Bring on Marriage!! 3 months today :D
25th of May 2012
17th of May 2012
(Source: god-is-my-hope, via jesustotheworld)
4th of May 2012
“After all that I’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to?
I look to you,
I look to you
After all my strength is gone
In you I can be strong”
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song- Psalm 28:7
29th of April 2012
“For you know better than I…. You know the way.
I’ve let go the need to know why, for you know better than I.”
What an encouraging song of trusting in God as Joseph learnt to- we cannot always see the way but we don’t always need to know!
Because Joseph accepted God’s sovereignty and trusted God’s
love in both good times and bad, his heart did not become crooked. He
believed that the sovereign God loved him even more than his father had
loved him, and that God had sent him to Egypt for a purpose.
The life of faith must be undergirded by a deep and humble
acceptance of God’s sovereignty. One’s life is not determined by an impersonal fate or by accidents or by chance. The loving Sovereign God is the Ruler and Lord of life. He created each of us for a purpose and he is working out that good purpose in each person’s life—if we trust him.
Because God was in his heart, hardship and mistreatment did not make him bitter; and success did not make him proud. These experiences….the good and the bad….made him grow in character in his inner self. All people have ups and downs in life. Some people become bitter and angry toward God when they encounter hard things; and they become proud or self-indulgent when things go well. But God was with Joseph, and Joseph trusted God, so the experiences of his life, both
good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, could be used by God to build
his character.
23rd of April 2012
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
(Source: defined-by-grace)
15th of April 2012
My Saviour!!!! :
“You won’t ever find him be unfaithful
You will find him, you’ll find him next to me”
12th of April 2012
20th of March 2012
Learnt to make this cute little crocheted owl for Mum for Mother’s day this year as she loves owls! 2d creations for the time being but give it a few years of improving my skills and I may get on to 3d stuffed toys!
16th of March 2012
What would be different if our society listened to the lessons of generations which have gone before….
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you (Deuteronomy 32:7)
(Source: icanread)
7th of March 2012
Isaiah 41:10 Fear not for I am with you, be not dismayed for I AM your God.
God says I am not far off, fear not, why?, because I am with you. I am in this fear with you. I do not watch from the outside. It is not as though you are going through this alone, come out for counsel and go back in and fight. I am in this with you. Be not dismayed, For I am your God. I do not give you a far off hope but I give you a very present help in time of trouble.
28th of February 2012
What more could I wish to do with my day other than to create a crochet moustacherpeice!!
27th of February 2012
Just came across some piccies which represent this season of wedding prep- ‘SAVE THE DATE’ MAKING!! Vintage, Tea stained, buttons and all things that I love!
P.s. 5 months 28 days to go!
23rd of February 2012
Your Presence is all I need
It’s all I want, all I seek
Without it, without it there’s no meaning
Your Presence is the air I breathe
The song I sing, the love I need, Without it, without it I’m not living
There will be no one like You
And no one beside You
You alone are worthy of all praise
17th of February 2012
14th of February 2012
The Beauty of Love as it was made to be…..
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free,
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design, an alignment, a cry,
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be
- ‘Sigh no more’, Mumford and Sons
As a Christian, I believe that the love being described here which our hearts yearn for and which sets us free and allows us to be who we were made to be is the love of our creator Father God. As it is Valentine’s day I re-post these thoughts that I blogged last year. I have thought alot about why we celebrate this day and what that actually looks like and realised that (as much as the cheesyness makes me cringe a little inside!), one main reason I feel uncomfortable with it is because of the concern that the real meaning of love, the reason for the occasion itself, will get overlooked when couples feel the need to ‘celebrate the day’.
In thinking deeper about love itself, these mumford and sons lyrics have given light on my understanding! It is truly a weighty mission to fully understand and give love, because it involves sacrifice and cost. It is evident that when we love somebody we generally see them as pretty wonderful and our love for them is displayed by the joy we get from spending time with them and enjoying good times together, but what happens when they irritate us? What happens when they let us down or want things done differently to us? Do we continue to love them despite this? when things arent all pretty, clean, hollywood pink and rosy but rather messy and rather difficult; are we willing to love then too? Real love requires commitment and sacrifice and we need to understand this! When we look at british 18-30s culture today we see a generation where largely relationships have become consumerist activity. People are encouraged to seek the best partner they can get and if things are not quite perfect and that person doesn’t match up to every ideal wanted then they should be given up or replaced. The sad reality with this way of living is that we will never achieve a perfect relationship no matter how hard we try. We are all fallen people and there will never be perfect relationship without hurt or difficulty. We will never find somebody whom we always ‘feel’ love towards.
If we want to grasp an understanding of ultimate love, the love of God, we have to look to the cross. “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:9-10).Jesus Christ loved the world so much that He gave everything for it, from His rights and privileges as the unique eternal Son of God, to His very life! The amazing and great truth about God’s love for us is that it is not dependent on what we do and what we do not do. God’s love is constant. It never changes. It never fails or lets us down. It will not betray, dismay or enslave but will set you free.
If we want to know love we need to recognise the beauty of love as it was meant to be. We need to accept God’s truth and live our lives loving each other in light of this. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud. This love that I am speaking of is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. And to know the love of Christ - The love of Christ towards us; the immensity of redeeming love is to know love willing to die.
