Monday 28 December 2015

Life Lessons

I saw this online and thought it was worth the read!
1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years.

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.
5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

6. If a part of your body "falls asleep", You can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - food, attractive people and danger.

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side.

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor.

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.

11. There are so many kinds of apples, that if you ate a new one every day, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia.

16. Our brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water!!

18. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

19. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day & while you walk, SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

20. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

22. When you wake up in the morning, pray to ask God's guidance for your purpose, today.

23. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

24. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli, and almonds.

25. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

26. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts and things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

27. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

28. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

29. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything.

30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

31. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

32. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

33. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

34. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

35. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'

36. Help the needy, Be generous! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker'

37. What other people think of you is none of your business.

38. Time heals everything.

39. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

40. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be thankful for what you accomplished, today. What if you woke up this morning and only had what you thanked God for yesterday? DON’T FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING.

43. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

Tuesday 17 February 2015

The Big Picture

wow! I guess I haven't posted anything on here for a long time! 2014 ended with a bang as school, Christmas, birthdays and visiting with family and friends has kept me busy right up until the new year! Now 2015 has been here for a month and with exams having just passed and a new semester starting I'm still trying to adjust!

so often we can get ourselves into a tailspin, running here, there and everywhere with a "to do" list about a mile long, getting so consumed with our busy schedules that we don't stop to look at the big picture!

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. ~ James 4:14,15

We are not going to be here forever! This life is just like the doorstep to our everlasting home in eternity. What is on my "to do list" that counts for God? because thats the only thing that will count in the long run!

I'm not trying to point fingers, I'm as guilty as the next person at getting caught up in the daily hum drum of society but this should be a challenge to us all. To step back and look at the big picture and how my life is counting for God, to thank him for even giving us another day to serve him, and  doing my best to be pleasing to him!

 

Saturday 20 September 2014

Micheal and Allisons Wedding!!

My cousin Micheal got married last week to my friend Allison MacNiell. Their wedding was beautiful! It was such a happy day!












Monday 8 September 2014

Good Bye Summer, Hello New School Year!

Well another summer is over and done and I am now in my second last year of high school, a fresh reminder of how quickly time is passing! We started school on Thursday and I was happy to find that Nadia is in all of my classes but one and she and Jayne are both on my lunch (very exciting news)!
  A new school year is always challenging as a young Christian girl, being faced with the pressures of the school system, the business of the schedule, trying to plan your courses around a future career.... amidst all this it can be hard to find a peaceful time to settle down and just spend time with God. At the conference two weeks ago, Matthew Cain addressed this issue and he encouraged the young Christians to "MAKE time to read your Bibles, If you know the scriptures, you will have a stronger testimony for Him".
 The night before school started I read these verses and I think they are one of the most important things to carry with me through this new year:
 "That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
 every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God" (Colossians 1:10)
 "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which 
worketh in me mightily." (Colossians 1:29)
I realized, we dont need to be so caught up it this world and what matters to everyone at school right now, it matters what we are doing for God and what matters to Him! The knowledge of this world shouldnt be my focus, it should be my knowledge of Him! I need to be allowing him to work in me, rather than pushing him out because I'm to busy with my own work! I'm not saying school work isnt important, but when it comes right down to it, it's not going to do me any good in the long run! I guess prioritizing is the key. Learning to put God first and everything else second will be the most beneficial thing I can learn this year!

Good luck to those of you starting off a new school year yourself, I hope my little spiel can be an encouragement to those of you who may be feeling the same way!




Tuesday 2 September 2014

Our Crazy, Awesome Weekend!

This weekend we wnt to Clementsvale for their annual conference. We took Jayne and Morgan with us and stayed at the Mclellands. Conference was amazing and we had a blast! Then on the way home we randomly stopped at the Oakland Farm Zoo, afterwhich we continued home and went camping on the beach with Hannah and Madeline!

Conference was at a beautiful beach that you can walk on at break





At the zoo : first stop - reptile area!












camping the night we got home!



Thursday 28 August 2014

Joel and Emily's wedding

Joel and Emily were married on August 15. It was a beautiful wedding and it was a chance to once again see the family from away who came up for the wedding; my Uncle and Aunt and cousins from Venezuela and my Uncle and Aunt from Alberta!

Joel's first glimpse of Emily


Susana and Johanna - the flower girls

the beautiful bridesmaids





the groomsmen

A hastily made farwell and they were off in a cloud of dust!

Our Camping Trip

Well we enjoyed an amazing week and a half at Twin Shores in our Uncle and Aunts beautiful camper! There was lots of time to visit with Sandra and our family - up for Joel and Emily's wedding - who would come over to visit.  We had lots of fun but I'm happy to be back home!

Visiting with my Aunt and Uncle from Alberta



enjoying a bonfire with Sandra


Aunt Peggy came to visit as well

Susana and Tessa playing on the swings at Nanna and grampies at the rehersal