My best greetings for friends around the world!
It's been a while again since I've sat down to debrief you all about the happenings that have taken place here but that's all right, I am convinced that you must know by now you are in my thoughts daily even thought you may not hear from me for weeks!
It's been a while again since I've sat down to debrief you all about the happenings that have taken place here but that's all right, I am convinced that you must know by now you are in my thoughts daily even thought you may not hear from me for weeks!
Life has been full of Fuel lately – teenage kids everywhere! :D Our RDG has been gathering and I've hanged out with the kids at my freetime too – a few weeks ago I went to Annika's place for a proper Finnish sauna! You should have seen Jenn's face when I promptly announced that Finnish people go to the sauna naked! She didn't know should she laugh or cry, and she was not taking me seriously. In the end I ended up in the sauna, wrapped in a towel since she simply refused to be in there with us if I was naked! :D The thing is though when I packed my gear to go the tought of bikini's didn't even cross my mind, because I was thinking in my Finnish mode :D How funny are all culture diffrences eh?
Easter celebrations were absolutely incredible here, – church all weekend for me! Sunday church was held in the city again at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and we had a wicked ”Art from the Heart” festival where people from our church had the opportunity to express and display what the cross ment for them through their artistic eyes! I had a master idea for our RDG meeting and so our precious girls Jessie, Isabella and Felicity got all artsy in order to submit our RDG artpiece to the festival! Cute isn't it? The climax of the festival was the short movies screenings – we truly have some talented people in our church for sure! Here is my favourite piece of artwork – all our inadequaties and pain nailed to the cross. Praise God, He is risen!!
I've spending a lot of time just sitting at God's presence lately, learning to quiet myself and allow His Spirit to strenghten me in my weakness. The battle of finding friends has been waging on and I have learned to come to Jesus on those times of loneliness and weakness. It's amazing how the fellowship with the Son refuels the soul and pushes away all fear and anxiety. I've been given great words of advice and have actually started to focus on the people I have already met instead of looking for those potentials on the rear. I really am starting to realize that the friends God has for me hear are not the ones I would have chosen, not the obvious ones that would ”fit me”. I think this is a phase of learning to give unconditionally and look beyond what I can see, allowing different people to teach me lessons about life. I listed down my friends on a piece of paper and all the sudden had the revelation that God has actually given me a whole bunch of amazing people to hang out with, but I have just been looking elsewhere and haven't been appriciating these peple as much as they deserve. It feels like I am learning to fight the battle in my mind and through that my eyes have been opened to see all the friends I am surrounded by!
I love my flat – honestly Jill, Rachell and Lisette have become my best friends here as soon as I started to invest more time and effort into our relationships! One morning when he girls were out changing the world through Street Teams, I baked an appli pie and left it on the stove with a note for them to find. It was probably the best apple pie I have ever made, and we were all happy to devour it!
Our flat hang out time on Sundays is always a time to look forward to – it's funny how you can live in the same flat and not to really have time to spend with one another if you don't reserve it! Last week we went to this amazing mexican restaurant for dinner – the legendary Mad Mex! The other week we had knitting club – I taught everyone how to knit! :) Our all time favourite is however the good old group nap on the floor!! :D
RDG has been the most amazing – we baked cupcakes the other week and talked about Jesus – man do I love these girls and just thank God for how much He really has entrusted in my hand with these precious pearls... I love em so much!
We took all the Fuel girls to the movie the other week – we went to see oh so cute Zack Efron in 17 again which turned out to be quite a flat movie BUT was surely worth $8.50 for being able to stare at the gorgeous high school musical star. This time there was no singing, but he hasn't got ridd of the basketball playing yet.. :)
Crazy enough, couple weeks ago my past was thrown at me unexpectedly as my ex-boyfriend Gary sended me an email. He was wondering what his life would be if only he had followed his heart to Finland with me and wanted to get in touch through email again – a sugar coated message about love.. It really was like a wet cloath tossed right at my face, I had not expected anything like this after the way we broke up and especially afte a whole year of silence – I simply tought we had both moved on with our lives. WRONG! Someone stil seems to be stuck in the past mistakes and choices he himself made. However, I knew I had moved on and no matter how much I once loved him, I have moved on with my life and so would he have to learn to do. I simply pressed ”delete” and walked away without regrets.
I had one of the most fun nights last night after church when one of my Fuel leaders Chris invited me to hang out with a bunch of people at Glebe! Yes, so I headed back to the scene of many memories, but didn't allow any of them to affect me. It was about the time to make new memories and let the past be past.
On that note, history is repeating itself in a great way – my mom is coming to visit me for my birthday!!!!! So Im getting ready to host for my mom for a whole week in my flat in as short time as four weeks!! I cant not even start to describe how delighted and excited I am – now it's time to work really hard to finnish all school work early in order to spend as much time with mom as I possibly can! This means I get to ”order” some winter clothing from my wardrobe back at home and the best of all, have afternoon naps with mom if we so wish to!! I LOVE MY MOM.
We have 10 days of holidays before mum comes – I haven't even started to plan anything yet! I will defenitely use some days to do my school work, and I don't have a lot of extra cash to travel heaps (nearly everyone from the College is taking off to go to New Zealand) but Im sure I will enjoy the time off even if it's pouring down with rain the whole time as it has been lately! It might be just a perfect time for a day trip and some cozy chats one-on-one :)
Anyways , hope you are all well and loving the spring - I love you and miss you all!
Lots of Love,
xoxo P xoxo
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