just because

This week at my church we have revival meetings. The first night the evangelist got up to the pulpit and says, "It is not uncommon to hear people say that their home church is dead." The evangelist went on to say that he doesn't believe this is the problem. He believes are churches are too alive! (we all stare at him a little bit confused) He goes on to explain that our churches are not dead enough. We need to be more dead to ourselves and alive to the work of the Lord. We are too alive to our own selfish desires and needs. This has been something that has been on my mind a lot over the last few months. Right before I went back to school in the Fall one of my pastors mentioned in his message that he used to be very shy. He was shy until he stopped focusing on himself. I thought about this and realized that he was right. I can walk through a hallway at school where there are a 100 people I don't know and if I am not thinking about me and how they will view me than I...

We often hear kids saying things like, “well my daddy is the best at this!” or “my mom makes the best cookies ever! Or “when I grow up I want to be a pig farmer when I grow up because that is what my dad is!” As a preschool teacher at church I got my fair share of knowing what mom and dads were the best! One kid didn’t like the color green because her dad doesn’t like the color green. However, it is amazing how we see this changing as the kids grow older. Not only do they no longer brag about their parents but sometimes we come as close as to actually putting down our parents. It is no longer cool to agree with your parents. It is no longer cool to ever do anything with your parents. But eventually (hopefully) we grow out of this stage too. We then get to a stage where we begin to realize that yes our parents aren’t perfect and no they haven’t possibly made always the best choices but man! They have given a lot up for us!           ...

Some days I feel that I have a lot to remember. I will be at work and have a number of orders on my mind that need to be made. One person will be giving me prices for a new product, a customer has a question and another employee will be asking me a question. I only have so many hours till 6 o'clock which is closing time and I know I can't work late cause I need to be somewhere 1/2 an hour away by 7. If I don't do everything in the right order at the right time it won't get done. You have been running since you got up that morning and you don't stop till you go to bed that night. You all know that feeling. That feeling of being super busy and trying to remember what day it is and what you have going that evening and what you need to do to prepare for the next evening or day. I was thinking about this a little today. Not about how we might live too busy lives although that could be a direction I could go from here but since I like being busy I won't. :) No...wha...

On sunday when we were giving testimonies at church someone read this poem...I really liked it so i googled it this morning and found it and decided to post it. You say: “I can’t go on.” God says: “My grace is sufficient.” You say: “I don’t have enough faith.” God says: “I have given everyone a measure of faith.” You say: “I’m afraid.” God says: “I have not given you a spirit of fear.” You say: “I can’t forgive myself.” God says: “I forgive you.” You say: “I can’t figure things out.” God says: “I will direct your steps.” You say: “Nobody really loves me.” God says: “I love you.” You say: “I am not able.” God says: “I am able.” You say: “I feel all alone.” God says: “I will never leave you or forsake you.” You say: “I am always worried and frustrated.” God says: “Cast all your cares on me.” You say: “It’s impossible.” God says: “All things are possible.”   That's all for now but i will prolly post again soon...

I have days where my heart aches...my heart aches to go to Heaven. I don't know what heaven is going to be like, but I like to imagine. I like to picture it in my mind. I like to think about how it might be. I imagine things like sitting down with my aunts and just talking... :) I imagine getting teased by my uncle and laughing and joking with him. I imagine seeing mom's reunited with their children. I imagine Dad's seeing their daughters that they lost at a young age. I imagine husbands being reunited with their wives. I imagine one of the biggest and best reunions you could ever imagine. I imagine Grandparents seeing grandkids that they havn't ever met. Have you ever watches any videos on YouTube of soldiers coming home to their families? I imagine that some of the reuniting that will be going on will be somewhat like that only 100 times better yet! And then there is the scenery....I can't even put into words how beautiful I think it will be. If we have things...

This past weekend me and two other of my friends did a girl’s weekend using dvd’s done by Leslie Ludy for her set-apart weekend. We would watch the sessions and then discuss them after.  What I have been thinking a lot about over this past week from the weekend is how God has asked us to completely give up every aspect of our life and let him take complete control. He asked us to forsake everything and trust Him. Is this really possible? Am I at this point yet? Nope, but I hope to get there. But see its not something that you just do once. Leslie uses the illustration of letting God have to the pen to write your life story. She talks of how you might hand it over to Him but the very next day you find you have grabbed it back and again need to dedicate back to Him. Its continual. These are a few of the quotes I heard over the weekend that really stuck out to me: “What does it mean to be a Christian? Your life is hid with Christ; you are not your own. You have no time ...

You know that word? That word that comes up so many times. That word that people like to bring up whenever you start to complain about the long line you need to wait in or the week of work you have ahead of you before you get to enjoy a weekend or the red light you have to sit at when you are late for your hockey game? That horrible p word....Ya, you know what I am talking about. The word, patience. You know there are people who are just really patient people. They don't ever complain about waiting. They don't get frustrated easily when things are going right for them or someone does them wrong. When I look at people like that I am jealous of their gift to be patient. Recently I did a trip to Florida. Both on the way there and on the way home I had a delay in my flights. It didnt actually affect the time I landed in Florida or the time I landed in TO but boy did I start to get impatient when I didnt get to leave at the time I had been hoping. I envy the people who take a situ...

So here is the thing. There is this person...This person so important in my life! so important that they dont deserve one blog but more like a blog every week! so important that basically without them i would feel like a lost little puppy that wouldnt ever know where to go or what to do. The problem is this person is just so talented and one of her many talents is writing. So while this person has written beautiful blogs on me that make me sound so much better than I am and make me want to do the same I just dont know how I can possibly make her sound better than she is when she is just so awesome. But here goes nothing. Yasmine has been one of my good friends for a long time. We havnt known eachother all our lives but due to me starting to come to her church at the age of about ten we began to immediately get to know eachother. Even though at that time we didnt know eachother we seemed to click right away and have been successful ever since. Neither of us like conflict so if we have...

Two Blogs in one week! This is new for me. :)   Due to some things that happened today my mind has been on the protection that is placed over me every day that I take for granted. There was snow! Lots of snow! Maybe not to people who live north of here but for southern Ontario it was a decent amount of snow. Because we don’t see snow like this much we don’t know how to drive in it and because of that all we can do is trust the Lord to help us. My mom took my grandma down to Cambridge this morning. There was a person that just stopped right on the expressway in front of her leaving everyone behind them to swerve around the stopped car just missing an accident. My cousin was rear ended in front of our laneway but was alright. Another cousin was in a 90 car pileup on his way out to Ottawa but is also ok. So how is it that tonight I am not grieving the loss of any family members? It is by the grace and protection of my God who is watching over us, not only in snow storms, but ...

Well it finally happened. The doctors stole my wisdom. It wasn't a question of may i have your wisdom. It was just, you got let us take your wisdom from you! After two years of appointment after appointment to let the orthodontist poke around at my teeth and tighten those metal brackets and make my mouth sore I finally finished. They took them off! Then at my very last appointment they said, "Well Trish, you are done here but those wisdom teeth got to go!" I was like, OK great! I was just thinking how much I was going to miss having people digging around at my teeth. I was hoping I wasn't done. Well a few months later they finally got me booked in. I went in for my consultation where they ask you all those questions that you just sit there and say no to. Or I always do. I have them pretty much memorised. However this guy asked a few more then normal. Over a dozen questions. Do you smoke? no. Do you have any allergie...

Last night at church, we had a different sort of bible study then normal. People were asked to pick a favorite song that they were wanting to be their prayer for the new year, tell us why they picked that song, give us some backround on the song and then we sang the song. I didnt actually pick one but i was thinking in my head what song i would choose. i came up with one and that is why i am blogging about it tonight. The title of the blog gives the song away. The song, "We Have this Moment" is a song that i remember singing all my life. I don't know or didnt look up the actual backround on this song but I will share a little bit about my backround to this song. This song has been sung at martin campings and get togethers for as long as i can remember. It always brings tears to many eyes no matter how many times we sang it. The reason behind this is because of one time it was sung. Now hopefully i got the facts right here. I dont actually remember this occasion I have j...