A Voice Calling in the Desert

effective church leadership

2007-07-24T17:11:00.000-07:00

*crowd roars*
INNa THA ROIGHT CORNARgh WEEEE HAVE...

CHURCH GROWTH PRINCIPLES!!!!!!

(crowd of 450,000: 'yay!!!!!')

AND INNa THE LIFT CORNARgh WEEEE HAVE...

THE SALVATION ARMEEEEEE

(me and my mum: 'yay!!!!!!')

*ding*

FOIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now, really... that's just a bit silly.

it's not really 'us' verses 'them' because 'us' is 'them' a bit and 'they' are a bit like 'us' and 'we' sorta like 'them' and 'we' agree with 'them' when 'they' say things that 'we' think agree with 'us'

we're all in this together

I'm just struggling with the similarities and differences in principles of function and growth between the 'Church Growth' (movement, group, society, banner, interdenominational strategic focus...???) and the good ol' Salvos.
We're both perhaps lacking some deep, deep theology to provide in-depth analysis of compatibility.
and yet, we've taken a lot of 'Church Growth stuff' on board (often) very happily and posistively.

Any why not?
there's a lot of good there

but is it different good to our good?

BAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA
that's poisitively hilarious!

as if we own good.

God is God.
Our specific call may be unique, and i feel called into this uniquely-called collection of the specifically-called...

but God is God everywhere.

the end

(G. Roberts was right, I know more and more about less and less)

Title:

2007-07-16T02:22:00.000-07:00

It's been a while

my apologies

(it was a duck)
-just kidding!

so, how is everyone? good, good.
I probably shouldn't be writing 'cause I'm absolutely exhausted and don't have anything particularly wonderful to say.

oh, Jesus is tops.
that's a pretty good thing to say

It's been an intense couple of weeks. I need a holiday to recover from this holiday.
I had an awesome time, but i think i just overdid it a bit.

it's funny how we can overdo some things

and underdo others

I've been underdoing a few things

There was a whole lotta conviction goin' on at candidates weekend. I've been underdoing some basic disciplines to avoid overdoing them with fearful intentions.
the fear is gone.
so it's time to get on with this

Kingdom biniss is serious biniss.

pray for Linsey Lohan and Paris and Nic Richie

Why? For Heaven's sake, why not?

blessings!
-rach

Just realised i didn't answer the question

2007-05-12T00:34:00.000-07:00

if that was an essay, I would have failed.
But don't get me started.

I'm not too sure it's a THIN line between judgment and discernment.

can we judge actions and not people?

uh...

maybe judgment is the wrong word

mocho-chino-emo-po-pomos might say what's right for you is right for you... and what's ice-cream for me is lactose-intolerant-torture for you...

I'm not all about that. I think there's a bit of black and white in this grey, grey world. But hey, that's just what *I* think... aw carp

Let's get hypothetical on this...
If I do something that someone else thinks and feels and knows is wrong (and they've got scripture on their side)... I would hope that they wouldn't just say 'your wrong, you loser'... Ideally, God would tell me himself... but maybe we've got a time constraint going on here and I'm speaking to a full auditorium of people (hey, I can dream - but in this hypothetical I've got all my clothes on - whoah, this is going nowhere good fast)..
a-hem... So I'm saying wrong stuff
Moch knows it...
I'm still talking so there's no time for discussion...
So, does Moch...
a) pray his little heart out that God will give me sudden discernment and that the ears of the people will be deaf to anything that's not from God???
or b) grab some organisee person, scrounge up some spiritual leaders in 17 seconds and ask for me to be kindly escorted from the platform as Guy Sebastian takes his place to sing 'What a wonderful world'?

Meh, I dunno

Should I 'wrong' and 'right' the actions of others... or pray... or both?
I felt really, really, really, really, really (you get the point) convicted about having nasty judgment in my heart about a situation i was in within a group of friends in high school... it was ridiculously clear to me what was 'right' and what was 'wrong' and I lessened my love accordingly.
I caught myself in a moment a couple of years ago where it hit me
"do you realise how easily you could be in the same *afformentioned situation*?"
holy carp!
I'm human!

and i need love and those high school humans all need love and we all need love

call me trite or whatever... (I will answer to both)
but this is all i can think right now

blessings on yer hearts!
-rach

Judgment vs discernment

2007-05-12T00:26:00.000-07:00

oooooo
tweedle-dee (whoever you are)
that's a toughie

The answer is this...

yep, there it is. Hope you enjoyed that.

I really don't know. I think you make a good point, but for me where I am right now and what I'm in and who I'm with and what flavour ice-cream I want to paint my walls with... judgment needs the kick more that discernment needs the push.

I'm all for discernment.
I hope I marry someone with a lot of it
ha ha ha ha - funny on so many different levels!

I know there's a need to discern alongside a need to recognise Christ as the only one qualified to judge.
(I still hold by my argument that I speak the wrong language - issues with 'words' would be easier in German... maybe, I don't really know)
I reckon if i listen to God and do what He says life will be okay

Right now He's saying, 'rach, stop being judgmental'

hoo roo
-rach
*moch actually agrees with me on this*

crusty bits of jelly-dust

2007-05-09T05:45:00.000-07:00

is probably what you'd get ifn you made jelly (or jell-o) and then tried to reduce it back down into solid form via a bunsen burner.

I miss the Bunsens. I used to torture and disfigure my biros with that crew. Fun times. Would you believe i was in advanced science in high school? nah, I don't buy it for a second.

My brain hurts. Blogging is what I do when my brain hurts. The lately frequent posting on this site is not a good sign.

So... how is everyone???

I hate wasting time. And I do far too much of it on study days. I made a lot of head-way on my New Testament assignment today, but I still felt like I was wasting the day. I probably could've finished it if i didn't fiss-part around so much. I should stop fiss-parting around.

Meh... should is not good. should is a very, very, very, very, very bad man

Should Bunsen is the Bunsen's nephew. He's a bad sort. No friends. Zero social skills. Not much hope, really. Poor ol' Should.

I'd feel a little sorrier for him if he stopped burning kittens.

sooooo... Jesus n stuff. Jesus and Should
Jesus loves Should
No one else does.

What's up with judgment? I want to stop judging people. It's not good. I will make an effort to stop. I will pray. It 's a struggle and I know God's with me because i think that's why it keeps coming up. I will change. God will change me

whew! a whole min-paragraph without Should in it.
I hope to keep this up! It's very freeing!
Give it a burl!
It's good!

C-Detty supa Rach (Im das Hause!)

Blogger is telling me to 'manage my blog'

2007-05-07T23:49:00.000-07:00

maybe blogger wants to show me how...
dag man, I can't even manage my hair, let alone my money, let alone a blog

and we all know that I blog because i'm a loser with no friends... (moch).

So... post-modernism (or 'pomo') ... what do we think?
Do you think it's as vomiterrific as I do?

maybe I'm over it 'cause I'm po-pomo
the generation following me are emo-po-pomos

the new breed of mobile-toting infants will be
mocho-chino-emo-po-pomos

I'm done

moch reckons he's a genexxer.
whatever, gramps!

blessings!
-rach

p.s. can multi-generational church actually work? or do we need to split people into congregations? is humanity really THAT limited??!?!?!?!?!?

stupid, stupid question...

it's raining

2007-05-02T21:25:00.000-07:00

Praise the LORD,
all ye nations,
praise the LORD with xylophone and song

a-people

bless youz all
-rach

Words beginning with the letter 'R'

2007-05-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

which is 'Ar-eh' to our North American friends, and
'ah' or 'arghhh' to everyone else.
(except moch, who calls is 'grrrh')

Here are a few suggestions
Rambunctious (prizes to whoever knows the proper spelling or meaning)
Ridiculous
Resplendent
Reliable (boring)
Radical
Rascal
Ready

...
uh...
Retina
and
Really, really, really ridiculously good-looking
(yes, that begins with 'R')

So, here I am with a quarter of an ounce of spare time and I'm writing to y'all. (You better appreciate this!)
passed the room inspection
moch cleaned up his act.
I sacrificed precious study time... to deal with the consequences of my own sloth
... his name is Joe

Everyone at the collagio is sickios. cept me! will not get sick, REFUSE to get sick.
brill plan, that!
prac's going well. have two sermons coming up... 3rd and 17th of june. so far, I've spent about 15 seconds on each, asking God to tell me what to preach about.
Have one word for one, and four words for the other.
will go into that a little deeper this coming week.
Am starting to hang out for july holidays - will have all assignments well finished by then and will have chilly-chillax time with the familios!
(hopefully my own, not that I don't ADORE all the campus families...)
need to pick up the slack a bit on these last two major essays (yes, they've done 15yrs each in the salvos) this coming week. have been getting a tiny bit behind - well, not as far in front as i would like.
i KNOW how cocky that sounds, but it's 'cause i'm single and have no life outside of college. It would be strange and unecessary to be BEHIND in these circumstances.
gee, hope i don't get LEFT BEHIND
ba ha ha
pre-millenialists? what's up with that?
carp, hope i used the right word. something-millenia-watty (and yes, yes carp is the new crap). and I don't really have anything against Kirk Cameron personally, I'm sure he's lovely and I just looked at his site. positively brill, has the theme song from growing pains playing. made me laugh with joy out loud in the library. thankfully (as usual) i am all alone here
cadettees, does this say something about our work ethic? or something about out laptops... and children... and priorities... and timing.
oo, just hurt my knee jumping off my high horse.

moch is still on his. but it's not a high horse, it's Joe the sloth.
moch says I'm splitting hairs
and that I'm talking carp.

just a thought...
right now, my life is pretty self-centered *moch is nodding... so I'm gonna kick him off Joe*. but with the whole 'setting aside two years' thing for college - you know, the learning and the UNlearning and the craziness and the spiritual growth and personal brokenness... *blah, blah, bla- ow!*
but thing is, I'm really enjoying this.
I'm not going to feel guilty 'cause I know that i need this time to get a bit more grounded... a LOT more grounded... before I take on the responsibility of an officer. now I'm not saying that people NEED college to be able to ministry effectively - stacks of people with no formal training are absolutely brill in ministry, but work with me here (not you moch)... I'm giving this time for personal growth and it's hard and it's sticky and my brain wants to explode often (cognitive dissonance - ba-BANG). but it's GOOD and I LIKE IT
so...
will i be a carp officer?
if I'm getting into this self-focussed thing so well, will i explode to pieces when it's not all about me anymore?

trust me, I know how i sound, and i'm sorry if you hate me. -moch, on the other hand, can hate me all he wants - I don't care.
*today he called me a dog, so I told him that he was birthed out of stone in the seventeenth century and that his lack of human qualities is an embarassment. He wasn't convinced*

so officership, here i come.
God bless whoever receives me!
Bless you all
-rach
(God bless Cameron Diaz)

MOCHEE n the BOSS

2007-04-18T23:55:00.000-07:00

moch and the boss aren't best of friends
they don't have scones with tea
they don't share jokes or drink bottles,
they don't hold hands with me

they DO write things that make you think
like 'squirnibattarlemquommin'
they also despise chocolate pies...
well, they've got a bit in common

bit of a brain defuse.
maybe I'll write a children's book.
hmmm, needs a LOT of work
(thanks moch)
... little punk

theol blew my brains again
flippin greyniss
everythings flippin grey
oh, I watched Grey's Anatomy the other night.
slightly funnier than i expected it to be!
won't become a committed viewer though
speaking of which.... HEROES
is a champ of a show
now have a date with the Ellery family every wednesday night at 8.30
praise the LORD

okay, I'm done
-rach
(blessings!)

ooo, forgot to write something deep...
here's a bit of Robert Paterson for all you fans out there
it went a little somethin like this..
"The Church today has the Divinity of Jesus all worked out - we're all feeling fine about that. What we can't get a handle on is Jesus' HUMANITY. We can't handle it, or we're scared to handle it, and it puts us at risk of becoming deists with a distant, impersonal God - (Betty. M's 'From a Distance')"
so there's a big, fat thought for ya!
Jesus is truely and properly God
AND
truely and properly MAN

so already knew that, but
aaaaaargh!
doing my head in

blessings again!
-rach

still alive

2007-04-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

and kicking

-out the jams
-myself
-in my strides
-butt
-mochie - the bald-headed gargoyle who goes through my stuff while i'm in class and messes it all up

yes, we have an up-n-coming ROOM INSPECTION.. and my excuses are already crap
but I'll try to give you updates on Mochie (pron. mo-chee) every now and then.
One day I'll catch him and stick him in a blender.
College kitchen will serve him on rice.
(honestly, the food here's great - which is another huge issue all together... like my butt)
you may have noticed that my communication is rather reminicient of a 12 yr old... on drugs.
well, neither of those apply. I just have happened to find out that a great many more people read this than I was aware.
so there's no need to raise anyone's expectations and get them thinking I have something important to say

... but Mochie does.
"mmph rrrrhmernph"
also
"it is okay to leave questions unanswered, it's not like taking the hand to the plow and looking back, rather, to obsess over that which is contradictory and ponderous with the intent to solve by mere intellect is MUCH more easily likened to looking back"

Good point Moch, but how the flip am I meant to reconcile a God of sacrificial love and peace to a King who laughs and scoffs and dashes nations to pieces like pottery? (see Ps 2)
HEY MOCH???? GOT AN ANSWER FOR THAT ONE YOU PUNK!?!?!?!?!?!

Rachael just turned into a great big pillar of salt

God bless you all,
-Moch

strong like coffee

2007-03-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

I'm writing a blog now 'cause Johnmark told me to.

blog blog blog blog blog

Life's really weird. Lotsa stuff and stuff. I wasn't expecting for life to freeze while I was gone and then return to normal when i get back... hmmm... I'm probably never going back...
well, I'm not going back the same.. and my stuff being the same
okay I'm confused.. I'll break it down

1) I'm at college
2) left adelaide and perth to be here
3) time is not geographically influenced - life is going on here AND in adelaide and perth (bummer)
4) If I go back - things wouldn't be the same - I know that!!!
5) I didn't really think about the 'inbetweeny' changes that go on while I'm here and other people are there

But life has gone on in all of the worlds that us cadets have left behind. and life has just happened on some of the families like a bucket of bricks.

It's hard being surrounded by it but not really a part of it. just a bit detached, you know!

all the assignments and stuff are still around like an itchy fungus. the cadets are still great and awesome and we're getting even closer (scary!). the staff are brill. God's still hard at work pointing out stacks and stacks of stuff that I need to give to Him. It's very icky biniss (like the fungus), but I know it's for good and it's just part of drawing nearer to Him.

Sometimes I get a little scared though when I think 'ewww! this stuff is annoying and crap. I think I was better off 2 years ago!'

I'll get over it.

and got on with it

bless you all
-rach

Grood thoughts, Rhonda

2007-03-09T18:51:00.000-08:00

and a grouse name for yer Guinea pig.

*grood means great and good at the same time*
*I don't know what 'grouse' means - I'm not a natural Melbournian - I think it means grood*

Re; the comment on the last bloggio...
I'm starting to feel a strange mix of fed-up-ed-ness and passionate zeal when I think about mission and social justice and 'how do we do this the right way?' ... ness

I don't think we should ignore God
I don't think we should ignore the need to be active in mission
Sure, mission is every day
But that's not an excuse to sit on a buttios (I suggest yer own) and do nothing
Peace is of the LORD
So is rest...
But He was a bit specific on how that was one day a week

How do I do mission at Training College?
How on earth will I do it when I leave?

Same flippin' smart-butt answer every time

"listen to God... (double check you heard right)... and do what He says"

Dang... dang and blast

My simplicity is so trite that I want to punch myself in the headios

God bless you all... and me too.

The Rachael Collins

things, things and stuff

2007-03-09T02:33:00.000-08:00

missio dei...
am struggling with that. Am planning to chat with my lecturer next week. he was making jokes that I can't handle the concept 'cause I'm used to 'missio Collinsio'... butt-head

he's so right.

he's so bald.

and that was a cheap shot

am learning all about the cheap shots at College

in all honesty though, the 'missio dei' thingo (my understanding is that it's the concept of all mission being planned, instructed, enabled and powered by God).... *I will understand this better after chatting with baldy, I'm sure* is grouse, it's perfect, it's theologically correct, it's beautiful, it's flowers and hugs and bunnies...

and I have an issue with this... and a full head of lush, shiny hair.

why?

naturally pre-disposed to beauty, I reckon... And why the issuio with the missio?

me... it's all about me. I don't care about other people.
If mission is from God,
by God,
all about God and
Goddy-God-God-God
...
where the crap does RACHAEL FREAKIN COLLINS fit in?!?!?!?!?!?

(please don't take this too seriously - I'm processing)

I'm going to go brush my hair.

Good night!

God bless you all with lush, lush, shiny hair.

(Can you die from an overdose of cheap shots?)

balance?

2007-03-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

now i know some may be violently against the idea of 'balance' in life due to the following;
'Jesus wasn't balanced!'
'The Bible never told me to be balanced'
'Balance is for sissies who don't listen to the LORD'
'If you're not constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown - you're not a real Christian'

...
okay, so the last one's a bit extreme, but i hope you know where I'm coming from.
It seems as though the whole concept of balance is either repulisve or idolised.
I'm just asking for a break.
Maybe I've got access to freedom and peace that I'm just not taking... maybe I'm making MYSELF feel guilty.
maybe I need to go to bed...no, that's not it - I had a great sleep last night and it's only just noon.
Why is there a nagging feeling that I'm not up to scratch? Why am i terrified that I'll be 'found out'? Found out for what?
Is there a beautiful place of passionately driven service and rest in the Lord? I know my smart-arse answer is always 'aw crap... LISTEN to God and DO what He says - when will this register?'
seriously
holiness, the legitimacy of the Bible, community, heedless millions, loving God, Grace, peace, judgement, individuality, sin, disobedience, rebellion, love, OTHERS, work, stress, freedom

I know I always have the same argument, if you know me - you're probably sick of it. I still don't get it though... all of it.
any of it.
Please don't comment and give me the answers.
I don't really want them, to be honest.

I'll agree with you, and then with someone else, and then some book and end up a complete hypocrite.

I'm going to go eat lunch

God bless you all.

yes xan, i really did say that thing

2007-02-27T21:00:00.001-08:00

about the ice-skating

anything for a laugh, hey?

reflection on college life

2007-02-27T20:57:00.000-08:00

the people are great
the expectations are awful
the structure is great
the assignments are awful
lectures are grouse
fat content of the food is terrible
the building is tops
the carpet is frustrating
the fact that I'm in melbourne is brilliant
the fact that I'm in melbourne is painful and horrible and depressing and crappity crap crap
that's about it

sunday sunday sunday

2007-02-17T20:50:00.000-08:00

today is sunday
don't worry canadans, i won't tell you what happened

but I'm tired
gee whiz, i'm tired.

blah blah blah

tappy tap tap

Jesus loves me, this i know, for the Bible tells me so.

i will stamp my foot and outright refuse to let anyone change my mind on that...
I think....

God bless you all
And God bless Paris Hilton. Bless her heart.
amen

so... like... yeah

2007-02-16T13:26:00.000-08:00

how's it going punks?
been a struggle getting to the puters due to crazy-go-nuts amount of assignments...
in actual truth, there's only a few assignments, but I've been squeezing them into one week so I can feel relaxed and happy when i spend time with Mum!
... oh yeah, my mum just arrived in melbourne and I'm seeing her in about 35 minutes.
Should probably get outta my pajamas!!!!
it's kinda fun sitting in the college library in your p.js.
I'm probably breaking all sorts of rules!!!!

We've been doing an 'intensive' at college (a semester's worth of stuff for one entire unit, conveniently compacted into two weeks).
So my version's been an intensive-intensive, trying to get it all done in half the time.
I'm a bit ahead, but still have to do the major essay - but that's not due til after the intensive is over, in march!
bring on the all-nighters, woot!
So on the whole, I'm a stressed out, tired ball of funnage.
But I'm really, really loving it here and everyone's lovely.
My session mates are champs!
We've now all been officially assigned Corps to go to for our first semester. I'm going to Carrum Downs Corps tomorrow - that should be fun! I'm with Kim and Steve Haworth (and their cool kids) so we'll have a ball!
And then we get a free lunch!
yessssss

I love you guys,
Pray for everyone.

blessings!
-rach

Today

2007-02-03T21:45:00.000-08:00

In-house Sunday today!
Some 'witnesses' did a mint time of worship. (Our session is 'Witnesses for Christ')
All the first years talked a bit on 'what we're leaving behind'. Lotsa tears. I went last to lighten the mood. But seriously, what am I leaving behind? Not much... yet.
All the important stuff hasn't really happened to me yet. I'm only leaving behind the ability to choose stuff - like choosing to be near my family if I start one of my own, or choosing to be around when I'm an aunty, or choosing to take on a vocation that doesn't leave half my extended family thinking I'm a bit strange...
Of course, considering that we were speaking this morning in front of all the college staff and second years, I told them I was leaving behind my dream of becoming a professional ice-skater... but that wasn't because of College - but due to the fact that I can't skate.

Frankie (Frank Daniels, Training Principal) spoke on The temptation of Jesus in the desert. Good, good stuff. He delved a bit into who Satan is, who his flunkies are and what they're all about... which was ultimately grouse 'cause Leah, Scott, Stobes and I were chatting last night about how spiritual warfare is sometimes ignored in our context.
Top job, Franko.
Also shined up a couple of old nuggets...
* I am not Jesus - so I will not be tempted in the exact same way.
* God doesn't tempt us, but He lets it happen.
* The wilderness is where you get schooled.
* Satan is not a gentleman, when you're down and out, he kicks where it hurts.
* Be on guard after spiritual high-points (ie, Jesus just had one)
* Don't blame Satan so easy - he's not omnipresent, you're probably not that special.

And here's a new nugget...
There's a little WORD-chunk that talks about how Jesus was tempted in all the points that we are. This doesn't mean the exact same temptations (I don't think Jesus wanted to hit on guys... might've wanted to just plain hit them...), 'cause points refers to 'chinks' as Franko put it. The points at which the armour on a man or woman joins... the weak spots. J-man had different weak spots to me (I don't think I'd feel seriously tempted if Satan nudged me to turn rocks into bread). I've got different weak points to Him...
BUT,
He was prodded in the same way that I am. Satan is one crafty fellow.
Comparitively, I have the IQ of a boot.

Good thing I'm on Jesus' side, hey?

Love you all

God, please bless Cameron Diaz. Please put some of Your disciples in her life and speak Truth to her through them, or hey - just set something on fire and have a personal chat - whatever! Just, please, make sure that she hears Your Word and understands Your light and love in a hugely-beyond-massive way.
AMEN

How can I apolgise for my absense?

2007-02-02T02:40:00.000-08:00

Sorry...

is that okay?

Well, I'm in College now so I s'pose I might have some useful and almost interesting things to say once in a while.
I was going to delete this blog... I told a bunch of people that I would - not much for follow-through...
So I logged on merely to delete it and then I read the comments, those beautiful, caring comments.
NO, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO INSURE MY CAR WITH YOU OR HEAR ABOUT YOUR SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING OVER THE INTERNET...
how can i resist? I have been lured back to the blog.

So here's some thoughts on my first week (read - three days) of Training College.

* My session is SOOOOOOOOO FLIPPIN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! God's had that one up His sleave for a bit - I reckon!
* College will be much more painful that I first thought
* College will be no where near as painful as I first thought

(this makes sense 'cause I'm figuring that College will be far more extreme in experience that I bargained for... waitwaitwait, I'm a Cadet, I don't bargain!!!!!!)

* I will grow, grow, grow! Like mould on old cheese and unwanted superfluous hair!!!

that is all for now.
God loves you all.

Many, many, many blessings

God bless Linsay Lohan and Cher. God, please show them how much You love them and how precious they are in Your sight. Bring them into REAL LIFE! Hook them up with wise spiritual people who have hearts that are completely Yours.

Yours sincerely,
Rach

quote from a friend

2006-10-27T18:58:00.000-07:00

"I think sometimes i can just get so overwhelmed with living the way i want that i forget God has it all planned out yet i just forget to ask him"

thanks sarah. hit it on the head for me just now. was feeling snowed under by silly things. just need to ask Jesus!
really is that simple

celebrities... kasey chambers
keith urban

go the country singers. Go Jesus
God bless em!

more prayers for prayERs

2006-10-16T04:56:00.000-07:00

holly valance

nicolette sheridan

save them still

2006-10-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

Martha Stewart

Woody Harrelson

Pray it up!

save the celebrities

2006-10-10T15:46:00.000-07:00

jim carey

elisa cuthbert

blessings!

save the celebrities

2006-08-26T02:28:00.000-07:00

Ryan Renolds
Alanis Morissette

love them, save them LORD

amen

Hands-on healing

2006-08-24T00:53:00.000-07:00

so my back was a wee bit out of line. one vertabrae a little twisted or somethin somethin. Anways, it wasa giving me the bothers.
So I saw a chiro. Never wanted to, always thought they were a rip and I'd have to see one every second day beginning with 'T' or ending with 'Y' for the rest of my life!
Not so! Not so indeed!
My chiro is an awesome man of God and even gave me mate's rates! (praise the LORD). So it took a couple of sessions (also had to break up some fun scar tissue on my pelvic joint... I think i just gave too much away)... but I'm healed.
Back's back in line, scar tissue's been shown the door!
Thank You Jesus! Thank You for miraculous-super-quick-only-prayer-necessary healing! And Thank You for painful-had-to-pray-fervantly-due-to-the-ouch-Hands-On healing!!!!

Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!

-rach

Today is Wednesday

2006-08-16T05:06:00.000-07:00

yes, indeed it is!
Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!

Am starting a new 'consistency plan' with fleur. We're doing daily listening prayer diaries. we're also noting our obedience to God's loving hints and prompts.
Pray that we stay on track and that God blesses us.

-rach

SAVE (OR JUST PRAY FOR) THE CELEBRITIES

2006-08-02T20:30:00.000-07:00

tis kinda obvious....
Mel Gibson
God bless him, give him strength and help and healing and peace...

ummm....
Lindsay Lohan (agen - yay, bless her up!)
Paris Hilton (many blessings, peace, real identity in Christ, all that grood stuff)

many raspberries,
Rachael

why am i walking to melbourne?

2006-07-06T07:10:00.000-07:00

A. it's funny

B. So funny, infact, that people might actually pay money to see it

I'm going to Training College and don't have the $8000 that i need in my back pocketta. I need money. I could work harder or more but that wouldn't actually help. I'm practically living in a commune and I don't earn peanuts anyway.
Soooooooo, why not do something ridiculously stupid and get people to 'sponsor' me (that means pay me money to double check that I actually complete the assigned ridiculous task)

what's the stupidest thing i could do? shave my head? did that for free!
excerise? now, that's pretty funny... walk to melbourne? BA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H AH AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA AH AH AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA AH

that's freaking hilarious!

so...
GIVE ME MONEY

kidding!
pray, and if Jesus tells you to give me money, DON'T BE DISOBEDIENT!!!

ba ha ha
bless you all

I'm in perth

2006-07-06T07:06:00.000-07:00

yes, yes I am.

Celebrities are Kelsey Grammer and Dawn Fraser

Pray it up

rach

Aurora

2006-06-23T17:52:00.000-07:00

WAR CRY is youth group at Adelaide Congress Hall

is good times, grood times.

God bless!

Ewwww, bikes

2006-06-23T17:44:00.000-07:00

so, been thinking and praying and stressing and trying to organise crap and stuff...
and here is my conclusion

i hate bikes.
I don't want to ride to Melbourne! I don't want to ride down the street. i know that sometimes there's credit in doing something you don't want to necessarily do... But seriously, I'm planning to torture myself!
So it's back to plan A...
the ORIGINAL plan I ORIGINALLY had...

walk to Melbourne.
6 kms a hour and 10 hrs a day will get me there.
Sounds so much nicer than riding a BIKE (gag)

no offence to all you bike enthusiasts out there. - Good on yous.
It's just really, really, really, really, really not me

also, I can walk a little distance from the road so there's less chance of GETTING HIT BY A CAR AND DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would love and appreciate your thoughts
Keep the faith
-rach
G-bless

Save the celebrities....

2006-06-22T05:14:00.000-07:00

Tom Cruise
Katie Holmes...

... and their kid

Pray it up!
-rach

And the CELEBRITIES for this week aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare...

2006-06-13T06:33:00.001-07:00

Neil Diamond
John Pilger

God bless 'em!

Pray it up big-times!
-rach

This is your official schedule for 'Gen 1 Intensive World Winning Strategy Program Campaign, 2006'

2006-06-13T06:30:00.000-07:00

so... am working Thursday night so will sleep for a fair bit of Friday.
Meet for prayer meeting at 4.30 Then like this...
WAR CRY
street combat
laugh
sleep

wake up
pray / prayer walk / worship / dance
sleep

wake up
pray / crazy stuff
Church
hang out
sleep

wake up (it's monday by now)
pray / all that stuff
soup run
hang out
sleep

wake up
Ingle Farm Play group
prayer meeting ACH
cell group
watch a movie
sleep

wake up (wednesday)
whatever

AMEN! (God bless Marsharma)

Be blessed

the schedule is flexible.

-rach

feeling spaced out

2006-06-08T02:24:00.000-07:00

lift me up to Jesus

God save/bless the celebrities, specifically

Josh Groban
and
Tom Hanks
and
Philip Seymor Hoffman

Amen

-rach

in the morning

2006-05-30T20:18:00.000-07:00

i ate trifle for breakfast
then went to a high school chapel service with mel and the war cry band
then ate some more trifle.

God bless you all

p.s. day is only half-way through, am sure there is more trifle to come

I don't even like reading my own blogs

2006-05-25T22:00:00.000-07:00

... seriously am going to write more and less plenty...
that means I'm gonna try to blog more often and write less...
It's my plan anways.
Here's the low-down:
*gonna sell bags n stuff at a markety
*Got $180 to go towards T.C from a 'watching Pride and Prejudice and eating stacks of food' fundraiser.
*Mel is grood and losta funnage
*Work's grood - pray for losta Jesus!
*Sister is back home in Perth, had awesome time with her. Families are grouse
new thing or thang... either one

...
SAVE THE CELEBRITIES
(praying for celebrities... yay)

THIS WEEKS CELEBRITIES ARE
Nicole Kidman
Lindsay Lohan

Pray it up
Grace,
rach

ma num a nah!

2006-05-18T00:05:00.000-07:00

do doooo de do do!
ma num a nah
do do-do do
ma num a nah
do dooo do do do
do do do
do do do
do do do do do
do do DO DO DO!

yes, yes that was as much fun as i thought it would be!
werk was grood
got tiggered out tho
... that means tired.
The grape went backwards and we were expecting it to go forwards!!!

God bless you all
-rach

NOTE TO SELF

2006-05-12T07:10:00.000-07:00

stop burning toast

I played basketball

2006-05-08T05:50:00.000-07:00

and at one point, i fell on my bottom!
that's when i felt like i was playing hard!!!
(don't mess with me!)
Didn't spend much time on court due to not being exactly 'A grade' material... and was there to fill in for breathers for the other 5 players...
Wanted to feel a bit offended at one point, but really...(!) Am NOT the best basquetballer in the world, it's not an attack on my character to say that other people are better than me and therefore more deserving of court-time.

so i got over it
tried to be lovely and sweet and gracious.
told the other players i was happy to interceed on their behalf whilst they played
my prayer went like this
"God, if us winning this game is going to glorify You, let it happen... but really... whatever"

we lost the game...

is it bad that i find that funny...?

did a psych test today for Training College application.
Had to be bold and go with my gut on the answers (as 'uncertain' is not the preferable option)
So I think I might have come across a bit extreme.
I think the analysis might be something along the lines of

1) Ego, ego ego and did i mention EGO?!?!?!?!?! ("I consider myself the 'life of the party')
2) Likes art and thinks it's more important than feeding the homeless *am being a bit sarcastic*
3) Hates tradition and pomp and military processions
4) Gossips (wasn't able to add 'I'M AIMING FOR HOLINESS, I AM TRYING!!!!!!!')
5) doesn't like to work alone and doesn't work well with others
6) Thinks respecting elders is very important

... seriously, a LOT of questions about respecting elders! that might be the one aspect that gets me into College... I hope

Pray that God gets His way

God bless and bliss you all!!!!
-rach

let's face it, brethren!

2006-05-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

telekinesis? time-travel? mind-reading?
we're all geeks!
Praise the LORD!!!!!!!!!

so yeah, hoping to scam my way into College nixt yerr (2007) that's if i can keep up this secret identity... better not let my true superheroniss outathebaaaag!!!!!

who knows what would happen... maybe Nicole...

so, tonight (tOOOOONAAAAAHT!!!) we did a goal-mission-visioneeup thingo for Gen 1.
Grood stuff, grood stuff.

looking forward to the NKOTB (new kid on the block for everyone less that 20) from Vannnadeevannvann (Bancouber) - should be lotsa fun exploiting her labour! ..

I mean... uh... teaching her stuff... and doing fun stuff... and Jesus and ministry and ... a donkey?

not much that makes sense is going to come out of me from this point i feel

;alksdncuarhnas,mcnzxupcwperiuh

G-bless
-rach

really happening

2006-04-29T04:58:00.000-07:00

well, it's really happening

had my first 'candidates afternoon tea' today. carazy.
I've only handed in my A1 but it feels so official.

God has the best sense of humour. Who'd have thunk? And I'm so excited about going to Training College... really!

Work's going well and cell is grood too.

that's about it for now.

missing my families (located in Perth, Palmy, Vancouver, London, Dauphin, and where-ever else) stacks and stacks and heaps and heaps!

God bless and bliss you all!

p.s Question - if you were a superhero, what two super-powers would you want to possess?

me? never having to sleep and being able to fly at the speed of sound (light is just a bit too quick for me).

is been tooooooooo long....

2006-04-22T01:50:00.000-07:00

is been tooooooooooooooo long.
don't know if anyone even bothers to look here anymore... dag, maybe i need to write everyone e-mails just to let them know that I've blogged...

I've GOT to start doing this regularly
so anyways, how's everyone?
We're starting up a Gen 1 website... will keep you updated on that one

so, here's a question...

Who would give me money to ride a bike from Adelaide to Melbourne????

It's my genius fund-raising idea for Training College.
I think it's funny
Xander got over a grand for shaving his head - I mean, really!!! I've done that for FREE!

But now I need a new and exciting gimmick... EXCERCISE!!! How funny is that?!?!? ME doing EXCERCISE... BA HA HA HA

... ha ha

so lisa's gonna drive the car (very, very slowly) and follow me across to melbourne.

we're thinking it'll take about two weeks (including stops and preaching at random places, that sorta thing).

Am aiming for september to arrive at ACC... That's just an idea at the moment!

so, I'll keep ya'll posted.

... (does anyone want to give me money?)

lotsa love,
rach

God bless and bliss you all heaps and stacks

in a copper pot

2006-03-01T18:21:00.000-08:00

in a copper pot... by elizabeth mckinnon

This little dark kitchen
This still, small flame
Take me to this burning place

My protests give way
And I melt
Under ever-watchful eyes

A comfortable warm

Then I'm sweating and I'm panting and I'm crying

Then the slow melt.

Giving in
Like a thousand times before.

I've managed to forget the pain every time.

Now an aroma is rising,
a fowl stench
And the eyes still closely watching.

Ever melting
Ever breaking
Ever rising

Moose in a tankini

2006-02-22T19:34:00.000-08:00

Had a conversation about tankinis last night.
Much joy.
Urban Mission Campaign officially draws to a close tomorrow.
Will probably spend Saturday hanging out with the girls too.
Work is going well. Am only getting over-night shifts, though.
actually, I lie, I got called in for a day shift yesterday and it went really well.
My friend from work, Shirley, is coming to cell group on Tuesdays.
Have been doing street combat once a week (rest of the team, doing it 3 times a week) - this is mainly because of work schedule... but the times i am out there, it is pretty great.
God is still stretching me and pruning me and smashing me up into itty bitty pieces... Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!!!!

God bless you all abundantly!!!
-rach

God is good

2006-02-02T23:59:00.000-08:00

God is GROOD!... great and good at the same time!

Tomorrow, some people from cell and some other randoms are coming to the Morphett St house to watch The Passion of the Christ.
Pray that hearts are moved to repentance and Jesus has free reign.
At cell on Tuesday, a few extras from Ingle Farm came along and it was grouse.
More than one person commented on there being a 'peaceful climate' in the house and it was lovely, Praise the LORD!!!!
Alison (one of our Urban Mission Campaigners) is continuing to grow in leaps and bounds... like a lamb released from a stall!!!! Love the lovely, scary Malachi.
Erin is pushing through some struggles with parentals but is persevering (though not physically with us right now, she is joining us in Spirit each morning in PTB).
fleur's teaching is mint! What else can I say, she listens to Jesus!!!!!
Hungry Jacks is awesome. Pray for souls!!!!!!!!!
Love you all,
Many blessings and surprising joys!
-rach

p.s. i leave you with a poem

My mattress, it sits on the floor,
Whilst it could be on a frame,
of a bed that's made of wood,
yes, that'd be grood!

but my bother isn't so
that i really want to go
to that particular strain,
of effort, MANGE!!!!

sorry, that was fer reifer.

God bless you awl abundantly!!!!!!!
-rahc
eh
rach

yay for prayer rooms

2006-01-27T22:44:00.000-08:00

yay!!!!
We now have an OFFICIAL Urban Mission Campaign prayer room - did my first three hour shift in it today. was amazing.
Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!!!!
Urban Mission's going well and street combat was mint last night.
Have a massive list of names that the team have met on the streets and we want to be faithful servants and continually lift them up in prayer.
God is good, He's so good.
Work is going pretty well. Love all the staff and having a fair bit of fun - as well as witnessing by not freaking out during a shift that got stretched for an extra 3 hrs. Praise the Lord, He is faithful. Afterwards I was asked why I didn't flip out and just leave (trust me, I was tempted - finishing at 4.30 in the morning instead of 1.30 is a bit of a test) and I got to tell her that I was just praying through it. We left it at that, 'cause she had to keep working, but I pray that god will draw her closer to Himself and reveal His love and His redemption!!!!!!

Love yaz all, missing you all more than you know!!!!
God bless you ABUNDANTLY!!!!!!!
-rach

Me... Adelaide

2006-01-20T01:56:00.000-08:00

SO HOT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

... but seriously, though

is soooooo hot

did soup run tonight
was good
no in-depth conversations though
met a guy from perth
joined nathan's soup run team
urban mission campaign starts monday
praise the LORD!!!!
will be good
is seriously so hot right now
am sweating like a pig
ba ha ha aa ahah ha heh?

love and blessings,
rach

to be sung to the tune of 'hail to the bus driver'

2006-01-17T19:14:00.000-08:00

Hoooow-wad is a park ranger, park ranger, park ranger
hoooow-wad is a park ranger, God bless him stacks, yes!
he sits and he eats
and stares at his feets and yes
Hoooow-wad is a park ranger, God bless his socks!

does he know yogi and boo-boo?
I hope so
pic-a-nic basket!!!
so anywho, weather is still hot and all that and stuff
God is still good and all that and stuff
had two extras at cell last night that brought our total up to 6
Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!!!
God is bringing people to Urban Mission Campaign, which is also very exciting... again the total is now hitting around 6...
Praise the LORD, He is worthy to be praised!!!!
Am trying to read the Bible in 90 days, am 7 days in and a day behind. Yay for Grace!

miss you, all you perthians and melbournians and vancouverites and dauphinians... did i miss anyone? oooo! Londoners!!!

take care and God bless you heaps and heaps and stacks!

ba ha ha ha hmmmm

2006-01-09T17:57:00.000-08:00

Christmas and salami... ba ha! almost made me laugh out loud but i had to keep it in 'cause I'm in a library.

So... I'm back in Adelaide where the people are South Australian and the air is filled with liquid.. Seriously! It is so humid... more humid than Dauphin, even.

Got back the other day from the month and a bit in Perth - which was fantastic, aside from having like NO internet access - wait, lie. I had five minutes at my cousins house one time before the computer over-heated and shut down... and 10 minutes at Andrew's house, but most of that was me introducing him to the hilarity of Teen Girl Squad.

So... yeahm back herem
i worked at a child care centre in perth with my mum and I already miss it. It was heaps fun.
My parentals are well as is meine schwester, Catherine. Cat's new aparment is a stunner but she's just renting it out til november.

Grandparents are still alive... which is good.
Not long til my cousin andrea has her baby, and everyone is very excited.

Uh, my head kinda hurst and I can't really think of anything really interesting to say.

oo! out mini 6 week war college - Urban Mission Campaign - starts next monday. I don't know exactly what we'll be doing, but I'm sure it will be good.

anways,
God bless yaz all heaps and heaps and stacks
missing you all lots
-rach

that's not a blog... THIS is a blog

2005-11-20T04:45:00.000-08:00

THAT, on the other hand, is a slab of cheese!

I'm looking forward to the next Harry Potter movie
I'm also looking forward to seeing my parents
And going back to Perth for a month
And Christmas, yeah, that'll be fun
And I'm also really looking forward to seeing the world won for Jesus!!!!!

Aren't we all!!!
wait, we're not!
that's why we're still waiting...
hmmm
okay, that's deep enough, I'm going now
God bless!!!!
-rach

ha ha ha - that's amusing

2005-11-07T03:52:00.000-08:00

has anyone else got any comments along the line of
"hey, nice comment, have you checked out this new CONTROVERSIAL blog about PAYDAY LOANS or SHARES or PIG NOSTRIL HAIR?!?!?!?!?!"

here's a translation for ya'll
"hey, nice comment, did you know that I've found a CONTROVERSIAL new way to SHAMELESSLY PROMOTE MYSELF but making completely IRRELEVANT comments on other people's BLOGS!!!!!"

seriously, no more... please

thank you and God bless
-rach

wuts happened

2005-11-07T03:42:00.000-08:00

sorry it's been so long. stebe, I'm sincerely sorry

so, here it is in point form...
-have officially moved to Adelaide
-officially have a terrible photo on a South Australian driver's license.
-am working at DHQ two days a week
-working at Hungry Jacks (Aussie Burger King) on some of the other days
-just finished ONE MISSION conference - good times
-am going with Linsey and Phil to pray for my friend's Corps tomorrow - please support us in prayer
-am missing all the Van 614ers and perth and palmy family terribly
-am challenged (once again) to prayerfully reconsider my stance on finance
-am living with fleur
-am getting back on track with devos - seriously good times
-am striving for holiness
-love Jesus more than anything
-still have very short hair
-am tired

praise the Lord
-rach

"yes, but do you know where that cheese has been???"

hullo again

2005-09-10T17:23:00.000-07:00

am using free internet at Singapore Airport.
Love this place!

Bad news... broke the media fast with a movie night with Rachel and then a binge on the plane.
Starts again right NOW!
Yesm (new fave way to say yes), am back on the fast! WOOT!

If yer wondering, this is what I indulged in during the 26hr break
'This is Spinal Tap' - Hil ARRRRR ious!!!!!
'The Court Jester' - Angela Lansbury in her younger days. Very funny.
about 50 minutes of 'House of Wax' - terrible... just terrible. howev, Paris wasn't as shocking as I thought she'd be.
'The Longest Yard' - Adam Sandleer. Very funny. Aparently a re-make of one of the same name in the 70's which starred Burt Renyolds as the quarterback. Howev, as I had not seen this, it felt like a complete rip-off of the lovely English 'Mean Machine'. Yes, it was still funny, but there was a bit of a hole due to the lack of pretty accents, subtle humour and SOCCER instead of US footy.
... there's more to come - it was a very, very long flight.
'Kath and Kim' 2 episodes. Very, very fun but with some excrucitating moments during which I had to change the channel - ie, Kim 'relieving' herself in IKEA using a vestibule which was INDEED part of a display.
... is vestibule the right word? I don't know now.
about a half hour of JLo's 'Monster in Law' - a little bit funny
dag, there was something else but I've completely forgotten. sorry.
ooooo 'Madagascar!!!!!!' - that was fun. not brilliant, but fun.
Anways, hoping you're all well and all that.
Sorry for dribbling the useless info.
Thanks for reading!!!!
God bless you all heaps and hepas and stacks!!!
-rach

Ray Char Elle BORING

2005-09-09T02:38:00.000-07:00

I miss Jaime
But not enough to dedicate this WHOLE blog to her
he he he
I'm in England.
Where are you?
The green bin is very heavy - full of apples
Completely chocka
Rachel is well
And so am I
The license has been lost
But that's okay - we'll just break the law
We're under grace aren't we? Not law - you Pharisees
I don't want to be a Phar-i-see
I don't want to be a Phar-i-see
'Cause they're not fair, you see!
I just wanna be a sheep
ba ba ba baa

Yeah, THAT was worth the typing

anways, God bless and bliss you awll

-rach

doesn't time just fly....

2005-09-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

ooooooo like a pigeon
brown and confused like meeeeee

OOOOOOOO, time just gooooooes
like I never wanted it to

And it stops where it will
When I'm most uncomfortable?
And it pecks me in the face

If you just stare up at time
It will poo in your eye

like my song???? made it up jesthen. Anyone else hearing the faint whisper of 'Grammy... Grammy'?
BA HA HA HA HA
So this year has rushed past like the Glory of the LORD when Moses was hidden
Actually, yeah, that's the best similie I can think of.
What happened?
1) God changed me
2) God gave me a bunch of new families
3) God changed them too
4) God continued the restoration of His people in the downtown eastside of Vancouver
5) I put on about 20 pounds

... the last one was irrelevant

Actually, maybe not as irrelevant as one may first assume. I think I physically look quite different than I did in October last year. And I'm becoming quite comfortable in this skin. That doesn't mean fat and lazy... well, I am fat... JUSTICE! yeah!
But dyoo know what I mean? God's shifted my focus so much from surface crap to His Great Commission. Sure, I don't want to be physically repulsive and say that God wants me that way. But I think when we start peeling off the make-up, swapping our 'fine linens' for simple garments, and (ladies!) thinking of respecting our brothers in Christ when we choose the way we outfit ourselves each morning... well, when we do all this, the veil of superficiality is lifted - a hinderance in the revelation of Christ's love in our lives is removed, and we clothed instead with Godly splendor, and the protection of a covering of Holiness can rest upon us....

okay, maybe that's reading a little too much into my new wardrobe... and yeah, perhaps a few of the changes in my dress are due in fact to lack of funding, rather than Biblical principles... but maybe, just maybe... I'm onto something

God bless and bliss you all excessively!
-rach

this is a new post

2005-08-13T19:00:00.000-07:00

am well
is hot
is in bancooba
is smell lots
am tired
am going fun times
have only one week with the other martyrs
why am i on the puter and not giving them hugs?
am gonna go hugem

bub-bye
God bless and bliss you
-rach

Guess what Marnz got me for my birthday???

2005-08-04T17:05:00.000-07:00

a nose ring

it's on the left side and it's a little silver spike.
she was gonna get me another tattoo but I joked that what i really needed to freak my parents out (as i already have a tat) is a facial piercing. Marnz thought it was a grrrrrreat idea so i was like 'uh... okay, sure!'

so i look like a bit stuffnstuff.
might have to invest in that white t and sharpie afterall.

love yaz all. God bliss you all hepas and stackas!!!!

-rach

If I can bake cookies...

2005-07-26T19:56:00.000-07:00

why can't I cook bakies?

Yeah, I'm pretty deep, I know!
"Wow! You must get smarter the shorter your skirt gets!"
"And you get smarter the shorter your hair gets, so I 'spose this is a good look for you!"
-Empire Records

So is it prophetic?
uh... sure, why not!
Actually, I wanted to do it for graduation and send my ponytail to Wigs for Kids. My hair was gettin' fairly longish and was starting to hurt a bit as it was pulling on my scalp when it was in a bun. Me and Julz and Deb went to the Drop In to play pool at about one in the morning and Julz found Tim's clippers 'cause he'd given some of the boys hair cuts. Deb has an awesome mohawk and it looks lovely on her so Julz is like "Rach! You should get one!". I was like "uh... okay! Weeee! Funnage!"
so they chopped the pony and I found it very amusing 'cause it looked like a very big dead rat. It was just over a foot long. Deb started hacking away and after about 2 hours of very intense work, I had a mohawk. It looked RIDICULOUS!!!! It flopped over and I looked like one of the dudes from New Kids on the Block (Hang Tough) and then they parted it down the middle for laughs and I looked like New Kids on the Block fan... who's special.
We tried to spike it with glue... as Xander puts it, I'm "thrifty".
It still looked like crap. (have given up on carp)
Julz laughed at me and then buzzed it off. Deb liked the mo. Deb is really too nice.
So prophetic? uh... wait
Was talking to Marnz today and she said that the hair (lack of) gave her a bit of a shock and she'd prayed about it. What she felt the Spirit saying was "The old has gone and the new has come".
WOOT!
YESSSSS

Love God
Love my hair
Love you all!!!!

God bless and bliss you!
-rach

Okay, okay

2005-07-26T17:58:00.000-07:00

not SKIN - bald.

My hair's about .7 of a cm all around. Uh, that's like a third of an inch. NO LIE.

Yeah, I'll get photos at my partay on Sunday. I'll be 21 WOOT! AAARGH! YIPPEE! BLAAAAH... have mixed feelings on that one.

God bless you all

BA HA TRAVIS IS WRONG!!!!!
BA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
(and we all love him with the love of Christ)

yeah james, you better not shve yer head - funny and yet roilly dodgy. (esp. considering the sharing bed n' all)

I'm going now.

-rach

The wind feels funny

2005-07-25T10:51:00.000-07:00

Why, why does the wind feel funny?
Well, it might be because I haven't felt a good breeze for about three months.

It could also be due to the fact that Julie shaved my head last night.

I was awake, but maybe I should tell people I was sleeping.

You know how all of the best ideas occur to you when it's two o'clock in the morning? Well, this was one of them.

BRILLIANT! LET'S DO IT!!! At first, it was a mohawk - that was the brilliant part. The not so brilliant part is that I looked like the missing member of DC Talk - ala 1993. We tried to spike it with glue but it still looked like crap.
So we shaved it all off.
I have my pony-tail in a zip-loc bag.
It looks like a dead animal.

So yeah, whenever you see me next, you might get a weedle bit of a shock.
I think I'll have to take to a white t-shirt with a sharpie - "Seriously, I AM STRAIGHT!!!"
Crap, probably wouldn't be the best idea.
I really do like it, though, but I can see how people might think... uh... stuff.

Okay, I'm done
Okay, I'm bald

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!
he he he he he

God bless you all!!!!!!!!

- bald-headed Rach

Hey anonymous

2005-07-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

I like cheese too!!!

WOOT!

God bless us, everyone!
-rach

"WOOT! Eweh-oww" excited jump followed by realisation of rib being broken

2005-07-20T09:35:00.000-07:00

Not long now...

Am sad
Leaving will suck.

God has done a lotsa workin in me.
Am a bit sore and a bit tired from all the stuff He's doing. BUT have had awesome times with friends just sharing with each other and really awesome stuff.
I was talking about some stuff yesterday and my friend Laura said that it sounded like i need to forgive myself for leaving.

Probably do.

Have rehearsed my 'presentation' for when we get back to TWC and it comes across very bitter, sarcastic, (what I think is funny), angry and just mean. It's 'cause I know how sad I will be. Pray that I'm actually honest then and I don't front.
'Cause that would be silly.
I actually pictured myself saying a very rude word right in Stephen Court's face. Which is because I'm sad and a little scared that I will have let him down, so part of me wants to be ready to be angry.

Bleh.

Need prayers
God bless all you guys!!!!!
God bless Stephen Court - awesomely cool guy. (I don't really want to say a rude word in his face).

-rach

If Canada was a piece of cheese...sing it

2005-07-15T09:12:00.000-07:00

And Australia was a tylenol
Then lactose-intolerant Amer-ee-khans
Would like to go to England

But England is a crispy fry
And France is a po-tay-toe
Spanish men in igloo hats
Dance a jig on hippos

My cat, he ate Tasmania
If, indeed, I had one
Noo Zeh-lenders are all hobb-bits!
On jello pancakes, anytime!!!

Myself, I am a crazy, yes!
And Belgium's made of chocolate
But not the yummy, Belgium kind
Which is so un-four-too-nate!

Sweden, full of Swedes and beans
If I ever am President
They'll use this poem ah-genst me
For political incorrectness

"It's all in fun", the faeries cry
Spelt in Shakespeare stylin'
"That's woman's fit as you and I
To up this country's debt...ing"

"Let's sell our land! It's made of drugs!"
"BRILLIANT" yelled the mad-man
He happens to be, Rachael's son
And he has shares in Tylenol

My bag is made of vinyl, yes!
It's orange like the sunrise
On Grecian shores, of mayonaise
Blue and green to Plato's eyes.

If ever there, were a time
Quite unlike this moment
I would not be Crazy Girl
Unless I was provoke-ed.

Okay, I'm done
God bless us, everyone!
-rach

Toniiiiiiight... TONIIIIIIIGHT am singing

2005-07-12T20:58:00.000-07:00

Well, TONIGHT God told me to go to Tim Horton's and get blessed. I tried to scam out of it as Timmy Ho's is a bit of a hike, and I don't really like spending money.
But, despite my other suggestions God insisted that Timmy's was the place to be.

Obviously, considering His instistence, I WAS expecting Elijah Wood to great me at the door and exclaim; "Wow! I had a vision about you a year ago, God showed me that you're the woman I'm meant to marry!"

Un-four-too-nate-ly, this did not happen. (Everyone's like "What?!?!")
What DID happen is that I ran into a lady who helps out at the Thrift Store, sat with her and her friend drinking coffee, and then was introduced to friends of the friend, who were sitting next to us.
THAT was the blessing. Her name is Tiffany.
If she reads this, she's totally weirded out now.
But anways, she was with her Grampa and we started talking, and, well, you need to know that I was on my ninth cup of coffee for the day... I didn't STOP talking. (sure rach, blame the coffee). By the Grace of God, she managed to get a couple of words in and it could have almost passed as a normal conversation to a passer-by (and not a wavering stand-up act relying completely on the gimmick of accent to get laughs).
She's about 14ish and she's really cool and she wants me to come visit her in Winnepeg when she goes home. Before she leaves here for home she's going to the Dauhpin Bible Camp for a week. Hopefully, I get to visit her there. So, nothing crazy Michael Collins' styles happened, but I was amazingly blessed. I feel like I'm in a perfect place to pray for her to be prepared for this camp.
I've been struggling a lot with 'what am I actually DOING?' and it's been driving me a bit crazy. I know I'm doing stuff, but God is so intent on having me just BE, that my pride is taking a beating.
Funnily enough, my pride is completely stupid and thinks it's big enough to fight God, so it's trying.
It will lose!
IT SHALL LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!!!!!
HERE THAT?????
(punk)

So TONIGHT God just made me BE and I think He's doing something big.
Tiffany and her Gramps have a tradition of going to Timmy Ho's every night at 9pm and they asked me to come back tomorrow so I can meet Gramma.

Whoah... I totally got favour tonight.

TONIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

okay, I'm done.

Love yaz awl
God bless and bliss you or ewe (that's for the Niw Zehlendars!)
-rach

without the mullet

2005-07-11T22:01:00.000-07:00

Well, my term as acting C.O here in Dauphin is almost up. The Mitchell's will be home on Thursday and I realised I should probably clean the house.
Thing is... I couldn't find any vacuum cleaner bags! I seriously looked... well... I can't say 'everywhere' but, in a lot of places.
So, as acting C.O, I thought I'd make an execuitive decision to BUY NEW BAGS!!! WOOT!

What WASN'T part of my plan, was to buy THE WRONG KIND!?!?!?!?!?

And so, desperate to make a start on the 'floor maintenance' and highly unwilling to spend any more money that isn't mine... I managed to fashion a temporary vacuum bag out of an old pillow case and a hair elastic.

Hurrah!!! I am Magiver!!!! *Minus the mullet*

Is that even how you spell his name?

Anways, am sort of in middle with super-cool-fun time with Jesus and just wanted to interupt that to tell you all of my adventures...

God bless you all with informed purchases!!!!!!

-rach

How will people remember me??

2005-07-08T22:32:00.000-07:00

Seriously rach, does it matter?
Well, no, but I still wonder all the same.

Rach - she was funny (fellow inmates?)
The Australian Girl - I struggled to understand most of what she said (Dauphin Rotary members, man, the whole of Dauhpin)
The 'Pasty' One - I thought she was their cousin! (anyone who knows my sisters)
The Sporty One - wrong rachael
The Serious One - I haven't seen her since year eight (Morley kids - Holahhhh)
The Scholarship Girl - What'd she even get that scholarship for, anyway?? (Perth Collegians and - I don't know!)
She... uh... tried (Australian Idol judges... KIDDING!)
She made her mark! (Aussie rules, anyone? - ba ha ha I can't catch!)
Rachael *insert surname* - Primitive Salvationist (I can only hope - and pray, oh, and live it out too)

You know, what the potato chip does it matter, anways. I can get so caught up in what other people think of me that I totally forget about God. That really stinks.
How do I want to be remembered by God? Well I don't have to be remembered by Him - I'm moving into His place!
Rach - She finally realised that I was more interested in my relationship with her than in what she could say, do or ever achieve... that and watching her dance makes me wet myself.

Love yaz awl
God bless you stackas and hepas and lotsas

-rach

Something just occured to me...

2005-07-06T22:16:00.000-07:00

"The allure of the Scottish Isles"
kinda rhymes with
"The manure of the squattish piles"

If Carmen Electra wanted to be a super hero... she could.

If I could have two super powers they would be
1) The ability to fly (without aid of plane)
2) The ability to function without sleep.
I could chase night all around the world.. and then I could get sick of it and just live in the day-time for a few years!
I'd fly to Scottland and makes friends with people who like sushi and who want to take me out places and buy me stuff 'cause I'd be famous and it'd make them look cool too!

If 'Being John Malkovich' was a burger and not a movie... I'd really like that burger.

If I just ate my weight's worth of 'diet' food products - it still aint gonna help any.

If I ate my weight in pure gold... I'd be atleast worth my 'former' weight in gold!
*does HCl mess up metallic substances???*

If Pink's name wasn't a colour... it'd probably be 'Jane' or somthin.

If princesses played rugby... well, I dunno, I don't think it'd be that big of a deal. Seriously, maybe they should!

If everyone I loved lived in one house... there'd be one big freaking line for the dunny.

Love yaz Awll

God bless ya stacks and heaps
-rach

Power of Prayer blows my mind

2005-07-03T14:13:00.000-07:00

*What's up with my new habit of Random Capitalisation?? - I'll blame A.A Milne - all mah Pilglet homies out there hear me!*

Yeah, prayer is awesome. Was totally revived and focussed by some quality time in the prayer room here. The chicks weren't too weirded out - praise the LORD! They just went for a walk and I prayed and cried and cried and prayed. Good times! God times!!! WOOT!

I've called it a day (weekend) on the Country Fest. Tonight is the last night but since we'd been going since Thursday, I'd kinda done my dash! Got to meet a few new interesting people and have some fun. I wrote fun stuff on my T-shirts (thank you Jaime Reifer!) - so that made for a few cool convos!
I was funny being in that crowd of thousands. After being away from this kinda stuff, I'd kinda got a new perspective. I felt like I could see the spiritual muck in the air. I was praying for a stack of the time, but it wasn't 'down on my face in the mud with lotsa tears' prayer - it was just really simple stuff. I almost felt a bit silly coming before Jesus with these simplistic requests 'make everyone be a step closer to You through this weekend', 'please protect people', 'make the spirit of lust, like, go away!', 'let there be less sex at this Country Fest than there's ever been for these years'.
The last prayer was my favourite. It was a struggle, though, not having words of knowledge and cool 'spiritual' stuff to say. I really had to believe that God was listening (and prompting) these child-like prayers. (children praying about no sex? uh, you get what I mean, yeah?) Which is why I'm not there tonight. Sure, I'm completely stuffed, but I still would've LOVED to go and meet more people and wear a T-shirt that says "WANT PRAYER?" and get into weird convos and all groovy, fun stuff. But Jesus told me to stay home. He's not so interested about what I can DO for Him (what a silly concept anways!), but my relationship with Him. I'm not saying I should stay locked up in a hole forever, but that I need to keep seeing more and more that God is in control and when I seek Him, He will tell me what to do instead of me running off like an idiot trying to save the world without Him. He he he - was so just reminded of a Five Iron Frenzy song - My Evil Plan to Save the World. Whoah - self-centered striving is bad... very bad.
I also need to remember that God can do more with my prayers than He can do with me physically! V. v. v. v. important! - as is so relevant in so many areas of my life right now. ie. praying for salvation of family members and friends!

So, anways, prayer is cool and lotsa good stuff.

Love yaz all
Take care and God bless ya stacks and heaps and loads!!!
-rach

I wanna be here now

2005-07-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

am listening to that theme song from Dawson's Creek and I'm feeling a bit down. I just feel like crying or something. I don't know why. It's gunna be such a big weekend. It started last night at Country Fest and we're going there today and tomorrow and the next day!
I don't want to feel down. I'm hanging out with two really cool chicks and I want to be a good example. I don't want to be stressing out about stupid stuff either.
I'm getting kinda homesick.
I can't wait to get back to Van, and then Perth. Man, just missing people is grinding work.
Okay, Dido song just came on that's about slowing down and calling on me.

I'm going to go pray for a bit.

These chicks might be weirded but that's okay.

I love you all. God bless you heaps and heaps and heaps and hepas!!!
-rach

The pies taste like...

2005-06-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

pies!

Not like poo.

Not the best pies in the world, granted. But they taste like pies nevertheless.

God bless yaz awl!!!
-rach

Guess what i just did?!?!?!?

2005-06-27T20:28:00.000-07:00

I just baked pies.

Te he he he he!

Meat pies, though, so not tooooo gramma. Actually, a bit English gramma. I don't have a receipe or anything. I just found two pie bases in the freezer, cooked some meat, through some stuff in there... eggs, harsh-brown potatoes, bbq sauce...

Those who think I'm joking, I'm not.

I hope they don't taste like poo.
I made two.

I think I'm going crazy.

Fasting t.v. is hard.
I had a craving for a hallmark movie today. It's kinda sad. I didn't realise I had a problem!

Okay, I'm done now.
Love you all!
God bless and good night!
-rach

I miss everyone

2005-06-26T15:52:00.000-07:00

yes, yes i do.
Yes Jaime, I will notice if you steal a twenty from the dresser...

te he he

I even miss pretend people right now - my lovely two-dimentional companions who 'love' me from behind the screen.

Dag, yo. Not watching telly is hard, hard work.

Had good prayer time just now, though.

Am so freaking tired right now.

God bless you all lots and happy-lots!
-rach

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!?!?!

2005-06-25T20:26:00.000-07:00

...even if i got it tattooed to my forehead you probably still wouldn't believe me.

Because I was chatting to Jesus last night and He said lots of stuff that was really great...
And then we started talking about watching videos...

So now I'm fasting films and T.V for 6 months!!!!!!

OH MY!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's going to be really hard so please pray for me lots that God will reveal Himself to me in new ways and all that good stuff. And that I will not be tempted beyond what I can bear!!!! YAY for 1 Corinthians 10:13~!!!!

I'm thinking this might be a time for me to focus on the Word and memorise some scripture. I have so many lines from films stuck in my head it is a power that could be used for good instead of evil. Don't wish my luck but pray for me!!!!!
And don't invite me out to the movies when I get back to Vancouver....

BLAH HA HA HA HA... help

love yaz all
God bless ya stacks and heaps and lots and Robin Hood Men in Tights

-rach

WARNING: THIS LIFE IS TEMPORARY!

2005-06-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

not that i mean you should turn into crazy-over-protective-safety-first-germaphobic (no offence linsey - kidding!)

but seriously folks, we weren't made for time. we grow old (if we're blessed that way) and our bodies fail and we get wrinkly and we start to repeat ourselves and we get wrinkly...

and we're MEANT to die. sounds pretty gross, huh? We were designed with our death as an inevitable part of the plan.
One of the greatest lies of this world is that this place is all there is.
This life is just a prelude, an opportunity to get aquainted with God 'cause if you take up the invitation to enter into a love relationship with Him that is real and personal... you guys will be hanging out FOREVER! (i figure that eternity is a concept the human brain wasn't designed to really grasp - but try anways)

God bless you all!!!!!!
heaps and heaps to eternity.

-rach

Who left the Australian in charge?

2005-06-20T11:55:00.000-07:00

Monday afternoon, spent the morning making emergency relief packs and checking the mail - sounds pretty strenuous, I know.
Had a bit of fun packing the food with one of the ladies here. What a sweet-pea!
I'm gunna write a poem then start prepping my preach for Sun...

It's pretty sunny outside
Dauphin is the place for sunshine
They named this town after
They killed the French dude with the name
I don't get it do you?
Any clue would be much appreciated
I miss all my crew
from the down-town, but i don't miss the smell

Oh I want to see you again!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII wanna see you again
*have Dido song in my head*
Anthing else would be slightly more painful
I feel like watching Briget Jone's
I feel like vegetartian lasagne
From a little market in London
Those days were good, I spent lots of money

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII need to get back to my work
OH IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII should really stop this poem

*It's post-modernist*!!!!!
God bless yaz awl!
-rach

'Essentials'

2005-06-18T23:11:00.000-07:00

Well, the Mitchell's are off to BC tomorrow, leaving me here with a bunch of people who said they'd give me a hand if I ever need anything...
Chocolate, anyone?

So the packing frenzy started today and five year old Brooklyn was determined to pack for herself. After Brooklyn's retiring to the bedroom, Marnz and I thought it best to 'double-check' Brooky-Boos packing. We were delightfully surprised (and in stitches from laughter) at the result. It was plently fun to get a small window into the mind of a 5 yr old through Brooky's view of 'essentials' for the three week trip...

here it is...

5 sets of pyjamas
4 bathing suits
1 tutu
1 pair blue sneakers
1 party dress
1 barbie
1 barbie horse
1 barbie cowboy boot
1 barbie ballet slipper
1 dora the explorer jump rope
1 dore the explorer hand bag
1 easter basket
1 headband with rabbit ears
1 santa gingerbread man doll
3 bracelets
4 dollars (apparently to share with Keggi, Ali and alex)
1 bobble-head dog
1 teddy bear dressed as ladybug
4 easter eggs

i think i've got my priorities all wrong.

God bless you all
-rach

God is eloquent

2005-06-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

Wrote a little prelude to some lyrics and had to link a 'I love Jesus and He loves me!' type song to the theme of revolution.

This poured out of my head, and I reckon it's pretty good, so I'm giving the props to God.
If you think it sucks, I wrote it

This song is about the war of inner revolution, when a complete transformation of foundational ideolgy is prompted by Love. Grace unleashes a political upheaval where the totalitarian dictatorship of the 'self' is overthrown. Hence, the beginning of pure revolution, and the power to govern one's life and determine one's future is given over to the Prince of Peace and Humble King, Jesus Christ.

I likey!
Hope ya'll don't think I'm being a num-num for thinking what I/Jesus writes is cool.

Jaime probably does, but that's okay 'cause she loves me anways and I lub her too!!!

-rach
God bless you all big-time!

Encouraged / Scared Stupid

2005-06-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I was talking about how I needed to be encouraged to be more fervent about reaching out with the gospel... and Jesus heard me!
Was doing pray the Bible this morning and Jesus is like 'ummm... Ezekiel!'
I said 'uh... okay'. Biblical knowledge is... growing... (I won't tell you that the main thing I know about Ezekiel is that Samuel. L. Jackson quotes it in 'Pulp Fiction' and it's on the sound track).
Hia et iss! (Jithrow frum Noo Zehlend!)
Ezekiel 3:16 - 21 (NIV)
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.
"Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die for his sin. The righteous things he did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he took warning, and you will have saved yourself."
WHOAH!!!
I sometimes think that this kinda stuff is all good for the Old Testament, but 'cause Jesus came, He does all the work and it's no worries for us!
CARP!
C-diddy Booth was on the money when she said all that scary stuff! This quote is stolen from Duggie Burr's Blog - in turn stolen from 'Agressive Christianity (Credo Press)
"It's almost scary how much God will hold you responsible for the salvation of those around you." - Catherine Booth

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!

Now I'm starting to get why God's SO on my case about relationships over projects.
(duh)
Cool thing though - we're not in charge of the heart - prep. THAT'S the hard stuff, and that's the stuff that Jesus does.
Ezekiel 2:6-7
"And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house. You must speak My words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious."
We just have to lead them to water. God's in charge or whether or not they drink.
Someone was telling me the other day about doing door-to-door evangelism with a crazy-on-fire evangelism group and there were two little old ladies with them. As they were continuously door-slammed and mocked, the group became disheartened whilst the two older women showed no discouragement whatsoever. Someone asked the women why they remained so up-beat when people refused to hear the Gospel. They simply replied, "they aren't the ones we came for".
This whole epiphany doesn't mean I'm not completely shicken ('My Girl') and that I'm bounding up and down the streets declaring that the LORD COMETH!!!! - it also doesn't mean that I bring this stuff up with confidence when conversing with my older sister - and it doesn't mean that when I meet people, I feel the urgency of their salvation... I think it DOES mean that God is working on me and i think he's got the blue-prints of primitive salvationism up His sleeve - YEAH!

So God bless yaz all heaps and stacks and loads!!!!!!
-rach

Jesus is a champion

2005-06-11T16:09:00.000-07:00

Just thought everyone should know that. Hoping that a fair chunk of you already do. Hey, did you know that 'bags not it' is an Australianism and non-Australians don't actually understand it??? Considering my audience... probably yes.
Anways, (told you it's the new word)have cool shiny stuff in my pockets to show you.
I used to say "this too shall pass" when things sucked.
Then, during my yr 11 and 12 exams, it morphed into "this too shall pass, whether or not I will - is the question!"
I thought it was pretty funny... and I'd say it like John Cleese so that made it sophisticated and funny at the same time... and I'm kidding myself... Monty? Sophisticated????
hmmm....
Anways, after growing up a little bit, I realised that my Daria-esque cinicism wasn't quite as cool as I thought it was - as the 'comment' was always made not with cheer, but with a dark-undertone of hopelessness... that I thought was amusing at the time - not so!!!
So I stopped saying it - was coming out of identity crisis and 'trying' to embrace my natural disposition toward chirpiness and energy and silliness (that I had loathed all these years).
Had a thought just now though - was reading Dougie Burr's blob (what a champ) and he was quoting some stuff and this little saying jumped into my head again in a very different light.
Instead of bleh, my life sucks - when am I gunna die already? it was more like - whoah, eternal perspective!!! This world will pass away! I'm gonna be with Jesus in Heaven at some point!!! Marnz said the other day that the most perfect things here on earth are only carppy copies of stuff in Heaven! WHOAH!!!!!
And not only is heaven cool, you can almost take the concept of our acknowledging our temporal lives to gaining a new urgency to reach out with the Gospel and share the love of Jesus more fervently!!!
okay, maybe it's a bit much, but I like it and I'm sticking to it. I need all the encouragement I can get when it comes to the 'neccessity' of saving the world - and doing it quickly. I'm VERY prone to ignoring the inevitable righteous judgement of God and thinking that my friends and family are okay 'cause they're 'nice people'. Ew, is such a wrong thing to think.
God, give me revelation and urgency!!!!!!
Jesus, you're an absolute champion! Let me watch you work and be open to Your invitation to join You and become more like You in the process!
AMEN

sorry - this was a lot longer than i thought it would be

...
and I'm done!
God bless yaz and I love yaz and all that good stuff
-rach

SUE ANN

2005-06-08T20:44:00.000-07:00

I LOVE YOU

Travvy and Brakes!

2005-06-08T20:30:00.000-07:00

Trav - you crack me up! The fact that you signed as Keith Green - almost dropped a lung. *am juggling six right now - is tricky but my heart will forever yearn until I finally reach my nirvana - the circus*

Brakes - Man, I miss you sooooo soooo much! sorry I have been a carppy e-mailer. Am trying to work on that. What you said - highly relevant! Has been a big time of laying down my plans and striving to let God do His stuff through me (which is, like, so way so muchly more coolerer than me)

Man, I miss ALL you guys soooo much - yes, you too mister-random-was-looking-for-askely-simpson-site-and-got-here-by-accident! You're my new best friend!!! I even like Ashley Simpson too! We can hang out and bake cookies and play netball. *random's from a non-canadian commonwealth country!*

Jaime!!!! he he he he he he he he he he eh he he...eh?
oo, have turned into canadan!
miss you soo much.

everyone else - leave a comment and I'll let you know how much i miss you and care and all that!

anways - carp! anways is the new cool word. that's all.... or is it?

"God Bless You All!"

2005-06-07T09:48:00.000-07:00

yep

question

2005-06-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

is it just me, or when hotmail makes you type out the messed up letters in that box thingo - is that like the most difficult thing ever?

ok, just me.
seriously, my eyesight's fine, but I get totally stressed when that thingo pops up like i think i'm going to break the computer, and some orphan's legs if i don't get it right.
and then everything is really, really hard to read and suddenly a 4 looks like a 6 and a 'P' looks like a 'G' and the screen of the computer looks like pie and your mum looks like...

dag, yo! it's so bad how i think i'm sooo funny at 2 in the morning.
it's so past my bed time
God designed me to be asleep at this hour. I'm sure of it!

that's all

God bless!
-rach

oh happy day!

2005-06-05T20:19:00.000-07:00

Love the lovely Jesus.
He really met me today and we just chilled out together.
Was awesome.
He is the awesomest.
of the awesome.
Am totally getting excited about... uh... everything.

Brooklyn just sang to me. Was sooo cute and hilarious at the same time.
She was randomly tracing words on the page as she made stuff up - she is such a funny girl!
The last one was Brahms' Lullaby so here it is... as sung by Brooklyn Mitchell
"Lullaby, lullaby
sweet goodnight, sweet goodnight.
It's okay, don't be scared
There's someone there...
And i don't know who he is..."

I'm still laughing.
Maybe it's just me

okay, I'm going now.
Luv yaz!
And God bless ya stacks.
-rach

please, please. please tell me who you are!!!!

2005-06-03T13:05:00.000-07:00

who wrote the zamboni thing? I totally cracked me up soooo bad! I NEED TO KNOW WHO IT WAS!!!!!
Okay, okay... I'm okay.
...
but seriously...
WHO WAS IT?????????

so, I'm gonna talk about me now.
I'm good.
Still striving for holiness and still enjoying pickles in burgers.
wait...wha? 'still' striving for holiness? It's actually a pretty new thing.
so that's my news.
I want to be holy... 'cause God wants me to be holy... and I love God, He's the best!
(seriously, He is!)
oh, and I'm very, very bad at baseball, but I'm playing it anyway. I was catcher on Tues and I couldn't throw to the pitcher! (what I did learn, is what that actually means... and how bad that means I am)
Played golf on Wednesday so this is officially the summer of new sports!!!
yay!
I can say new sport's' 'cause there's two... and that makes it plural! yay!

okay, I'm going now.
We are on tornado watch! yay! my friend marnz just rang and said she got wet standing outside. she explained that she heard we were on tornado watch so she thought she'd go outside and watch for tornadoes!
she's funny!
everyone is funny!
I can't think of one person right now who isn't funny!

yay! joy!
-rach

Start again

2005-05-31T13:26:00.000-07:00

Hey youz,
'You're only cool if you pee your pants'
B. Madison
Have cleaned the blog as was full of some sad and angry stuff that should've gone in personal e-mails (and personal conversations) rather than the world-wide web.
The blog-world is dangerous place as I can start in a 'bleh' mood and when you delete the human element and your companion is a computer screen, reason can be thrown out to allow for escalating nonsense and 'bleh'.
As prompted by some very good friends, I'm thankful that I'm realising that real open , honest communication is something I really need to work on. It's funny, I used to think that I was just sooo honest and sooo righteous because of it.. then i realised that wasn't quite on - that open criticism doesn't equal honesty! Then there was another level of honesty that I was living in for a while where I could still 'flip a switch' and have feelings and stresses that only appeared in my little world of one.
So Rach, welcome to a new level.
So here's me sharing some stuff with yaz. And then there's other stuff that I'll share in other places instead of vomitting it all up on a computer screen.

So... now that's out there...
My day today...
Picked out music for Sunday, cleaned a bit, hung out with Jules, did some computerdora stuff, rearranged the chairs at the Corps (was fun. Looks nicer I reckon), worked on one of the banners we're putting up in the Corps... kept busy! Am hanging out with Kez this arvo. Then have my first softball game... ever!
God is totally showing me that He wants to do the most work in and through me through relationships this summer.
Is a hard one to grasp and have been struggling. Howev, being the funny God He is, opportunities have jumped out of nowhere for me to really speak into people's lives. I need to break off that carp that says that 'projects' are more important than people.
This is awesome! It's going to be a bigger blessing (and a harder task - luckily is not me working, but God) than anything.

So God bless yaz awl!

-rach

2005-05-22T21:26:00.000-07:00

storm back home

A Voice Calling in the Desert

effective church leadership

Title:

Just realised i didn't answer the question

Judgment vs discernment

crusty bits of jelly-dust

Blogger is telling me to 'manage my blog'

it's raining

Words beginning with the letter 'R'

MOCHEE n the BOSS

still alive

strong like coffee

Grood thoughts, Rhonda

things, things and stuff

balance?

yes xan, i really did say that thing

reflection on college life

sunday sunday sunday

so... like... yeah

Today

How can I apolgise for my absense?

quote from a friend

more prayers for prayERs

save them still

save the celebrities

save the celebrities

Hands-on healing

Today is Wednesday

SAVE (OR JUST PRAY FOR) THE CELEBRITIES

why am i walking to melbourne?

I'm in perth

Aurora

Ewwww, bikes

Save the celebrities....

And the CELEBRITIES for this week aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare...

This is your official schedule for 'Gen 1 Intensive World Winning Strategy Program Campaign, 2006'

feeling spaced out

in the morning

I don't even like reading my own blogs

ma num a nah!

NOTE TO SELF

I played basketball

let's face it, brethren!

really happening

is been tooooooooo long....

in a copper pot

Moose in a tankini

God is good

yay for prayer rooms

Me... Adelaide

to be sung to the tune of 'hail to the bus driver'

ba ha ha ha hmmmm

that's not a blog... THIS is a blog

ha ha ha - that's amusing

wuts happened

hullo again

Ray Char Elle BORING

doesn't time just fly....

this is a new post

Guess what Marnz got me for my birthday???

If I can bake cookies...

Okay, okay

The wind feels funny

Hey anonymous

"WOOT! Eweh-oww" *excited jump followed by realisation of rib being broken*

If Canada was a piece of cheese...*sing it*

Toniiiiiiight... TONIIIIIIIGHT *am singing*

*without the mullet*

How will people remember me??

Something just occured to me...

Power of Prayer blows my mind

I wanna be here now

The pies taste like...

Guess what i just did?!?!?!?

I miss everyone

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!?!?!

WARNING: THIS LIFE IS TEMPORARY!

Who left the Australian in charge?

'Essentials'

God is eloquent

"WOOT! Eweh-oww" excited jump followed by realisation of rib being broken

If Canada was a piece of cheese...sing it

Toniiiiiiight... TONIIIIIIIGHT am singing

without the mullet