Live. Laugh. Be free.

Looking back on this year I can recount numerous so called "embarrassing moments"- they follow me everywhere, Its a condition I think. I call it makingafooloutofmyself247osis.

Yes I am a crazy one and Yes I am not afraid to do random spontaneous things in public either. Yes I admit that sometimes people think I am strange and Yes I will also confess that I am totally indifferent when they do.

Just last Saturday evening I was singing at a friends church to raise money for Thailand. The night started off well but I kept getting pains in my stomach. Mistaking them for cramps I kept going-BAD IDEA. When Sam called me up to sing a song, I carried myself from the kitchen confidently to the front with a smile on my face. As I stood in front of the microphone and began to sing I started to feel sick. "OH NO!" I thought and stopped singing. With a shocked look on my face I muttered to the audience that I didnt think I could sing anymore because I felt sick. I took three steps and projectile vomited all over the floor.
*pause

(According to serena I had perfect form). ahhh. talk about embarrassing. While I was in the bathroom puking some more, guess where the members of the audience were- cleaning it up! Later that night I decided to try again. While I could sense a little hesitance in the audience I made sure to bring up my pukebucket with me and sit this time haha.

Let me just say that it was the laugh of the night and the plbc laugh of the week. The funniest part of it all was that no one had even expected it- I had appeared joyful and bouncy until I was doubled over upchucking. I wasnt really embarrassed by it- these are normal occurances really- but will make one heck of a good story later on my music escapades.

Learning to laugh at myself has given me a good sense of humour *quote Jaki.
It has made my life exciting and funny and taught me not to always care about recieving others approval on the things I do.

For God gave me my identity and I will find it in him. I am not defined by who the world says I should be and what I should become.

The freedom of being myself, knowing myself, and knowing and following the one who created myself- is the greatest freedom I have known.

LIVE A LITTLE.

Tessaroonie ;)

I think I have self-diagnosed myself with CHRONIC PROCRASTINATION.

The "Crucified"

"Loving God is like hugging a teddy bear. You hug him and even though he doesnt hug you back you know he loves you more than the world itself."

One of my youth girls said this on Thursday. I was so encouraged by her simple child-like faith.

Although I pour wisdom into my youth girl's lives I find almost every time that we meet I learn from them as well. Sometimes the truth is so simple. We just got to have the humility to recieve it. The faith that some of my girls have to stand up for what they believe, in their schools and to their friends is greater than most teenagers and young adults I know. It continues to inspire me.

God is raising up followers that will take a STAND for the truth with a real and genuine passion.
He is raising up a generation of the "Crucified". I pray that we would be willing to lose our lives for Christ and take up our crosses and follow him.

Luke 9:23
" Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

Luke 17:33
"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it."

Tess.

I am running to you.

I hate being confused.

Lord I need your assurance.

I have been trying to do things on my own.

Help me to trust in your plan.

Because without faith it is impossible to please you.

I am weak..but in you I am made strong.

I Believe. You got this. You got me.

Hebrews 11:6 " And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

I promise you I will never stop seeking.

Your daughter.

The Great Goose Chase!

Joleen and I decided to chase Canadian Geese today..it was EXHILARATING!

The adrenaline pulsed through my veins with the thought that one of them could turn their sharp little beaks on me at any moment.

But we pretty much showed them who was BOSS.

so yea..

Sincerely yours.

Tessaroonie ;)