GREATER THINGS!!!!

I've been a busy girl lately...the last month has seen my beautiful country hosting the Soccer world cup!

WOW!!!!!

I've never felt so much spirit and patriotism before, and definitely the favour of God pouring down on our nation!

The last ball may have been kicked, no more flags waving or vuvuzelas blowing, but I believe that something has begun thats going to reverberate for years to come!

Greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done!

Check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoIqR_oXM4
we did this routine in church at the begining of the world cup, but I think it's even more relevant now!

(and bonus: that's also list#64: make a youtube video! that's me in the front 'getting my Greek on!')

Things have been such a mess in my life lately. It seems that situations never just happen in singular form but rather we are bombarded from all sides at the same time. The greatest bomb was dropped a week ago when my sister, a friend and I were involved in a car accident; thankfully we are all 100% fine but have been left without a car and all the hassles that tag along with the situation: finances, insurance, insecurity and blame. As a result of all of this, I was unable to go to work for the week and was unceremoniously fired.

So here I am: car-less and job-less. But I refuse to be hopeless! Somehow in all of this God has taken my hurt, my insecurities, my cries of unfairness, my despair and my anger and blanketed it in an unexplainable peace.




I was listening to a sermon the other day where the preacher said:
It’s all about the cross,
Run to the cross,
If you can’t run: walk
If you can’t walk: crawl
And if you can’t even get up to crawl, just look
Look to the cross.

“I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I am at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can, and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions...” Romans 7: 23-25 (MSG)

I’m looking to the cross, are you?

Oh how he loves us...

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

He loves us,
oh how He loves us,
how He loves us,.

We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
He loves us,
oh how He loves us,
how He loves us.

(John Mark mcMillan)