...anyone still using these blogs??

So I don't have internet access anymore...maybe one day. But I was just thinking how our culture of blogging has diminished...is that true? Are there still bloggers out there and I'm maybe the one that's out of touch?

Life is good at the moment. This is a year full of potential and excitement, much to learn and much to grow into.

I don't have time really to do this, so there won't be many words after this here sentence. I do hope that there are still some die-hards sharing great revs and such things....

noise, giggles and family

so I'm at home at the moment...got here late last week after a pretty long trip. It was good driving to Jo-burg consumed in my thoughts and many questions about life and such things...plus the scenery once again had me in absolute awe! How could anyone believe that such perfectness could have been created randomly without any intention and forethought?

My welcome gift to Botswana as I crossed over the South African border was the most magnificent rainbow...a rainbow truly apt reminding me of promises...There's always just excitement in me when I drive through town to my home, sort of like how little children get over a cute cuddly puppy...

Its so lovely, here I am sitting at the dining room table typing away whilst my sisters and dad are being taught how to play bridge by my mum I'll have to learn to play next time, although it all sounds rather complicated...where's dead head when you need it?

I'm quite missing everyone in Grahamstown, often wonder how everyone is!! I hope you're all good wherever you are in SA or anywhere else in the world...

dreams...

I really have been trying to work, ever since I got back to my room at 7.30 and finished eating my take-away Wimpy chicken burger, but it hasn't really worked out as planned.

I'm quite excited about life, excited about what it has in store for us, what's out there, the plans that God knew even before we were born that we'll sometimes not even realise until they've gone and happened...

Whats brought this train of thought along you may ask...my sister! Yip my youngest sister Leigh...for those of you who don't know her, you should know her. Actually you guys should just know my whole family as they're pretty amazing people. But anyways, back to Leigh. So Leigh is 5 years younger than me (well actually only at some part of the year, sometimes she's only 4 years younger than me)...she's in grade 10 at the moment (i think that's what you South African's call it...I get confused with the whole educational system here). She just asked me if I knew what her plans were for when she finishes school and as we haven't spoken for a long time I didn't.

Being asked if I know what my sister is planning with her life and getting her amazingly awesome answers made me realise the big dreams we weren't afraid of dreaming when we were younger. The dreams that made us work on our own mini-projects during the holidays or the fascinations we'd grow when we felt that "this is what I'm going to be when I grow up..." Why don't we dream like that anymore? Why do we restrict things to what we think are going to be feasible, what we think would be the 'best' thing considering the circumstances...now really...would a God who had big enough plans and ideas to create a whole entire universe as well as the smallest and strangest looking inch worm really want us to just settle into a role, just because?

I think not...actually I know not...I'm excited to dream, I'm excited to know what plans there are for not only myself (although thats pretty exciting for me in and of itself) but I'm excited to hear about what other people want to do, their big ideas, their big plans to contribute, their big ways of living life...aah I'm so very excited!!

So I think I've in a nutshell said what I felt like saying, maybe now I'll be able to get down to some work...I doubt it, but that's alright...life's exciting guys...there's so much out there!! I think we need to dream and also hope BIG!!

words...

...And the first time that You opened Your eyes

Did You realize that You would be my Savior

And the first breath that left Your lips

Did You know that it would change this world forever...

~(Relient K)

AMAZING LOVE

NOW WHAT ELSE SHALL I NEED

YOUR NAME BRINGS LIFE IT'S MORE THAN THE AIR I BREATHE

MY WORLD HAS CHANGED WHEN YOUR LIFE YOU GAVE FOR ME

MY PURPOSE FOUND AND ALL THAT YOU WANT FOR ME

AND I'VE FOUND MYSELF IN YOU LORD

AND I'VE FOUND MYSELF IN YOU

SO TAKE ME TO A PLACE WHERE I CAN SEE YOU FACE TO FACE

AND ALL I WANNA DO IS WORSHIP YOU

~(Words and music by Dave George)

can you imagine...

Can you imagine if you just laughed and laughed and yet again laughed...nonstop. Can you imagine...I think laughing is a pretty great thing! Last night I feel that I laughed more than I had laughed in a pretty long span of time!

Laughing is great and people are great! So actually is tea, but on an entirely different level! I could never compare people and tea on the same level...except maybe when...nah I don't think I ever could.

My parents are cool! They sent me a surprise parcel full of tuck and stuff to help me through my last month here! Now isn't that a pretty cool thing for a parental unit to do! I was so happy when I received my parcel, I felt like a 2 year old who had just been told she could have any toy she wanted in the whole toy shop! I love my family! I'm excited to see them in less than a month! It's great to know that even when you live 13 hours drive away from your family, or even further in some cases, they're still your family and you can all still be so much a part of each other's lives and still love one another so very much!!

Anyways I'm getting all soppy now when I had intentions of just exclaiming from the top of my voice how much I love laughing! haha...life is good...family is GREAT...and laughing is infectious...

"Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence." Richard Foster

Need I say more? What emotive words...this quote oozes with feelings and emotions...it is saturated with such heartfelt desires and feelings...they do seem to drip out from a Vessel which is beyond containing all that is in it...its waiting to pour out onto whatever/whoever will recieve what it has to give. The illustration I thought that best represents this point is a sponge which can't hold more moisture, it constantly drips...but maybe my mind works differently!

Think about that quote, I reckon Foster has hit the nail on the head! He's quite a clever man as far as that quote goes in my opinion!

just sitting...

I was a few moments ago sitting at my desk sipping at my favourite refreshment, namely tea, eating a few delicious rusks browsing the blogs that I almost daily check, wondering what I should do next as I got to the end of the list of blogs. Then it dawned on me that I couldn't let Donnae down. I couldn't let that small lie that blogging is dying out in Grahamstown live, I had to take action. Action which is aimed at sufficating such allegations, action to brighten the day of maybe one person if not more. I love when I click onto another's blog and there's a new post, it brings much joy to my heart. Its like having a mini book to read filled with stories and revelations from numerous writers. What a blessing to gain such insight and knowledge, such news and randomness from those around you, those that are part of your spiritual family.

I don't have anything relevant or exciting to say yes that is true, so I'm sorry if I bore you. I seem to have suffered a bout of writers block this term, or maybe has it been semester.

This weekend was so very lovely, it was a weekend filled with fantasy characters from Neverland and pirates from a multitude of seas...even a chinese one! It was a weekend where many of us got to share in the special occasion of friends becoming 21! So lovely, its always so amazing to hear what you pretty much already know about people, but to hear it in such a wonderful way that you're made to appreciate them even more. What a lovely weekend...what lovely people to have in my life - even when they look terrifyingly amazing as a pirate or any other odd character. It was quite disturbing to see how great everyone looked as pirates I must say, I was in complete and utter amazement for the first hour or so watching how people transformed into their characters so well!

Pirates or not, fairies or lost children, a wonderful combination, such blessings to many...