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Whoohoo! Check the photo cabin out! Got it off the awesome Dawn's blog, which you should also check out :D I blur in the first photo, then I realised oh my picture was being taken. Your turn to have some fun now! Eh I need some friends to have fun on this with. My housie is away with her familee who's here on holeeday. -- Went to the city yesterday to meet Noe who's here on holiday, so met Dawn too. Dawn brought me to Sticky Institute ; I brought Noe to Sticky Institute. And I now have a zine by Tamara Lazaroff. Which is pretty cool. Wooterifications! (That's just an extension of "woots")

Portion of an interview about John Piper's Desiring God ministry God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. It follows from this that joy is not simply icing on the cake. Rather, we ought to seek joy. We ought to seek joy. This is what the Scriptures command (Psalm 37:4; Matthew 6:21; Philippians 4:4; Psalm 97:12) and model (Philippians 3:8; Psalm 43:4; Hebrews 12:2). Yet so often the idea has crept into the church that somehow it is bad to want to be happy. That desiring to be happy is sinful. But the problem with the human race is not that we want to be happy. The problem is that we seek happiness in the wrong things-in things outside of God (see, for example, Jeremiah 2:13). And the great irony here is that this results in less satisfaction. It results in less satisfaction because those things ultimately cannot satisfy. The idea is often out there that the most exciting life and the greatest happiness comes from following the values of the world—either for o...

We will rise Who are You, One who’d choose To be near me like You do Who are You, One like You The One who gave His life for me We will rise to sing of Your goodness That love that has freed us And changed us forever We’ll rise to sing of Your glory Made known to the nations And peoples of this earth Lowdown I once was but You picked me up Stooped down to make me great Deeper than the depths, I felt so ashamed But You raised me up and said, “Look in my face because I’ve got grace Come now and receive it Walk in my ways, chin up always You’ve got me for all your days” Be exalted on high -- That's a new song, subject to continual editing (: Btw if you want a glimpse into the mission trip I just came back from, check out Facebook . There are some thoughts as captions under certain photos. Might post something proper here if time permits. For here for now, just one picture, of Susan and me (: Currently am trying not to get stressed out by the amount of work to do (school + OCF)! So her...