January 2nd 2011

This photo was taken in Middle Park on Beaconsfield Parade. It was early morning walk and the sun was coming up and it was lovely.

January 1st 2011 - Picture a day!

This picture was taken at Albert Park on sunset. I was with Liz on a walk that was quite long but very beautiful. The clouds looked amazing! all pink and fluffy. 2011, new year, new decade, new.. :) Can't wait!

New Year, New Decade, I'm Excited!

So we are now in 2011. I am excited and have expectation for this year. I can feel it in my bones that it's gonna be a good one. It's my year. Im looking forward to the end of the year and all the stories that I can share with you. Today at church we were challenged to dedicate to the Lord this year to immerse ourselves in his presence, to live from his presence, to share him freely as the spirit leads to those around us to see his love and his freedom transforming where we are.

This reminds me of stories that I have heard, heres a few just to inspire and encourage.

The man who became a christian and felt the Lord ask him to share the gospel with 10 people everyday so he would stand on the streets of Sydney with a pamphlet about heaven and Jesus and ask people if they knew whether they were going to heaven or hell when they die and give them the pamphlet and he did this everyday for 40 years and if he missed a day he would do double the next day. He NEVER heard back from anyone about how this step had impacted thier lives but the story of this man was moving across the earth, people all over the world had been impacted by his obediance to the Lord and a week or two before he passed away a young pastor that had been meeting all these people all over the world who had come to know Jesus because of this man was able to share some of the stories with him. Can you imagine the homecoming in heaven this man had and the treasures that he stored up. Amazing. For all those years he remained obediant even though he never heard back from anyone. That is faithfullness.

Another story, a lady i know was talking to her brother who is not a christian, she is the only christian in her family and she asked the Lord for a picture / story for the day and while she was talking to her brother she felt the Lord say to share this picture with him while she was on the phone. Her brother already thinks she's abit wacky but she was obediant and did it anyway. He basically laughed at her and that was the end of the conversation. The dream was to do with his heart and she saw all her family at his wedding (he is single and not in any relationship) and everyone was joined together there and it was on an island. A couple days later this lady was relaxing because she had a cold and so she missed a couple calls from her brother and her sister so she called her sister to find out what was going on and her sister said, "I don't know what you said to (brother) but he is freaking out." Turned out that he had a call from a girl on the other side of the world that in the past had been in a seroius relationship with but she now lived with her family on the other side of the world, so out of the blue this girl calls him and says hey we are moving to melbourne, my whole family and me and we are stopping in at Fiji on the way and I would like you to come and meet me and we are going to get married there. So this totally freaked the brother out because this was exactly the dream that his sister had and now this girl had called. So the brother was so desperate to talk to his sister but he couldn't get onto her so he got in his car and drove from sydney to melbourne and during his time in melbourne he gave his heart to the Lord. How amazing is that. It was all because she asked the Lord for a picture and was obediant with what she felt the Lord saying. Amazing!

Some new fun places to visit!!!

http://good-good-things.com/

Make good food a value in life long pursuit!

So i want to win this amazing cook book so that i can continue to nourish myself and those around me with yummy goodness and this book looks AMAZING!!! did i mention that ;)

It's called the SPUNKY COCONUT COOKBOOK by the AmAzInG Kelly B....

Grandeaux!

Today is going to be a magnificent day! The sun is shining and I have a day full of "things to do" so its going to be fun and productive. I also have prophetic group tonight so that is great!

I am in the middle of writting a prophetic word at the moment for someone because it was part of our homework and theres a song that i want to give so i am trying to get the lyric while to song is playing which is a little bit difficult cause its a fast song . ;)

Have i mentioned that I love my family so much, they are so great. At the moment my mum is in Thailand being amazing!

I made Banana Coconut Ice-cream last night, hope it tastes good ;)

Ballerina!

Ain't love grand!

LOVE!

Love!

Love is always good.

Love makes you smile and gives you rosey cheeks.

Love is holding hands.

Love is grandmas cooking and grandpas hugs.

Love is sunshine and rainy days.

Love is my dogs yawn everymorning and night.

Love is friends and good food.

Love comes in many different shapes and sizes.

Love!

Peace!

Peace is freedom!

Peace is joy!

Peace is the wind!

Peace is the smell of spring!

Peace is laughter!

Peace is blue!

Peace is refreshing!

Peace is that sigh at the end of a beautiful day!

Peace is herbs growing in the garden!

Peace is a baby sleeping in your arms!

Peace!

Joy!

Joy is alive!

Joy dances!

Joy is sweet!

Joy always smiles on the inside!

Joy is real!

Joy is truth!

Joy is yellow daisies!

Joy is belly laughs!

Joy!

And Jesus came that we might have life and life in abundance, a life filled ultimately with Love! that brings Peace! thats full of Joy! That our faith may increase, even more, even now! The world awaits...

Love!

Ballet

Tonight I went to a ballet class for the first time. I have been wanting to go for years and year and years and so I just bit the bullet and off I went. I really enjoyed it. I danced and pranced and bobbed and jigged.. well gracefullt of course. So i am going to go every Friday night to ballet class and prance around with all the other people in my class :)

HOPE

I have decided that hope is a beautiful thing. I think it is my word for this time in my life, whatever this time may be.. i choose hope. Or maybe hope ;) has chosen me. Ahhhh I feel the love just saying that. I say it outloud and it makes me giggle. "HOPE HAS CHOSEN ME".

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but hope restored, birthed, caught, desired, revealed, awakened, seen... hope is the tree of life. Hope brings life with it and anticipation, like that feeling you get when you're a kid and it's christmas eve.. i still kinda get that feeling.

My experience with hope recently has been one of restoration, restoring those dreams and desires that had been lost, pushed aside, pushed back, forgotten, denied, I can feel hope returning an it's bring dreams, passions, imagination, smiles and so much life with it.

Hope in the dictionary is defined as :
"A belief in a positive outcome related to events or circumstances in ones life."
"A feeling that what is wanted can be had"
"Events will turn out fo the best"
"To look forward to and desire with reasonable confidence"
"To feel that something desired may happen"

To look forward, to look into the future and beleive and trust that the best is yet to come. It says don't worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will take care of itself, hope is different than this, hope looks forward in anticipation, trust and faith. Hope brings life, not stress.

Jesus i am thankful for hope that is awakened in all of us.
You are the hope of glory, the hope of life, the hope of greater things yet to come.

HOPE!

The Light Comes Rushing In!

I am reading Eat Pray Love at the moment and I am really enjoying it. Some people find it quite contriversial and that's okay, each to thier own!

It has got me thinking about Monks, Buddhists, Spiritual Leaders, men and women that are searching and simply existing in a state inferior to the life Jesus has declared over us. It made me think, when we have a revelation of the truth it shatters the lies, instantly everything changes, the way you think, feel, act, live life because no longer are you lost in the lies, suddenly life becomes a new existence and you fall deeper in love with Jesus. So i was thinking the truth sets people free, freedom changes everything and Jesus becomes the focus because there is no greater truth!

EAT! PRAY! LOVE!

Sunday

today was warm, warm like a summers days. i was blessed to have the annointed Brian and Jenn J here in melbourne leading us it such such beautiful worship. i felt the presence of the Lord so beautiful and so full, he filled the air.

today i have drunk apple cider vinegar, lemon water, herbs, ginger tea, green tea, water. just trying to get all sorts of goodness into me.

thankyou lord for your great heeart that so fills me. you are my joy!

goodnight.
tomoorrow starts a new fresh, exciting, blessed week. thankyou jesus for all that is to come.

Smile!

Today was a beautiful day! i laughed all the way home from work cause farmer joe and is tractor was driving sooooo slow and for some reason (joy) i thought it was so funny, may have had something to do with the fact that his tractor was called, "Challenger!!"

Day Two of sugar free and kicking it baby! i am loving all this yummy food i have been eating, so not tired of it yet. So i made polenta yesterday and hmmm not so successful but I will try again.
I watched Avatar with the lovely Rachy tonight and I really liked it. When he united with his bird, just made me think of me and the Holy Spirit. When i am not intune with the Holy Spirit we are moving seperately and i am out of control here, there and everywhere but when i attune myself to him straight away, in an instance we are moving together, smoothly and beautifully. i liiked that bit. his thoughts moved the holy spirit

anyways off to bed
sleeping sweetly with dreams from heaven

Peace!
Joy!

Monday Start!

I'll start that new diet on monday, i'll start exercising on monday, i'll drink less coffee on monday, i'll go to bed earlier on monday, i'll cut down on the sugar on monday, i'll fly to the moon on Monday.....

Well it's not monday.. but it is Thursday and today i start a 40 day NO sugar. So i got out my cookbooks and have been reading up on how to make hommus and tofu cheesecake... trust me the food all sounds much better and yummier than that.

So... DAY ONE!... here we go!

Angels!

They come for a reason, not to entertain us. I get excited when i see feathers, one day when i saw a feather i stopped and asked the Holy Spirit what they Angels were here for. They come for a reason. And sure enough he revealed why they were here and it played out later that day. Being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and not ignoring the signs, for me is feathers sometimes where i will see one drop right before a significant experience, or situation. If I make the time to stop and turn my ear to the Holy Spirit cause he is wanting us to join with the angels and with him and the angels want to join with us. I am learning that those that inspire me all have a common story, they spent time in the secret place with the father growing in intimacy and from there walk out into thier destiny. I am on a journey of soaking, i want to be in the presence of God. I feel a shift happening.. a shaking.. ;))) i'll keep this thing posted!

rest. peace. intimacy. love. joy. shalom!

Audrey

i love Audrey Hepburn. I think she is so beautiful and I love her movies and her characters. I have several of her books talking about her life :)

Today i woke up and the sun was shinning and its abit cloudy so i don't know if that means it will get really cloudy and rain or if the sun will come out... either way its going to be a great day.

my dog is sitting right next to me with his feet under my arm chewing on a ball :) he's so cute. he always has a ball with him wherever he goes.

Morning brings light as night must fade
Light brings growth which replaces the shame
Growth brings strength to walk away from all pain
And Strength is our Peace because it lights the way.

"This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it."

I just heard the phone ring and I thought, oh no that might be work asking me to come in. But alas... no it wasn't. :) Everything is 11 to me at the moment, 1:11, 11 hours, 11 emails, 11 degrees, 11 dollars. 11 is said to mean transition and so i had this thought the other day that maybe 11 ... 2011 will be a year of fulfilled promises, those things that people have been ''transitioning'' into will come to pass in 2011. God is good all the time, this I know.
A Little Story
It was a sunny day , i was just arriving in this small town called Stonewood, it was just north of Charlestown. Did I mention it was sunny and blistery hot. You see I'm from New York. I'd been ''invited'' to visit our family, i say ''invited'' because it was more like forced. I was the youngest and all my older brothers had long moved out of home and my parents were, well they were intellectuals and ran a very important business in New York so they thought it would be fun if I spent the summer with our family. Suddenly they were our family, these people that I had never met, or even heard of. Why they agreed to take me I was still to find out, I didn't even know what they looked like but I guess I was about to find out.
Because of the size Stonewood, population 625, there was no planes that flew in so my journey here from New York looked something like this... plane out of New York to Charlestown, then bus 3 hours to some place then train 2 hours to Stonewood. So when I got off the train I was smothered in hot wind and the stench of coal, I looked out at the faces waiting, and suddenly thought, "How do they even know what I look like." i just wanted to shrink back onto the train and dissapear, but all the pushing and shoving from the people behind me was making my little day dream near impossible. I'd been told that my Uncle Simeon and Aunt Catherine would be waiting for me but there were about 15 people that could be Uncle Simeone and Aunt Catherine. So I just decided that I would just keep moving and go and collect my bags and they might find me there. I made my way into the baggage claim area and just waited, secretly hoping this was just a bad dream and that I would soon wake up back in my bed in New York, why had I agreed to this? "Eliza McGregor, sweet girl, my how you've grown, you're a little lady now." I turned to see two strangers smiling at me, they walked up and both gave me a big hug. There faces were warm and friendly, I was so tired that to see their faces made something inside me just relax. I smiled back and told them it was nice to meet them. We got my stuff and were on our way, they informed me they lived out abit from the town so we had about a 40 minute drive. More travelling I thought, but I didn't mind aslong as their car had airconditioning.
So that last thought about airconditioning, who was i kidding, we are in the middle of nowhere, why would they have airconditioning, they opened all the windows and let the hot wind blow.