Your worldview doesn't compute.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/12/10/hot-topics-contradictions-tech-sciences_cz_lg_1211gomes.html

How very intriguing..

This is the story of my Day:

It Begins...

Liz vs. Fastway couriers.

Fast way couriers: *Yells * "Hello, FASTWAY COURIERS!"

Liz "HELLO, I PUNCH YOUR FACE IN IT"S 8.30 AND I'M TRYING TO SLEEP IN"

Next comes the disappointment...

What this isn't beach weather! Oh well, park and beach instead.

* Plays on flying fox *

* Gets p p p p poker facer stuck in her head for the rest of the day *

* Shops and spends to much money *

Then she runs late ... (So, what's new?!)

* Races home *

* Phones several people Rapidly *

*Gulps down dinner *

* Runs to car and speeds *

Dance Show FTW!

* Gets disturbed by young girls dancing skanky *

* Thinks Beth is beautiful *

* Decides that white people can't hip hop *

Playing games

* Attempts to smash, in smash bro's brawl *

* Little big planet uncoordination *

And then she settles down to work...

And then comes online to bloig about it... we'll see how this 'work' goes.

LOL!

One small step for liz...

One giant leap for Liz-kind.

Right now, I feel as if I'm stepping into the great unknown!

Life is changing all around me, my friends are changing, my family is changing, my situation is changing, my relationships are changing, my church is changing, and yet my God stays the same.

It's a comforting thing to come back to the fact that my God never changes, that no matter what else (crap or amazing) is happening in my life, my God is my constant shield, shelter, protector and provider.

I really don't come back to that point enough... So often I'm stressed or even excited about what's happening next in life, and I forget the one who's helping me figure it all out. When I'm stressed, God keeps on working things together so that I will turn back to him, and mostly I'm just like, "Oh, that's cool God, thanks a bunch" and then go back along with my business.

Lately I've been seeing God walking alongside me in some amazing ways, sorting out money for my missions trips.. giving me amazing developing friendships that mean so much to me! And the way that he moves me into new things in a way that I can deal with is a testament to how well he knows me.

It just makes me want to serve him more, and walk in His will. About the most inspiring thing for me lately has been seeing how he works things out for people who walk in Him. Like my mate who just got married to the absolutely perfect guy for her... she walked in God's will and found her reward.. my desire is to keep walking in my Lord, knowing that he will work through me to touch the lives of those around me, that will be my reward!

For once, a post late at night when I'm all alone in my house, that isn't melancholy!

Melon Cauli Flower

Do you ever feel like your friends are constantly flaunting something that you don't have, but you can't put your finger on quite what it is?

I don't think I understand it but I think this idea describes better than anything else something that I've been feeling for a long time. I often just feel like I've never really found the place I totally belong.

I really want to find that place.

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Somewhere amongst the dance of the stars

And the rising sun

Lies the mystery that is within me

Someplace between the breaking of waves

And the edge of the earth

Are the locks where I am the key

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Yet another melancholy blog post... I'm hoping this doesn't become a habit! Sorry!

Alone

For starters, I apologize, this post will be a bit sad...
But sometimes that's how life is. (Just don't read it if you're feeling down already)

Sometimes I just feel so alone, I have friends, I have fun,
I come home, I put on my music, I watch movies, I talk with my family.

But then, I feel alone.

Alone is one of the most crippling emotions.

If God said "It is not good for man to be alone" then why are we left alone?

Why does our society of noise not fill the emptiness of the silence?

Why is quiet so unsettling and depressing?

Why must we surround ourselves with people who don't actually care?

Why don't WE care?

What have we come to?

When did we forget love?

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

When the leaves fall...

... it's not over - everything is just waiting for the spring.

This morning I went back to bed after church, and I read this book, and I felt alive. The book tells of Julia De Smit, an ordinary girl; broken, hurting, seeking, longing, messed up and lost. She's reinventing herself, to prove that she is more than just the product of her past. She's trying to find out who she is... and making mistakes along the way.

It's a story I could really identify with and it was refreshing to read a book that didn't give any easy answers. Julia wrestles, struggles, fails and eventually finds the only one who gives us love unfailing. Sensitively written, honest and reflective; it moved me.

The most beautiful part of the book for me was in the final chapter, she finally comes to a realization of who she is, defining her life with "I am... " statements, finally settling on "I am a new creation."
It inspired me to define myself...

I am...

I am a daughter, a sister and a friend.
I am a teacher in the making.
I am a lover of life.
I am a bookworm, a muser.
I am a seeker and a finder.
I am a wildflower on a roadside.
I live in the now but not yet, embracing the tension.
I am in the making...

I am a new creation.

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Now playing: Simon & Garfunkel - Blues Run the Game
via FoxyTunes

A gem from urbandictionary.com

While a deeper post is in the works... I bring you this gem.

attention spam

A condition resulting in a failure to process basic facts or comprehend common knowledge, due largely to having a mind full of useless information.

eg. Kali's numerous typos were a result of her suffering from attention spam.

Otherwise known as "Liz every single day" especially after aikido - when I have epic failing at even sweeping the floor. Brilliant