summmmmmer.

since saturday i've driven almost 1300km. that's quite a while, you know to tauranga and back and out and about. but the thing is i really really love driving, from taupo to the mount and back was beautiful cause it was like road trip with friends. but my fav is 5 hours with just me and jesus, i honestly sit there talking to him for hours and it's so beautiful i LOVE it. let's be honest if i was at home for the day there's no way i'd be able to have a 5 hour quiet time and not be distracted, and that is the beauty of a car. hanging with Jesus today, was beaut but pretty sure i'm not gonna get worship captain, positions come tomorrow i think, but it's okay. i've sort of realised that i was a better leader before i had a title.. not a title as such, but sort of.

i've always believed that leadership is an action, not a title. You're not a leader cause you're called one, you're a leader when you stand up for what you believe in, you're a leader when you have people that you're leading and they're following you, you're a leader when you are a good role model and you're a leader when you're proud of who you are and people look up to you. So i don't care about school council, i know i'm a leader and thats cool, i don't have to lead at school.

the last five days have been so beautiful, i tried bullet pointing this holiday, but it just doesn't do it justice. and the best things aren't necessarily things, but more like personal jokes, or small beautiful things like eating home made pizza on the beach while the sun sets, or just laughing or listening to music or taking photos. going on holiday with old friends is beautiful, cause you can actually leave EVERYTHING behind. i love holidaying with wellington peepz, but you share the same world and so you're sort of constantly reminded of the bad as well as the good. going on holiday with the Taupo girls was amazing cause i didn't have to worry about a thing, and i like that.


recently i've been getting so excited about 2011, whilst getting annoyed with how much time i wasted in 2010. but it doesn't matter cause i honestly believe SO much will change next year, i want to leave something, plant something, start something big. not cause i want this to be about me, but just cause i want to be a part of leaving a legacy at chilts. next year is going to be amazing, i know it. better than 2010 i can tell :)

yeah and that last photo's just there to show you how good i am at cartwheeling :) hahahaha

inspired.

so i've been inspired, or have i been uninspired...  to stop writing blogs.
i really enjoy reading them, but i secretly wish that i could go back to when i wrote them and knew nobody really read them. it's true, i need to start up a whole paper and pen shindig... or just carry this on with less emotion. okay sounds good. well i'm probably not going to stick to this plan.. but for now.

so tonight was prizegiving. it's cute, lets be honest i got a distinction in relegious studies.. pretty sure it's just cause i'm a christian cause we've only had one test and we all got the same mark. so shot Jesus for making me look brainy just cause we're friends.
but the point of this, is every year i get to prizegiving and sit in my seat watching people get awards and think .. 'next year it's going to be different' or next year i'll serve more, or work harder, or get better grades etc. then before i know it prizegiving comes around and i'm doing nothing but playing trumpet solos in the orchestra. PAHAHAHAHA. but seriously.

pumped about life. pumped about a new year. pumped about 2011 in general. kapai chilton, you picked a good head. :)

december.

november was  very bloggy month, to say the least, and i wonder if december will follow in its footsteps. being realistic the likelihood of this is very high.

tonight we had carol service, then i wanted to go to the end of elevate so i went straight from town in my uniform. oh it was great, so hot and stylish... leading me to the conclusion i should just wear it every week.
these vids have to be the most adorable videos in the world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNYAtDzVkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flZVm1FNEnc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOHf5xIYSrA&feature=related

i'm going to taupo on saturday. brooke's baptism on sunday. then road trip to the mount for a few days with the taupo girls :) it's a beautiful thing that we still spend time together 2 and a half years after i'm gone. so so beautiful it's exciting. and mount maunganui is like my favourite place in the world.

still feels like i'm tying up all the loose ends of this year. don't think i'll quite feel free until prizegivings over, schools over on friday, speech exams over on sat.

5 hour quiet time. i'm so pumped eeeeeeeeeeee. driving is the best, it's just like me and jesus in a capsule on the road for 5 hours. with no distractions, honestly it's gonnna be goooood.

i registered for summer camp tonight. slash last night, exciting stuff!!

boring blog. sozzzas bwt dat.

lots of blogs.

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. :)