Stop: just pause for moment.Just stop everything. Put your life on pause just for a moment and see what happens, you might just be surprised.
Look: turn your eyes to the Cross. What does it mean to you? What is it telling you? How does it make you feel? What does it make you think of?
Listen: listen to the sounds around, the sounds you may not really notice during your busy lifestyle. What do you hear? Listen to what God might be trying to tell us. God speaks to us constantly but we have to choice to hear Him.
The times we pause and focus on God are the times we get 're-charged' in a way. We get replenished with His grace and His peace. In this busy lifestyle society pushed us into, it's hard to find time to just stop, look and listen. I challenge you to find time in your hectic life's to stop, look and listen and see what it can do!
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
Where do we go from here?
It's that time of year where students are getting offers and trying to work out which university to go and what they want to make of their lives. It can be quite a nerve racking time, especially if you're like me and you like to know where you are going, where your next step is but actually we don't know, we have to take many leaps of faith in this time and hope we're making the right decisions as the decisions we make now may affect the rest of ours lives (not pressure!) However, you could also say that this is the most exciting time our life! This is the time to make mistakes, go crazy and embraces life, after all you're only young once!
Thinking about the future can be scary as we have no idea where we will be in 1,5 or 10 years time and some people thrive in these kind of situations but others need to know where they are going. At the moment for me, I have no idea what I am doing! I mean I know where I want to go and what I want to achieve but I have no idea how I'm going to do it. I'm taking a year to try and figure this out but at the moment it's just looking like a year of taking any work given to me. I'm not excited about going to uni and I'm trying to work out how to achieve my goals without going which is looking very difficult! But the thing that excites me about the next 5 years is that this is my time! I can do what I want make mistakes and do crazy things in the hope that they will lead me to the place that I want to be.
Even though the idea of "where will I be in 5 year?" scares the life out of me I know that God has a plan for me and I know that I can make all sorts of plans of what I want to do and how I'm going to get there but what's the betting that He will turn those plans upside down and take me on a completely different path, one I never thought I would be on! But I know He will get me where he wants me to be :)
Another thing that is on my mind is the idea of all my friends going off to uni, going off and doing different things and the idea that I'm going to start having to say goodbye to people I've seen pretty much everyday for the past 10 years, and for someone who doesn't like change is quite a scary thing. But I hope and pray that I will stay in touch and here about all the amazing things that they get up to other next few years.
So for those who are stressing out about where do you go from here, don't panic! You will get there in the end and if you make a mistake...so what? We're young and this is our time to be us and in the end God will get us there, it may not be the way you thought it would be, or even where you thought you'd be. But this is the time to make memories to look back at and smile at :)
Thinking about the future can be scary as we have no idea where we will be in 1,5 or 10 years time and some people thrive in these kind of situations but others need to know where they are going. At the moment for me, I have no idea what I am doing! I mean I know where I want to go and what I want to achieve but I have no idea how I'm going to do it. I'm taking a year to try and figure this out but at the moment it's just looking like a year of taking any work given to me. I'm not excited about going to uni and I'm trying to work out how to achieve my goals without going which is looking very difficult! But the thing that excites me about the next 5 years is that this is my time! I can do what I want make mistakes and do crazy things in the hope that they will lead me to the place that I want to be.
Even though the idea of "where will I be in 5 year?" scares the life out of me I know that God has a plan for me and I know that I can make all sorts of plans of what I want to do and how I'm going to get there but what's the betting that He will turn those plans upside down and take me on a completely different path, one I never thought I would be on! But I know He will get me where he wants me to be :)
Another thing that is on my mind is the idea of all my friends going off to uni, going off and doing different things and the idea that I'm going to start having to say goodbye to people I've seen pretty much everyday for the past 10 years, and for someone who doesn't like change is quite a scary thing. But I hope and pray that I will stay in touch and here about all the amazing things that they get up to other next few years.
So for those who are stressing out about where do you go from here, don't panic! You will get there in the end and if you make a mistake...so what? We're young and this is our time to be us and in the end God will get us there, it may not be the way you thought it would be, or even where you thought you'd be. But this is the time to make memories to look back at and smile at :)
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