My friend Jordi has made this business. She make beanies and sells them-- for a good cause! She wants to go on her school missions trip to help orphans in the Phillipines. She has made some absolutely amazing beanies! I have a monster, and it is very cute! :)
Check out her facebook page here...
I hope that you'll like her page and maybe even order one of her fantastic creations!
Love, Bess xox
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Serving others, serving Christ
Ah, yes, I'm back! It's nice to be home, and sitting here blogging! ;)
Where have I been? Well, I've been away with my class for 2 weeks, helping out people who live in towns like Broken Hill and Swan Hill, and we also helped a farmer who owns a MASSIVE sheep farm. Surprisingly enough, though, during the 2-day stay we had at Turlee Station (the sheep farm), I didn't see a single sheep!! :) Ironic, isn't it? Apparently there were 7000 sheep and 4000 lambs, but I didn't see any!
Anyway, being away for that time, and helping so many people (which we got in that town's local paper for!) made me realise how much a couple of hours of weeding, or mowing, or cleaning up means to some people. We just did the little jobs that they'd never get around to doing, the ones that took us about 2hrs, and would have taken them a week. But even though we didn't do anything really amazing, the people we did it for were so thankful, and so appreciative. It was like we'd just handed them a million dollars, instead of just weeding their backyard. (well, maybe they weren't QUITE that excited, but they were pretty happy!)
Don't worry, I'm not trying to say "oh, look how good my class is, look what we've done" or anything. I'm just thinking, before I went on my Tour (my class trip to help people), how much did I think about helping people or how much they appreciate me helping them. Sure, I helped people. Sure, they said thank you. But I never stopped and thought about exactly how I could help people more. I didn't often step outside of my little "me, me, me" world, to help people. I did, but not very often. Any why should we help people? So that they can owe us something in return? Nope. So we can feel good about ourselves when we've finished? Nope.
Well, why? To show God's glory in everything we do? To help the people that God created? To love our neighbours as ourselves? YES, YES and YES!!! Those are the reasons! To reflect the Light of Jesus, to accompany our faith with deeds (check out James 2:14-26), to love our neighbours as ourselves (Matthew 22:39), and to honour God, our Heavenly Father, our Dad. Remember, when you're serving others, you're serving Christ (Matthew 25:31-46).
So that's what I've been thinking about recently. Maybe you'd like to think about it, too. How can YOU serve other better? Why are you serving others? For your own personal gain? Or for God's?
Have a lovely God-serving day.
Love, Bess x
Where have I been? Well, I've been away with my class for 2 weeks, helping out people who live in towns like Broken Hill and Swan Hill, and we also helped a farmer who owns a MASSIVE sheep farm. Surprisingly enough, though, during the 2-day stay we had at Turlee Station (the sheep farm), I didn't see a single sheep!! :) Ironic, isn't it? Apparently there were 7000 sheep and 4000 lambs, but I didn't see any!
Anyway, being away for that time, and helping so many people (which we got in that town's local paper for!) made me realise how much a couple of hours of weeding, or mowing, or cleaning up means to some people. We just did the little jobs that they'd never get around to doing, the ones that took us about 2hrs, and would have taken them a week. But even though we didn't do anything really amazing, the people we did it for were so thankful, and so appreciative. It was like we'd just handed them a million dollars, instead of just weeding their backyard. (well, maybe they weren't QUITE that excited, but they were pretty happy!)
Don't worry, I'm not trying to say "oh, look how good my class is, look what we've done" or anything. I'm just thinking, before I went on my Tour (my class trip to help people), how much did I think about helping people or how much they appreciate me helping them. Sure, I helped people. Sure, they said thank you. But I never stopped and thought about exactly how I could help people more. I didn't often step outside of my little "me, me, me" world, to help people. I did, but not very often. Any why should we help people? So that they can owe us something in return? Nope. So we can feel good about ourselves when we've finished? Nope.
Well, why? To show God's glory in everything we do? To help the people that God created? To love our neighbours as ourselves? YES, YES and YES!!! Those are the reasons! To reflect the Light of Jesus, to accompany our faith with deeds (check out James 2:14-26), to love our neighbours as ourselves (Matthew 22:39), and to honour God, our Heavenly Father, our Dad. Remember, when you're serving others, you're serving Christ (Matthew 25:31-46).
So that's what I've been thinking about recently. Maybe you'd like to think about it, too. How can YOU serve other better? Why are you serving others? For your own personal gain? Or for God's?
Have a lovely God-serving day.
Love, Bess x
Thursday, 26 May 2011
I'll Be Back Soon....
That reminds me of a song... You might not know it. My school is doing "Oliver!" (you know, Oliver Twist?) for our musical this year, and one of the songs is called "Be Back Soon". Anyway, so that's my post title.
Why? Where am I going? Well, remember how I went on a 2-week hike through the mountains a little while ago? Now, I'm going on a nother school camp, but this one is to the desert for 11 days. We will be helping communities and doing jobs and things for them.I leave on Monday. Today's Friday (Friday, gotta get down on Friiii-da-ay!! haha), but I probably won't get a chance to post again until I get back. Not with all the packing and things I have to do. So I thought I'd just let you know why I'm not posting for a while. My friend, Emii, (some of you might have read her blog. If you haven't, check it out here) is coming too, so she won't be writing for a while, either....
While we are away, your prayers would be gratefully appreciated. I'll be praying for you, as well. :) And I'll miss you (even though I don't personally know you!).
Have an awesome (almost) 2 weeks, and I'll post again when you get back. If you would like, check out John 14:22-25 while I'm away and tell me what you think... I studied it at Bible Syudy last night, and it's a hard one.
Have fun! :)
Love, Bess x
P.S. Don't have too much fun without me! ;)
Why? Where am I going? Well, remember how I went on a 2-week hike through the mountains a little while ago? Now, I'm going on a nother school camp, but this one is to the desert for 11 days. We will be helping communities and doing jobs and things for them.I leave on Monday. Today's Friday (Friday, gotta get down on Friiii-da-ay!! haha), but I probably won't get a chance to post again until I get back. Not with all the packing and things I have to do. So I thought I'd just let you know why I'm not posting for a while. My friend, Emii, (some of you might have read her blog. If you haven't, check it out here) is coming too, so she won't be writing for a while, either....
While we are away, your prayers would be gratefully appreciated. I'll be praying for you, as well. :) And I'll miss you (even though I don't personally know you!).
Have an awesome (almost) 2 weeks, and I'll post again when you get back. If you would like, check out John 14:22-25 while I'm away and tell me what you think... I studied it at Bible Syudy last night, and it's a hard one.
Have fun! :)
Love, Bess x
P.S. Don't have too much fun without me! ;)
Monday, 16 May 2011
random bits of nothing
Don't worry. I know. I haven't posted for, what? 6 days? Something like that. Anyway, I didn't not post on purpose! Don't hate me! :) I've been to my blog nearly every day since I last posted, but when I go to sign in, it goes "Sorry, blogger is not available" and so on and so forth. Yeah, I know. I should probably get a new computer -- preferably one that doesn't go on holidays to the computer shop and not let me get onto my own blog!
So, I don't really know what to post about now that I'm actually on here. Maybe I'll just talk about random bits of nothing... (hey, that sound suspiciously like my post title! Weird coincidence, huh? :P) So, here goes!
Random nothing #1: My Word-of-the-Day today was (oh no! it washed off my hand. what was it? think! think!) um... got it! (thank you dictionary.com!) Pejorative. It means deragotory or rude.
Random nothing #2: Justin Bieber's middle name is Drew. (that was one from my older sister!)
Random nothing #3: A group of owls is called a parliament. Weird, huh?
Random nothing #4: E=mc2 (yeah, that's right, Eintstein actually stole that from me, I figured it out first!! :P)
Random nothing #5: Ring-a-ring-o'-roses (you know, that game where you dance in a circle?) is actually about the Black Death (or Black Plaugue, whichever you prefer), and the falling down part is about people dying! How sad is that? A little kids' song is about death! :(
Random nothing #6: How about something less morbid now?? Hmm... ok, did you know that Thomas Edison's real name was Barton Lewis.
Random nothing #7: Dogs sweat out of their feet. (Now, I'm not TOTALLY sure about this one. I'm 95% sure).
Random nothing #8: Did you know that I made number 6 up completely? tehehe! You fell for it, didn't you? ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my random nothings (You probably didn't!) But even if you didn't, I had fun writing them for you. :) I hope this post hasn't put you off reading my blog. Don't worry, not all my posts are this brainless!!
Hoping you have a fun day, filled with random nothings (let me know if you get one!)
Love, Bess x
So, I don't really know what to post about now that I'm actually on here. Maybe I'll just talk about random bits of nothing... (hey, that sound suspiciously like my post title! Weird coincidence, huh? :P) So, here goes!
Random nothing #1: My Word-of-the-Day today was (oh no! it washed off my hand. what was it? think! think!) um... got it! (thank you dictionary.com!) Pejorative. It means deragotory or rude.
Random nothing #2: Justin Bieber's middle name is Drew. (that was one from my older sister!)
Random nothing #3: A group of owls is called a parliament. Weird, huh?
Random nothing #4: E=mc2 (yeah, that's right, Eintstein actually stole that from me, I figured it out first!! :P)
Random nothing #5: Ring-a-ring-o'-roses (you know, that game where you dance in a circle?) is actually about the Black Death (or Black Plaugue, whichever you prefer), and the falling down part is about people dying! How sad is that? A little kids' song is about death! :(
Random nothing #6: How about something less morbid now?? Hmm... ok, did you know that Thomas Edison's real name was Barton Lewis.
Random nothing #7: Dogs sweat out of their feet. (Now, I'm not TOTALLY sure about this one. I'm 95% sure).
Random nothing #8: Did you know that I made number 6 up completely? tehehe! You fell for it, didn't you? ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my random nothings (You probably didn't!) But even if you didn't, I had fun writing them for you. :) I hope this post hasn't put you off reading my blog. Don't worry, not all my posts are this brainless!!
Hoping you have a fun day, filled with random nothings (let me know if you get one!)
Love, Bess x
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
A day of grey
Yeah, i know, it rhymes. Makes it sound a bit corny doesn't it? Oh well, that's beside the point! :)
Today is one of those days. You know, those days when the sky's cloudy and grey and there's an occasional shower of frustrating-rain. Frustrating-rain is when the rain is too heavy to be a sprinkling that makes your hair sparkly, and too light to be a downpour that you can dance in. Not that you couldn't dance in it, but it's waaaaay more fun to dance in a downpour that gets you drenched and giggling within 5 seconds [I know, it's lame, but that's me! And surely I'm not the only one who likes dancing in the rain? You secretly love it, don't you?! :P ]. Yep. Today is one of THOSE days.
Usually on THOSE days, I wake up and go "ugh". Especially if I have to go to school. But, I'm working on being thankful for everything and finding the good in everything. Even on THOSE days. And also, I need to remember that God made today -- and every other one of the THOSE days (I'm getting pretty sick of writing "THOSE days". Anyone got a suggestion of a better name for them?) -- especially for us, long long before it came to be, in the days before forever ago.
So what is there to be thankful for in today? Well, there's that little patch of sunshine peeking through some of the clouds... and look!! There's some blue sky! Thank you, God.
But aside from the weather, there are so many other things to be thankful for. For example, I'm alive today aren't I? That's always good. :) It sounds silly but -- not meaning to be morbid here -- I could die tomorrow. So remember to thank God for your life!
What else? Well, there're flowers outside my window. Simple, yet wonderful.
There are so many things to be thankful for. And not just in the good things. Everything has some good in it (well, except for sin, but you get the idea).
It does sound kinda corny, y'know, like that song. The one that goes "Oh, be thankful for the googd things that you've got. Oh, be thankful for the good things that you've got. For the good things that you've got are for many...." Sorry, got a bit carried away. :)
But, corny doesn't always mean bad. In fact, most corny lines or puns usually have a good meaning behind it [like my post title, maybe? ;) ] It's true, it's a pretty corny song. In fact, the first time I heard in [in grade 2!], I came home and told mum how funny (and maybe slightly lame!) it was. Well, she told me that it was good, and all the reasons why. I understand now. Thanks Mum. And it is true. We should be thankful.
So that's my insight into all things thankful. Well, maybe not ALL things! ;) Hopefully it was helpful, in some way.
Love Bess x
Today is one of those days. You know, those days when the sky's cloudy and grey and there's an occasional shower of frustrating-rain. Frustrating-rain is when the rain is too heavy to be a sprinkling that makes your hair sparkly, and too light to be a downpour that you can dance in. Not that you couldn't dance in it, but it's waaaaay more fun to dance in a downpour that gets you drenched and giggling within 5 seconds [I know, it's lame, but that's me! And surely I'm not the only one who likes dancing in the rain? You secretly love it, don't you?! :P ]. Yep. Today is one of THOSE days.
Usually on THOSE days, I wake up and go "ugh". Especially if I have to go to school. But, I'm working on being thankful for everything and finding the good in everything. Even on THOSE days. And also, I need to remember that God made today -- and every other one of the THOSE days (I'm getting pretty sick of writing "THOSE days". Anyone got a suggestion of a better name for them?) -- especially for us, long long before it came to be, in the days before forever ago.
So what is there to be thankful for in today? Well, there's that little patch of sunshine peeking through some of the clouds... and look!! There's some blue sky! Thank you, God.
But aside from the weather, there are so many other things to be thankful for. For example, I'm alive today aren't I? That's always good. :) It sounds silly but -- not meaning to be morbid here -- I could die tomorrow. So remember to thank God for your life!
What else? Well, there're flowers outside my window. Simple, yet wonderful.
There are so many things to be thankful for. And not just in the good things. Everything has some good in it (well, except for sin, but you get the idea).
It does sound kinda corny, y'know, like that song. The one that goes "Oh, be thankful for the googd things that you've got. Oh, be thankful for the good things that you've got. For the good things that you've got are for many...." Sorry, got a bit carried away. :)
But, corny doesn't always mean bad. In fact, most corny lines or puns usually have a good meaning behind it [like my post title, maybe? ;) ] It's true, it's a pretty corny song. In fact, the first time I heard in [in grade 2!], I came home and told mum how funny (and maybe slightly lame!) it was. Well, she told me that it was good, and all the reasons why. I understand now. Thanks Mum. And it is true. We should be thankful.
So that's my insight into all things thankful. Well, maybe not ALL things! ;) Hopefully it was helpful, in some way.
Love Bess x
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Well, I'm back!
Yeah, yeah, i know, i haven't posted for about a month and half. Pretty un-dedicated of me, since i only started this blog about-- think quick, Bessie!-- 3 months ago.
But don't worry! I haven't stopped writing for good! And i have reasonably good excuses for not posting. :)
1. I went on a 2 week hike (no computers in the Australian Alps!)
2. My computer got a virus and went to live at the computer-fixing shop for a while
3. My computer came home, went bizarre, and went for another holiday in the computer shop
4. My computer came home-- AGAIN!-- and it wouldn't let me go on my blog. (i know, it's cruel world, isn't it?)
So, those are my (not-so) amazing excuses for not posting. I'll probably post either tomorrow or the next day, hopefully about something more substantial than this! ;)
Until then, i hope you'll forgive me, and have a wonderful whatever-time-of-day you're having!!
Love, Bess x
But don't worry! I haven't stopped writing for good! And i have reasonably good excuses for not posting. :)
1. I went on a 2 week hike (no computers in the Australian Alps!)
2. My computer got a virus and went to live at the computer-fixing shop for a while
3. My computer came home, went bizarre, and went for another holiday in the computer shop
4. My computer came home-- AGAIN!-- and it wouldn't let me go on my blog. (i know, it's cruel world, isn't it?)
So, those are my (not-so) amazing excuses for not posting. I'll probably post either tomorrow or the next day, hopefully about something more substantial than this! ;)
Until then, i hope you'll forgive me, and have a wonderful whatever-time-of-day you're having!!
Love, Bess x
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
We can do anything (with a bit of help!)
I'm about to fall asleep and it's only 4:20 in the afternoon! :) So, this post could make no sense whatsoever. (Does anyone else LOVE that word? Whatsoever? How awesome is it!?)
Anyways.... so i was thinking today about a Bible verse. I don't know where it's from, and I don't knwo if I know the whole verse, but here it is: "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." I love that verse. It's so simple, and yet so powerful. And it's so true!
How crazy is it that the One who DIED for us, us; the small insignificant people on the tiny blue dot that never listen to the Creator of the Universe, still wants to help us, even after he did so much for, even as much as to offer up his life! That's just -- wow! I don't even know how to describe that. Crazy!
So, we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength! That is cool. :) Anything? We can do ANYTHING! That means we can reach out to the entire world (through Christ who gives us strength), we can end world poverty (through Christ who gives us strength), we can hike up mountains for 2 weeks (through Christ who gives us strength).... we can do absolutetly ANYTHING! Just ask and it shall be given to you!
Like that other verse (don't know where it's from) says: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you."
So, all we need to do is belive in Jesus, and we get all these bonus things. Gifts of Grace. Pretty cool, huh? So, believe, ask, recieve.
Remember, we can do anything through Christ!
Love, Bess x
Anyways.... so i was thinking today about a Bible verse. I don't know where it's from, and I don't knwo if I know the whole verse, but here it is: "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." I love that verse. It's so simple, and yet so powerful. And it's so true!
How crazy is it that the One who DIED for us, us; the small insignificant people on the tiny blue dot that never listen to the Creator of the Universe, still wants to help us, even after he did so much for, even as much as to offer up his life! That's just -- wow! I don't even know how to describe that. Crazy!
So, we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength! That is cool. :) Anything? We can do ANYTHING! That means we can reach out to the entire world (through Christ who gives us strength), we can end world poverty (through Christ who gives us strength), we can hike up mountains for 2 weeks (through Christ who gives us strength).... we can do absolutetly ANYTHING! Just ask and it shall be given to you!
Like that other verse (don't know where it's from) says: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you."
So, all we need to do is belive in Jesus, and we get all these bonus things. Gifts of Grace. Pretty cool, huh? So, believe, ask, recieve.
Remember, we can do anything through Christ!
Love, Bess x
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