Sunday was a great day and it was meant to be!
Decided to go to church, and funnily enough the same sunday as John decided to go as well so that was cool. Met three lovely ladies that he lives with.
Invited over for lunch with them it was so nice to be invited for lunch and chat, and get to know them! Always good with pizza around as well!
Also Sunday was a bright day because we have a house!!!!! Yay. Went to look at 2 and the first one was it, I just felt it, and funnily enough the second house that we went to see, one of the rooms had been sold already - so there we go, not a tough decision to make really. And its nice because it feels like a house, not a student house.
I am so glad to not have to worry about that - all sorted!
Monday, 25 February 2008
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Singleness is a Gift
So today a few of us ladies from the church who are in the season of singleness got together today and I have to say it was such a lovely time and I learnt such a lot!
I think for me the reason why I wanted to attend this get together in the first place, was because this woman of God in my church was hosting it and she was going to tell us about her singleness experience and what it has been like for her. I really was so interested to find out because I often wondered why this very lovely lady had no husband, boyfriend etc!
So she just explained a bit about her background and her experience and it was just so refreshing to hear about other ladies - single ladies and see how God has just been using this season of their life.
We all actually got to share about where we were at now and how we found being single and this was just an eye opener into some of the situations they were facing and seeing the similarities of situations as well.
It was a very encouraging time, 1 because we were very honest and open with each other and this was a group of 11 of us who arnt really a friendship group so-to-speak and I think that just really showed just how comfortable we were with just sharing what we have been through and what we were feeling. I also found it encouraging to hear that most of us were at a position where we were quite alright about being single.
So I really just found it such a great opportunity to share, to learn, to encourage, to pray for each other, and also get to know each other more.
The afternoon was also accompanied by cake! Very important!
So, being single, we are not alone, it is a season we go through, and one to be enjoyed. Not a block, or a barrier, or something to get us down, but a time of freedom and opportunity to connect with God through our singleness as well as to connect with others.
At this time I am content with being single. I am also looking forward to the road ahead, and to really grow with God - I am expecting big things this year! Also it is great to know that our God has only the BEST interests for us. They are not second best, but THE best - because he loves us!
As Valentines day comes - it is a time where we can feel a bit down and a bit like - blah its this time again. But I actually really want to look at it differently and not feel so blah about it.
To enjoy being single and look to God to fill my life first and foremost rather than to look to a man to do so. To strive to put God at the centre and focus my attentions on Him.
It really was a great afternoon and really got me thinking about this issue again which was good.
I think for me the reason why I wanted to attend this get together in the first place, was because this woman of God in my church was hosting it and she was going to tell us about her singleness experience and what it has been like for her. I really was so interested to find out because I often wondered why this very lovely lady had no husband, boyfriend etc!
So she just explained a bit about her background and her experience and it was just so refreshing to hear about other ladies - single ladies and see how God has just been using this season of their life.
We all actually got to share about where we were at now and how we found being single and this was just an eye opener into some of the situations they were facing and seeing the similarities of situations as well.
It was a very encouraging time, 1 because we were very honest and open with each other and this was a group of 11 of us who arnt really a friendship group so-to-speak and I think that just really showed just how comfortable we were with just sharing what we have been through and what we were feeling. I also found it encouraging to hear that most of us were at a position where we were quite alright about being single.
So I really just found it such a great opportunity to share, to learn, to encourage, to pray for each other, and also get to know each other more.
The afternoon was also accompanied by cake! Very important!
So, being single, we are not alone, it is a season we go through, and one to be enjoyed. Not a block, or a barrier, or something to get us down, but a time of freedom and opportunity to connect with God through our singleness as well as to connect with others.
At this time I am content with being single. I am also looking forward to the road ahead, and to really grow with God - I am expecting big things this year! Also it is great to know that our God has only the BEST interests for us. They are not second best, but THE best - because he loves us!
As Valentines day comes - it is a time where we can feel a bit down and a bit like - blah its this time again. But I actually really want to look at it differently and not feel so blah about it.
To enjoy being single and look to God to fill my life first and foremost rather than to look to a man to do so. To strive to put God at the centre and focus my attentions on Him.
It really was a great afternoon and really got me thinking about this issue again which was good.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
I want to tell the world: I'm having a hair cut!!!!! haha
I'm having a hair cut!
Quite excited about that. Hopefully if I stick with the idea I have - its a bit of a re-style!!
All thanks to the lovely Ali and Simon who said I should have it done - and......they are going to pay for it - in aid of my bday =D
So yea.... I just hope what I'm thinking will suit me! I mean, if I dont get it done...I'll always be wondering..........
and also I know that it will grow back! So its not really a problem. I'm also going to dye it back dark again- I figure it suited me more and it is looking a bit faded now.
So there we go - a blog on hair!
Quite excited about that. Hopefully if I stick with the idea I have - its a bit of a re-style!!
All thanks to the lovely Ali and Simon who said I should have it done - and......they are going to pay for it - in aid of my bday =D
So yea.... I just hope what I'm thinking will suit me! I mean, if I dont get it done...I'll always be wondering..........
and also I know that it will grow back! So its not really a problem. I'm also going to dye it back dark again- I figure it suited me more and it is looking a bit faded now.
So there we go - a blog on hair!
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Travelling To The Caribbean!
I wish!
Ok so, the caribbean has kept cropping up recently. Don't know whether its anything significant...or a sign!!! lol
It is probably nothing - but I think a blog is a good way to document things especially things that could well be cropping up for a reason.
So maybe I'll be off to the caribbean sooon!! haha! Jamaica to be precise. The underground station keeps telling me!
So....I shall inform the blog if this does indeed happen.
On another note - I have 5 months to spare...like when I finish placement. I was talking to Helen a colleague of mine and she mentioned that I go travel! It is something that I have been thinking about recently. I so want to travel the world, I mean....there is so much out there - and here I am in the place where I have literally spent the whole of my 20 years here on earth. (21 soon! thought I would drop that one in there! =D ) So...I need to see whats goin on out there!
So if there are indeed any suggestions on places that I should travel to feel free to mention them!
Also if anyone has any money - it would be gratefully received! hahaha! *jokes*
Ok so, the caribbean has kept cropping up recently. Don't know whether its anything significant...or a sign!!! lol
It is probably nothing - but I think a blog is a good way to document things especially things that could well be cropping up for a reason.
So maybe I'll be off to the caribbean sooon!! haha! Jamaica to be precise. The underground station keeps telling me!
So....I shall inform the blog if this does indeed happen.
On another note - I have 5 months to spare...like when I finish placement. I was talking to Helen a colleague of mine and she mentioned that I go travel! It is something that I have been thinking about recently. I so want to travel the world, I mean....there is so much out there - and here I am in the place where I have literally spent the whole of my 20 years here on earth. (21 soon! thought I would drop that one in there! =D ) So...I need to see whats goin on out there!
So if there are indeed any suggestions on places that I should travel to feel free to mention them!
Also if anyone has any money - it would be gratefully received! hahaha! *jokes*
Friday, 11 January 2008
New Year, New Look, New Hope
Well - as its the New year I thought I would go for a new layout - and I have to say, I quite like the new look blog! Fits in well with the Title!
So the start to a new year - and it has been good so far! I have made no resolutions - which I think is a good thing. If I did, I think there would be a higher chance of me breaking them.
The only thing that I do want to do - is to go deeper with God. Last year I did...and therefore this year I want that to continue!
So its goodbye to 2007 and hello 2008!
It is a time for new beginnings - althought when I was thinking about it on new years eve - I was just like....to be honest its just another day. Without the "years" and the "months" it is a day just like no other. We go to sleep we wake up and its a new day...
But yes - we do have such a thing as "years". And therefore on January 1st we do say goodbye to a past year. It may have been a great year, in which case we hope that the coming year will be great too. However it may not have been that good a year - in which case we hope that this coming year will be better.
All in all - whatever kind of year we have just had....(this has just come to mind) we all probably live in hope. And that just brings me onto Hope 08...haha what a "coincidence". I have to say I don't know much about what Hope 08, but it is happening this year! I think I will need to go away and have a research. I love how things just pop up in your mind!
But it is true - we all are in a place of hope. Hope for tomorrow. That this year will be a good one.
Hmmmmm! I dont exactly know where this blog is going - but I love the fact that I am writing this, and as I do - I am thinking of the things to write that I didnt intend to write. I didnt aim to talk about Hope - but there it is - maybe its just my thought pattern, or maybe just maybe its God whispering something to me...hmmmm! I wonder!
And therefore with all this talk of hope - I will end with the fact that Foy Vance's album is entitled Hope! Just thought I would throw that one in there!
So - be hopeful!!
"You are my refuge and my shield; your word is my source of hope." Psalm 119: 114
- amen!
So the start to a new year - and it has been good so far! I have made no resolutions - which I think is a good thing. If I did, I think there would be a higher chance of me breaking them.
The only thing that I do want to do - is to go deeper with God. Last year I did...and therefore this year I want that to continue!
So its goodbye to 2007 and hello 2008!
It is a time for new beginnings - althought when I was thinking about it on new years eve - I was just like....to be honest its just another day. Without the "years" and the "months" it is a day just like no other. We go to sleep we wake up and its a new day...
But yes - we do have such a thing as "years". And therefore on January 1st we do say goodbye to a past year. It may have been a great year, in which case we hope that the coming year will be great too. However it may not have been that good a year - in which case we hope that this coming year will be better.
All in all - whatever kind of year we have just had....(this has just come to mind) we all probably live in hope. And that just brings me onto Hope 08...haha what a "coincidence". I have to say I don't know much about what Hope 08, but it is happening this year! I think I will need to go away and have a research. I love how things just pop up in your mind!
But it is true - we all are in a place of hope. Hope for tomorrow. That this year will be a good one.
Hmmmmm! I dont exactly know where this blog is going - but I love the fact that I am writing this, and as I do - I am thinking of the things to write that I didnt intend to write. I didnt aim to talk about Hope - but there it is - maybe its just my thought pattern, or maybe just maybe its God whispering something to me...hmmmm! I wonder!
And therefore with all this talk of hope - I will end with the fact that Foy Vance's album is entitled Hope! Just thought I would throw that one in there!
So - be hopeful!!
"You are my refuge and my shield; your word is my source of hope." Psalm 119: 114
- amen!
Saturday, 5 January 2008
Hosanna
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart for breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity
Hosanna - Hillsong United
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart for breaks yours
Everything I am for your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity
Hosanna - Hillsong United
Saturday, 29 December 2007
Becca's Back In Town!
Christmas - the season that we all build up to and then just like that its over again!
But as Sarah reminded me in her preach a couple of weeks ago in church - we are in the season of Advent!!! We are awaiting the second coming! We celebrate that Jesus was born! We await Easter - when we will look to His death and resurrection! And in the mean time - our lives are building up to that day when Jesus will come again! So we are...in advent - we are waiting for Him to come again!
Christmas is an interesting time for me. I think except for when I was younger - Christmas has always been a strange time of year. I was actually reflecting on it whilst with the family - just ...I dont know know really but something always seems to crop up - or I just seem to, well think deeply about things when it is the Christmas season.
Im now back at the house of 22. On the train home I was thinking how this year will pan out - I dont know! What I do know is that I have 13 and half weeks left on placement which inside im so looking forward to being over - but I cant hep but think, that really I should be embracing the whole experience rather than wishing it to be over. I just guess that at the end of the day - is what I am doing on placement really what I want to go into. This new year - haha Im going to try and make a resolution. Not about giving up chocolate, going on a diet, or whatever the "usual" things are... but I am trying to give work my all, and my best - and to try and remember that utimately all work is for the Lord. I think I shall write that out and stick it on my computer - a daily reminder to me. I mean...ok so I may not be embracing the whole work thing - but I am there for another 13 and half weeks - I might as well try and make the most of it....
Oh Lord - please help me! lol
So getting back to Christmas - it was great to have 2 christmases!!! Weird to spend it with my family in a different place - but it was nice to see ma and pa again and watch lots of tv!
Doctor Who was among the best of the tv! I mean David Tennant on Christmas day - can't really ask for more to be honest! lol!!!
Actuallly I think the highlight of my Christmas with the family was actually going to church Christmas morning and getting to know the new church family that I am now apart of - even though it is only very slightly. They are a really lovely bunch of people! And it is good to be getting to know them!
So looking back on the time that we shared - it was a good one.
And now I look forward to the New Year - and what it brings....especially what happens after my weeks on placement are over.
What will I be doing?!
Working
Travelling (please be the latter!!!!) lol
Where will I be?
But as Sarah reminded me in her preach a couple of weeks ago in church - we are in the season of Advent!!! We are awaiting the second coming! We celebrate that Jesus was born! We await Easter - when we will look to His death and resurrection! And in the mean time - our lives are building up to that day when Jesus will come again! So we are...in advent - we are waiting for Him to come again!
Christmas is an interesting time for me. I think except for when I was younger - Christmas has always been a strange time of year. I was actually reflecting on it whilst with the family - just ...I dont know know really but something always seems to crop up - or I just seem to, well think deeply about things when it is the Christmas season.
Im now back at the house of 22. On the train home I was thinking how this year will pan out - I dont know! What I do know is that I have 13 and half weeks left on placement which inside im so looking forward to being over - but I cant hep but think, that really I should be embracing the whole experience rather than wishing it to be over. I just guess that at the end of the day - is what I am doing on placement really what I want to go into. This new year - haha Im going to try and make a resolution. Not about giving up chocolate, going on a diet, or whatever the "usual" things are... but I am trying to give work my all, and my best - and to try and remember that utimately all work is for the Lord. I think I shall write that out and stick it on my computer - a daily reminder to me. I mean...ok so I may not be embracing the whole work thing - but I am there for another 13 and half weeks - I might as well try and make the most of it....
Oh Lord - please help me! lol
So getting back to Christmas - it was great to have 2 christmases!!! Weird to spend it with my family in a different place - but it was nice to see ma and pa again and watch lots of tv!
Doctor Who was among the best of the tv! I mean David Tennant on Christmas day - can't really ask for more to be honest! lol!!!
Actuallly I think the highlight of my Christmas with the family was actually going to church Christmas morning and getting to know the new church family that I am now apart of - even though it is only very slightly. They are a really lovely bunch of people! And it is good to be getting to know them!
So looking back on the time that we shared - it was a good one.
And now I look forward to the New Year - and what it brings....especially what happens after my weeks on placement are over.
What will I be doing?!
Working
Travelling (please be the latter!!!!) lol
Where will I be?
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