2012...

Ok, so welcome to 2012... and by my calculations we're ready 1/8 of the way through the year.... scary stuff!!!


Actually I'm kinda glad to be in 2012... there's something so much cooler about 2012 over 2011... don't you think?? maybe it's cause "12" is an even number... and really let's face it, sorry number 11, but it really is a pretty ugly, awkward number...


And plus it's going to be an AMAZING year... I can just feel it... well it's been pretty amazing so far... no guesses why eh?? :) lol.   But not only that, I'm finishing uni!! revisiting Canada!! starting my new job!!


In fact it's gonna be such an awesome year I wish it was over already so I could look back on it and know what all happens and how I cope with my whole life changing... yup, you guessed it, I'm a control freak... but in my defence I'm pretty sure 2012 is going to totally change my life on so many different levels...


So I guess I have to set some New Years Resolutions...so here they are:

1. survive the last 6 months of uni...
2. have the awesomest practical experience ever at PMH!
3. learn to love Canada to some degree... ;)
4. be the awesomest new grad nurse ever!!
5. try to not fall over so much
6. try not to lose things so much (particularly my mobile, which is lost at the moment actually :( )
7. try not to forget things
8. try not to break too many rules

and I think that's pretty much it... so everyone I hope you have an amazing and exciting 2012 and that God surrounds us all with His love and care... for no matter what this year brings for any of us, it is guided by Him for our greater good!!

Amazing Life

Life is amazing. 

It is more than just the body's rhythms of breathing in-and-out, the mechanical pump of the heart pushing blood around the body and the electrical impulses travelling through the brain reporting sensory information and stimulating motor function ... A person who is hooked up to a ventilator machine experiences these same bodily functions and yet is not experiencing 'life' in the true sense of the term... 

Sure, I'll grant that legally 'life' is classed by these functions... one who is not experiencing these is rightly classed as 'dead'. But yet, life is more than our biological drive to provide oxygen and nutrients to the body.

Life contains so many spheres - physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual and social... Just think of those five spheres in your life at the moment, and you can probably list a myriad of adjectives to describe your current state in each of these spheres. You may be feeling physically on-top-of-the-world but spiritually distant. You may be feeling emotionally volatile and at the same time struggling to maintain your social relationships. These spheres may operate independently or be intrinsically linked. To go back to my days with Applicable mathematics, I can't help thinking about the appropriateness of the Venn diagram in demonstrating the separate and yet linked nature of these spheres in our life. Life is fully experienced through the junction of these five spheres. 

The most amazing thing about life is that it is God's gift to us! His greatest gift! Sin and death were the punishment we deserved, and yet life we received through Jesus Christ. 

Only because the Son of God came to give His Life, do we continue to rise every day to a new day, we breath in air, our hearts pump in our bodies, we experience emotions, we talk to our friends, we go to work and we may serve God. 

At times, life is tough. It can be hard and it can be sad. Sin and it's consequences continue to destroy the perfect bliss we once experienced in the Garden. And yet God promises to heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds and promises to restore us to the blessedness of an eternally perfect life! What a promise!

 What a life we have to look forward to! Praise be to God alone.