I love packing!

We and the students of the Preaching School are going to put on a gospel meeting up at Sangre Grande (Sandy Grandy). We leave tomorrow and return next Friday afternoon. I'm excited! It's in the North East of the island (near Tuna-Puna. :) about two and a half hours away. We are renting a house, and it will be really good, I'm sure. :) So, yesterday and today has been busy!

Banana Bread

Basshunter

Weezer

Coldplay

Annoy Miles

Alphaville

Toto

CCR

Owl City

Clean the Kitchen

Piano Guys

Enya

Avicii

Tina Turner

Clean the Kitchen again

Mamas and the Papas

Roger Miller

Beach Boys

Chocolate Chips

Petula Clark

Bob Marley

Washing the cars

Vacuuming the cars

Carly Simon

Suitcases

Closet door eaten with termites fell off

Laundry

Skype with Nephew

Taylor Swift (ha)

Piano

Toenail Polish

Dash to Hi-lo

Flip Flops

Laughing

So that's a sneak peak to my life the past couple days. :)

What's your signature way of packing? Too much? Not enough? Just right?

I usually take too much...but what if somebody needs something? :D

Hope you all have a great weekend! I know that I will! :)

March = TPG

We have been so busy this month! Classes, school, just plain busyness!

So, March is TPG

You know what that is?

No, it's not Three Prancing Gorillas, or Two Prissy Girls, or Trombone Playing Grieg...It's:

The Piano Guys

They have some of the coolest stuff! I really love them! This is my new favorite song currently. :) It's so me. The island beat, just such a happy song. :)

Have a blessed day! :)

Who else?

Who is in love with my new blog look? *raises both hands* Pick me! Pick me! :) One of my best friends, Linz, redid it and I am so in love! She did a great job, don't you think? You should go check out her blog here. See? In this month of March there is something to at least make me smile! :)

Thank you dear Lindsey! <3

Hope you all have a good weekend!

The month of March: don't act like starch!

Happy 1st of March everybody! This month I want us to consider the way we look to people.

Let's consider for a moment: starch. What does that make you think of? Of corn starch, by which you make things thick? Of eating too much potatoes which makes you fat? Or of ironing a dress shirt, where it looks crisp and clean? But remember, if you get too much starch on your shirt it can look bad...like you are wearing a stiff straightjacket.

Are our faces stiff?

A few mornings ago in Chapel, the director of the Preaching School asked one of the students, "Are you happy?"

"Yeah, I good," he replied.

"Well, remember to talk to your face about it."

How often do we go around looking as if someone had died, when we are fine and happy inside? The people here have really made me think. They often start a prayer with "Lord, thank you for life, health, and strength..." If we can say that we have life, health, and strength, then why aren't we smiling?

Are you alive? You're reading this, so I would assume that you are.

Are you healthy? If you're in the hospital dying from cancer or a disease, I guess that would mean you're not healthy. But I knew a dear person who was smiling to the last even though she died of cancer.

Do you have strength? Get up, run around the house, get a drink, make some food for yourself, pick up something heavy to put away...yeah, you've got strength!

So this is my encouragement today: If you have life, health, and strength, if you are happy, tell your face about it! Put a smile on your face! For real! :)

Have a wonderful day! Remember, don't let your face look like starch! :)

"I'm happy today, oh yes I'm happy today,

In Jesus Christ I'm happy today,

Because He's taken all my sins away,

And that's why I'm happy today."

:)

February = Football

February 29th...we only get to experience this every four years. Woop. Haha! No really, I can hardly believe that February is already finished! I guess I better get in my February post! heh heh!

Football here is called soccer in the USA. (Not arm-pit ball, which is football in the USA... :D )

This time was with the Students at the Preaching School. We played in the parking lot there at the building. I find I really enjoy watching it. :)

First of all, you move the old car that belongs to the neighbor out of the way.

Waiting to pick teams...

Levaughn...

Willem's ready to get this show on the road! :)

Waiting for some action, John?

Trying to get the ball out of the ditch...haha, yes, Trovel did end up on the ground...

Woo! Go Miles! Hit dat ball off yo chest!

Looks like Levaughn is about to do the splits!

Almost goal!

Wow, Nicholas, you don't have to drink the whole thing of water, boi!

Running...(Notice his awesome footwear: one is a regular shoe, and the other is an odd one with a sock over it.)

Woops!

Wey, Avery, sitting down on the job, eh?

I need to start wearing my socks like that! :)

That funny, eh, Kimani?

It looks like a Techno dance...haha.

Word. :)

Have I mentioned lately that I love life here? Well...in case you haven't heard...re-read this post. :)

<3

By the way, yes, I have played with them before, and I had the time of my life! I can actually beat some of the others at "defender." :D

Have a wonderful day! :)

He's a good friend

This morning in Chapel we sang such a beautiful song. It really is an uplifting, encouraging song, besides that it is very pretty to sing. :)

"He's a good friend to me,

He's a good friend to me,

When life goes up,

When life goes down,

He's a good friend to me.

He's a real friend to me...

He's a true friend to me..."

It really made me think: When life goes up, and when life goes down, he is a good, real, and true friend to us. But are we? Are we his friend? We sing a song "I'll be a friend to Jesus" but can we really sing that in truth? When hard times come, yes, we turn to him for help, but do we act as a friend to him by reflecting his attitude throughout those hard times?

Let us strive to serve God in a way that would be pleasing to him, because he has truly given us so much! He is a friend to us in all of life, so let us be his friend. :)

Have a wonderful Friday! :)

Comic relief for the day

Everyone needs a comic relief every day, right? Well this probably isn't too comical...but it definitely made me laugh. :D So here goes. I found it while reading history: this is the beginning of the Thirty Years' War.

"Protestant nobles rebelled against Ferdinand in May 1816 and proclaimed their resistance by throwing two of the Habsburg governors and a secretary out of the window of the royal castle in Prague, the seat of Bohemian government. The Catholic side claimed that their seemingly miraculous escape from death in the seventy-foot fall from the castle was due to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, while Protestants pointed out that they fell into a manure pile."

:D

Have a great day...I'm still chuckling to myself. :)