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Dear Dawnsa, I will be your first customer in Australia. After we get settled and you start your painting fun and all that, I will buy my little first piece from you! Which I'm sure will be beautiful. And I will stick it on my wall so it'll feel more like home. We can meet almost as often as we do now and we can have our cafe moments sort of thing. Sorry I choose Coffee Bean here (You like Starbucks better?). I suppose we might go to Gloria Jeans' there, or go exploring for nicer sidewalk cafes with our drawing books. We can also send little packages back to the awesomes. < 3 I FOUND A PRIMARY SCHOOL GOOD GOOD FRIEND WHO LIVES IN MELBOURNE AND IS STUDYING AT MONASH! Now how cool is that :) And 5 people from my poly course and batch will be in Melbourne come 2008. Awesome.

Forwarded email: Hands! A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million. It depends whose hands it's in. A baseball in my hands is worth about $6. A baseball in Roger Clemens' hands is worth $4.75 million. It depends on whose hands it's in. A tennis racket is useless in my hands. A tennis racket in Andre Agassi's hands is worth millions. It depends whose hands it's in. A rod in my hands will keep away an angry dog. A rod in Moses' hands will part the mighty sea. It depends whose hands it's in. A slingshot in my hands is a kid's toy. A slingshot in David's hand is a mighty weapon. It depends whose hands it's in. Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands is a couple of fish sandwiches. Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in Jesus' hands will feed thousands. It depends whose hands it's in. Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse. Nails in Jesus Christ's hands will produce

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live. A seed falls into the dark earth and dies. Out of its death comes multiplied life. As Saint Francis prayed, “It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. It takes faith to believe this, as it takes faith for a farmer to plant a seed. It takes faith to live by it, faith to act on it, faith to keep looking at the joyful end of it all. - Yesterday I was thinking - do I serve God because I want to glorify God? Or because I know there are greater benefits to serving God? I mean, in the end, though I might have to give up some things, ultimately I know I get greater reward. So do I serve God for God's glory, or because of seslfish ambition? Today I read about dying to self (again) and thought - people always talk about

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot Honor above passion. The greater the potential for good, the greater the potential for evil. That is what Jim and I found in the force of the love we bore for each other. A good and perfect gift, these natural desires. But so much the more necessary that they be restrained, controlled, corrected, even crucified, that they might be reborn in power and purity for God. ... For us, this was the way we had to walk, and we walked it, Jim seeing it his duty to protect me, I seeing it mine to wait quietly, not to attempt to woo or entice.

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot (Elisabeth Elliot gives the example of David’s men who risked their lives to pass through the Philistines’ lines to get water for him. He then poured the water out on the ground, refusing to drink the water which his men risked their lives for.) God gives us material for sacrifice. Sometimes the sacrifice makes little sense to others, but when offered to Him is always accepted. What was the “point” in God’s asking Abraham for the sacrifice of his beloved son, Isaac? The story has often been attacked as “pagan” and has been grossly misunderstood. Our offerings to Him may very likely be seen as senseless or even fanatical, but He receives them. Jesus received the precious ointment from the worshiping woman, although those present thought it was a foolish waste. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of othe

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot The Holy Spirit was given to guide us into all truth, but He doesn’t do it all at once... I began to learn to wait. Patient waiting does not come naturally to most of us, but a great deal is said about it in the Bible. It is an important discipline for anyone who wants to learn to trust... Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Him and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God... God’s time for further revelations of the heart might come later. Tomorrow was not our business; it was His. Letting it rest with Him was the discipline for the day, and it was enough.

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot Elisabeth’s diary entry May 4 – More testing today. God is asking me insistently, “Lovest thou Me?” and I find myself evading the question. Then comes the answer, Yes, Lord. I’m conscious of the warring of the flesh and the spirit – the spirit is willing, the flesh weak. Evidently I need the test. - Huihui try to be farny she cut her fringe - tomorrow must go mummy's salon to make things better. "Why you so naughty?" Mummy said the last time. - Again. I've been asked if I have a Facebook account! I might succumb. ha. But I hear it's useful. :D

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot One morning I was reading the story of Jesus’ feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. “Let me have them,” said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: “If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.”

Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot “Passion is a battleground. If there is an enemy of souls, one thing he cannot abide is the desire for purity. Hence a man or woman’s passions become his battleground. The Lover of Souls does not prevent this. I was perplexed because it seemed to me He should prevent it, but He doesn’t. He wants us to learn to use our weapons.” - [From my old sticker book collection. Did you collect stickers as a kid? :) ]

Passion and Purity Elisabeth Elliot "What do women want today? What do men want? I mean, deep down. What do they really want? If “times” have changed, have human longings changed, too? How about principles? Have Christian principles changed? I say no to the last three questions, an emphatic no. I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory “making out” and “sleeping around,” we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized. By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.” - Hello folks, I've posted excerpts from this book before, but here are more. I shall be posting a few more. Some posts won't refer to relationships in an obvious way, but it basically is about relationships. Elisabeth Elliot uses her story with Jim Elliot as the base for this book. It can apply to ot

I'm glad I went for YMLC this year. The weekend went by in a flash. My group was great, and it was a nice balance spending time with new friends in my group (as well as making new friends from other churches), and with old friends from Wesley. I admit that initially, I had a bad attitude - wasn't excited about going. Was just "oh okay. Go lor." But I'm glad that I decided a change in attitude was essential for altitude. So yes, I had a good time, thank God. - Have got a new computer screen at home which is nice and big! Have changed the leading (again) so this is easier to read! - Today, devotion was about the interesting topic of sexual temptation. A friend was sharing about how her husband and herself set ground rules in their marriage. Stuff such as avoiding as best as they can, riding in a car or going out with one of the opposite sex, alone. If they do, it must be informed (meaning they tell someone else/spouse and it's not a "hush-hush" thing).

The Meaning of Holding Hands by Motte Brown from Boundless Many Christians agree that sex is off the table in a dating relationship (and for the purposes of this post I won't go into the different types of sex). But what about lesser forms of physical intimacy like light kissing, hugging or holding hands? Are these okay? I guess it depends on whether or not you're okay with being considered "off the market" while in a dating relationship. In an article published yesterday, the New York Times explores what hand-holding means in today's sex saturated culture; saying that as it did in former generations, it still communicates a form of commitment, maybe even more so. "Hand-holding is the one aspect that's not been affected by the sexual revolution," said Dalton Conley, a professor and chairman of the department of sociology at New York University. "It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom." To hold someone'

Our newest addition to the... window with odd stuff. There was more difference in the "before" hair but we only remembered to take a picture of it after cutting some of her hair off the sides. Does she looks more spunky now? We were trying to give her a mohawk and some bangs but she has bad hair texture. So ohwells. - Everybody's heading off! All away to some place else. My bardee just left yesterday for London :/ :( There are many others in Australia. My sister is in the USA. It'll be my turn soon. Australia Feb08. Ahhhh! Exciting plus scary. Yes. Ahhhhhh!