Xtend 07.. best week of my life!

I got back on saturday night at mid-night from what has to be one of the best weeks of my life !!

I learnt so much about God at this camp called Xtend (its a baptist youth camp held once a year, in tauranga!)

Things i learnt:

- Even though I thought that I'd stopped believing lies about myself, I still do, and I need to renounce those, and replace them with the truth that God wants to speak into my life.

- It is sooo important that you are a real, honest + open person, so that people don't get the wrong idea about who you are. It's sad, but true, that we act differently around different people, we shouldn't be afraid to let people see who we really are!

- Nothing that we ever do is worthy of Jesus. When we feel unworthy of God's love, its because we are! But only through JESUS! He makes us worthy, so when God looks at us, he sees something pure and blameless.

- The Bible is the living, active word of God, which needs to be meditated, chewed, eaten, consumed.

- If you think you can't hear God's voice are you listening?! Because you can't recognise a voice that you never hear. So spending time with God (in prayer + in listening) regularly is hugely important in order to actually be able to hear God's guidance for your life.

So yeah, that's pretty much what I learnt! And probably some other stuff too.

But it was so awesome spending time worshipping God with others, and seeing people support each other when their friends were suffering, rejoicing with one another, responding to God and actively seeking God

INCREDIBLE!

If you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it!

Very special song..

Must have done something right - Relient K

We should get jerseys cause we make a good team
But yours would look better than mine
Cause your out of my league
And I know that it’s so cliche
To tell you that everyday
Spent with you is the new best day of my life
Everyone watching us just turns away disgust
This jealousy they can see that we’ve got it going on

And I’m racking my brain for a new improved way
To let you know you’re more to me than what I know how say
Your okay with the way this is going to be
Cause this is going to be, the best thing we’ve ever seen

If anyone could make me a better person, you could
All I gotta say is I must have done something good
You came along one day, and you re-arranged my life
All I gotta say is I must have done something right,
I must have done something right

And maybe I’m just lucky cause it’s hard to believe
Believe that somebody like you, end up with someone like me

And I know that it’s so cliche
To talk about you this way
But I’ll push all my inhibitions aside
It’s so very obvious to every one watching us
That we have got something real good goin on

And I’m racking my brain for a new improved way
To let you know you’re more to me than what I know how say
Your okay with the way this is going to be
Cause this is going to be, the best thing we’ve ever seen

This song is truly great :D

Masquerade..

meeks, me, chloe
its ha-uge
she is a strange woman that one.. no, the other one :P
le masque.

Masquerade.. paper faces on parade!

Fantastic, masqeurade formal dinner at church :D

was great fun.

spent the afternoon making masks/beautifying.

then dinner :D

then dancing like mad :D