well, here i am back in the calg, in the hamptons, living the life. what have i done so far today? well let me tell you... even tho i am a little ashamed of the ridiculousness of it all. this morning my momma booked me a massage appointment, the first ever, and my mom and danielle made this woman think that i am the biggest massage moron in the world! they told her that i was so afraid of a massage and danielle told her i have a low pain threshold! hmm. i don't understand that bit, really. anyhow, the first massage ever went fine. in fact, it was enjoyable. it just kind of seems like a frivolous thing to pay for. anyhow, karan has booked me another appointment next week. item 2 on today's agenda. a haircut. apparently since i refused to have a spa day with my mom, she thought she could sneak it in in increments, like i wouldn't notice. but i was sad about getting a haircut. terrified in fact, as any of you who have seen me loving my long hair would know. but thankfully i had a lovely girl who listened to what i said and really only trimmed it. so it is impossible to tell by the naked eye that it is cut. but i am happy, and hopefully it will just grow all the longer now that it is healthy again.
so later this afternoon we are going to get our family pictures done. so far today has been pretty posh. but perhaps it is the niceness after yesterday's super late plane fiasco.
i was supposed to leave ottawa at 7:20 last night, but there was a lot of snow in the t-dot, so, the plane i was supposed to be on was still in toronto at 7:20. then we finally flew to toronto, but also got delayed there. they had to de-ice the plane in ottawa and toronto, so i ended up getting in at 1:20 am alberta time. so 3:20 ottawa time, and i had been up since 7 with like 5 hours of sleep from the night before. but there is a shortage of beds in this house so i get to sleep with my momma this week. and that makes me very happy.
just as expected i do miss my ottawa kinsmen (or as thom would say my bosom chums!) already, but it is so good to be here. i feel a love for my sisters this year that is stronger than ever. the hairdresser called us charlie's angels. maybe she wanted a tip, or maybe, just maybe. the van patter sisters are the hottest sisters ever.
i love it!
hopefully i get to see my dad tonight.
posse out!
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Monday, December 20, 2004
i love life!
God is good, all the time, and all the time, God is good!!! i must say that i have had the best semester of my life this year. i just love the people that i am joined with here. i love my family i love beth's family. i love the best's. sheesh... i am filled to the seams and fuller with love right now and it is awesome.
beth and i just got back from a short time in campbellford. my soulmate town. it was lovely to be there and to spend a bit of time with doug, marilyn and jill. i missed paul and janice by one day, but hopefully closer to new year's i will see them. beth and i also spent a day in peterborough, beth got her G.. (hurrah!) and then we went and surprised carla and the amandas at king street. and then off to the best's where cindy was busy preparing a christmas dinner for jamo and his friends. i got to make a cranberry tree. we also got to hang out with tomata, nat and luke. then josh called and he and april want cam and i to emcee there wedding reception! imagine toi! i am stoked, and it is all the better that i get to do it with cam! fabulous. so there are at least 4 weddings to go to this spring. i am excited for this.
we also got to spend some time with mattie, we went hiking in the woods behind his house, and beth wore the greatest parka in the world, and a picture of the three of us made mattie laugh as i have never heard him laugh before. we spent some sweet time praying as well. i love praying with people. i love how God is moving, and he loves it when we ask.
last night thom was saying how sweet it is to be cocky in God, and in his word. how when you ask things according to God's will you can be so cocky because you know what will happen. i love it!!!
beth and i have a final in just over an hour, but it is open book and we have marked up our pages, and we are not too worried. then micro tomorrow, and nursing theory on wednesday. some people are done their exams by now, i myself and just starting today. go figure. 3 exams and they just had to be in the last part of the exam period.
but then off to the calg to see my lovely family and spend christmas with them.
danielle has been home since the 11th and they had a big turkey dinner without me! i was practically excommunicated from christmas!! i mean really, we never ever have turkey! and the one time they do i am convenienly stuck in ottawa waiting for my exams. i can't wait to see them.
then back here on the 29th for new years... although, thom conveniently took a shift on the night of the 29th... the great ditch!! but he doesn't work in the 30th so we shall get to hang out then.
then beth shalll come back and we will be reunited. during exams we were seperated for i think, 5 days and we spoke on the phone at least 3 out of the 5 days. i tell ya. to quote her "i can only hope that my marriage will be as successful as this friendship".
i think that's it for now. i am looking forward to what God has for the next few days.
For unto us a child is born! (ps. this is not any child! this is the christ, the messiah! the savior of our world!!! hurrah!)
peace...
beth and i just got back from a short time in campbellford. my soulmate town. it was lovely to be there and to spend a bit of time with doug, marilyn and jill. i missed paul and janice by one day, but hopefully closer to new year's i will see them. beth and i also spent a day in peterborough, beth got her G.. (hurrah!) and then we went and surprised carla and the amandas at king street. and then off to the best's where cindy was busy preparing a christmas dinner for jamo and his friends. i got to make a cranberry tree. we also got to hang out with tomata, nat and luke. then josh called and he and april want cam and i to emcee there wedding reception! imagine toi! i am stoked, and it is all the better that i get to do it with cam! fabulous. so there are at least 4 weddings to go to this spring. i am excited for this.
we also got to spend some time with mattie, we went hiking in the woods behind his house, and beth wore the greatest parka in the world, and a picture of the three of us made mattie laugh as i have never heard him laugh before. we spent some sweet time praying as well. i love praying with people. i love how God is moving, and he loves it when we ask.
last night thom was saying how sweet it is to be cocky in God, and in his word. how when you ask things according to God's will you can be so cocky because you know what will happen. i love it!!!
beth and i have a final in just over an hour, but it is open book and we have marked up our pages, and we are not too worried. then micro tomorrow, and nursing theory on wednesday. some people are done their exams by now, i myself and just starting today. go figure. 3 exams and they just had to be in the last part of the exam period.
but then off to the calg to see my lovely family and spend christmas with them.
danielle has been home since the 11th and they had a big turkey dinner without me! i was practically excommunicated from christmas!! i mean really, we never ever have turkey! and the one time they do i am convenienly stuck in ottawa waiting for my exams. i can't wait to see them.
then back here on the 29th for new years... although, thom conveniently took a shift on the night of the 29th... the great ditch!! but he doesn't work in the 30th so we shall get to hang out then.
then beth shalll come back and we will be reunited. during exams we were seperated for i think, 5 days and we spoke on the phone at least 3 out of the 5 days. i tell ya. to quote her "i can only hope that my marriage will be as successful as this friendship".
i think that's it for now. i am looking forward to what God has for the next few days.
For unto us a child is born! (ps. this is not any child! this is the christ, the messiah! the savior of our world!!! hurrah!)
peace...
Thursday, December 02, 2004
YESSSS! (with a double arm pump!)
hurrah hurrah hurrah hurrah hurrah!!! i am done my essay! the last assignment of the semester before exams start! i couldn't be happier even if i caught the golden snitch! i am so so so happy. plus. i only have one more class and one small evaluation meeting on monday. but other than that i am done! can you even believe? i am half done year 3? imagine toi.
ok so to be truthful.. my essay was due yesterday at 1 pm. but i am only losing 5%.. which is not too bad, and beth is right on board with me. like she said in her post, we are far better at encouraging each other in the things of God. maybe next semester that will include school? we'll see. procrastinating until the day before an essay is due largely contributes to it being handed in late, but also due to the fact that on the day before our essay was due we spent a copious amount of time with our favourite boys.
ok so to be truthful.. my essay was due yesterday at 1 pm. but i am only losing 5%.. which is not too bad, and beth is right on board with me. like she said in her post, we are far better at encouraging each other in the things of God. maybe next semester that will include school? we'll see. procrastinating until the day before an essay is due largely contributes to it being handed in late, but also due to the fact that on the day before our essay was due we spent a copious amount of time with our favourite boys.
that is me, beth, pat, thom and mattie in the front. we are all laughing so hard because we have been telling mattie that there is no way we will fit in the picture and we need to crouch down. mattie is laughing so hard because he knew we were wrong.
that's a picture of us back in the fall going to the caves. hard to believe that i only knew mattie for a month and thom for like 5 days. these boys are so sweet. everyday they make me laugh, and one of the best things that beth and i get to do with them is pray. God is moving people. prayer is going up and blessings are coming down.
anyhow, today i am off to maxville for another sweet day with nathan, and then next week we are off to campbellford (c'ford what!) i am stoked. marilyn has our advent calenders waiting!
anyhow, i'm out.
ps. 2o days til i go to see my family!!!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
i am not my own mentor...
last week was beth's birthday and thankfully pat came up with the best present ever... otherwise i would have had nothing! beth is just one of those girls who really doesn't ask for much. anyhoo. we (mattie, pat, thom, laurie and i) wrote a song for her and recorded it onto a cd. oh my friends, it is funny! beth and i listen to it at least once a day, and it is so catchy that it is always stuck in your head. it's really hard to hear me singing most of the time as those boys were way louder. but i did get one little solo. "if i ever want to spoon, you are there for me. if one of us were a boy we could get married" followed by mattie saying very seriously "but you're not" oh i love it. plus we got her a little tree. a ficus benjamina, which very sadly is losing all it's leaves. mattie and alex had one in first year and he said that all the leaves fell off. we are very sad. also, to get the tree i got to go on a veyr hot date with thom and laurie. laurie whom i had just met the night before, but i insisted that the 3 of us ride up in the front together. i love those campbellford- (and surrounding area) ites. i love meeting more and more of campbellford.
tomorrow thom asked me to go to the museum with him to go learn about dinosaurs. he is mentoring me and teaching me all about the things my dad never did. oh it is so much fun! on of the lessons i have received thus far is that my mentor is always one step ahead of me, and last night when i went to take the ice cream out of the fridge, i discovered that i had already done it and i said "oh look i am one step ahead of myself, i could be my own mentor!" and thom, being a very good mentor indeed, did not chastise me until i dropped the ice cream container under the table. i learned my lesson, i am not my own mentor.
mattie and i were supposed to go on a hot date to listen to a presentation on the boreal forest but it looks as tho he is skipping out on me. ah well it will be a good time on my own. plus james raffan will be there talking a bit about the canoeing part of the event. HURRAH!
we had sweet cell last night about baptism. about how this is what God says:
to be saved you need to:
Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. (Romans 10:9)
when you are saved your old nature dies.. it is exchanged for a new nature.
Then to throw off that old nature you need to:
Be baptised in water. (Colossian 2:12)
also, 1 Corinthians 10:1&2 shows us a picture of moses coming thru the sea. when they reached the other side, the waters washed over all that was behind them. killing all the
enemies in the army (the whole army!) and cutting off everything from their old life. they could not go back.. only forward.
in baptism in water we are burying our old selves so we do not need to carry around a dead body forever.
Then to be equipped you need to:
Be baptised in the Holy Spirit (acts 1:4&5)
this is what beth once said ... (i am adding to it a little) but becoming a christian is like all of a sudden being aware of a moving river. being baptised in water is like getting in a canoe on the river. you are now moving and leaving your old self behind on the bank, and being baptised in the Holy Spirit is now you have a paddle and you can move faster and with purpose and order.
i believe very firmly that it is these three things that needs to happen to all who believe. i believe it because of acts 2:38. i do not believe that acts 2:38 means that you recieve the baptism of the Holy Spirit just by being baptised in water... (you can while you are being baptised in water, but it is not because of the water baptism). there are far too many examples in acts of people not knowing about the Holy Spirit baptism (and they are have been baptised in water) or people who have been baptised in the Holy Spirit and not in water yet. whatever they had not recieved, the apostles prayed for. (ie. acts 19:1-5, acts 10: 44-48)
i love baptism. it is so cool. i love to hear noah talk about baptism.. it his favourite thing next to talking about the body of christ. which is the church. church is not a place or a building.!
i think that is all for now.
love.
tomorrow thom asked me to go to the museum with him to go learn about dinosaurs. he is mentoring me and teaching me all about the things my dad never did. oh it is so much fun! on of the lessons i have received thus far is that my mentor is always one step ahead of me, and last night when i went to take the ice cream out of the fridge, i discovered that i had already done it and i said "oh look i am one step ahead of myself, i could be my own mentor!" and thom, being a very good mentor indeed, did not chastise me until i dropped the ice cream container under the table. i learned my lesson, i am not my own mentor.
mattie and i were supposed to go on a hot date to listen to a presentation on the boreal forest but it looks as tho he is skipping out on me. ah well it will be a good time on my own. plus james raffan will be there talking a bit about the canoeing part of the event. HURRAH!
we had sweet cell last night about baptism. about how this is what God says:
to be saved you need to:
Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. (Romans 10:9)
when you are saved your old nature dies.. it is exchanged for a new nature.
Then to throw off that old nature you need to:
Be baptised in water. (Colossian 2:12)
also, 1 Corinthians 10:1&2 shows us a picture of moses coming thru the sea. when they reached the other side, the waters washed over all that was behind them. killing all the
enemies in the army (the whole army!) and cutting off everything from their old life. they could not go back.. only forward.
in baptism in water we are burying our old selves so we do not need to carry around a dead body forever.
Then to be equipped you need to:
Be baptised in the Holy Spirit (acts 1:4&5)
this is what beth once said ... (i am adding to it a little) but becoming a christian is like all of a sudden being aware of a moving river. being baptised in water is like getting in a canoe on the river. you are now moving and leaving your old self behind on the bank, and being baptised in the Holy Spirit is now you have a paddle and you can move faster and with purpose and order.
i believe very firmly that it is these three things that needs to happen to all who believe. i believe it because of acts 2:38. i do not believe that acts 2:38 means that you recieve the baptism of the Holy Spirit just by being baptised in water... (you can while you are being baptised in water, but it is not because of the water baptism). there are far too many examples in acts of people not knowing about the Holy Spirit baptism (and they are have been baptised in water) or people who have been baptised in the Holy Spirit and not in water yet. whatever they had not recieved, the apostles prayed for. (ie. acts 19:1-5, acts 10: 44-48)
i love baptism. it is so cool. i love to hear noah talk about baptism.. it his favourite thing next to talking about the body of christ. which is the church. church is not a place or a building.!
i think that is all for now.
love.
Sunday, November 14, 2004
i see joshua camped on the plains of jericho...
i see walls collapse and people marching in. the Lord in our midst is mighty. (part of a song by cecily from the church in vancouver)
ok. first things first i need to quote trevor from long ago, "God is sweet.... BOOYA!"
he is... he really really is. the meeting this morning was so amazing, God is doing some good things here. i was so overwhelmed with God's love for us this morning. i nearly burst! i could only shout when i prayed. and then we sang that song by cecily and it is all about our history! and really it made me think how Jesus said we would do greater things than him.... GREATER!!! i mean really... think of what Jesus did! he healed the sick, he taught so many, he spoke truth and life and he raised people from the dead and we will do greater than him! (john 14:12) imagine toi! it is so cool.
this is what i realized about God's love this morning. it is more than enough. way more than enough. and we were singing the banqueting table song and when we sang the part that goes 'i am my beloved's and he is mine', i just realized again how much God loves us. and not just like a father or a friend (which he also does), but he loves me in the way that he is pursuing me everyday. that Jesus is the most romantic person in the world, and that he has been wooing me and courting me since the day i was conceived. i mean the Bible says things like lover of my soul! to me that is very cool.
i love life. i love God. no matter what he is so good. and not just today when things seem so good. but all the time. regardless of anything.
in the words of biblical hair sara "huzzah!"
today keegan beat mattie in a handstand competition (keegan is 8 and mattie is 21), victoria (7) said(again) "stop! in the name of the Lord!" while they were making the shields for the armour of God in kids work, and tom taught me about an allosaurus.
all in all it just really was the best day ever, and i can say without a doubt that tomorrow will be even better.
i leave you with the words of a defeated boy
" you've won this round keegan." -mattie kennedy
bye!
ok. first things first i need to quote trevor from long ago, "God is sweet.... BOOYA!"
he is... he really really is. the meeting this morning was so amazing, God is doing some good things here. i was so overwhelmed with God's love for us this morning. i nearly burst! i could only shout when i prayed. and then we sang that song by cecily and it is all about our history! and really it made me think how Jesus said we would do greater things than him.... GREATER!!! i mean really... think of what Jesus did! he healed the sick, he taught so many, he spoke truth and life and he raised people from the dead and we will do greater than him! (john 14:12) imagine toi! it is so cool.
this is what i realized about God's love this morning. it is more than enough. way more than enough. and we were singing the banqueting table song and when we sang the part that goes 'i am my beloved's and he is mine', i just realized again how much God loves us. and not just like a father or a friend (which he also does), but he loves me in the way that he is pursuing me everyday. that Jesus is the most romantic person in the world, and that he has been wooing me and courting me since the day i was conceived. i mean the Bible says things like lover of my soul! to me that is very cool.
i love life. i love God. no matter what he is so good. and not just today when things seem so good. but all the time. regardless of anything.
in the words of biblical hair sara "huzzah!"
today keegan beat mattie in a handstand competition (keegan is 8 and mattie is 21), victoria (7) said(again) "stop! in the name of the Lord!" while they were making the shields for the armour of God in kids work, and tom taught me about an allosaurus.
all in all it just really was the best day ever, and i can say without a doubt that tomorrow will be even better.
i leave you with the words of a defeated boy
" you've won this round keegan." -mattie kennedy
bye!
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
God shines his light.
ok... there is nothing better than watching God send amazing, beautiful lights all across the city with your 3 favourite people. if only tom had been there! then it would have been 4 of my favourite people. anyhow. God is so good, we had cell tonight and it was lovely. marie shared about being real with people and just sharing God with them by telling them about your own relationship with Jesus and not needing to add anything else. just being real.
then we came back to watch shrek 2, but lo and behold God had better things for us to watch. such as his lovely northern lights, or as pat would say the dolores borealis. oh pat, always muddling up the english language. but they were grand, and the backdrop... a beautiful starry night sky. i saw no less than 3 shooting stars and one with a beautiful long tail. as mattie said 'those ones are the best'.
people, i love the capital. it is a swell place to be right now. i pray that everyone is growing closer to God and learning about how much he loves you. i pray that you are allowing him to move so much wherever you may be.
ya.
then we came back to watch shrek 2, but lo and behold God had better things for us to watch. such as his lovely northern lights, or as pat would say the dolores borealis. oh pat, always muddling up the english language. but they were grand, and the backdrop... a beautiful starry night sky. i saw no less than 3 shooting stars and one with a beautiful long tail. as mattie said 'those ones are the best'.
people, i love the capital. it is a swell place to be right now. i pray that everyone is growing closer to God and learning about how much he loves you. i pray that you are allowing him to move so much wherever you may be.
ya.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
tut tut tut it looks like snow... FINALLY!
sometimes my blog titles seem lame and little compared to other people's, but that's ok. in fact, it's me... as i am sure most of you can imagine, i did just look out my window and say that to myself. good times, good times.
these days i see less and less of beth as she has commenced a romantic liason with school. i miss her on wednesday nights, i miss her on thursdays, and i miss her on fridays, tho to be fair, friday is my doing. tho to tell you the honest truth, if i were in ottawa on friday it would then still be her fault! really. anyway.
halloween... not the worst ever... but definately not the best. it would seem that halloween in ottawa really isn't that spectacular. or perhaps i still compare all halloweens to my last one in saskatoon, when jill and i dressed up as cowboys and made a killing... and sue said "you did not just go trick or treating!" but we did. and it was the best ever.
i just got a lovely card from jill. to go to her reception. i feel left right out of that girl's life, but she surely wrote me a lovely note inside it. i miss her. i wish i could see her and tell her of my life from the past 4 years, and to hear of hers. oh, it just brought tears to my eyes! geez.
anyhow, halloween. we were too late (again) to go to paul martin's and adrienne clarkson's for trick or treating, (next year, i swear!) but mattie and tom came over and mattie carved a wonderous pumpkin, and tom made some lovely pumpkin seeds, and then mattie made me beautiful fairy wings. i laid on the floor and shed some tears about not being able to go trick or treating. but maybe we will have a fairy party done the road. that would be lovely.
last night i had supper with duane, it was such a good catch up time, he is such a lovely lad and we talked about how i could go work for his parents next summer in the green house!!! imagine toi! we'll see. so far not much is planned except for 1 million and 1 weddings. well really only 5 but seriously. oh yes the number has increasedi very much forgot to say awhile ago that josh and april got engaged!!! at the cn tower.. which may sound cheesy, but april is american so i am sure that she loved it. i love those two.
mary's engagement ring has been on the bathroom shelf a few times over the past little while, and i have decided that if i had to choose an inanimate object to be in love with i would choose that ring. i even tell it that i love it "i love you little ring, you are so pretty, yes you are, i just love you and i love you." seriously, i am losing it. at least the wedding dreams are no longer!
after supper with duane we had a fantastic music practice and noah taught me a new strum and i learned how to play D/F# which is so sweet because it is in every worship song practically, plus we played 'evermore' and then it was just such a good night.
life is good. despite bad midterms which has taken a serious toll on my mind... this is the after effects... at cell the other night this was the observation i made "everyone's hair keeps getting longer or shorter" oh dear.
anyhow, today is a day to clean, quilt, and not worry about exams.
i'm out.
these days i see less and less of beth as she has commenced a romantic liason with school. i miss her on wednesday nights, i miss her on thursdays, and i miss her on fridays, tho to be fair, friday is my doing. tho to tell you the honest truth, if i were in ottawa on friday it would then still be her fault! really. anyway.
halloween... not the worst ever... but definately not the best. it would seem that halloween in ottawa really isn't that spectacular. or perhaps i still compare all halloweens to my last one in saskatoon, when jill and i dressed up as cowboys and made a killing... and sue said "you did not just go trick or treating!" but we did. and it was the best ever.
i just got a lovely card from jill. to go to her reception. i feel left right out of that girl's life, but she surely wrote me a lovely note inside it. i miss her. i wish i could see her and tell her of my life from the past 4 years, and to hear of hers. oh, it just brought tears to my eyes! geez.
anyhow, halloween. we were too late (again) to go to paul martin's and adrienne clarkson's for trick or treating, (next year, i swear!) but mattie and tom came over and mattie carved a wonderous pumpkin, and tom made some lovely pumpkin seeds, and then mattie made me beautiful fairy wings. i laid on the floor and shed some tears about not being able to go trick or treating. but maybe we will have a fairy party done the road. that would be lovely.
last night i had supper with duane, it was such a good catch up time, he is such a lovely lad and we talked about how i could go work for his parents next summer in the green house!!! imagine toi! we'll see. so far not much is planned except for 1 million and 1 weddings. well really only 5 but seriously. oh yes the number has increasedi very much forgot to say awhile ago that josh and april got engaged!!! at the cn tower.. which may sound cheesy, but april is american so i am sure that she loved it. i love those two.
mary's engagement ring has been on the bathroom shelf a few times over the past little while, and i have decided that if i had to choose an inanimate object to be in love with i would choose that ring. i even tell it that i love it "i love you little ring, you are so pretty, yes you are, i just love you and i love you." seriously, i am losing it. at least the wedding dreams are no longer!
after supper with duane we had a fantastic music practice and noah taught me a new strum and i learned how to play D/F# which is so sweet because it is in every worship song practically, plus we played 'evermore' and then it was just such a good night.
life is good. despite bad midterms which has taken a serious toll on my mind... this is the after effects... at cell the other night this was the observation i made "everyone's hair keeps getting longer or shorter" oh dear.
anyhow, today is a day to clean, quilt, and not worry about exams.
i'm out.
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