little touches

The LORD has this way of letting me know he is a part of my daily life and know what's happening in my world right now. Guess what song we sang at church today? Blessed be the name of the LORD. I can't remember the last time we sang this, but someone else at church requested it with our Pastor.

It's these little touches on my life which lets me know how well the LORD knows me. Things like this always bring a smile to my face. Makes me feel special to our LORD who has the world on his shoulders and many many big concerns. Yet he takes time out to to add this little touch to my day. I love him for it. (Thanks, LORD)

weird habit

Just remembered one of my weird habits...was watching this program about a couple who had twins and then sextuplets. The mother is super organised and amazing. Was watching an episode of them in a hotel and she put all her kids on the beds and told them they weren't allowed to step on the floor without putting their shoes on. It so reminded me of me. Except she thought it was normal...i know it's a wee bit weird.

If I stay anwhere which has lots of rooms, like motels or hotels, I get very paranoid about cleanliness. I always have jandals (called thongs here, or flip flops in other countries) which i wear even if the hotel is spotless and has lots of stars. I just think if a maid has lots of rooms to clean she might skip things which look kind of clean but really there are germs everywhere.

I'm especially paranoid about pillowcases. My hubby thinks it's hilarious. I always take a pillow case and if it's just a motel we haven't booked ahead, I take my own sheets. Same reason, a maid might overlook something that looks clean, but a pillow case where someone could have dribbled all over or sheets...well don't need to explain there.

But when i've stayed at a private luxury cottage where there was only one cottage with a beautiful bed with white linen and very little else to tidy...I thought this must be clean...they need their guests to be spoilt because they only have one expensive cottage to rent out and only one room plus a bathroom to clean. So the pillowcase stayed in the bag :)

Yip, I'm weird....but now travelling with a child and another on the way...i might behave a little more sane...or insane??...but still might keep the jandal habit :)

ditzy

i did something very stupid tonite...it's one of those had to be there moments to appreciate...but i was so ditzy i have to share.

We bought a bar stool which needed to be put together. So me thinking I am so good at putting things together. In fairness the instructions had 4 pictures and no written instructions. It was going great till i had to connect the seat to the base and had 8 screws which were very difficult to put in and very difficult to screw because there wasn't enough room to insert the allen key.

So I thought I just had to be patient and hold it all together and squeeze my fingers into the gap to insert the screw and twist it. It took me ages...at least 15-20mins to do 4 screws. But I just couldn't insert the allen key so I had to leave them untightened. I told Myles and he was like 'no, you must be able to tighten them'.

And then I sat on the bar stool and it twirled around...I thought how cool and told Myles. And he came and turned it upside down to have a look and low and behold because I twirled on it, suddenly the screws were all visible and lots of room to tighten them :) It took him less then a minute...it would have taken me less then 5mins had I realised it. I had to crack up laughing. Honestly it never twirled when i was trying to screw it altogether. So funny. Had to be there.

Blessed be the name of the LORD

Blessed be Your name in the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

And blessed be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise
And when the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say

CHORUS:
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name when the sun's shining down on me
When the world's "all as it should be"
Blessed be Your name

And blessed be Your name on the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say Lord, blessed be Your name

CHORUS

(Matt Redman)

This is a hard song but it has been so relevant to my every day life that when i first heard it, at a Hillsong conference, I balled my eyes out. I was reminded of this song today reading about another Christian going through hard times.

It was a life lesson i learnt throught tragedy and testing...it's easy to praise the LORD when life is wonderful but when life sucks and Satan attacks it's even harder and we have to make a choice: to keep praising, trusting and putting our hope in our Saviour OR to give up. I'm not sure which is easier but I decided a long time ago that Satan can harm me physically and mentally but spiritually I can choose to believe and he can't take that away from me unless I give it up myself. He never wins because it's my spirit he's after and that's safe with the LORD for all eternity. So when the darkness closes in I can still choose to say Blessed be the name of the LORD.

7 random things about me

This is from Faith who tagged me for this post on 7 random things about me.

Now this bit i copied from her blog:
The rules are to link the person who sent this to you...and leave a comment on their blog.. so their readers can visit yours.
Post the rules on your blog
Share 7 strange/weird facts about you on your blog
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog
Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blog...


I can do all of this except tag 7 people - I don't know that many people in blog world. But this was fun, thanks Faith.


My 7 things:

1. i was born with blonde hair and my parents are both Samoan (a little island nation in the Pacific) so both have black hair. My Mum has about 1/32th English in her so that's probably why and she had light brown hair when she was young. But now my hair is a dark brown with only little wisps of blonde on the sides of my forehead.
   
2. Most people like nice people but I like people who come off as being rude because they are blunt and speak their mind. Most people think I'm nice but i am just as blunt. I just get along better with people who are sincere then people who are nice and diplomatic. Even if it means they might hurt my feelings. I prefer knowing what a person thinks of me, then having them be nice to my face and talk behind my back. I value honesty and straightforwardness more than a false sense of peace. I have had to learn that not everyone likes this :)
   
3. i'm a serious night owl. So I am wide awake in the early hours of the morning...some of my best times with the LORD have been at 3-4am. If you were to speak to me in the morning I would be monosyllabic in response. But at night you can't shut me up. Yet my man is a morning person which I think is the LORD having a laugh.
   
4. I have a hang up about speaking on phones. My family tend to have their phones glued to their hips and answer every call. Me, I don't even know where my phone is half the time. If i'm busy in the house, I just don't bother running for the phone. I much prefer seeing people in person or emailing or texting. I think it's because I don't like interrupting people's days so i barely ring anyone. So now my family knows if they want to get a hold of me urgently they ring my husband's phone.
   
5. i love the sea, I love being in the water, anything to do with it...cruises, ferry rides, houseboats, beaches, pools, etc. But this is the weird bit. I'm a bad swimmer. I nearly drowned once when I was about 14 but it didn't put me off. I can backstroke or dog paddle but to swim properly would be 50m at most.
   
6. I don't have the obsession most women have with chocolate. This makes me especially weird in my church because all the women love chocolate. At our women's retreats everyone's eating chocolate and i'm having something savoury.


7. I love being out in the rain. In the sea when it rains is perfect! Myles on the other hand hates being in the rain. So if we were caught in a rainstorm or slight shower, he would run from shelter to shelter waiting for me to catch up as I walked happily through it as if it was a beautiful sunny day.

so the only other person I know on blog world is Lill