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Sometime last week while lying in bed I realized that I want more, I need more! I felt like a rejected girlfriend, I felt unloved and unnoticed. I know God is good, I know He loves me, I know He lives in me but I didn't feel it. My head and my heart weren't in the same place and I needed it to be, so this I asked. The next morning I woke up feeling bound and bothered - I wanted to be free! I expected it to get better, but it got worse. Where was God? Why didn't He answer?...

With tears in my eyes and a song in my heart I realised that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life! It's hard to verbally express God's love so putting it into deeds seems easier. In a way it feels like I'm overflowing with His love and He's pouring it into the lives of the woman around me. God permitting I want to keep on doing this and being this for the rest of my life! It all started in Malaysia; on our last day there we had a course on discovering and developing our...

This is literally the tenth attempt I'm making at writing an introduction to this blog. Simply because I have no words funny enough to put onto paper our visit with three Spanish boys. The Giggel Geel Guacamole Girls headed to our home visit and Bible Study expecting an hour of Spanish preaching followed by uncomfortable chit chatting before we could head back home. To say we were pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. To say we laughed more than at any other time this year would be true. We were welcomed by Norma, the lady of the house, she however said...

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                    Be still, and know that I am God! I will be praised among the nations, I will be praised in the earth. Psa 46:10 

We so easily say God's our be all and end all. Being in a new country every month, having to adapt to new cultures and different weather just about every 4weeks we find comfort in our Bibles, God and time spent with Him. Even if we lack in commitment toward spending time with Him, at least we know He's always there. My question and what I'm faced with after our blessed time in New Zealand is whether God will stay my comfort when I'm back in my comfort zone. Is God my comforter now because everything else is unfamiliar or because...

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And...

God, thank you for yet another day. Thank you for  how you bless and love ME, thank you for MY family and friends. Please be with ME today, lead ME, guide ME and give ME strength. I pray for MY family and friends, please bless them and may they love You. (Because that would make MY life easier) God, please provide for MY every need and protect ME from any and all evil. Thank you Jesus, I love You. Amen. This is more or less how my everyday prayers sound. Notice all the I, ME and MY's? When was the...

What just happend to us is way too cool not to share. I'm so excited that I'm not willing to spend time on a fancy blog, I just want you to hear about this! Clara met a pastor from a local ministry during the week and he invited us to attend their church service today. We gladly accepted and set off to church early this mornig. We were welcomed with open arms and truly touched by kiwi hospitality. They invited us into their church and we immidiatly felt like one body of Christ. To these people nothing but Christ matters!...