Precipitation

Hey guys,

My friend Tim is coming to the States to visit you with his band. Please, Please, Please go check him out and tell your friends to go (and if you do go - Go say hi and tell him I sent you - also if you could take your camera and take pics for me and tell me how it went hehe)! I really want his tour to go well and to see him inspired to keep following his dreams!

If my plea isn’t enough, here is their my space page so you can go and check out some of their music! Here also is a picture of Tim so you know who to say hi to (his hair is shorter now - tis a pity!)!

Here are the details:

The Ember Days Concert dates:

14 May 2008 7:30 p
McLean Bible Church Vienna
16 May 2008 8:00 p
Murray Hill Theatre w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Jacksonville, Florida
17 May 2008 7:00 p
FireEscape @ First Baptist of Brooksville w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Brooksville, Florida
18 May 2008 8:00 p
The Red Door Venue w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Pensacola, Florida
20 May 2008 7:00 p
Cafe Chi Alpha w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Lafayette, Louisiana
21 May 2008 5:30 p
The Incubator w/ Showbread & Tyler Read McAllen, Texas
22 May 2008 6:45 p
Fuel Cafe w/ Showbread and Tyler Read Humble, Texas
23 May 2008 6:00 p
Live 365 Rocks w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Sachse, Texas
24 May 2008 7:00 p
Trinity Fellowship Pampa (amarillo’ish), Texas
25 May 2008 6:00 p
The Revolution w/ Showbread & Tyler Read El Paso, Texas
26 May 2008 7:00 p
Victory Outreach Church w/ Showbread and Tyler Read Albuquerque, New Mexico
27 May 2008 7:00 p
The Church at Arrowhead w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Glendale, Arizona
28 May 2008 7:00 p
Foothills Baptist Church w/ Showbread and Tyler Read Phoenix, Arizona
29 May 2008 6:00 p
The Stronghold w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Chino, California
30 May 2008 7:00 p
The Underground w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Modesto, California
31 May 2008 7:00 p
Club Retro w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Orangevale, California
2 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Revolution w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Ashland, Oregon
3 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Hub City Club w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Centralia, Washington
4 Jun 2008 8:00 p
El Corazon w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Seattle, Washington
5 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Venue w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Boise, Idaho
6 Jun 2008 6:00 p
The River w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Twin Falls, Idaho
7 Jun 2008 6:00 p
The Solid Ground Cafe w/ tyler read, Showbread Sandy, Utah
8 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Marquis Theatre w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Denver, Colorado
10 Jun 2008 7:00 p
Main St Cafe w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Kansas City, Missouri
11 Jun 2008 7:00 p
Eagles Lodge w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Wichita, Kansas
12 Jun 2008 6:00 p
The Tree w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Claremore, Oklahoma
13 Jun 2008 6:30 p
The Factory w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
14 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Foundry w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Joplin, Missouri
15 Jun 2008 7:00 p
Juanita’s w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Little Rock, Arkansas
17 Jun 2008 7:00 p
The Pivot w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Cleveland, Georgia
28 Jun 2008 7:00 p
Club 3 Degrees w/ Showbread & Tyler Read Minneapolis, Minnesota
1 Jul 2008 8:00 p
Cornerstone Festival from July 1st - July 4th Bushnel, Illinois
9 Jul 2008 7:00 p
Emerge Youth Church Lees summit, Missouri
12 Jul 2008 7:00 p
Main St Cafe w/ Kingsdown Kansas City, Missouri
24 Jul 2008 6:00 p
Heartland World Ministries Church Las Colinas ( Dallas), Texas
2 Aug 2008 6:45 p
San Diego Christian Fellowship Chula Vista,, California

I think I surprised my YP tonight by telling him something not many people know about me. I’ve kept it deep inside for a really, really long time. Selected people knew about it but I woke up on Wednesday morning just feeling like I needed to tell him and the feeling persisted throughout the day so I did.

I was really stoked tonight because Mr.K (it’s a false name!) turned up after Church and gave me a huge hug. Take note that this guy far too young for me and is like my brother. He always makes me feel better about anything. I expect because I can be myself with him. Guys my age at Church don’t want to spend time with a single girl because they are worried about what she will think. That means no hugs, no personal compliments and being careful not to say anything too personal. Mr.K has a huge heart and at 16 is still willing to share it with me.

Right time for Bed me thinks! How was your weekend?

I have been having so much fun with present buying lately! The latest effort is for a friend of mine who is a musician. I took his photo - Made it a silohette, made the back ground an ink sketch and then added different colours in to make this:

I then printed it on a t-shirt for him! I’m quite stoked with it!

I’m thinking of migrating this blog to wordpress. Any thoughts?

Rather ironically (seeing as I don’t reguarly post to this blog anymore), I’ve started up a new blog but it’s an anon one. I decided to write it more in a journal style and keep it total anon. This what I can write exactly what I want.

I’ve had heaps going on in my life at the moment but the problem is that if I write some of the stuff here, people I know in real life could potentially read it and {insert consequence here}. It’s really quite therapeutic! I will be posting here though and try and keep up both!

In other news, I have a friend in hospital. If you could please pray for my mate - I’d really appreciate it. He may never be fully recovered (and it would be a miracle if he was!) but hopefully God will allow him to avoid surgery by helping the measure that they have taken to work!

I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you, and it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends… you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong, or how you could have misunderstood, and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he’ll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new, and you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again, and little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade. –Iris (the holiday)

Life has been going at a frantic pace over here and I’ve been working out what is going to give. I realised the symptoms so I took some time off work. This turned out to be a positive move but I’ve spent the weekend in contemplation and I’m no closer to answers than I was when I started…

What I do know is that I have a bad habit of going for what I want. The problem is not that I go for what I want, rather in it looking like I’m pushing other people and holding on too tight. I’m somewhat scared that if I let go I’ll go splat. That denotes a lack of trust in God. I want to change that about me, so despite being terrified, I’m going to start backing off in one of my relationships. I think it will be the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

I’ve spoken lots to God about the relationship and the main thing I’m getting told is to wait. I guess that means God is doing something with me in this time. That is the single most hardest thing for an impatient person to hear especially when it’s particularly important to you.

This week I’ve also had to farewell a friend who is going overseas. I didn’t realise how much this friendship meant to me. I made time to tell them how I felt today. I don’t know exactly why, but I feel things will be vastly different when they return.

With that thought, I think I should try and get some sleep. With all the stress and holding on, I haven’t been sleeping the best or eating a lot (great for the personal remodelling but not so good for the overall package). While I’ve kept up with my blog reading, I’m sorry I haven’t made the time to comment much recently. Know that you are in my thoughts and prayed for.

“We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be”
–C.S.Lewis.

My thoughts exactly hehe.

I found the following quotes:

“If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
–Neil Gaiman

“Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it’s when he ignores you and you still love him, it’s when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I’m happy for you, when all you really do is cry.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
–Neil Gaiman

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
–Abraham Lincoln

I was actually just looking for:

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.”
— Mark Twain

Hi All,

It’s been an interesting little while and a great Easter weekend!!!

What’s new with me?
Well my flat mate is moving out and so I am going to try find another rather than move if possible (I think).
There are lots of reasons to smile.
Work is going well. I love my job!
I’ve got two awesome friends.
God is teaching and has taught me a lot recently - it’s somewhat mind boggling!
Wohoo!