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Name: Katie
Country: Australia
State: Victoria
Birthday: 2/24/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Hmm.. I am interested in anything to do with music, many different styles. I love to sing and write songs and to reach out to different people with my music and my life. I love God more than anything else and he inspires me and i live for Him!
Expertise: Piano, guitar, singing, art
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/27/2004
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| I can't believe how good God is sometimes! He just does incredible things that I would never dream of asking him for. I just finished 3 weeks of really full-on, tiring but great camp. I was helping train up new leaders. It was a great experience. But then I got home to have a young woman from church come and give me her car! She bought a new one and wanted to bless me with her old one! And it is such a nice car! So much better than the little beast bomb I have now (although I love it dearly!). I am driving around in it still not able to believe it is mine. I would have never thought I would be able to get a car that nice. Such an extravagant gift of love. And it goes beyond the material. It is a way for God to show me His amazing, abounding love and provision in a way that just blows my mind. He is so great and will continue to provide in all the little details of my life. As I was reading in Isaiah 40. He knows all the stars by name and not one of them is missing. Not one detail of my life will be neglected or "go missing" | | |
| I feel so inspired. The theme of our cafe church was end times and our pastor spoke on Christ's return. It could be any day ! Yet how often do I think of that? At the end of Timothy Paul talks about the crown that you get if you are longing for His appearing. But then we can also "long for" or "love this world. How quickly I fall into that trap. I just want to be so passionate for Christ. The more I see friends around me drawn into bad decisions and mundane lives,I want to make sure I never settle for that! Apart from this, things have been interesting. I thought I was going to Bolivia for Dec, Jan but now i'm not. And I'm so happy because God worked it all out and showed me what he wanted. Instead I will be staying here and doing some leadership training on a camp. It was an interesting journey of discovery and seeking God. But I'm excited to be doing what He wants. It'll be great! Tim comes home in 2 weeks!! So excited! And i talked to my long lost Jess and we once again laughed at the stupidity of our lives! 2 Timothy 4:8-10 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing....10 Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. | | |
| I feel compelled. I went to a conference on Saturday. Run by UNOH. Urban neighbours Of Hope.I was challenged in so many ways. One was to actually listen to my heart and it's desires. God puts a lot of his desires on your heart and often that is how he moves us. I need to take time to sit in silence and ask myself, what is my heart yearning for? Most probably that is what God wants for me. I think too many people are "content" with life but not passionately excited by what they do. One girl talked about the wild and domesticated goose. The wild geese embark on an exciting adventure every year and they flap their wings and cry our for other geese to join them. But the domesticated goose in the barnyard runs out of teh barn, squawking and excited but never joins them. I don't want to be like that goose!
Ash Barker has decided to live in a Bankok slum. But not as a well off white missionary. He lives as they do, in a slum, in a similar house, with his family...basically living in crap, if you'll excuse the phrase. But he loves it. Jesus commands us to love the poor. Everytime we look into the eyes of a broken person we see Jesus. "whatever you do for the least of these you do unto me" Yet how can we see the broken and poor when we are so isolated from them, living in comfortable, safe areas of town, in our neat shut in families, never opening our doors.
I also need to love Jesus more, to saturate myself with him every morning. that is the only way I can truely love others.
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| It is probable that no one reads this anymore and I don't blame them coz there's never anything to read! But today I feel like updating, just on case someone feels like checking it out. Life is interesting. It's been quite the balancing act at the moment. Lately I have felt bombarded with so many things that I don't feel like I ever stop and just 'be', I always have to 'do'. Church commitments, youth group activities, yfc lunchtime clubs to organise and piano teaching.
Sometimes that all becomes too much and takes away from what life is all about. To me, the important things are those intimate moments with the people you hold dear, going out for coffee, jamming or performing music, listening to good music, devouring a good book, having a good laugh with someone or taking the time to share Christ with someone. I hate that activities take away from that and from being still in God's presence.
Last night I went to see one of my best friends take the lead role as Reno in Cole Porter's "Anything Goes". She was magical, sensational, dazzling, there aren't words to describe her performance. I love that as a Christian she has acted, sung and danced to her full potential and glorified God, even in a secular theatrical performance because she is doing what he has created her to do best. As Eric Liddell said "God made me fast, and when I run I feel his pleasure" It is the same for Steph when she performs in Theatre.
Hopefully it will be the same for me when I perform my songs at a concert tomorrow avo.
And I am lovin this book!
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| ok , i decided it was about time to update since Chris has been doing it for me! Just to let you know that I am actually in El Salvador, visiting with friends and going to sing in my friend Adrianas wedding. It is so good to be here, I am loving it. The people are so beautiful and its great to be only speaking and hearing spanish again. I am trying to remember how to say a lot of things but I understand most things.
So far ive seen mostly the city, been swimming in a beautiful pool, been to Adris church, shopping centres, up a volcano and eaten lots of food! I think tomorrow we are going to the beach! The wedding preparations are going well, Ive written the song that im going to sing, i hope they like it. its amazing to see people from the institute in Argentina and to talk about old times and people that we knew there.
I am remembering why i love the Latino people, they are just so beautiful!
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