Reach Out 2006 - Excited yet?

Hey yall

Whoops how long has it been since the last blog!!! Please dont check!! Anyways was online so thot it was bout time the old blog got updated!!

Well dont know about you all but have to say im starting to get a bit excited about reach out!! Dont know why cos I know its still forever away but I actually cant wait!! Cant wait to see how God is gonna use it this year - We just have to remember to put it all in his hands and pray for all the glory to go to him!! He'll blow us away! Just thinking bout what Alex was saying at the last reach out meeting and also the first reach out meeting of 2006, about how now is the time to start really spending time with God! Really challenged about this at the mo and really about what I give priority to in my life!! God has to come first and I know this means putting other things to the side more...but remember 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added onto you!!!' Anyone singing yet!!

So just to encourage you all, spend time with God!!! Even get together without others, anyone who's free to pray and share and encourage each other!! Let's start now! Not just the wk of reach out!!! Dont let it just be a routine, come wanting to hear God and know his thoughts for your day!!!

God Bless
Love you all

Words of Auld Lang Syne

Ok so if your honest no-one really knows all the words!! So if you want to swot up for tonight and probably end up singing most of it on your own..check out

www.hogmanay.net/history/auldlangsyne

Happy Practising!!

Heppy New Years Eve!

Well its the last day of 2005!! A time for some reflection, thinking about changes you want to make next year and if youre a teacher practising writing dates with 2006 so that you dont have your smart alec jonny telling you that youve written up the date wrong!!

I remember being told that every now and then you should look back and ask yourself if you have grown as a Christian! Well looking back over this year I can say that God has taught me lots, and I guess the hardest bit has been that he has taught me most in the hard times!! For all you Delirious fans,

'Why do you let us walk upon a cliff so steep?
when deep below I see there lies a bed of gold,
but if this should be our battle place,
dont let me fall, dont let me fall.'

So even though Im really struggling with this situation, Lord if this is where you want me to be, please keep me here! Dont let me run away! Yikes! So difficult to say! Sometimes I just want Him to lift me out!! BUT God never promised to keep us away from the storms but to keep us through them!!! Every storm can only make you stronger!!

So...if Ive learnt anything...its PRAY!! Ask for someone to talk to, ask Him to send you someone who has been through the same thing, ask Him to guide you in what you should do, ask Him what He is trying to teach you and the hardest bit...Thank him!! Thank Him that He is drawing you closer to Him through every struggle you face!

AND...on a more up beat note remember...Be joyful, pray always and give thanks in all circumstances for this is Gods will for you in Christ Jesus!! Yay!! We can be joyful in every day because of ...... JESUS!!

Love you all LOADS and hope God really blesses you in 2006!

Rosi

Tis the season to be jolly!

Hey everyone!!!

Just about to go Christmas shopping with my big sis! Can you believe its December already!? Hope that you all have your advent calendars up! Yes I know you do Alex, the tradition Evans Mini bars advent calendar is up in Alex shed (well it was a shed before it changed to a house!) and just to note to everyone...Alex doesn't mind if you take some the bars from her advent calendar, she says that Christmas is the season of sharing and that theyre not all just for her! Thanks Alex! She also says not to tell her if you do take one...she doesn't want to be thanked! Very sweet!

Anyway back to the Christmas shopping!! Just was challenged recently how things in this world cant KEEP us happy!! Yes they may be able to MAKE us happy but they cant KEEP us happy!! Dont we sometimes get so excited at Christmas by the pressies and the food that give us a bit of excitment for a day..Do we miss out on the part of Christmas that can keep us joyful throughout the whole year! JESUS!!! Lets not miss out this year!! Lets get into Gods word and remember the excitment of Jesus coming into the world to free us from every sin and everything that tangles and to make us into the people He designed us to be!! Hallelujah! As some people say remember the reason for the season!!!

God bless you all loads!

He is good!
Rosi

Go the Saints!!

Hey everyone!!

Blogging again!! Im sure you didn't expect another blog from me for at least a month!!! Why does life get so busy! grr!! Anyway... good things about today...its always good to look on the bright side of life...

1. We won our hockey match...3:0!!

You have to understand that Alex and I have played in a lot of hockey teams that just didn't win matches!! ie every team we played for the whole way through school!!! (Its not just about the winning!! We enjoyed ourselves anyway!! You see were not really that competitive!) BUT it does mean that when we win we tend to get very excited about it!!! So YAY!!! I also have to confess something and this will be very difficult for me...BUT I have to say Alex was right!!! The extra training sessions have really paid off!! Even though I moaned at her about them!! So good job Captain!! Keep up the good work!!

Other good things about today....Woke up this morning having had a really bad day yesterday!! One of those days when you just don't seem to feel happy and when its easy to smile on the outside but hard to smile on the inside!! Sorry to everyone who saw me yesterday!! Hope I didn't depress anyone - Im sure I wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs!! Anyway woke this morning and just thought - Lord help,I really need help if Im gonna get through today!! And prayed for a verse or something!...Anything!! Then read the word for today which said....In ALL things God works for good for those who love the Lord! So just want to say when the hard times hit...dont be discouraged...be happy cos the amazing thing is God is gonna use them for your good and better still for his glory!!

PTL
Love you all!

Whoops! Its been a while!

Hello everyone!!

Hmm...its been a little while since I lasted blogged! Whoops! But I havent forgotten bout all the blogging! And its good to have a chance to update the blog! Although thinking about it Ive no idea where I would start to fill you in on all that God has been doing in my life recently!! ...Before you start to think I must be super spiritual at the mo...emm...I think its been more the opposite!! I have a T-shirt that says Be patient Gods not finished with me yet!! And thats exactly how it feels right now! I think Im a huge work in progress! I guess when I was growing up I always felt like quite a good girl!! Never really did any of the big rebelling things! My biggest crimes in school were...

1. putting my PE bag over my head to find my gym shoe for PE (the one that was on the floor at my feet!)
2. Being noisy in the toilets (for those of you who went to Saintfield this earned a telling off from Mr Stevenson! Scary enough!)
3. Throwing a snowball during a snowy break time! and not owning up to it!

So I guess Ive always thought that I must be pretty good!! No major league crimes...how good am I kinda thing going on!

BUT what about the things I think! I might not commit the crimes but what about the times when I bear grudges, when I judge others, when I talk about people behind their back and pass on gossip, when I say something that hurts someone, when I choose not to talk to someone incase they dont accept me for who I am, when I dont accept other people for who they are...

How does God respond to this? He tells me, that even to be angry with someone is to commit murder! Im far from being the person God created me to be! BUT I want to more like Him and less like me! I want to open with Him about times when I mess up and through His strength to change in how I act, think and talk ... I dont want people to see me in me I want people to see Jesus in me!

In Christ Alone!

For we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of Christ and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

1st Corinthians something verse something! (I should really learn where the verse is from too!)

Bible Study????

Hey guys!!

This will be a very quick post, otherwise Im gonna be late for GB! Whats new says Alex! Just to let you all know...this Friday night, 6:30 - 7:30pm, for anyone whos interested...we wanna start the Bible Study/Fellowship thing!! No plans as yet, but on Friday night we can chat about what we want to look at/study etc! I know in my head Im just hoping that it will be a chance to get together and have a place where you can ask stupid questions, share things that youre struggling with and more than anything else I guess just be encouraged! SO...if youre interested and I hope you are itll be every other Friday night hopefully at 6.30pm at Alexs house!! Spread the word and let me know if youre interested!

God Bless
Rosi

Bible study!!

Nearly forgot to say....

As Kara-Lyn mentionned on her blog, we were talking about a Bible study! I think Kara-lyn and I have both felt it recently - I know its been on my heart big style, and Ive been praying for it for a while now...so I guess this is just a spread the word and see what happens! I just feel really like I NEED to study Gods word!! 'Man doesnt live by bread alone but every word from the mouth of God!!' I dont know about you guys but I can see in my like, times when Im not reading and studying Gods word, its like my faith literally starts to die!! We need food to live physically and in the same way we need the word of God to feed our faith daily!

BUT it can be really hard studying Gods word on your own sometimes!! Its easy to set it aside when times get busy and easy as COlin was saying on his blog to just skim read without challenging yourself to really 'understand' what youve read! So...I know I would love to get together (as would Kara-lyn) with anyone whos interested...maybe once every other week or whenever possible on whatever night suits (maybe early Friday or Saturday night before people would be going out??) just whenever, just as long as its a time to get together, talk over a Bible study and share things that were learning, share difficulties and pray for one another, etc etc!

If you feel this might be something your interested in or something that you need...get in touch!

God is good!
Love you all
Rosi

My first week in P4

Hey all!

Sorry for the lack of blogs recently!! At the mo it seems that if I get blogging once a week I'm doing well...teaching is so busy!! Im with Karen on the whole bringing work home to mark...BUT it can sometimes be quite amusing.

Heres some clips from P4 writing on 'My first week in P4'

'When I came into P4 I felt good because I had a new teacher called Miss Bill!'
(Hmm...maybe I need to introduce myself again!!)

'I hope to under arrest everybody eksept my friends and blow up the school'
(Oh dear!! Please pray for me! Actually this was written by one of the good boys so Im hoping this is him joking!!)

In P4 the new things are table points and PE. We also wear normal clothes in PE.
(Really worried about what they were made to wear in P3!)

'I think P4 is better than P3. Miss Bell is very nice.'
(Full marks given to this boy!!!)

'I was itsadet (translation - excited!) going to school to go to Miss Bell. I love her, she is calld Miss Bell and I like working with her!'
(Again...full marks!!)

P4's can be very cute!! In class the other day we were talking about how we shouldn't call other people names as it can be very hurtful to them! (One boy in my class called another boy fat - so thought it would be good topic for a good class discussion!) Anyway, had to laugh when one boy in the class put up his hand and admitted that in the car his mum often calls other drivers 'stupid egits'!! lol Was very hard not to laugh!!!

Anyways have a great day everyone! And remember to have your eyes open to see what God would have you do for his glory today!

God Bless
Rosi
'The joy of the Lord is gonna be our strength!!'