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today was a nice day. it consisted of church. waitangi. sunburn. heroes. ambrosia. dinner with my maths class. i realised i'm going to miss my maths class, how pathetic. but tonight was fun, we stayed at our teachers for almost 5 hours... sad. i had the most intense game of pictionary in my entire life. i know jesus knows we won cause we blatently said saddle before tashs team. cheats. anyway beautiful day.

when i got home mum saw my sunburn, wasn't impressed.
she told me that i should stay inside tomorrow then said "stay out from 10-3". i was like "stay out IN the sun from 10-3 paahahaa" good one kate. (noticed i'm whippingg out the really bad jokes at the mo, gotta stop that).
then all i could think about was 'be in the world but not of the world'. my mum blatently meant stay out of the sun, but changing one word i made the statement the complete opposite by saying stay out in the sun.
when i was younger i didn't really get this verse, i didn't see the difference between being in it and of it. but today after a little speech about sunburn (YAY for the doctor mum) i realised that they are complete opposites.


beautiful day. however noticed i spend lots of time with the hutt girl leaders/d squaders/key people. kind of like the inner sisterhood circle. however much i enjoy that, current personal goal is to hang out with more people. i really like the town kids, and the tawa people. lets be honest i love everyone at elevate, but we're huge and there's still lots of people i dont know. mmmm thats todays thoughts. :)

summmer

i like planning summer, cause otherwise i'm scared that i'm going to waste the whole thing away. so here goes my to do list...

go camping

sleep under the stars.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. summer camp.

mount maunganui.

so i give up on photos... but:
get a tan
allnighter
CHRISTMAS
road trip - i am determined!!
read harry potters
actually practice the drums. mum threatened to sell them the other day, which is quite a legitimate call cause i never ever play them, but that WILL change. ijn.
go to sommes island.

i give up it's too late. i'll edit when i think of more. :)

ps. i sometimes wish i was Jonah, it would be gross but quite cool to be able to tell people you'd been swallowed by a whale.

badabumbumbaaa

so i haven't blogged since wednesday. and pretty much tuesday cause it was at like 12.10pm wait no 12.10am. i don't really like that 12:10 is am when it's the middle of the night, its not morning yet. well not in my head anyway.

anywaaaay.
so i've realised how many ways you can honour Jesus. i like that we have a dance team at church and that they can use their talent to bring praise to God. i like that i can honour him in my study. i watched facing the giants and i like that they can through football. so many people confine God only to what's in church, or to preaching the gospel etc. If you get to the point in your life where you're going to church too much that you depend on it for input into your walk, i think that's lame. we can grow in God in so many other ways than church, but i totally LOVE church, like it is honeslty amazing like doing life with people, being inspired and all that. But so often we judge people for not coming, or think that the people that are the most committed to church, are the most committed to God. I just think that there are so so many ways to bring him praise, and often it's them that take courage to do rather than sitting in on a service where everyone loves Jesus.

I really like this verse..
Revelation 3:7-8 These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸ I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
i think this is beautiful. it's totally like a 'no earthly thing can get in the way of the promises God has for you' sort of shindig. i reckon it totally means it's never too late. If God has opened a door for you, even if it feels like ages ago, then nothing can shut it and it's totally still there to walk through.


i really do love the bible.


christmas is less that a month away. whaaaaaaaaat the!!


allnighter is two weeks away.


camp is less than 2 months away.


life's amazing!!

addicted to blogging.

ok so i'm no really addicted , i just really enjoy it.
it's funny. so so funny, but i think God shows be stuff through blogging. maybe just through writting down what's in my head. i'm just too lazy to get a pen and write it down on paper.
but more than writing blogs though, i love reading them. it's funny cause i feel like i know people way better, so when i see them it's like hello i know what's going on in your brain at the moment.
but people are super honest, not that they're lying in real life. it's kind of just another dimension of world. really just enjoy deciphering the mysterious ones, being inspired by the uh.. inspiring ones. laughing at the funny ones. marvelling at the beautiful ones. just love them all... and people say i dont read. pffffttt.

i can smell the freedom.

so i realised the problem. it's funny cause these last few weeks I've been reminded of real simple things, things that if i told someone i'd have some huge revalation and explained it they'd probably be like 'oh this is awkward i thought she'd been a christian her whole life' sort of things.

i thought that blessing had flowed for ages then just stopped. in hindsight, that is the most ridiculous thought in the entire world, but it's cause for so long he blessed with me with stuff that seemed impossible. but today when i came out of my chemistry exam, i realised that this whole time it never stopped. It was just more subtle so i was able to just pretend it was luck, like the fact that i've prayed for every exam - and finished every paper, and actually knew the answers. and the beauty that some of the people that have come to elevate have come so so so far, and changed so much. it was like seeing them saved was amazing, but after that the fact that they changed so much and fell in love with God so much, it was just expected or something ridiculous. and that last night we had our last family dinner for three months and my bruv prayed before he went to ghana, that he took a bible with him. that everything he does is for my good, just doesn't always feel like it.

i don't really think i need glasses, because i can't imagine seeing the world clearer than i do, like i've never really been to the optometrist. for all i know i could have terrible vision, but i just don't know anything better.
i think that's what it's like before you know Jesus, or before he opens your eyes to something. we live our lives, and we don't know any different. but he has so much more for us, we just have to go to the optometrist. LOL

after tomorrow i'm pretty much free. HI-FIVE. eeeeeeeeeee. its summer, in just over 12hours.
we find out in like 2 weeks about council.
oh and Briana Foote is probably the loveliest person i know. she's amazing. life's so beaut. thats all :)

beautifulness.

honestly.
 baptism services are so amazing. i'd be lying if i pretended that i wasn't crying well before the baptiseeee's were on stage. honestly ay, eeeee. i la la la loveeee watching someone hop into the pool and actually come out a different person. like you can see it on there face. i really like how this time last year i was baptised, invited tash to come and now one year later she's being baptised. i've kind of looked at the fact that i only have one year left of school and thought it's not enough to change lives etc. But she's actually like a living testimony of how much can happen in a year. I love her so much, she really is inspiring :) such a strong leader. i wish i could get re-baptized every time we have one, but i love loving others so its gooood.

we had leaders party last night. it was fun. and awkward. and beautiful. and JUNGLERAMA omGOSH. wow it was truely a beautiful night. :) i reminded myself how much i enjoy mollie, slash a lot of cool cats. is it embarrasing that whilst attempting to be a child again i'm pretty sure i clicked something in my back, and had to like hobble out of leaders party. however like miracle over night cause i woke up fine, i just enjoy that i felt like an 80year old man. great.

it's amazing how much everything changes when i put quiet times top priority. honestly, i didn't want exams to mean i was too busy to chill with jesus, but like complete opposite. if i fail these bad boys its ok cause relationships gone to a new level in the past 10days.

stop writing blogs kate. that's all.

this week i've realised...

• to admire people that are brave enough to share their problems. cause everyone makes mistakes but half of the world pretend they're perfect and judge the ones that have the courage to tell someone or ask for help. i'm not saying that people that don't like sharing stuff are doing the wrong thing, but when someone lets someone into their head, that's true bravery right there.
• God is never wrong. It's funny how when he tells us to do something, or tells us something we so often doubt it. as if we know better than him. well he's GOD. honestly ay.
• you can't earn blessing. 

just some thoughts. don't judge. :)

mmmm

so you know that feeling when you eat mcdonalds and its good but then you regret it.
yeaaah that happens with me and blogging, so i wrote this blog the other night. went to bed. and remember just as i was drifting off to sleep thinking that i should get up and delete it haha.
so then i came on yesterday and realised that my blogs are way to emo. but actually not really. just kinda.

i was at Granddad's last night and i was looking through this little book of quotes. it was mega cute, and then i found one that went something along the lines of.. if you're not getting what you want out of life then take a look at your level of enthusiasm. And then i remembered that enthusiastic meant "in God" and i realised the true beauty of this quote.

so i have this obsession with cute little christian movies. some of them are good, some of them are so terrible but they're honestly amazing haha. they're all so cheesy, but they're so so good. mmmmm.

in other news, my computer is currently downloading (slash trying to) three free new songs from the parachute bands new album. I'm so excited.. WAAAHH here's the link if you're cool enough to read this blog. http://dld.bz/68Nr

exams are almost over. well kind of, and i'm so excited for getting my life back. :) i haven't been to a friday elevate, a leaders meeting or a night church in like three weeks and i've truely missed it. however i secretly think jesus is stoked with the fact that i actually studied for these exams so its ok.

SUMMER CAMP. i truely dont think anybody is as excited for this as i am.
aaaand ALLNIGHTER is only in 3 weeks.

life is truely beautiful. just mega awk sometimes.  :)