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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
All in the Moment...
So...in my wordless All in the Moment...I have to explain, today was moving day...this is what one room looks like still...with what is left in the house!
Introducing ...Pretty Moments
So you ever have those pretty amazing moments in life that you want to share with your friends?
Well due to personal and safety reasons I have had to rename my blog. My life has been a whirlwind the last few months but due to a crazy ex, that would be why my blog hasn't been updated as daily or weekly as I want it to be. So that makes it exciting because in finding a name...I thought...God is pretty amazing and God provides some amazing moments in life. So as life changes for me, I am happy to let you in on these moments that I am going to share with you now. I am going to see God at work in my life weekly to share with you as it happens.
I am so excited to see how God is going to work, at home, at work and in my life. The theme of our ministry year has been to Rise up...going forward God is going to Rise up within a nation, within our hearts and minds, and all around us.
Well due to personal and safety reasons I have had to rename my blog. My life has been a whirlwind the last few months but due to a crazy ex, that would be why my blog hasn't been updated as daily or weekly as I want it to be. So that makes it exciting because in finding a name...I thought...God is pretty amazing and God provides some amazing moments in life. So as life changes for me, I am happy to let you in on these moments that I am going to share with you now. I am going to see God at work in my life weekly to share with you as it happens.
I am so excited to see how God is going to work, at home, at work and in my life. The theme of our ministry year has been to Rise up...going forward God is going to Rise up within a nation, within our hearts and minds, and all around us.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Blog Day
Wow...you would think that this was the first time I was ever able to sit down in front of my computer...sadly..it isn't!
So some of you are probably wondering what is happening in Joelle's world...some of you are just curious what I am up to...sadly enough...life is normal for me! Ok...some of you are sitting there falling out of your seats...rolling on the floor in laughter! or just seriously injured yourself! (disclaimer..I am not responsible for your injury)
So the last few months I have gone on a journey...a journey of figuring out what I want. You would think that I would know exactly what I am looking for in life, the perfect job, where to live, what to do, and where to go. I sadly enough loved the fact that I live for the day...each day is new and with that I am going to embrace that day and see what surprises and things can come my way.
Then God tried to change that...he started putting things in my life that I had to plan, I had to make choices and I couldn't procrastinate. And I started to see how God wasn't going to give up on that. He started throwing at me everything and anything and said...whatcha going to do now? I thought that the more I just said yep, and continued on my merry way these things would just be forgotten about and left behind. God didn't want me to forget anything.
I thought I was doing good, and perhaps my motives where selfish when I thought that I was doing things for myself, keeping busy, and avoiding life. I started working a part time job, that kept me from planning, from thinking and wondering. I had been offered several new positions at the church, and not sure how I felt about changing up things. I didn't want change...I didn't need change...I was happy trudging along in life.
Do you ever wonder if making a change...is what God wants...and not what you want?
this was a question that I struggled with...when you see what God wants or don't see...don't you wonder what if? So, something that made me stop dead in my tracks was God opened my eyes to a new concept in my life. That perhaps you don't think you need change, but I think you need to trust ME and see what I have in store for you. I sort of sat back and wondered... why if I love what I do and have a passion to serve in ministry would God change things up for me? Well...things are a changing...if you want to hear more about the ministry I am moving to...send me a personal message! I will post more later...
So as God continues to have me learn to trust Him, surrender, and to know that He is in control, that I can't avoid life as it happens, that I need to focus on what is there before me and when I am where I am...it isn't a mistake and it isn't the worse thing that can happen. He has a plan...how I decided to be in that plan...is up to me and not to think avoiding it...selfishly...will get me further in life.
I heard this passage this morning at a funeral, for friends that lost their newborn baby, what faith can do as I have learnt over the last couple of years, is move mountains, heal the sick, and comfort the hurt. God has ways and thoughts that we don't ever imagine but how and when we should never question. He knows...
Today for me is a sad day, a day that I say see you soon to my brother and his family taking off back to Kenya to RVA. I am happy for them but saddened to see my family that I have grown so close to leave. In some ways I thought this would get easier...this time seems the hardest. But I know that God's plans for their lives is different from my own and I can't change that...
So that is where I am at...where God wants me...at a peace....a surrender....a place of trust...and firmly standing with my Faith to know that God loves each and everyone of us and takes care of us too!!!
So some of you are probably wondering what is happening in Joelle's world...some of you are just curious what I am up to...sadly enough...life is normal for me! Ok...some of you are sitting there falling out of your seats...rolling on the floor in laughter! or just seriously injured yourself! (disclaimer..I am not responsible for your injury)
So the last few months I have gone on a journey...a journey of figuring out what I want. You would think that I would know exactly what I am looking for in life, the perfect job, where to live, what to do, and where to go. I sadly enough loved the fact that I live for the day...each day is new and with that I am going to embrace that day and see what surprises and things can come my way.
Then God tried to change that...he started putting things in my life that I had to plan, I had to make choices and I couldn't procrastinate. And I started to see how God wasn't going to give up on that. He started throwing at me everything and anything and said...whatcha going to do now? I thought that the more I just said yep, and continued on my merry way these things would just be forgotten about and left behind. God didn't want me to forget anything.
I thought I was doing good, and perhaps my motives where selfish when I thought that I was doing things for myself, keeping busy, and avoiding life. I started working a part time job, that kept me from planning, from thinking and wondering. I had been offered several new positions at the church, and not sure how I felt about changing up things. I didn't want change...I didn't need change...I was happy trudging along in life.
Do you ever wonder if making a change...is what God wants...and not what you want?
this was a question that I struggled with...when you see what God wants or don't see...don't you wonder what if? So, something that made me stop dead in my tracks was God opened my eyes to a new concept in my life. That perhaps you don't think you need change, but I think you need to trust ME and see what I have in store for you. I sort of sat back and wondered... why if I love what I do and have a passion to serve in ministry would God change things up for me? Well...things are a changing...if you want to hear more about the ministry I am moving to...send me a personal message! I will post more later...
So as God continues to have me learn to trust Him, surrender, and to know that He is in control, that I can't avoid life as it happens, that I need to focus on what is there before me and when I am where I am...it isn't a mistake and it isn't the worse thing that can happen. He has a plan...how I decided to be in that plan...is up to me and not to think avoiding it...selfishly...will get me further in life.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:8-12
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands. Isaiah 55:8-12
I heard this passage this morning at a funeral, for friends that lost their newborn baby, what faith can do as I have learnt over the last couple of years, is move mountains, heal the sick, and comfort the hurt. God has ways and thoughts that we don't ever imagine but how and when we should never question. He knows...
Today for me is a sad day, a day that I say see you soon to my brother and his family taking off back to Kenya to RVA. I am happy for them but saddened to see my family that I have grown so close to leave. In some ways I thought this would get easier...this time seems the hardest. But I know that God's plans for their lives is different from my own and I can't change that...
So that is where I am at...where God wants me...at a peace....a surrender....a place of trust...and firmly standing with my Faith to know that God loves each and everyone of us and takes care of us too!!!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Spring is where???
So, living in Calgary spring is the much anticipated season...looking forward to it...brings the hope and joy for much warmer weather!
Reality...on the Calendar...Spring is here...if you look outside...Spring to those in Calgary looks like...piles of snow everywhere, gravel still on the roads, cold temperatures, winter jackets, heat on in the car and house, and a high consideration...of where I can move to that Spring has already hit...and the snow is gone!
It is rather...bizarre!
This last week, I woke up on Monday morning to temperatures of -10 degrees...the good thing is that ...there wasn't much signs of life outside to be killed off by the cold snap...but a rude awakening...rude.
The most bizarre moments...are the street cleaners are coming out...we had a dump of snow last week, most areas got about a foot of snow...just in time for us to get the postings that street cleaners where coming in a few days...nothing says Spring...like Street Cleaning...with piles of snow everywhere!
While, I digress and think about last year...being on a beach in Mombasa...to a year later...being in the Mountains with mounds and mounds of snow...I really am not missing out! I am blessed to see how God has been with me over the last year in the hard times, and in the good times. To see that I have not only been on a rollercoaster but God has been in control of that rollercoaster. I couldn't ask for a different life, I couldn't ask for different experiences, I don't see life and disappointments as a failure, but in ways that I turn to God and say 'bring it on' or what do you have for me next? I am ready and willing...
I have said this numerous times ...time and again how I ultimately know that God is in control of my life, through the good times and bad, I am truly blessed. I have learned lots, grown lots in God, and know that what does bring me down...makes me a stronger person in my relationship with God. I know who I am, I know who I need to be, and I am happy in who God made me to be.
So Spring is here, it may not look like it...but it is also a new season in life for me. I am truly blessed to being privileged to having this time to step into what God has for me next!
may you all remember that God got you to where you are...and be thankful and blessed that He has taken the time to be with you in this journey and adventure of life.
Reality...on the Calendar...Spring is here...if you look outside...Spring to those in Calgary looks like...piles of snow everywhere, gravel still on the roads, cold temperatures, winter jackets, heat on in the car and house, and a high consideration...of where I can move to that Spring has already hit...and the snow is gone!
It is rather...bizarre!
This last week, I woke up on Monday morning to temperatures of -10 degrees...the good thing is that ...there wasn't much signs of life outside to be killed off by the cold snap...but a rude awakening...rude.
The most bizarre moments...are the street cleaners are coming out...we had a dump of snow last week, most areas got about a foot of snow...just in time for us to get the postings that street cleaners where coming in a few days...nothing says Spring...like Street Cleaning...with piles of snow everywhere!
While, I digress and think about last year...being on a beach in Mombasa...to a year later...being in the Mountains with mounds and mounds of snow...I really am not missing out! I am blessed to see how God has been with me over the last year in the hard times, and in the good times. To see that I have not only been on a rollercoaster but God has been in control of that rollercoaster. I couldn't ask for a different life, I couldn't ask for different experiences, I don't see life and disappointments as a failure, but in ways that I turn to God and say 'bring it on' or what do you have for me next? I am ready and willing...
I have said this numerous times ...time and again how I ultimately know that God is in control of my life, through the good times and bad, I am truly blessed. I have learned lots, grown lots in God, and know that what does bring me down...makes me a stronger person in my relationship with God. I know who I am, I know who I need to be, and I am happy in who God made me to be.
So Spring is here, it may not look like it...but it is also a new season in life for me. I am truly blessed to being privileged to having this time to step into what God has for me next!
may you all remember that God got you to where you are...and be thankful and blessed that He has taken the time to be with you in this journey and adventure of life.
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