Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Jordon
I've had an awful week, having to deal with having a really good friend of mine take his life. October 5, 2010.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Neon Pee
After many dramatic happenings, I'm at school now. Things are awesome. I've got lots of work to do, but that's the exciting part because I'm looking forward to being stretched and pushed to my limits. I want to do hard things and I want to do them well. I love my roommate. She's really great. Of everyone one on my hall I'd pick her, if I had the chance now after meeting everyone.
This'll sound weird, but lately I've noticed that my pee's been a neon yellow colour. I did a Google search to find out that that's caused from taking multivitamins, which makes perfect sense because recently I started taking them. :)
Have a great day,
Stephanie
This'll sound weird, but lately I've noticed that my pee's been a neon yellow colour. I did a Google search to find out that that's caused from taking multivitamins, which makes perfect sense because recently I started taking them. :)
Have a great day,
Stephanie
Friday, August 13, 2010
Yo what's happening!??!
So how have all your summers been going, dears?
Here's the deal. This summer has been an enormous time of growth for me. Starting back from May with the fast that I did.
If you want the long story, here it is:
I do this monthlong computer fast because I'm addicted to YouTube and am spending hours and hours on waste.
Part way through I start reading a book called Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I've mentioned it before.
I finish the book and I'm trying to apply everything that I've learned. (which I've haven't ceased to do)
So that's going well. May and June I'm praying about the next year. I apply to Briercrest College in Saskatchewan, Canada. I'm praying that the Lord would be directing all these things that I'm thinking about and that he would go before me in these matters. I'm accepted to the school, and I'm told that I've been shortlisted for this scholarship. The catch is that I can't know how much it's for because they wouldn't want my hopes up. They do tell me that it's good though so I start praying for it.
I think it was the following week. The usual scheduling manager goes on holiday for a week, and so another manager takes the job for that week and when I receive my schedule I find that I've just gain an extra 25 hours of spare time, which just bums me out.
During the time that I had off one day, I get a call from the school. One of the people from the Student Finance department calls. (a call that I probably wouldn't have gotten without the time off) She wants to talk with me, and so we talk. She asks me a bunch of questions, to which I answer, and when we've finished she tells me that it was nice talking with me and tells me that if I'm the one to receive the scholarship, I'll know by the end of the week.
After a few back and forth calls between her and my parents (because I was working everytime), she decides to email me to let me know that I did get this scholarship! Awesome! The best part is that this scholarship is one to cover my entire first year of school! I am truly so blessed. I was stunned with awe and thankfulness.
I just took a break from writing and I don't exactly know how to continue.
Basically, I've been learning a lot about God lately. He is so awesome - that is the True God, the God of the Bible. It honestly baffles me to think that anyone could deny his existence, yet without doubt that there an abundance of such people.
And if anyone were interested in looking into the validity of Scripture or anything, there are tons of resources available for that kind of thing. But no matter how strong the evidence, no matter what anyone says, it is true that without faith no one can take the Bible at it's word and just accept it as truth.
Fitting that in with this story of what I've been going through, I am very excited to be going to school. I've been counting down the days, which normally makes the wait longer, but somehow it hasn't. (15 til I leave as of now). There's really a lot to be excited about, but what I think I'm most excited about is the opportunity to grow in maturity.
It may be fun to be childish for a time, that is when you're supposed to be a kid. Becoming an adult though, you shouldn't want to be a slave to doing just whatever seems fun or pleasurable. That doesn't mean that you don't have fun or find pleasure, but it's just done differently.
If you live your whole life in pursuit of what brings you pleasure, you have wasted your life.
God has told us that there are ways to best live life. There is a way that is best to live as men and women and it doesn't include living for yourself. Jesus Christ is Lord of all and he needs to be exalted on high because he is righteous and good. The catch is that you can't live for both yourself and God. There's only enough room on the throne for one, and the choice is entirely up to you.
Even if no else is in for living for God, I want to be. I want to be set-apart for proclaiming Jesus as King. I want to spend my life declaring how good he's been to me. I want people to look at me and my life and invariably say that Jesus Christ must be the great God. Or something similar to that.
So if you didn't want to hear about Jesus today, I don't care. He's awesome and he is Lord, and the life he offers is either never talked about or wrongly spoken about by people who don't care the slightest.
In short, I'm just making myself available to his purposes and he's doing a lot of work with and in me. Included with that, is the reordering of my priorities and value s. Spending loads of time on my computer doesn't even make it close to the top.
I don't mind typing up a post once in a while, I just want to know that the time isn't being wasted. So if you want to know more about how school ends up being for me or whatever, then just leave a comment (they're sent straight to my email so I always get them).
********I propose that I'll write one post per month, so long as at least one person leaves some kind of comment saying that they'd read it. So that'll be it. Once a month or as often as people say they're interested. *********
PS thanks Diipo for asking! :)
Here's the deal. This summer has been an enormous time of growth for me. Starting back from May with the fast that I did.
If you want the long story, here it is:
I do this monthlong computer fast because I'm addicted to YouTube and am spending hours and hours on waste.
Part way through I start reading a book called Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I've mentioned it before.
I finish the book and I'm trying to apply everything that I've learned. (which I've haven't ceased to do)
So that's going well. May and June I'm praying about the next year. I apply to Briercrest College in Saskatchewan, Canada. I'm praying that the Lord would be directing all these things that I'm thinking about and that he would go before me in these matters. I'm accepted to the school, and I'm told that I've been shortlisted for this scholarship. The catch is that I can't know how much it's for because they wouldn't want my hopes up. They do tell me that it's good though so I start praying for it.
I think it was the following week. The usual scheduling manager goes on holiday for a week, and so another manager takes the job for that week and when I receive my schedule I find that I've just gain an extra 25 hours of spare time, which just bums me out.
During the time that I had off one day, I get a call from the school. One of the people from the Student Finance department calls. (a call that I probably wouldn't have gotten without the time off) She wants to talk with me, and so we talk. She asks me a bunch of questions, to which I answer, and when we've finished she tells me that it was nice talking with me and tells me that if I'm the one to receive the scholarship, I'll know by the end of the week.
After a few back and forth calls between her and my parents (because I was working everytime), she decides to email me to let me know that I did get this scholarship! Awesome! The best part is that this scholarship is one to cover my entire first year of school! I am truly so blessed. I was stunned with awe and thankfulness.
I just took a break from writing and I don't exactly know how to continue.
Basically, I've been learning a lot about God lately. He is so awesome - that is the True God, the God of the Bible. It honestly baffles me to think that anyone could deny his existence, yet without doubt that there an abundance of such people.
And if anyone were interested in looking into the validity of Scripture or anything, there are tons of resources available for that kind of thing. But no matter how strong the evidence, no matter what anyone says, it is true that without faith no one can take the Bible at it's word and just accept it as truth.
Fitting that in with this story of what I've been going through, I am very excited to be going to school. I've been counting down the days, which normally makes the wait longer, but somehow it hasn't. (15 til I leave as of now). There's really a lot to be excited about, but what I think I'm most excited about is the opportunity to grow in maturity.
It may be fun to be childish for a time, that is when you're supposed to be a kid. Becoming an adult though, you shouldn't want to be a slave to doing just whatever seems fun or pleasurable. That doesn't mean that you don't have fun or find pleasure, but it's just done differently.
If you live your whole life in pursuit of what brings you pleasure, you have wasted your life.
God has told us that there are ways to best live life. There is a way that is best to live as men and women and it doesn't include living for yourself. Jesus Christ is Lord of all and he needs to be exalted on high because he is righteous and good. The catch is that you can't live for both yourself and God. There's only enough room on the throne for one, and the choice is entirely up to you.
Even if no else is in for living for God, I want to be. I want to be set-apart for proclaiming Jesus as King. I want to spend my life declaring how good he's been to me. I want people to look at me and my life and invariably say that Jesus Christ must be the great God. Or something similar to that.
So if you didn't want to hear about Jesus today, I don't care. He's awesome and he is Lord, and the life he offers is either never talked about or wrongly spoken about by people who don't care the slightest.
In short, I'm just making myself available to his purposes and he's doing a lot of work with and in me. Included with that, is the reordering of my priorities and value s. Spending loads of time on my computer doesn't even make it close to the top.
I don't mind typing up a post once in a while, I just want to know that the time isn't being wasted. So if you want to know more about how school ends up being for me or whatever, then just leave a comment (they're sent straight to my email so I always get them).
********I propose that I'll write one post per month, so long as at least one person leaves some kind of comment saying that they'd read it. So that'll be it. Once a month or as often as people say they're interested. *********
PS thanks Diipo for asking! :)
Friday, June 25, 2010
Blow My Mind Awesome
What used to be a puzzle of complexity
Has now been made [basically] simple
The Mystery is how
Not all things are clear
But there is now an understanding
This is beautiful
NOTE: I had a perfect title for this yesterday when I wrote this, but the one I gave it will do.
Has now been made [basically] simple
The Mystery is how
Not all things are clear
But there is now an understanding
This is beautiful
NOTE: I had a perfect title for this yesterday when I wrote this, but the one I gave it will do.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
How do you wield?
Prayer is a weapon we are unpracticed in wielding?
But I want to know what you're praying for?
Let me know, k.
And if you aren't yet praying (and I mean specifically to the God of the Bible) what's the hold up?
But I want to know what you're praying for?
Let me know, k.
And if you aren't yet praying (and I mean specifically to the God of the Bible) what's the hold up?
Monday, June 7, 2010
Breakfast
Has it been a month? OK, OK, so it's been a month.
And here are my thoughts.
First off, I would definitely do it again.
At first, I didn't know what to do with myself, which just meant that I wasted my time in other ways. Then, still hooked on the vlogbrothers, I bought a John Green book. I was going to be a big reader or something. I read it, liked it well enough. Moved on the next book on my list: Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I had picked it up before but had to put it down because it was too challenging. I did get through it, and would highly recommend it to anyone serious about spending time with their King (Jesus).
From all this, it has come about that I need to purposefully not waste time. It's just far too valuable to be squandered. And I want to be spending hours in prayer because that would be anything but wasted time.
I definitely won't be watching YouTube anymore, I'd like to only, or mostly only be using my computer for the essentials, which I've decided for me, are basically, email (which may sometimes mean facebook - you have filter those to know which are junk and which are of use), the calendar feature, online banking (I've had to go biking for that every time this past month), and perhaps the dictionary feature.
This blog doesn't make the cut. I'm really sorry. That's not to say I won't ever post anything, but when I do, it'll be with irregularity. Still, feel free to leave comments, they get sent to my email, and I read them all. Ask me how I'm doing and stuff. I'd love that.
That's about it. It has been an amazing month. And again, I would definitely, recommend that book Wrestling Prayer to anyone interested. And if you do read it let me know.
Steph
And here are my thoughts.
First off, I would definitely do it again.
At first, I didn't know what to do with myself, which just meant that I wasted my time in other ways. Then, still hooked on the vlogbrothers, I bought a John Green book. I was going to be a big reader or something. I read it, liked it well enough. Moved on the next book on my list: Wrestling Prayer by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I had picked it up before but had to put it down because it was too challenging. I did get through it, and would highly recommend it to anyone serious about spending time with their King (Jesus).
From all this, it has come about that I need to purposefully not waste time. It's just far too valuable to be squandered. And I want to be spending hours in prayer because that would be anything but wasted time.
I definitely won't be watching YouTube anymore, I'd like to only, or mostly only be using my computer for the essentials, which I've decided for me, are basically, email (which may sometimes mean facebook - you have filter those to know which are junk and which are of use), the calendar feature, online banking (I've had to go biking for that every time this past month), and perhaps the dictionary feature.
This blog doesn't make the cut. I'm really sorry. That's not to say I won't ever post anything, but when I do, it'll be with irregularity. Still, feel free to leave comments, they get sent to my email, and I read them all. Ask me how I'm doing and stuff. I'd love that.
That's about it. It has been an amazing month. And again, I would definitely, recommend that book Wrestling Prayer to anyone interested. And if you do read it let me know.
Steph
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