i am kristy

ok since some of you guys are doing this, thought I'd try and google the title:

Kristy needs
a nap right now
to write more happy poems on her website
me for something
to get used to the idea
the help of the Baby-sitters Club
15 hours in the dental chair
to know what is a good time for the committee to meet
us now more than ever
to make an agenda for the next meeting
all the help she can get
to write more

I like the first one!! hahaa funny I used to think I was so cool having the same name as a Baby-sitters Club, good thing I got over that

As the beloved of my heavenly Father, "I can walk in the valley of darkness: no evil will I fear." As the Beloved, I can "cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils." Having "received without charge," I can "give without charge." As the Beloved, I can confront, console, admonish, and encourage without fear of rejection or need for affirmation. As the Beloved, I can suffer persecution without desire for revenge and receive priase without using it as a proof of my goodness. As the Beloved, I can be tortured and killed without ever having to doubt that the love that is given to me is stronger than death. As the Beloved, I am free to live and give life, free also to die while giving life.
"The Return of the Prodigal Son" - Henri J.M. Nouwen

I know this, I can say it... but do I live like what God's beloved should? This book was recommended to me a while back and it's taken a while to pick it up. I'm only on the third chapter and the truth is portrayed so simply and matter of factly I had to stop and write it down. So many people are like the prodigal son, myself included; wanting to take what we can and go out on our own, trying to find love, acceptance, a sense of worth when really we have rejected the only place that we can receive it all, in our Father's place. Not so much in the physical, but in the spirit and our minds.

I relate a little too well to what the author writes, "I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and hereby assure myself the love I think I need and deserve." And in that like the prodigal son, I've been moving away from my Father's home and chosing to live in another distant country...

sigh... I just want to be home where I am called Beloved.

Check this out - Dance, white boy, dance

hhaha it's good to know I'm not the only one who has solo dance parties in my room haha! It would be so embarassing if someone caught it on tape though!

that I wrote another blog... I was starting to get spam in my comments! crazy

and yes it is crazy how time just flies by... it's
1 month till I've been a graduate for a year
2 months till december, end of the year
2 months that I've had this cough
3 months till I left NZ and been in HK a year
3 months till another birthday
5 months till the half marathon
5 months till B&Chris are parents!!!
6 months that I've been working
8 months till Jaime&Tim's wedding!!!

some things are rather exciting (baby & wedding), others half looking forward to (the run, I really need to start training!) and rest just fills in the gaps

Stuff has been going on, work as usual with this promo SoHoctober which is fun as friends are involved, but also slightly stressful and that's another story

Heading to Planetshakers in KL in a couple of weeks, so am excited about that, more so that I can get some time off and have a get away, quite frankly I would just love to go to a beach for a week... pretend it's Fiji baby, hey it's nearly a year since I was there

ok this will all for now, will try and update a bit more regularly, otherwise will just email/text/call :)