Hope

hope: /hoʊp/ [hohp] – noun: to believe, desire, or trust

Friday, August 8, 2008

Runnin Through My Head

Wow... the summer is almost over!! Just a couple more weeks and then I'm headed back to Ottawa. I think I'm going to feel holy/holey when I get back...

Holy: The Lord has really changed my life around since the beginning of my summer adventures. He's helped me really become myself and realize my potential. I have a new outlook on life, have some totally rad plans for my future and he's put the coolest friends in my life that influence me all in the right ways.

Holey: I've been feeling homesick a lot of the summer... but I know that I'm going to feel homesick for Emily and Serena, Cameron and Will once I get back home. Ugh! They are just the COOLEST! I so love them :D I can't get enough of them.
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This is really the first time that I've felt like I've had ultimate privacy since the summer started. I've got Capstone in my ears playing a wonderful Step By Step/I'll Do My Best medley, the lights are perfectly dimmed and there's a sweet ambiance that clearly reveals God in the room.

"God you are my God,
And I will ever praise you."
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I've decided to give the '365: A Year of Total Surrender' another try. I'm going to revise and start over... I put too many pressures on myself this past year that ended up in rebellion against myself and God. A big part in becoming one with Christ is also becoming one with myself.

1. Watching who I spend all my time with - who is feeding my crave?
2. Paying more attention to how I treat my body - not only being careful what I put into my body, but also what I let touch my body... or whom.
"Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires" SS 8:4
3. Dive into the Word!! - The Bible is so jam packed with greatness.... I neeeeed to delve into it more and pick it apart until the pages are crammed with notes of revelation and truth.... and then start over and pick it apart through different, more experienced eyes
4. "Lift You high, bow down low" - I need to lift God above all the wants and desires of my heart. From tithing to casting my burdens.
5. Get more involved in the ministry... this summer has reignited my passion for the Fight. I can't keep sitting around and wasting time... God didn't call me to be a freelancing photographer... I'm workin for Him :)
6. Morning devos AND evening devos - take that for dedication :P Seriously though, filling my mind with peace before I begin my day and ending my day with peace before I sleep... it will really help me to Cleanse...
7. Weekly devotion with a friend... having a friend to study with will totally widen my experience
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I'm seriously considering transferring to Ryerson University in the big city of Toronto.... see how much I've grown? I always said I would NEVER live in TO... and I always said I'd NEVER go to University.... I'm learning not to sell myself short :) I can do it!
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I can't wait to put my new portfolio together :) I've taken a lot of really great shots this summer and I know it's going to be super strong. I've had lots of great inspiration, opportunities and models haha

Photography is so... so.... photography is so _______! I can't even explain how much I love it.
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"We live in a beautiful world"


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His Plan For Me

  • Get In To the Word and Deep In Prayer
  • Prayer Journal - To see God's amazing power through Prayer
  • Committment Journal - Record my struggles and successes to visually see progress over time
  • Personal Goals - Start doing more of the things that make me happy and save some "me" time (art, writing, reading, etc.)
  • Work - Pleasing to God, to be happy in what I do and offer my abilities whenever I can
  • Tithing and Saving - Respecting my money and using it appropriately
  • Education - Study God's word and begin thinking more about my future
  • Touch Cleansing - Relationships (family, friends, dating, God, etc.)
  • Taste Cleansing - What I eat and put into my body (food, drink, nutrition, health, etc.)
  • Smell Cleansing - Waking up and smelling the roses, appreciating small things
  • Sound Cleansing - What I listen to and hear (music, language, people, messages, truths, etc.)
  • Visual Cleansing - What I watch and see (movies, television, magazines and media, pictures, people, etc)

God's Amazing Power

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand