My venture

I just signed up with Facebook today... so great! I've made some connections with people I thought I would never talk to ever again-- nice.

So yeah, this was basically just to pump up the idea of facebook..
Nothing too deep.

Deep Peace.

The Weekend

This weekend Josh and I went into Toronto for a few things:

1. To go to a Raptors game
2. To visit with family
3. To go to IKEA
4. To go to the Opera

Well, the basketball game ended up being a scam and we were escorted out the front door-- at least we got those free clacker things that they had out at the door: score.
It was great to visit with family as it always is. The cats enjoyed frolicking through an open house. Plus we had some delicious meals (thanks Bev!).
We did get to IKEA and bought a few new things for our new apartment-- what fun! I love that place, a shame it is so far away, I like walking through the kitchen and bedroom simulations.
Then the Opera-- yes it was in English and yes I loved it! Joel ended up being able to score us some free tickets and away we went. I've never been before but I really enjoyed it-- I would totally go again.

That was the busy weekend-- I liked it.

Deep Peace.

Promises to God

"Keep all the promises you make to him (God). It is better to say nothing than to promise something that you don't follow through on..."
"And don't defend yourself by telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved."
-Ecc. 5: 4b-6

As I read these verses the other day I began to think about the Soldiers Covenant within The Salvation Army. I have heard the talk before saying-- "I was too young to know what I was doing..." "I was pressured into signing it..." and after reading these verses I know just what I think about that--- complete crap.

When you make a promise to God you make a promise to God and you keep that promise. A covenant is a serious promise-- the Soldiers Covenant is a serious promise to God that you need to keep... because you made it in the first place-- no mistakes, you made that promise. No "telling the Temple messenger that the promise you made was a mistake. That would make God angry, and he might wipe out everything you have achieved."
And we don't want that now do we--

Making a promise to God needs to be taken seriously-- not that he is a completely angry God-- he is fully of compassion and mercy.. BUT that doesn't mean you can go on sinning and ask forgiveness over and over.

Yeah, those are my thoughts. What are yours?

Deep Peace.

Tweet Tweet

The weather has been picking up around here. The birds are singing again.
It is really nice to wake up to the sun in my face once again. It makes me feel more alive-- in the winter it seems to be more dreary than not-- except around Christmas time.

Josh and I are gathering things here and there to fill in the space of the new apartment that we will be moving into. I am very excited. We will now have a room for our guests, and a door to our bedroom, yippee! It sounds strange, something as simple as a door excites me these days.
God has totally been providing for us. He likes to give us these gifts that we know we couldn't have without Him in our lives. He does random things here and there that make us stop and thank Him for his provision...

Soon I will be stepping into a new job. Thank God for that. We've been waiting for a long time for this.

So yeah, that's all I have for now..

Deep Peace.

Weekend Away

So this weekend was really nice-- minus the fact that I was shaking the flu. That was no fun at all! I'm still working on getting over it, still have a cough and stuffy nose...

Yeah, so, Josh and I went out to a friends cabin thing right off of Lake Huron. It was such a pretty sight-- from inside that is! It was FREEZING out. We went to look at the frozen over lake and stood there just long enough to take one picture and ran away. The wind was blowing like mad! But the sight was enough to take your breath away-- that and the crazy blistering wind.

Josh and I were both feeling a bit under the weather BUT that didn't stop us from our one year Anniversary. Still hard to believe it has been a year, it still feels so new.
We relaxed and went and had lunch at a little country diner, nice.
Oh yeah, and we also got the car stuck in some snow. That was interesting-- the both of us on Saturday morning pushing the car out of the snow-- and me just getting over the flu...
BUT we did it. We got the car out-- we got some muscles between the two of us, ha.

Now we are back to 430 Adelaide and back into the swing of things.
Oh yeah, and I called the government the other day and PRAISE THE LORD I passed the first stage of my Permanent Residency, yippee!! Good news...

Deep Peace.