Sweet Home Manitoba

Ok, I'm back...
after a long drive, on a little bit of sleep... I arrived home 45 mins before my work shift started, talk about cutting a close one, eh?
On my long drive home, I listened to a LOT of music... and seeing as how I've posted almost ONLY music lyrics on here... I thought I'd stay true to form...
This song, I had heard it before... but I felt that God really sent it just for me...
It's You Are Loved (Don't Give Up), by Josh Groban...
Don't give up
It's just the weight of the world
When your heart's heavy
I...I will lift it for you

Don't give up
Because you want to be heard
If silence keeps you
I...I will break it for you
Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you

Everybody wants to be loved
Don't give up
Because you are loved

Don't give up
It's just the hurt that you hide
When you're lost inside
I...I will be there to find you

Don't give up
Because you want to burn bright
If darkness blinds you
I...I will shine to guide you
Everybody wants to be understood
Well I can hear you

Everybody wants to be loved
Don't give up
Because you are loved
You are loved
Don't give up
It's just the weight of the world
Don't give up
Every one needs to be heard
You are loved

Wow, eh? As I listened to that song, driving down the TransCanada Highway, all I could think about is that God loves me... I AM LOVED. And so are you!!

just so you know...

I'm in Regina... safe and sound... with SUE!!!!

I have some pictures from the drive.... and I'm sure I'll post them all when I get home (Sunday)
But for now I will leave you in suspense....

Just so you know...
I AM SO HAPPY TO BE HERE!!!!

Take care y'all and I'll talk to you again soon...

Banana for Jesus.... Part 2

OK, well, I'm sure some of you are going to be reading this post and be like... "is that really a picture of a banana??" YES it is... and there is a REALLY good reason why it is included in this blog...

This past spring (May 2006) I went through a really horrible break up, my fiance of 6 months dumped me 5 months before our wedding date. So I was really torn up and upset. So I finished my school term and left to work at a Christian Family camp for the summer.

While I was at the camp, I was surrounded by awesome teaching, new and old friends, and TONNES AND TONNES OF PRAYER! I couldn't have asked for a better place to be to receive healing for my heart, and soul.

Anyway, the banana... how does this enter into this all...

Well, one morning during staff meeting, one of the ladies that was working there suggested that instead of having a formal staff meeting, we should just soak in the presence of God. I had done this previous times in my life, so I laid back in the couch I was sitting on and just opened up my heart to the Lord, and of course, I started to cry....

and cry,

and cry,

and cry,

then I stopped crying and He showed me a picture of a banana... and I thought to myself, "why is God showing me a banana?? It must not be God...." so I started to think to myself why I was thinking so intently on a banana... I wasn't hungry, I wasn't smelling bananas, I couldn't figure out why I was seeing this clear picture of banana...

So I prayed, and I asked God that if He was giving me this picture that He would clarify it to me.

and I waited

and waited

NOTHING

just nothing

I could feel God was in the room, but with this whole banana thing, NOTHING

so the staff meeting ended and I went to my kitchen and started baking... forgetting about the banana picture.

THE NEXT DAY...

again in staff meeting, we were having a time of prayer, and again, I started thinking about this banana...

so again, I asked God to clarify it for me.

and as I sat there waiting for an explanation, the picture changed, the banana was starting to be peeled...

So I said, " ok God, I'm thinking this whole banana thing is from You... so can You please explain it further..."

Then He said to my heart "You are the banana.... but the hard, bitter peel, that is NOT a part of you, I want to remove all the bitterness and hurt and hard shell from you, I want to reveal the sweet fruit that is inside of you."

I started laughing - out loud...

so, I'm a banana for Jesus...

I wouldn't want to be any other fruit for anybody else...

TONIGHT

I was driving home from the city with some friends, and I saw a Telus billboard, it said "Feel Like the Top Banana" haha

How perfect...

not only am I a banana, but I am the TOP banana... that's how JESUS sees ME!!

Be blessed.