Workshops.....

I'm off to Ontario for workshops so I will not be updating this thing at all in the next bit (how that's different from normal I'm not sure..ha ha ha). Hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather!

Send a message......

As many of you know, because of the white band that never comes off of my arm, I'm a huge supporter of the make poverty history campaign. Here is an email that I received today from the campaign. Please take the time to get on board with issue. It's a great cause and we can make a difference!!!!

The leaders of the G8 countries will meet in Germany June 6 to 8. The summit in 2007 is historic, because it marks the half-way point to the deadline of 2015 for halving poverty. However unless the rich nations take more decisive action, we will fail to meet the goals and fail those in poverty. Days before the summit, we have a chance to hold the rich nations to account for their failure to deliver on their promises, and to get them to go much further.

In 2005, the G8 pledged $50 billion more aid, debt cancellation for up to 42 countries and access to affordable treatment for people with HIV/AIDS by 2010. Yet the rich nations have failed to deliver increased aid and debt cancellation. Trade Justice is still denied to poor countries. Attempts to address the impending climate catastrophe are faltering.

In 2005, we showed how global pressure could force the world’s leaders to listen. In 2007, let’s tell the G8 the World Can’t Wait for action.

Raise Your Voice Against Poverty
If you have not already sent an e-mail message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to do more to make poverty history at the G8 Summit by going to: http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/e/home.php. It's easy, there's already a letter done for you. You just enter your name, email address, and postal code and then click on send. Please take a few minutes to do this!!!

For more background information on the 2007 G8 Summit and the issues that will be discussed see: http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/e/take-action/g8-2007-backgrounder.pdf

A little inspiration....

I'll write about the weekend another time. It was good to be with others, chat, have fun and process with God. Anyways I'm really tired after the weekend because we would stay up late and play games and then get up early the next day. So it's totally my fault. Then it was birthday festivities on Monday. We arrived back in Moncton around two and then went out to eat with friends and then to see Shrek 3 (which was very funny...love Shrek).

Anyways, I didn't get time to dig into my emails yesterday since I was working so this morning when I finally got up I checked them. I had a really hard counselling session yesterday. However it was a really good session. Funny how those thing go hand in hand huh? While checking email I got an ecard from a friend. Getting an ecard is always fun, but my friend wrote something in it that was actually an inspiration for me today. "Hope you're as excited about who you're becoming as God is".

I need this reminder right now because I'm feeling like this process I'm on is never ending and it makes me cranky most days. So thank you for the reminder that God is proud of me and this process is all perfect timing!

Restful weekend.....

I'm looking forward to this weekend to process a little more about how yucky I've been feeling lately. Ah I love the grieving process of past lives. Anyways, please hang in there. I'll try to get back to posting soon and hopefully be able to explain this long, drawn out process I'm on. Feel free to pray that God reveals some truth to me about past situations and that those situations that need to be rectified are done so as soon as possible from my end. Sigh....k I think that's it!

Reminder.....

I'm curious how everyone is doing with saving stamps. I'd love to hear an update of where you're at with this project. Please feel free to leave a comment. Have any of you decided to implement this program at your work?

If you have no idea what I'm talking about right now please check out my January archives and go to January 22, 2007.

Keep saving stamps off those envelopes that you throw out anyways! It may seem simple (which it is) but it makes a difference for others all over the world through Oxfam!

Got this pic in an email today that said "God spilled his paint".

Processing again....

I feel like I'm continuously on this long path of processing. It seems as soon as I'm done with one issue another one is plopped in my lap. Which is usually okay with me. However my most current one that keeps haunting me is something that I've done to someone else. Usually I'm dealing with things that have been done to me by someone else.

Last week I got together with my best friend for supper. I was discussing with her some things that I was feeling. It was so hard for me to be honest, as I've written about before, I've got major girl issues. However I did and it worked out.

God has been pushing me on another friendship from my past that I let fall. One that I wasn't honest with. She poured her heart and soul into our friendship and I walked away with no explanation. I'm feeling extremely guilty about that and I don't know what to do. I'm a fixer at heart so the fact that I have no solution or quick fix for this problem is driving me crazy. I've emailed to apologize and she accepted it but I'm now stuck and it sucks.

Ah country living....

So I've always been a city girl and always loved living in the city. I enjoyed how close I was to everything. I used to love leaving our apartment for an afternoon stroll and walking down Mountain Road and stopping at different stores. However after lying in bed this morning for a bit since I didn't have to hop out of bed when the alarm went off and listening to the birds chirp and no sounds of traffic I must admit I'm getting used to the country living that I now find myself in.

Jason and I moved down here in the middle of last summer. So I don't feel like I really had time to enjoy my surroundings before it got too cold because there was always so much to do. There is still lots to do, however it's fun for me to go for a walk in this historical village and see all there is to see. Everyone always says hi. There's lots of pretty flowers blooming everywhere. Ancient homes and buildings that have stories to tell. I often find myself looking at some of the huge homes in amazement that they could build something so beautiful that long ago. The other great thing about living here is that I'm only a 20 minute walk to my grandparents who just love it when I pop in.

So that's what I did today on my day off. Instead of spending another afternoon on the treadmill, watching TV, cleaning and emailing I decided to head outside for an adventure. How refreshed I feel now. Yay God, thanks for blessing me with all Your glorious wonders!

Under construction....

Wow I am really sucking out at this blogging thing and I apologize for that!

My house is a mess right now...well actually it's getting better. The last couple of days have been a bit crazy here. It was so worth it though. As many of you know I'm a bit of a control freak. Yes, it's something I'm working on in counselling, but it's taking a long time. Ah the rigid patterns of life. So it's been good for me to not be home and in control for the past couple of days. Anyways my father was complaining that he was bored and wasn't sure what he was going to do to put in the time over the next week while he's here. So I suggested that he could put ceramic tile in our bathrooms, more as a joke but he jumped at it so so did we.

It's something that Jason and I have wanted to do but put it on the back burner because we knew that we couldn't do it ourselves and knew that it would be too much to hire someone. However my wonderful father loves taking on these types of projects and learning as he goes. So early Sunday morning we headed off to Home Depot to buy all the supplies. By later that afternoon the tile was laid in the first bathroom. On Monday my dad's girlfriend did the grout in the first bathroom while my father laid the tile in the second bathroom. Then today they came and grouted the second bathroom. Jason and I have been at work those two days so I've been coming home to clean after. Trust me though I'm not complaining. It's the least that I could do for the cheap labour costs :) It was fun though getting home and running to see the bathrooms. I wish our camera would have been working to take pics of the different stages.

Anyways here are a couple of pics that my sister took from Sunday. We had my sister, my father and his girlfriend and my grandparents over for supper that evening as well. Jason was so excited to use his new BBQ (don't those burgers look delicious Mandi), he's been wanting one for four years now so it was very exciting that we were actually able to afford one and have a space for it now!

Grrrrr dreams....

I woke up this morning to one of those moments that I hate. I hate it when you wake up more tired than you remember feeling before you even went to bed. I have a huge headache. Why all of this...because I had a horrible dream right before the phone rang and woke me up. I've always been able to remember my dreams. Therefore when they are horrible I find they stick with me all day long. It's so hard to not be cranky and angry with those people who I feel robbed me of my sleep. It's nuts how much this affects me sometimes. The headache that I have today is the same one that I'll get when I've been crying really hard for a while, which is exactly what I was doing in my dream. My husband's response to this "you need to get some help". Ha ha ha my response "good thing I've got a counselling session on Tuesday".

Wedding pics.....

So I got looking at my wedding pictures this morning and I just love them so much. We had an amazing photographer and we looked hot so they turned out awesome! Ha ha ha! Anyways, although these were taken on August 28, 2004, I realized that some of you have never seen them. Plus it's fun for me to go through them and pick out some of my favorites. Hope you enjoy!