ange's musings

Just found this amazing website whilst procrastinating all the awful bloomin' packing up of stuff I seem to be doing every bloomin' 12 months for the last 7. It cheered me up no end. Bring on the NZ VW campervan adventure previously only in my dreams but maybe one day it will be made reality. Bring it on! Whoop whoooooop

GOOD BYE... HELLO.......... LAND OF THE MAORI.

Tonight I went to the second night of three nights of a healing conference at my current church in Sheffield. I am cutting to the chase to let whoever reads this know that tonight my previously curved spine (scoliosis) which has not only given me a leg length discrepancy to adapt to (until tonight my left leg has always been longer than my right) but also intermittent lumbar and thoracic back pain since the age of 21 has been healed. I sit here today at my desk with both feet firmly on the ground, equal in length, my pelvis totally head on and perpendicular to my lumbar spine and my entire spine completely straightened by the power of the Holy Spirit. I didn't even plan on asking God to heal this and went to church tonight with no or low expectations. Tonight God chose to heal me because He loves me and to heal me of something I never even really bothered about but accepted as part of my body! How amazing is my father that He chooses to heal even the things we do not see as a burde...

So as I am leaving my lovely house share in Sheffield next weekend my housemates are in the process of trying to find my replacement. Although there are currently just 3 of them, it seems agreeing on a housemate of choice is proving rather difficult. For example, tonight was a classic example. Like many nights in recent weeks someone came to meet us all, he'd already looked round on Monday and met housemate A and myself. I loved him. He has a phd and is working at Sheffield Uni, doing some absolutely fascinating research that is related to healthcare which is obviously going to float my boat. Difficult to please housemate A thought he was adorable on Monday and still does today - result! Normally easy to please housemate B on today's impression alone thought he was difficult to have conversation with and didn't offer a lot up of himself to chat about.... or something along those lines. Housemate C is normally indifferent and predictably was tonight. Thankfully housemate A...

Feisty - 3 dictionary results –adjective, feist⋅i⋅er, feist⋅i⋅est. 1. full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger. 2. ill-tempered; pugnacious. 3. troublesome; difficult: feisty legal problems. Origin: 1895–1900, Americanism; feist + -y 1 Related forms: feist⋅i⋅ly, adverb feist⋅i⋅ness, noun Feisty - 3 thesaurus results Main Entry: feisty Part of Speech: adjective Definition: spirited; touchy Synonyms: active , alive , bubbly , courageous , difficult , enthusiastic , excitable, fiery , frisky , full of pep, game , gritty, gutsy, gutty, high-strung, hot-blooded, lively , mettlesome, ornery , peppy , quarrelsome, scrappy, sensitive , spunky , thin-skinned, tough , truculent , zestful Courtesy of http://www.dictionary.com/ Having spent a little time remindng myself of this adjective's meaning I have thus decided she was paying me a compliment.

...I will be aboard a very large Boeing Quantas non-stop flight direct to Sydney, Australia where I will be meeting my lovely Australian cousin John to head to Canberra, the political capital and home of my dear aunties, uncles and cousins who rather than moving to Blighty chose the ruggedness of Oz. Couldn't quite believe it when I was sharing that realisation with friends at work today but I guess sometimes things come upon us and although we have been anticipating them for so long, we still don't feel ready for them. Life since God stole my heart more than 7 years ago has almost definitely been an adventure. I have had huge highs and massive lows but Jesus has been enough all along. Just knowing I have had and will always have Jesus through everything has made it all worthwhile....which I guess is why I know that whatever awaits me in NZ and OZ doesn't only wait me but will await me and God because I with him together, will tackle this new season in my life. Gpd really ...

"Art is a lie which makes us see the truth". Pablo Picasso "Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" William Shakespeare speaking of the playing of a stringed musical instrument. "Chords are better than speech". John Rees, The Sky is Blue. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know". John Keats "Now let us do something beautiful for God" Mother Theresa, 1910-1997, Albanian missionary