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Saturday, April 23, 2011

3 in 30 April Week Three & Four

APRIL WEEK TWO - Encouragement and Looking Ahead

Well, as you can tell, i missed last Fridays Check In I'm doing two weeks worth in this post...

  1. Something that needs to be done daily (Stop, Start or Continue)

Go for a walk, or some form of exercise each day, as I continue to drink more water. This goal has been a bit of a hit and miss,
we've had rain and I've been very unmotivated, I chose to stay in
and read...ALOT.

2.

One time practical project that needs to be knocked off the 2011 list.


Paint the Downstairs Bathroom
Again I have not done this because of the reading...

3.

Personal Creative Project

Bake bread (from scratch); Up my blogging to twice a week consistently.
I did attempt braided Easter Bread, I'm doubting it will turn out as it didn't seem to be rising properly.
I also did not up my blogging, but I plan on it.

Monday, April 11, 2011

You sure you want a Revolution? - Part One

Just watched this video and this one. It's funny how when you are ready, the things you need to hear and read and see are there, the things you need in order to be changed and renewed, which were just out of reach - are suddenly rushing in abundantly...

After reading the book: Irresistible Revolution
(thanks for the referral Stephanie, you should have warned me not to listen to the book while driving :)
My mind is swirling and my heart is pounding... I've felt this shift inside me coming for a long time now, but it's starting to take shape...starting to...

Fav. Quotes...

"The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into."

"To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's."

"Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived."

"And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about."

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta."

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border."

"I asked participants who claimed to be "strong followers of Jesus" whether Jesus spent time with the poor. Nearly 80 percent said yes. Later in the survey, I sneaked in another question, I asked this same group of strong followers whether they spent time wit the poor, and less than 2 percent said they did. I learned a powerful lesson: We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great tragedy of the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor."

"For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death."

This of course is on the heals of reading about the life of Billy Graham who was a radical in his own right...
Billy - The Untold Story... Just As I Am


















Some Fav. Quotes...

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same
.

I want to live my life authentically. The reality of my very real relationship with Christ clearly evident. I want it to matter in light of eternity...knowing this, some things are going to change.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Every once in a while...












Every once in a while...
Something big hits me.
It grips me.
Catches my throat.
Takes my breath away.
Bruises my heart.
Overwhelms my mind.
Passes understanding.
It's too big for me.
I am overwhelmed.

Every once in a while...
Something big hits me.
A memory...
Seen with today's understanding
A glimpse into the future...
With the strength of hope and faith combined.
A decision...
Accompanied by courage and determination.
An idea...
Bright with promise.

Every once in a while...
Something big hits me
Someone...
A friend...
Truly connects, and it scares us both
A child...
Gives an adult the ability to see heaven
A widow...
Laughs and dances again in joy
A hero...
Dies and his legacy begins to be revealed

Every once in a while...
Something big hits me.
Realizing
A pain...
is no longer hurting
A fear...
has lost it's power
The lonely...
is set into a family
The broken...
is made new
The empty...
is filled and overflows

Every once in a while...
Something big hits me.
that I, the lost one
Was found.
It grips me.
Catches in my throat.
Takes my breath away.
Bruises my heart.
Overwhelms my mind.
Passes understanding.
Every once in a while...every day.

April 2011
Tammara Heaslip

Inspired by:

Woe is me, for I am undone!
...
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 6:5 para

What is man that You are mindful of him?
Or the son of man that You take care of him?
...
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
and set him over the works of Your hands.
...
but now we do not yet see all things put under him...
But we see Jesus
...
crowned with glory and honor
the He by the grace of God might taste death for everyone
...
for it was fitting for Him, for who are all things and by whom are all tihngs,
In bringing many sons to glory
To make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings...
Hebrews 2:6-10 para


3 in 30 April Week Two

APRIL WEEK TWO - Check In

  1. a) Something that needs to be done daily (Stop, Start or Continue)

Go for a walk, or some form of exercise each day, as I continue to drink more water. Well, the water thing is going ok, the walk thing 3 out of 7 days. Need to work on that.
  1. b) One time practical project that needs to be knocked off the 2011 list.

Paint the Downstairs Bathroom
I have not started this project as the SUN finally came out in Niagara and decided to spend those hours outside cleaning up the yard, etc.
  1. c) Personal Creative Project

Bake bread (from scratch); Up my blogging to twice a week consistently.
I have also not made the bread (went for squash soup instead) and I'm lucky to have gotten this blog in by today (Sunday - not because I've been busy, but because I'm trying to adjust to all the changes in my life and I've been in a rut when it comes to writing - a rut based on fear and lack of focus. I"m hoping to change that starting today.

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