True Colours

Your true colours, are  beautiful 

like a rainbow

Imagine the world without any colour. You look out the window in the morning and see colourless grass and a colourless sky and God wouldn't of been able to promise with a rainbow because it would look plain and boring, not the wonders of colour that shine through a single droplet of rain. If you look around, colour is everywhere in the smallest of things. We are in a world where colour dominates our lives, from reading signs on the road to see if fruit is ripe and yummy to eat. It affects our moods - blue is calming, red can make us tense and hungry, orange expresses energy and enthusiasm. We use and experience colour everyday in our lives without even appreciating it. 

I found this song about colour and I thought I might share a few verses that I truly loved. The site link is www.imeem.com/ifankucel/blogs/2008/02/07/1AdAe5p8/can_i  if you want to go and read the whole song - i recommend it. The verse I like is the verse about grey:

Maybe I'll stick with pencil

Just a grey, ordinary pencil.

Who can I colour in with grey?

Grey is the colour between all the rest

Maybe I can find something to colour with grey

Something that won't go wrong.

Something that can feel everything and nothing at once

That's it!

Who can I colour in with grey?

I can colour the world.

These lyrics (I think they're lyrics anyway) made me realize what God must feel. He made all these colours for us to enjoy and express happiness and ourselves with but instead they have turned against Him and made our lives angry, conceited, envious, sad, empty and lonely. But we can easily change our world of grey back into the colour it is meant to be by thanking the Lord for His creativity that He put into the world He created for us. We can turn our world into one of love, laughter, relaxation, a dream, innocent, private by being positive and putting a smile on your face, to turn your world and other's back - to the colourful world that God created just for us!

Mmm....

Okay, you know chocolate: a food made from roasted ground cacao beans, creating a delicious sensation that melts in your mouth, the rich flavour soothing any bad feelings... Mmm........ The fate of chocolate has fallen into my fellow chocoholics out there, but I have a challenge. To go a WHOLE month without a single pinch of chocolate!!!!

BREATHE!! Get up, if you've fainted off your chair and listen. I just completed this challenge in one of the worst times - 3 week holidays!! The amount of things with chocolate in them shocked me. I couldn't have some of the simplest biscuits and ice-cream or muesli bars, I feel really sorry for those people out there who are allergic. The amount I did was July 2 -> August 2 because I ate chocolate on the 1st so I couldn't start then...

Whenever I was asked why I was doing this, my answer was because I felt like it but now I have a true confession. Part of the reason was because of the teasing I got about myself but also I actually found quite a lot about myself.  This challenge really made me think about how easy it is to fall into the temptations of the world today and how hard it is NOT to fall into them. Whenever I went into a supermarket (which is quite often), the chocolate was laid out in view for anyone and I actually realize how hard it must be for people how suffer from the more serious temptations. I challenge you to take something out of your life, however small it may be, and go a month, or two, without it. You'll find how strange it is to go past it everyday and feel yourself saying "Why not, you can have some when no-ones watching and n

o-one will know", but please don't fail, think of when the time is over and you can go back, eat that stash you've had hidden for a while, and feel good that YOU managed to last so long without it! 

Good Luck!

I must say that on the 2nd of August when I could actually have chocolate, I didn't actually feel like having any, I did however have a nice warm hot chocolate and then that night, I got out my stash and had a blast!! So go out there, find something, as small as no chocolate, 

as large as no tv or car, and challenge yourself to fight that temptation you have!! Once again, Good Luck!

Sisters

Susan and I.

Being exactly 1 year apart, we have always been great mates. 

When we love each other - people say its adorable 

but when the claws come out, watch out!!!

Our bond has always been forged by doing everything together 

from the time our memories started. I can't even remember 

what it was like without a sister (even for one year!)

Two girls forming a friendship that can never be broken, no matter what life brings across our paths. We truly are linked with heartstrings!