New Adventures

During the last week, a lot has happened in my life and it seems God is taking me in a different direction and on a new journey…. I’m changing varsities and it seems like I’ll be a part time student soon enough and working. But I have no idea where I’m going.

In this week of chaos, Freddie and Ashley stopped by to surprise Jean, so we got some time to catch up! Totally amazing and always a blessing to see them. Really did pick up my week.

Jean has flown to Cape Town to visit Cornu. I haven’t been to Cape Town but it feels it might be the direction I’m heading towards… So Jean has been sending me beautiful pics of Cape Town. While he’s away, I’m chilling out and getting ready for our Balito trip next week with Cornu and Eline. Unfortunately Freddie and Ashley won’t be joining us, but we’ll hopefully see them for my birthday at the end of August and will definitely see them in October for a weekend when we celebrate Freddie’s birthday.

New adventures are on the horizon, new places, new friends… It really is an exciting time 🙂
Xx

Eline, Cornu, Freddie and Ashley in Cape Town

Jean’s view over Cape Town from Cornu’s place

Jean’s coffee before he travels

Flying to Cape Town

Excited for new adventures and our trip to Balito in my home province

Sisterhood Sewn Together

I remember being taught how to sew by my German teacher back in grade 2, not enjoying it at all, until years later only. But before that I could sit for hours watching my mom make clothes. I loved the basket she had with all the sewing materials especially the different kinds and colours of thread. Everything about it seemed so delicate and beautiful. It was a great skill my mom and some of my aunts had and when I was little, it seemed like it was their super power. Being able to fix broken pieces or create anything new. I would draw things and they would make it come to life.

For a moment, I’d like to sound a little like a girl…have a bit of a girly moment and share with you two new friends God has sewn into my life. He has taken 3 very different materials and sewn their hearts together using a delicate and gentle thread, and the product of the bond produced has created a very special kind of sisterhood.

Eline and Ashley.

It certainly is a new friendship but a very close knit one. Our personalities are very different and we appear differently in Spirit but our hearts are very much aligned and something just clicked from the first moments we met each other.  We don’t get to see each other much but we try stay in contact over the phone and we’re constantly praying for each other and when we do get to see each other, we definitely make the most of it.

Ashley – She is super loud and wacky. Her laugh is contagious and she is very outgoing. She loves the spotlight and you can’t help but have fun when she’s around. Definitely there to spice things up. She is strongly opinionated and shouldn’t be messed with. She is loving and friendly but get on her wrong side and she can definitely take you out.

Eliné – She’s known for her red lipstick and love of boots. When we travel, she usually has a whole extra bag for all her pairs of boots that are coming along. She’s gentle but can be just as crazy and loud. Just like Ashley, I wouldn’t mess with her, I mean on one of her pairs of boots from Vietnam she has “Romans 16” engraved on them. And if you go read that, you’ll see verse 20 says it all. I need not say more.

We have fun together. We are loud. We are outrageous. We are strong. But at the same time, we are soft and gentle, loving and delicate. We are a wacky group but the friendship is blessed and anointed by God which truly makes it amazing.

 

 

 

A friendship sewn together by God is a blessed and cherished one. It is amazing to have friends who walk with you and who have such willingness in their hearts. I’m proud to call these ladies sisters, not only in Christ but for life and the adventures to come are both exciting and incredible. Love them to bits!!

New blessings & opportunities

The weekend that just passed was an awesome weekend as I spent it with friends. A weekend that had been planned and booked out ages ago as we have to for all our sakes. It was a weekend of celebrating Jean’s birthday, but more of praying together and sharing our hearts and a lot of testimony sharing…. We all stayed in a guest house and ate together and talked and laughed, we played pool and danced and sang and just had a lovely time together, all as a group but at times also breaking up into groups of just guys and just girls to chat and share other things. It really was lovely. A blessed weekend and it was great to see God being the center of it all for all of us.  Not only did we grow individually, but we as sisters and the guys together as brothers in Christ, a really close knit family!

Then further during this week, I got to catch up with a very good friend of mine who had been in Cape Town. I really had a lovely time with Megan, we’ve even made plans for the upcoming weekend with one of our other friends, Corne. I have had a dinner date with my boyfriend and prospects of new business come up as well as job offers and prospects of joining new teams for the organizing of ministry and conferences. These new prospects have really been a blessing as God takes me into a new phase of my life, which has me extremely excited as God shows me how He is going to provide for me and my family. Then lastly, but not least, God has also taken a situation with a friend, and restored our relationship, reconciling us as friends which has come unexpectedly and has just been such a blessing as God lines up all these amazing things in my life. It truly has humbled me and put me at such peace, as God just keeps on providing!!!

Dad’s 50th Weekend

2 weekend’s ago (10^th-12^th May), I went home for my dad’s 50^th. It truly was a blessed weekend as I got to see family and just spend quality time with my parents. It was a bitter sweet weekend as it really opened my eyes to the situation at home and how my parents are struggling financially and the time at home was way too short, but I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the deep conversations I had with my parents. We really opened up to each other and my dad really appreciated us coming home for his birthday and my mom was happy we were there for mother’s day. We also laughed a lot and my dad told lots of stories, I got to share details with them about the new budding relationship in my life and also just share my heart with them. It was great being able to lie against my dad and keep warm while talking on the couch and awesome to chill on my mom’s bed and just watch a movie with her. The weekend weather was cold and rainy, so it gave us a lot of time to spend indoors chatting and catching up. I also got to see one of my best mates, Stubbs, on Friday night for coffee and then we cooked supper for his mom. We both got to share and talk about new opportunities and prospects coming into our lives and what our future’s hold and just talk deeply about God and a bunch of stuff, sharing jokes and stories and coffee – it really was a blessing.

That same weekend though, my boyfriend had been involved in a car accident, a head on collision. Our friend Michelle was in the car with him and she got hurt, breaking her collar bone and cracking two ribs, he went through the windscreen. Luckily, everyone came out alive but I was pretty shaken up when I got the news as I wasn’t in the same province and was over 700km’s away. Luckily, God has blessed us with four amazing friends, them being his two best friends and each of their girlfriends. Freddie and Ashley, Cornu and Eline went over to go see him, sending me news and photos to let me know he’s okay and reassuring me. I really appreciated it and truly have been blessed by these amazing people. My parents were with me when I got the news, so they comforted me while I cried and went through the motions of shock and processing it all. My mom gave hugs and chocolate, while my dad made tea and told jokes. It really was a great weekend overall, that strengthened relationships and really built solid foundations for a great future. It really showed me what love is and how blessed I am to have people who care in my life. I am so thankful for it all.