Holy Spirit

Father God

Grant me your Spirit

Shape and fashion me

Give me wisdom

For without it

I'm completely lost

Guide my days

For I know

Without you I will fall

For I am sinfull

Nothing that I do

Is without sin at all

Yet in your Spirit

You can turn

My deeds into praise for you.

Father God

Hear our prayers

Make us right with you

Send your Spirit

To our souls

Live within us every day

Wash and cleans us

Make us white as snow

JH

27-3-17

Youth Camp and other adventures

There is the saying that goes something like this - Every girl has that one guy friend that everybody insists he is more. So true! Jamie was that guy for me even if it took me a while to admit it. 

Today marks a special day in which we shared our numbers with each other. 

Over the past months I have been so blessed with many of you my friends asking me how he is and how we are both going. This has been so special for me and gives me a chance to tell me of how the Lord has brought us to this day. One of the things that you guys always say that makes me laugh is the, "You guys are so Cute!" Like really come on? Me cute..... You have got to be kidding. Yet I suppose it must be true because you keep on insisting. I will try to believe you I promise.

This year started with a youth camp, at which as usual everybody told us we were cute. So cute they thought that we deserved the cutest couple at camp award. It was a great camp inspite of being cute...... Well that was kinda cool to. Most of the time was spent trying to beat Jamie in a card game or taking a, dare I say it, a romantic walk or sweet hug. So maybe that's why you thought us cute...Well I can't change that now. 

Nelson is beautiful, the parks and historical house's, 

Beaches for walks in the sunset

Boat trips and eating out

Yet most of all the people whom I am so blessed to get to know. To go out for coffee and have dinner with them. To listen to there advice or story's of how they fell in love. To worship and share communion with them. Something I look forward to having more of in the future.

The things guys make you do.....

Go to the speedway.......It's OK....Not as bad as I thought.

Walk bare feet on stones...humf

Get up on time......Yeah I suppose that's a good thing.

Yet when I think about it the billion good things outweigh those small things.

Auckland, uggly and far to busy until you take the long drive out into the peace and still of the country. A place to listed to the birds, going swimming in the creak. Walk in the middle of the road and just talk as girls do.

I know that whatever kind of adventure God gives you or me. They are perfect for use. Taylor made. 

I look forward to many more that God has in plan and the fulfillment of Jamie's and my dreams

Keepsake's

I always thought that people become sentimental when they start to get old but, I'm sure that is wrong now.

It's more when you start to make memories like these......

Being together...

Flowers

Reminders of the "Footprints" poem.

Sunsets!

Laughing...

Strolls.

The moment when someone gets my not possed smile!!!!

Siluets.

Memories make us what to have a keepsake, something sentimental. Photos defently are a way of having that. 

I feel so blessed that last time I was in Nelson visiting Jamie, his sister got such beautiful shots of us just being ourselves.

Countryside

Countryside

So peaceful

Still to

Yet the wind blows 

Through the trees

 It blows

Carm is all around

Bird song

Cicadas trill

As clouds float by

The sun shines

The rain comes

Each so peaceful

In its time

God's timing

Rest my soul

O rest with in me

In the stillness

Of creation

Rest!

No rush 

Of the city life

Only quiet voices 

To be heard

Working side by side

Toiling on the land

Find peace in the Lord

As you rest

O my soul

Trust in His timing

His beautiful plan

For life is precious

Ever so precious.

JH

20-1-17

Having been blessed with a holiday in the slow days of life in the country has made me realize that I need to slow down things in life. To look around, remember and make memories in the mist of the busyness.

Merry Christmas!

May the birth of our king make you rejoice, for he has done wonderious things for us.

He is our 

Prophet - burial spice - Myrrh

Priest - offing incense to God - Frankincense

And

King - a gift sutible for a king - Gold

See how perfect these gifts were for our Saviour.

God's might

God is our refuge and strength,

an ever present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way

and the mountains slip into the heart if the sea,

though it's water roar and foam

and the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

Psalm 46:1-3

We have such a mighty strong God and I think we often forget that fact. Only remembering it when something out of the ordinary happens. I feel that last week that something happened, not once but many a times. I feel like I had taken for granted the ground under my feet, the firmness of it. It's made me think of how much I don't thank God for what He gives me or even if I do, not often enough. He has given us stability in life. That we only tend to remember when the ground beneath us begins to shake, when plans don't go right. We forget and our trust is shaken when we do go through a time when the foundation is shaken.
The last few months have been really hard for me, I lost my footing you could say and have struggled to trust and rest in God's perfect plan and timing. With going through a job trial in which you got treated like dirt and coming away with still no work and feeling like you are not good enough is hard. I feel like I lost who I was, yet after the earthquakes I once more have been shaken to realization that God's in control, His way is perfect. To sit and be with family as the world around stopped me from the affects of the earthquakes and then the floods, it made me be able to have joy and laughter in the small things.
It's amazing how God uses advents around us to help us through things and how often the same advents affect everyone so differently. To help a town or country come closer together. Maybe a family to. We see a community form to help one another. Just as Jesus called us to do. To help those in need.
Our God is such a great God!
He is the giver of family and friends, church and communion with Him. He is God in which we have Perseverance of the saints.


And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope doesn't disappoint, became the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given us.
Romans 5:3-5

A God who hears

O dear Lord

Hear our prayer

Answer us great king

For you are compassionate

We cry to you

For we know you hear

Answer us now

Give us wisdom from above

Strength for every trial

Grace to show forth always

O Lord help us in our need

Give us trust in you

That in the timed

When you say no

We may think

Your plans are best

Give us patience

When you say to wait

And Thanksgiving

When the answers yes.

JH

30-10-16