Relief

My wait for insight into what I will being doing next year is over.
I have been offered a further 12 months in my current job and Youth and Schools' worker for the Parish of Dibden. It's where God wants me at the moment.
Not everyone knows what next year holds tho, so prayer for them appreciated. Kids moving on and friends looking for jobs.

Whoop Whoop!

Well, it's been a busy but exciting few days!
We were going to take Blitz out to play crazy golf on friday evening... but it was raining too hard. So we had 9 11-13s in the Unwin Room for 2 hours! I guess it shows that i can handle kids and leaders when some turn round and say it was one of the best Blitz sessions they'd been to and could we do it again please?! Lol!
I have been on retreat this week too. Had a lovely time, nice to spend time with different people and with God. Great to have some space for God.
Then yesterday, Helen, Beth, Lydia, Kayleigh and I went up to Watford for the Soul Sista conference... it was lovely! We had a great day! Including laughing so hard that Helen spat her pizza all over the table! I love just hanging out with the girls... its what it's all about!
Yay!

Tech support

Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error- Program not run on external components." What should I do?

Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually
everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you.

Tech Support: You're Welcome! Anytime.

Stolen from someone's facebook, but very cool!

The Noise

Wow, what a weekend!
We started on Friday evening with T shirt painting and decorating. Just some social time together to help gel the group (as we had pathfinders and Holy Smoke mixing together). Was good fun, we had 14 kids plus leaders. Had some great designs done by the younger kids.
Saturday morning started bright and early (8am for me!) with a free car wash in our front car park. We had a lot of fun... got very wet (in fact in the evening service Dani told the congregation that the highlight of the weekend for her was me getting splashed and looking like i'd wet myself!) It was great to have the opportunity to share with people, why we are doing this for free. People wanted to redress the balance, to pay us back. It meant we were able give a reason for the hope that we have.
We spent the afternoon making cards and posies of flowers to give to the congregation, so that they can go out and bless their friends and neighbours, enabled by the teenagers. It was lovely to get everyone together to make the cards, and to see everyone being creative.
Yesterday morning was the family service, based on Esther (that we studied on the weekend away.), it went well, all the kids who were involved did really well. Alison did brilliantly with her dramatic telling of the story... 10 chapters of the Bible in 6 mins! My sermon went well too.
In the afternoon we ran a tea dance. Wow! Everyone enjoyed it sooo much! Everyone (eventually) got involved and had a go. Highlight has to be Biddy (who is in a wheelchair) dancing with Ash (with a little help from me!)
The evening was the perfect end to the perfect weekend. The service was great, had no negative comments at all. It all slotted together perfectly and the drama was brilliant - infant school show and tell anyone?! Again my sermon went well and fitted well into the service. Random acts of kindness... how can you bless someone in a way that arent expecting? To show God's love?