Today, I spent my morning in a very domesticated way. I got up, washed dishes, ironed clothes, burned my finger, didn't have the presence of mind to run it under cold water but just to grab it and stare at it, and cooking lunch.

Trammed over to Melb Uni to accompany Lois for Beginners Ballet under Flare. After the class, Aileen(the teacher / choreographer / dancer) came up to me and asked me to be in her item. LOL!
Lois was laughing away....said :"haha see! sure kenna booked.."
Well, so with no intention of auditioning, Lois and I got casted into a ballet/contemp item. LOL. nice. Now Lois and I can't watch tanster perform during the concert. We'll have to watch him during rehearsals then! haha.

Stopped by safeway to pick up some groceries, then headed back to wash up for Ignite. Trammed down to church...Service today was interesting - Guest speaker, Ps James. He gave the bible ref. of Jesus calming the storm, and spent the entire sermon telling us his life testimony.. Not the sermon I had expected, but still, I got afew fantastic points out of it, and shared them with tanster:
1) You can't control a storm, but you can control how you go through it.
2) When you're in a storm, YOU have to take the first step towards Jesus
3) Everyday I live in the grace of God
4) Qtn: Who do you turn to in your storm?

I guess everyone's been in a storm at least once in your life. I know I have. And it took me a long time to realise that I had to cry out to God to rescue me from the storm. I tried dealing with it by myself, and failed miserably. It came to a point when I actually felt comfortable wallowing in self-pity / numbnumb-ville. But Ps James is right.. if you want to get out of the storm, YOU have to decide that you have to do something about it, and that is to reach out and take God's hand. If not, you'll just continue sinking further and deeper. I've realised that it does take a great deal of effort to slap yourself in the face and drag yourself out of numbnumb-ville, but it's worth it when at the end of the day, you learn that God can pull your through anything if you depend on him fully. It's a big step of faith.

feel free to comment, people!

dance those blues away...