Carrie passed away on Tuesday afternoon from complications with her diabetes combined with a reaction to a Cortazone cream she was using for an allergic reaction on her skin. They say she went into a diabetic coma and probably just went to sleep. I'm glad it didn't hurt. It was completely sudden - a complete shock to all of us.
Don't know how we're gonna live without you, Carrie dear...God knows we can only take one day at a time
"For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything He does." Psalm 33:4
"Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord,
for our hope is in you alone."
Psalm 33:22
I love you Carrie - I can't wait to see you "later". Thanks for the hug on Monday night - it means everything to me now...next time in Heaven...
Monday, 21 May 2007
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I was in Slate Falls for the weekend...I had a good weekend and was so glad that I went. Pray for that community though...there was a memorial this weekend for a teenage girl that took her own life 1 year ago. She took her own life just a day or two after her older sister died. So they had a double funeral... This weekend a memorial jamboree was planned for them...but things got pretty terrible when the grandfather of these two girls passed away on Thursday night, May 17, 2007. So the family that was planning to mourne and find closure to the deaths of two nieces only one year ago...instead buried their father/grandfather - so much grief, confusion, pain...pray for them as God brings them to your minds. Pray especially for the young people...i saw so much confusion, meaninglessness, despair and pain on so many faces...what is keeping them from ending it all too? A thread...they're hanging by a thread... They need hope...and a reason to go on...I have what they need. I have life because Someone gave His life - that's the only reason. It's not because I was born to the right people, or I grew up in the right church at the right time...amazing grace... I have been blessed by these positive influences in my life, but I know that you can have those things I mentioned above and still not have life. God - in Jesus our Saviour - has made all the difference...He changes everything.
they need to know He changes everything...
Tuesday, 01 May 2007
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Currently Reading
Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows
By Ravi Zacharias, R. S. B. Sawyer
see relatedPraises...Pictures...Ponderings...I have so much to praise God for. I have so much to praise God for. Yes, I did that on purpose. My Father has truly blessed me exceedingly abundantly above all I have asked or thought. I can't believe how much I enjoy this. I can't believe how fulfilling it is to me. It's a gift straight from Him. It's more than the answer to my prayers. You see, I'm horrible with jobs...I just don't like them. I'm okay for several months at a job, but then I just get plain bored. But this is something that I can pour myself into...I'll have a lot of interaction with people...I can be creative and will have variety...and I'll be bringing joy to people's lives! I enjoy the work with flowers so much - and it's going very well...I feel like it's coming together for me and the arrangements happen more naturally now. SO I'm grateful...deeply grateful that God just led me - in ways that I never could have orchestrated - to this "job". I know I will not love it every day - I'm not ignorant - but it's a perfect fit for me, and I just never could have thought it up on my own! I'm just grateful...
Told you my camera and I were having a heyday! And there are more where those came from!
I'm intrigued with doors...Yale and Wilton are very important streets - I live on Yale, and the mall is on Wilton, only 5 blocks away. The first house pictured is the one I live in. Do I look like a blushing bride? Well, we're in trouble if I do, cause there's no groom
...but I did make the bouquet. Ask Sean what he thinks of it - ask him to show you pictures
! And I'll have you know that I don't go to Starbucks every day - even though I could! *hint of pride in voice*
I had a good weekend.
Sean, Jesse, Clement and Mom came to visit me and it was so wonderful.
It was really short, but so good to see people from home, specially
Sean!!! Cause I hadn't seen him since December 28th, 2006! Yeah, we
had fun. Fixed the umbrella, went shopping, watched a movie, talked,
looked at pictures, enjoyed a Nigerian church service Sunday
morning...yep, we packed a lot into 24 hours!
Get to know Jesus...He changes everything. I just finished reading "The Jesus I Never Knew", by Philip Yancey...I think that it should be required reading for Christians everywhere. It opened my eyes...and changed the way I thought about Jesus, and the New Testament, and Christianity, and discipleship, and the church. So I'm pondering... Really though - I think that if Christians would study the life of Jesus more honestly - and model their lives after His life FOR REAL...the world would have a very different view of Christians. The church would be different - very different. Sin ners and outcasts of society felt comfortable and safe in Jesus' presence. Why is it that the LAST place an "outcast" will look for help is the church? Too often Christians are more judge mental than anyone else. I was convicted and challenged and have a lot more thinking to do...
Yeah, get to know Jesus...get to know Him for real....
Saturday, 21 April 2007
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Currently Reading
The Heavens Before (Genesis Trilogy)
By Kacy Barnett-Gramckow
see relatedI Like the City...A Lot!
Yes, I am having a wonderful time - my classes are going great - have a very fun class and a wonderful, grandfatherly teacher. I enjoy the flower arranging part so much (which is a good thing) - I'm just working on letting myself go to be creative instead of being so worried bout perfection. yeah...trying to deal with that perfectionism. I miss people at home...but i'm not at all sure that I'll be ready to leave the city in 2 weeks! I'll post pictures soon - you know that my camera and I are having a heyday here! So many photo ops! yeah, i'll post some of my arrangements too - they got better as the week went on - Monday's ... ewwwww!! but they've gotten better and i'm not ashamed to let you see them now
. Oh, and I have figured out the bus lines!! That feels like the biggest victory of all!! I'm thanking God that the first few days are past though - they were scary!
Went to Hulls Family Bookstore today - that was wonderful. I was by myself - so guess what? I took as long as I wanted in that bookstore! I don't think I've ever done that before - we're always on a tight schedule when we're here! So I bought two books - Ravi Zacharias' biography and Experiencing God Through Prayer by Madam Jeanne Guyon. I'm excited about both of them. You know how on surveys they ask where you would max out your credit card if you could max it out anywhere? Well, I would definitely max mine out in a bookstore - possibly that one. But I didn't - I used great self-control.
Read Psalm 90 this morning and this song has been going through my head all day long...
"Satisfy us in the morning with your love....That we may sing for joy.
And be glad in all our days. Satisfy us in the morning with your love...
Match the days Lord, of our sorrow with your joy...May your deeds be always known,
to the ones you call your own. Match the days, Lord, of our sorrow with your joy...
May the favour of the Lord rest upon us and our land...
and establish for us all the work of our hands...yes, the work of our hands...
Lord for us you have been a refuge from age to age...before the mountains were formed
and the earth and the world brought forth. You are the everlasting Lord...
May the favour of the Lord rest upon us and our land...
and establish for us all the work of our hands...yes, the work of our hands."
Tuesday, 10 April 2007
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Currently Listening
Comatose
By Skillet
see relatedI had a beautiful long weekend...
Some reasons why...in pictures of course!
Girl's Club on Thursday nite...our very best one ever!! Had so much fun...and felt God's presence powerfully...
ALISHA IS HOME!!!!
Hot Cross Buns...yummy!
Easter Sunday - sunrise service . . . brunch with my wonderful church family . . . a meaningful service. . .
Phone calls
And most of all - cause of the reminder of the wonder of the Resurrection - it was more real to me this year than it has ever been before. I did the lesson at Girl's Club on Thursday night - so i had to study. I read and read about the Resurrection. . . amazing. I realize how central it is. . . I realize that we would have no faith if our Lord would not have risen after dying for our sins! He died to save me, He rose so I can Live for real - so I can live with HOPE. Thank you, Saviour. . .
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