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Australia

It’s been a month since I moved to Australia.

I know for so many of my international friends that seems such a HUGE move. But since I am already from down under, just a little more down. ( New Zealand )

It really only means a 3 hour plane trip.

Australia has all the comforts of home but with that added excitement of being a “foreigner” or the one with the “Strange accent”

What? I have an accent?

Strangely people think I do.

It’s comforting to walk into the supermarket and see my beloved Marmite and Vegemite.

Or see the flag flying in the wind which looks almost like mine.

It’s amusing when birds laugh at me, and a shock to see Kangaroo meat at the supermarket.

I feel so special when I know I can work in this country without the worry of a visa because of our countries special agreement.

But I had forgotten how much was involved with moving countries and the little things you take for granted like a library card, bank account, drivers licence and mobile phone.

Life is an adventure and I am excited to see what lies ahead.

A Perfect Blog.

What does a perfect blog look like?

Well………. for one thing it should be grammar and spelling error free.

SO not going to happen on this blog. Spelling is NOT a gift that I have been given. 

I see the perfect, error free blog and it’s not my blog.

Sometimes we get so caught up with perfection, we loss sight of the calling we have been given. We worry about things when God wants us to stop stressing and just get on with it. We overanalyse to the point, we believe there is no point even trying because we will fail.

Yes people may judge and think less of me because of my spelling. It’s very possible some will leave my blog because it’s too hard to see past misspelt words. But that’s ok because God still wants to use me. 

Perfection is unattainable but a calling from God nothing can stand in it’s way. 

 

 

 

 

 

What You See.

If you could look in the mirror in the way God sees you, you would see a beautiful child of God. Every part perfectly made by a great artiest.

But instead your vision is masked by the dirt and expectations of this world. You see someone covered by imperfections and shame.

If you could look at your attractiveness to men through God’s eyes, you would see a women set apart for a husband that treasures, values and protects her, protected from those who will hurt and leave her broken.

But you see a woman that no man can stand to be around. You believe never been in a relationship means unwanted.

If you could see your broken hopes and dreams through God’s eyes you would see that every closed doors leads you to the big amazing plan and purpose God has for you.

But all you can see is a failure and a hopeless mess. Someone that can never get it together.

What you see is so much different to what God knows about you. He sees the truth when our eyes a blinded by a lie. This is the reason we must put our trust in a all knowing powerful God, because he sees and deeply cares.

Last Day of 2013

Tomorrow is 2014.

So much has happened this year. 

I gained a new title this year. Published author! Who would have ever guessed.

I have meet amazing people this year who have strengthen and blessed me, from all over the world. I have chatted and laughed, talked and prayed for so many people. 

I wake up everyday knowing that God is moving in huge ways in my life. 2013 has had it’s struggles but my faith has moved to a deeper level of trust. 

To those who have walked alongside me this year thank you for blessing, supporting and believing in me. Thank you for showing me the beauty of  true friendship.

Bring on 2014 I am excited!!!

 

Social Media Changed My Life.

There is a lot of bad things about social media, cyber bullying, abuse, hate.

But I am here to tell you how social media changed my life for good and brought me closer to God than I could have ever imagined.

” I am never ever going to use Twitter.” I told my brother “It’s so stupid.”

One year, thousands of followers and three accounts later I regret those words.

Social media for me has become a huge mission field, a place where I can meet people where they are at, I can speak into lives, from the lonely heart who can’t sleep at night, to the one who is sitting with a group of friends.

Social media, inspired me to publish and write a book, to share my struggles and make friends all the over the world.

Through Facebook, Instagram , Youtube, Twitter and many more I can do my bit to change the world.

Everyday I draw closer to God as I try to give godly advice to the brokenhearted or the girl who is wondering “Is he the one.”

Friend, God can use you here, there or anywhere.

He has a spec ail plan and way, to use you to change the world and you never know it could be social media.

 

 

I Have a Need.

I have a need.

A desperate aching need to do something with my life.

More than the ordinary, more than hiding my light under the couch. I want to break free and truly live for something deeper than myself.

I have a passion to make a different in the world. To be a leader, a world changer.

But first I must lay everything at the foot of the cross.  My dreams must die, my desires in the grave.

I must be completely surrendered. So I can raise in God’s power not my own.

I must die so I give the credit to the one it belongs to, the one I belong to Jesus Christ.

I must be willing but also patience, waiting on God for when he raises me up to do great things for him, I will be ready and completely grounded in him.

Yes I have a need and God overflows that need, and I am completely his forever!

His Voice

Tears slid down Paulette face. Her head hung in shame. Over and over again the words rang in her head.

“You are weak, you are nothing, you are worthless, you are messed up.”

If the people around her thought that, than God must think the same thing about her.

“God must see me as weak and to broken to be made new. Damaged goods.”

Lie after lie pierced her fragile bleeding heart.

Just as all hope was lost, a shadow fell across her. Looking up she saw a hand reaching down, a deep scar was visible.

A beautiful voice that overflowed with healing and care spoke.

“Paulette, my daughter” I see you, I see your brokenness and pain, I hear the lies, the cruel laughter, they said the same to me when I hung on a cross, put there by the very people I loved the most. But daughter in me, nothing is to broken to be made new. My voice is not the voice that wounds, my voice is the one that lifts you to a place of healing, love and joy.

“Paulette, my voice sets you free”

You

You are

Loveable

Wanted

Chosen

Forgiven

Brought with a price

Understood

Watched over

Protected

Cherished

Worthy

Worth dying for

You have a

Destiny

Hope

Future

God has not forgotten you. 

He cares and gave his life for YOU

You are meant to be.

I have the resources to handle this pain.

It was one of those days, pain was an unwelcome friend that seemed to never leave. The painkillers were not doing their job and it seemed just to much to handle. 

“God this is so hard” I cried silently. ‘This journey is way to difficult, can you just give me a rest. I am so sick of learning lessons from pain.”  

Than I heard him clearly. “I have given you to much to handle”, I heard God say. 

What? I must have heard that wrong.  That can’t be right.

“Yes darling daughter I have given you to much to handle by yourself. But I have given you the resources to walk this journey. I have given you myself. If you trust me, lean on me, obey me, I will carry you through this hard time. I will never ask you to walk this path alone. I am here but you must learn to stop trying to do it alone because you will never make it on your own.”

“Use the resources of prayer, read my love letter ( the Bible ) pour out your pain, sorrows and broken dreams to me and I will strengthen you.” 

Suddenly I see that illness is not a curse but a way to draw ever closer to the one who holds my life. With him holding me, I see hope, a future and beauty from pain!

 

 

 

Our life Author..

As an author I get SO excited when someone tells me they are reading my book. It encourages me so much and makes me smile for days. I love hearing how my story touched someone’s life. It makes everything God has taken me through feel worthwhile.

Imagine how it makes God feel when he knows we are reading his word? Imagine how excited he is when he sees us sharing and encouraging each other through his book. Wow it makes, me see reading the bible in a totally different light!

God delights in us reading the bible.

Just like authors want people to write great reviews for their book. God wants our life to be a review of him and his book. So when people see us they are hungry to know more about our author.