I've had some fun autumn walks recently, so here are some fun, autumn aesthetic pictures to hopefully brighten your day.
Well, basically nothing happened in September and it will probably be the same for October. However, I did apply for University a few days ago which is exciting. I applied for Reading, Reaseheath, and Chester University. all the courses I applied for were either Zoology or Wildlife Conservation related. I am actually really excited for university, but also really nervous about whether I'm going to get in. My first choice is definitely Reading, I mean I think I am literally in love with the campus, but I also know that it takes a lot to get in. Honestly, I'm trusting God with where I need to be and that he will put me in the right place.
Other than applying for uni, all my other time is spent playing with kittens, looking for jobs, taking driving lessons, or just playing on my phone because there ain't anything to do.
Looking for jobs is basically really hard because most of the jobs are manager jobs and I can't be a manager until I've at least had some retail experience. Or the jobs are really far away and I have to spend an hour getting there, or I can't drive and they need me to drive or something else that is the really annoying meaning I'm not eligible for the job.
Driving is just hard. Some days I'll do alright and others I'll do terrible. There are so many things to concentrate on and think about and then there's all the theory as well and it's all so much. But, besides it being hard, I do enjoy it a lot and I can't wait until I can actually do it and pass my test.
I had to say goodbye to my friends at the beginning of September as they were all off to Uni, which was sad, but they seem to be doing good and it's not like I'll never see them again.
I did go for a walk with the fam at one point. It was a cute walk.
You're very welcome!!
Thanks for reading, I'm hoping something exciting will happen in October, but if it doesn't, well, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Wow, it's taken a lot to get here, but we have made it to the almost end of 2020! Only 3 months left.
I've talked about a lot that happened in August already. Our holiday was the main thing and then all the God stuff that I talked about in my last post. So, instead of doing a September update, I am going to write and show you something that has happened recently which is the most exciting thing that has happened in a while!!!
WE GOT KITTTEENNNSS!!!!! Like we didn't just get one, we got TWO GORGEOUS LOOKING KITTENS.
We've had them for about 5 days and they are just too cute. I've taken way too many photos of them and spent a lot of time just staring at them sleeping because they are too gorgeous. The one photographed on the left is Alfie, who is the family cat and on the right is Prince Winston, my own cat. There isn't really much else to say about them so let me just spam you with photos instead.
Well that's is basically it. I don't really have anything else I haven't already written about. I'll be back the next time something happens.
I am so overwhelmed with all that is going on in my spiritual life, God is just revealing so much to me about who he is and how to live life for him and like him. He is changing me and I am shaking writing this and on the verge of tears because I just don't know how to even start or what to even say because its hard to write down. I have this bubbly, excited, jittery joy in my stomach but I don't know how to express it. I wanted to come on here and see if I could just try and get some of it down and hopefully, God will sort it all out as I write. I also pray that as I write this, God would plant something in you or teach you something new or that this would encourage you in some way, so I don' know if any of this will make any sense, but I hope God uses what I have and make sense out of my jittery mess.
I think God started this work within me just before Limitless Festival Online, I had started reading my bible a lot more, I had been reading Galatians and doing a few bible plans/devotions on the bible app and I didn't realise at the time what God was actually doing and how much he was teaching me and preparing me for. I did feel little changes within me as I was reading the devotions and Galatians, but like I didn't take any big notice of it.
Anyway, Limitless Festival Online happened, which was amazing by the way, even though it was sad that we couldn't go for real, God still did some amazing stuff and it still felt like Limitless Festival. On the first night, Tim Alford spoke on 1 Thessalonians 4:11 which reads about making it your goal to lead a quiet life. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, don't spend time in the morning with your phone before you spend time with Jesus. Going on your phone first thing in the morning is 1. Putting your phone before God and 2. clogging up your brain with all the stuff of the world leaving only a little bit of space for Jesus and the Spirit when you finally come to the word of God. So, at the end of Tim's preach, he made us promise/declare that, in the morning, we would spend time with God alone before we spend any time with our phone. I managed to do it. I thought it would be harder than it actually was. God gave me an open heart to listen and then carry through what I had learnt, so that morning I read Romans 1, each morning after I have read a chapter of Romans a day and my gosh how God has revealed more and more about himself each time which only makes me want to know more and more.
On holiday I only missed one day of reading Romans, but God did not miss any day of speaking to me. I was on social media one day while on holiday and someone had reposted something on their story. It said something along the line of 'we don't run on feelings, if we only wanted to feel God, then it wouldn't be a relationship, we should want to KNOW God.' This just hit me hard because almost every day I pray that I would be able to feel God and from the moment I read this on Instagram I knew I had been doing my relationship with God wrong. So I started to pray about knowing him in every day, that he would reveal more about who he was and that I wouldn't run on feelings or wanting to feel him, but know him as my father and best friend. Now I know and feel as though I actually have a relationship with him, I know more of who he is and who is to me and my heart is constantly burning for more and more its so overwhelming.
I think instead of only telling you that God has revealed who he is to me, I thought I'd tell you and hopefully, he will reveal himself to you too.
Who is God? He is the Holy one who is so much higher than us. He sits in his throne in Heaven that is higher than space and higher than the space of space. He knows everything, he is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Time is literally in his hands, beginning to the end and everything in-between. He holds the plans for your life and says that they are so so good.
God loves us, me, you more than everything on this earth. He loves you so much that he loved you while we were still, STILL, sinners. He sent his son, his only son to die for you so that you could be close to him and be called his daughter and son just as Jesus is. Through Jesus, we find the love that God has for us. Through Jesus, we are brought closer to the one in Heaven who made us. Who are we to say that we are greater than the one who literally formed us in his hands. There is a verse in Romans 9 that says "Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it "Why have you made me like this?" When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn't he have the right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into? In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those whom his anger falls." - Who are we?? Who are we to question God's righteousness? To question his ways? There is another verse in Romans 11 that I love which says " Oh, how great are God's riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!"
Through my life I know God's ways have never failed, so I do not question them for God is faithful, He is the only one who will be faithful to you your whole life. Others will fade in and out, but remains the same and always faithful. Through the times I was fading in and out of my relationship with Christ, he never ever left me for he promises to always be with us!! He is the keeper of promises, he will never leave you, the bible says "Do not be afraid" May your confidence and hope be in the one who will never leave.
Who is God? He is the one and only, he is the king of the throne, he is my everything, he is 3 in one, he is father, spirit and son. He is the one who deserves the glory, who deserves the ones he created, who deserves all of us, even if we have nothing, he just wants us. He loves you as you are, but he loves you too much to let you stay as you are.
This was a camping holiday, so the first day mostly consisted of almost a 6-hour journey, putting tents up and then having dinner with my Nana and Grandad in their garden, but to top off the day, we also went for an evening stroll around Weymouth beach as the sun was setting behind some buildings. Oh also, this same night we found out my bro got engaged!!! I'm so happy and excited for him, it is very exciting news, but maybe I'll write more about that in another blog.
First nights are always rough when sleeping in tents and there was so much noisy wind, so I basically got about 4-5 hours sleep with lots of waking up in the middle. But, a bad sleep didn't stop me from having a great day. Day 2 was a walk around Blue Pools, beach and fish and chips for dinner.
Day 3 I think was my favourite day. We headed over to Portland Bill in the morning. It was beautiful blue water and a really hot sun, definitely the day in which I got burnt. After our walk around the lighthouse, we had some lunch and traveled over to Chesil beach where we spent the rest of the day. I swam in the wonderfully clear water, skimmed some stones, played with a super cute border collie, and got sunburnt some more.
In the evening we had a nice dinner spent with our Nana and Grandad at a cute little restaurant. It was a load of fun and good food too. And then when it got really dark we star gazed which is just my absolute favorite activity to do when away, mainly because trying to stargaze in Liverpool is difficult because of all the street lights.
