Beginning to PAINT!!

This may sound childish, but I am SO excited to paint!!!

When we moved into our new house absolutely EVERYTHING was white.  I guess the previous owner followed the 'rule' of selling a house and painted it all white.  No body in my family really appreciated that because we love colour.  None of the walls in our old house was white.  We each had our own room colour, and the rest of the house was kind of a tan colour with accent walls in the living room.

I finally convinced my parents that we need to start painting, so starting as soon as I publish this post I am prepping the upstairs bathroom so I can paint as soon as possible!!  It'll be so nice to add some colour to our house!

I'll try to remember to take some before and after pictures...I know there are a few people from BC who have been wanting to 'see' our house...maybe this will finally be when you get to see it! 

Bloggers Rut

Lately I've been feeling like I'm caught in a 'bloggers' rut.  I've been wanting to write but most of the time I don't know what to write.  Maybe it's just me, but I've been feeling like this blog has become really boring...and long winded.  My life right now isn't all that interesting...I just keep busy with work and school...there's not much to write about either of those!

When I do find something to write I feel like it's long and boring.  I've found myself wanting to do something else along the lines of the "All About Me in 30 Days" series I did.  It was fun to write about different topics!

If you have anything you want to know about me, or have any ideas of something you want me to write about, please let me know!! 

I want to make this blog happy and light hearted again!  :)

Stream of Consciousness

There has been a lot that's been going on in my life lately!  If I think I'm busy now, I can't imagine how busy I'm going to be feeling when I start volunteering at the hospital!  I have my orientation on Saturday...and then I should be starting within a week or two! 

I've been working on a very special project for a couple weeks now!  I'll be sure to tell you all about it when it's all finished!  It has to do with my blog and allowing my grandparents who don't have internet to see it!  I'm very excited about how my 'project' is coming along!  It will hopefully be finished in the next week or so! 

After feeling stressed about school for far to long, I have decided that I'm not going to be continuing on with my next semester.  Financially it isn't worth it...I'd rather not worry about finishing my current semester early, and I'd rather save the money I would spend on next semester and put it towards my schooling in the fall!  Coming to this decison has given me huge relief!  I am so behind as it is, and with volunteering I wasn't sure how I was going to make it to my adjusted deadline.  Now I don't have to worry!  I'm so relieved! 

Speaking of school...I sent in my first assignment tonight!  Haha!  That's how behind I am... :(  But, my statistics course is coming along.  I'll hopefully be sending in my next assignment tomorrow...  I'll get this done...I think I can...I think I can...I know I can...  Haha!  I've decided to take the approach of doing one course at a time.  I was trying to juggle them all at once but I found because I was teaching it all to myself I would forget what I'd learn...  This way my mind is only filled with one subject, and when I'm finished each one I'll go on to the next.  I seem to be doing much better this way!  Distance schooling is definitely different from going out to school!   I don't think I'd ever choose to do distance again...

I'm going to wrap this post up... I think an early bedtime is in order tonight!  Have a good night/good day! 

You Were Meant To Be...

I just heard a song by Steven Curtis Chapman from the newest Veggie Tales that kind of goes along with what I was saying yesterday about people in each of our lives. 

I hope it encourages you as it has encouraged me! 

Keeping In Touch

I've been trying to get some 'pre-spring cleaning' done for a few days now!  I'm not as far as I hoped to be...everytime I attempt to do a 'small' clean it turns into an 'everything' clean!

Today I went through my paper bin under my bed to find any papers I no longer need.  I ended up finding some really old scrapbook pages I made when I was 12!  Seeing them brought back a lot of memories of the time my family went to Fairmont BC with my good friend and her family shortly after we moved away from Calgary!  I also found a page where that same friend, Karissa, had come over for a sleepover on my 12th birthday.  The scrapbooking element of the pages is terrible, but the memories they bring are incredible! 

Seeing those pages made me think (even more so than I had been already) about the phrase "keeping in touch."  With my friend Kim in NY, and Karissa so heavily on my mind this past month and a bit, and every other person I've ever known floating around my mind lately I've found it hard not to think about it. 

Keeping in touch with someone is much easier said than done.  I find when it comes to keeping in touch there's a fine line that must be walked upon.  I never know how much "keeping in touch" is good.  I'm always scared of keeping in touch too much that the other person can't go on with their life, but then I pull away and then I think I shouldn't keep in touch very often...though those close to me are never far from my thoughts or prayers.  Then, time buts in and before I know it years have gone by and distance has been formed between me and those close to me...  I find keeping in touch very...what's the word...not frustrating in a bad sense, but in the sense of not knowing how to properly keep in touch. 

Keeping in touch is hard.  Maybe I need to try harder, or try less.  I haven't quite decided yet.  All I know is I'm tired of the distance that forms when physical distance happens in a relationship.  I know God knows what will be of all my friendships. 

A while ago I got an email that talked about how people are in your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.  Ultimately only God knows what He has planned for each relationship.  One conclusion I have come to though is that no matter if it is a season (short or long), a reason, or for life, each person has a special place in anothers life.  For example, my friendship with Karissa...no matter the outcome of what's going on right now, I was in her life.  Nobody can ever take that away, or deny it.  There was something she needed that only I could give, and vice versa.  Same with Kim...no matter what the future holds for our friendship...whether she lives far away, or moves back to SK at the end of her time in NY...there is something(s) only she can bring to my life, and again vice versa.  The same goes with everyone I know and everyone you know.  Nobody can ever deny that someone who was in your life had a role to play in shaping you into who you are.  No matter if that person was there for a reason, a season, or for life!

Reaching The Biker Community For Jesus!!

I came across an article on the Global BC website that I thought I would share! 

Here's the link.

I found it really encouraging to read a story like this on the Global network!  Usually the news doesn't share a lot when it comes to reaching people for Jesus!  The first thing I thought of when I read it was that prison ministries are working!  Lives are being changed for Christ!!  The really exciting thing is that some people, like this new pastor, are really serious about changing their lives and living for Christ and they are spreading the Gospel to others! 

It's like Acts 20:24 says:  "However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me--the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace."

(After reading this article today I was thinking along these lines, but couldn't think of this verse off the top of my head.  Thanks Kim for posting it!!)

There isn't anything in the world that has meaning if we don't walk in the purpose God has for us here on earth...the purpose of telling others about God's grace and mercy!  Like Paul says, even our very lives are considered worth nothing...  Our purpose on the earth is for relationship with God, and relationship with others so that through our relationships we can spread the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, bringing all honour and glory to Him, and Him alone! 

Okay, enough of me writing on and on... (because I could go on and on! ;) 

Just read the article!  It's so exciting!!

January 15, 2011

Well, the day I've been waiting for has finally arrived.  Today is the deadline for all TRU nursing applications.  I am excited, nervous, anxious, and scared about what is to come next.  Though Kamloops no longer feels like home, I feel like that is where I need to be when I take nursing.  I don't know why, but that's just how I feel.  I wouldn't move there for good...where I am will be "home" but if TRU is where God wants me to be, I will survive the 30 months that I would be there over the next 4 years.  If the past 5 months have been any indication of how fast time flies I will be alright!

So, only time will tell where this next stage of my life will take me.  Will it be TRU or someplace else?  I don't know what to even think, or what to even pray...  All my heart cries is for God's will to be done.  If I'm to be at TRU, I believe God will open that door, and if I'm not I know He will close that door. 

The next few months until I find out will be a waiting game...