Friday, March 13, 2009

guys, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulxa9Oggls4

The next mission team from our youth group is heading out soon: on April 11. I truly believe that they need to be sent, by their christian brothers and sisters who have experienced the trip and know the power that God displayed on that trip. I think we need to be praying for this team, and we need to provide our support. When we went on the missions trip, Tony and Lynette made us some support bags and i think we should do the same. All of us know how important those encouragement letters were to us. we need to bless this next time and pray that God would work in their hearts the way he worked in ours. this is our opportunity to be leaders and to see God's work in missions from a different angle. Let's send out our workers into the field. what do y'all say?

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Hey guys...

My blog has moved to:

http://www.letoldviceselapse.blogspot.com

Check it out sometime, if you have the chance!

♥Erika

Monday, October 20, 2008

No Words...

Hey guys...I'm writing tonight with a heavy heart. I need your prayers.

About a month ago, the 22 year old sister to one of my best friends contracted bacterial meningitis, and had to be sent to the hospital. The bacteria reacts different ways in different peoples bodies, in Noelle's, it totally shut down her lungs. She spent the last month on life support in a hospital in BC.

When Tasha's (my friend's) family found out what had happened, the flew out quickly to be with Noelle. The doctors told them it was very serious, but also gave them a lot of hope. Tasha's mom has been there with Noelle this entire time, and Tasha, her brother, and her dad have flown out multiple times for short periods.

This Saturday, my school soccer team was in a tournament, and during one of the breaks, some of the people in my class went and prayed for Noelle. Tasha told us that at this point, usually the person had begun to heal, or else the doctors would ask the family to consider taking their family member off life support. Neither was the case for Noelle, because she had already fought this far, and the doctors all had hope that she could eventually pull through. However, Tasha told us that the next morning she would be flying out to say goodbye, just in case.

Noelle passed away last night.

Please keep Tasha and her family in your prayers...as well as my class, and my team...a lot of people are hurting. It would be hugely appreciated!

We praise Him, because His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. But we hurt right now, deeply, for a friend and a sister. We will keep our eyes on You.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

READ

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

hello hello

hey girlies. man i havent posted in such a long time! haha this is exciting. i miss hanging out with all u guys! anyways, im so glad school is over! although i have next year to look forward to haha... yay.. grade 12. THATS SCARRRYYY!!! ahaha..  well over the summer im doing nothing but working #1 im going to england and i need money #2 i need a car. sooo working is my best option to achieve those goals haha. so if any of u guys wanna do something this summer give me a call fo text me. i will be bored. <3

Thursday, June 19, 2008

School's over for me!

I'M SO EXCITED! i just got home from writing my last ever high school final! Biology 30 is over. and the last time i will be at evan hardy is in half an hour to return my textbooks. its's kinda weird but a relief to be done with the stress of studying. i can't believe i'm graduating! it's kinda scary but exciting at the same time. i'm so happy to be done with that bio final. i almost cried when i handed in my exam cause i was so happy to be done (ok just kidding i didn't almost cry, but i could have if i really wanted to). Now i have 3 more days of work before an amazing week of graduation and hanging out at the lake with all my friends! (oh yea so if you've told me you can come i need $20 asap for food and gas). anyway i'm really happy and excited. anyway i have to work in like an hour so im gonna go eat and play pacman cause guess what...........I DON'T HAVE TO STUDY! aha ha ha. i'm such a dork, but i love you all.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Why am i so selfish?

this past month has been the stress month of my life.
i realized how stupidly selfish i am this morning in reviewing how this past month has gone. especially this morning, God really brought it to my attention looking over the past few entries in my prayer journal.
it seems like almost everyone has been a rushed prayer right before heading off to finish a huge assignment or a rushed prayer right before heading off to school to write a final and the prayer is unfocused because i'm trying not to waste brain power or anything that doesn't involve trying to memorize how to do a certain math problem or the legal system of canada or what i'm going to say for a certain presentation.
All these prayers are filled with words like, "God, please let me do a good job." "Let my work honor you. " and looking back, can i honestly say that this prayer is honest? am i truly trying to honor him with honoring myself?
i understand that in everything we do we are to do it well, but i seem to be forgetting the second part of that verse, or at least, not applying it on a deep level. do it well, as though working for God and not for man.
how can i think of the way i've been putting so much time and effort into studying and schoolwork as worship of God when that's all my prayers consit of?
where is the prayer that for once i'm not thinking about myself and what God can do for me? where is the worship of simply deciding to spend time in the word simply because i love him and i just want to listen to him.
it's like, because my life is full of stress, the world suddenly revolves around my problems and i abuse the fact that God has unconditional love and grace for me.
Where's the humble attitude that he is God and he's willing to speak to me if i choose to put him above everything.
Father, i wish this life was easier. i wish it was easier to choose you once and be devoted to you for life. It's so hard to realize that every moment is a choice of worship. Every second i'm given is a new chance for me to choose to pick you above everything. i want to be obsessed in everything you are.
i wish i could block out the world. i wish i could be like one of the elders that Isaiah talks about, so seduced by your glory that i could do nothing but fall at your feet, knowing nothing but your spirit and your loveliness. Take me to the other side of heaven. Teach me what it means to be obsessed.
I want to give up this obsession of self. i want to give up this idea that i need to receive from you to know that i am loved. i'm so selfish. teach me what it means to be a servant father.
I love you.
I ask for your blessing, but only if you have searched my heart and you see it to be a humble request. i know i can never deserve what you give.
i love you.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

hey guys i need some prayer...youth worship is playing on the 22nd, and there are a couple songs that i can play for...there is practice today. and i am going. i haven't touched my violin in over a month. i'm scared, i really am. i don't know if i can handle this, i dont' know if i can do this!

Monday, June 2, 2008

Yes!

Okay all i have to say is GREAT JOB LEANNE! people are posting now! everyone else who reads this better post if you love us. anyway,...i'm really super excited for going to the lake after grad. how about you guys? it's gonna be so much fun! i'm inviting quite a few people though so some people might have to sleep outside in a tent. we've got the trailer too...hehe...it's so old and dilapitated...it's quite funny really. the furniture is upholstered with this really old material and it's so...ugly...yeah. anyway i think i might be heading up there on the monday/tuesday before to get the cabin cleaned up and stuff cause guess what....i only have 2 finals! i have a whole week off before grad so...yeah. it should be a blast guys. when we're there y'all gotta try skinny dipping. hahaha.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

For marla and katie

Daddy, thank you for the blessing of friendship and for each and every person that comes into our lives and changes a piece of who we are. thank you for this blog and the authenticity and support we can find here as sisters.


"Bend down, O lord and hear my prayer,
answer me, for i need your help
protect me for i am devoted to you
save me for i serve and trust you
You are my God
Be merciful to me, O Lord
for i am calling on you constantly
Give me happiness, O Lord
For I give myself to you
O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive,
so full of unfailing love for all who ask you for help
Listen carefully to my prayer, O Lord,
Hear my urgent cry,
I will call out to you whenever i am in trouble
and you will answer me."
Psalm 86:1-7



God, i know that there are things in this world that scare us and things that bring us pain. Father, that right now, you would give comfort to Katie. Hold her in your embrace and tell her again that you have a plan for her life. You have promised her a future that is good and not evil with hope and not pain or fear. Father, i pray that you would bend down and listen to her prayer. i pray that you would give her happiness in knowing that you are near. I pray that you would give her courage to realize that you have given her a gift with the violin and you take great joy in listening to the music she makes. God i pray that the pain or sorrow or anxiety that she feels about Marla would leave her as she plays and she would play her violin in honor of the long hours that Marla had taught her and in honor of the God that gave her such a gift.

God, for Marla, we ask that you would be near her as well. God, you are a god of compassion and unfailing love and i pray that whether or not Marla knows you now, your presence would be made know to her as she goes through a time of undertainties and fears. Give her strength to fight adn joy through pain. Saviour- you can move the mountains- you are mighty to save, my God is mighty to save. God, I love that you have promised us hope and i love that one who is all-powerful and holds everything in his hand cares so deeply for each and every life. God, only you have the power to save.

I pray also for Katie, that her faith in you would be strengthened and she could grow deep in understanding of what it means to trust you adn love you even though she may not understand you. draw her deeper into trusting you with her whole heart and mind. i know you love her.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

for leanne...

alrighty so leanne has been bugging all of us to post but she sent me a message saying i MUST have something to write about and well i guess i do (kinda) so i guess i'll write.

so you all know that i take violin lessons, i've taken them since i was 4 years old. and for the last....three years? four years? i don't know exactly but anyways i've been taking lessons for a lady named marla and she's really good and i really like her. and we've actually kinda become friends i guess you could say...but well we have a really good time every week and yeah anyways. well about a month ago now (maybe a month and a half? i suck with time) she was diagnosed with breast cancer. she had surgery and is now going though chemo and so far it's been ok but it hit me really hard. when i found out i broke down and cried, i mean, i cried in front of my mom for goodness sakes, which is something i can't even remember the last time that happened. so i haven't even seen marla since like 2 weeks before i found out she was diagnosed, as my lessons were cancelled for the rest of the year. i don't even know if i'll have lessons next year. but it's really strange, how hard it hit me. i mean, i still cry about it. people will ask me how violin is going and i say fine and then i leave and compose myself or have a little cry party. it's a little odd. i never realized that something like that would hit me so hard. maybe i'm just extra emotional? but it hurts. i can't play violin. i have played twice since i found out; once because my mom made me practice and once for worship night for youth a couple weeks ago. and i cannot explain in words how hard it was for me to play. especially when i practiced my pieces. there are so many memories and so much of marla there, and i just can't do it. i can't play. which is odd, because really i love violin and i love to play and usually when i don't play for a couple days i miss it and my fingers itch to play. but i don't miss it. well i do, really, but i don't want to play. it hurts too much to play. and i don't know why.

so there you go, leanne and everyone else. that's part of my life right now.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Calling all willing warm-hearted servants!

Hey girls! Wow haven't blogged in awhile. Anyway, i need to know if any of you girls are interested in helping me out with a huge fundraiser for an organization called Free The Children....eh? I know you all want to cause you're all very giving people and you LOVE to help others. So if you are at all interested (100% committed volunteers will be needed), talk to me at youth or church sometime in the next couple weeks and i'll explain in more detail what some of my ideas are. It's gonna be great!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

casting crowns- here i go again

i found a new song that i really am liking right now. the lyrics are pretty powerful.
i mean, if we all truly believe that we need a saviour, and we're going to heaven, and that God really loves everyone, shouldn't we want to share it?
anyhoo, this song really applies to my life.

Chorus:
So maybe this time
I'll speak the words of life
With Your fire in my eyes
But that old familiar fear
is tearin' at my words
What am I so afraid of?
'Cause here I go again
Talkin' 'bout the rain
And mullin' over things
that won't live past today
And as I dance around the truth
Time is not his friend
This might be my last chance
to tell him that You love Him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU59fKjbY3I

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

my play!

hey guys i know i talked to some of you about this but just to remind you, i'm in one acts this week if you want to come watch.....haha wednesday thursday friday 7:30, there's three plays and it's $3. which is pretty cheap! so yeah if you want to come watch....then you should come lol

Monday, April 14, 2008

APRIL

haha wow guys.. no posts in april yet. yay for gracee shes posting!! lol well how are u all?? im doing pretty awesome! and im just sittin in my room listning to music.. yay me..lol i love you all and cant wait to see u guys friday!!!!! yay for worship night!!! yay grace and paul!!!! lol u say yay too much.... xoxoxoxoxo

Sunday, March 23, 2008

do do do from a friend in egypt....

SO I was thinking today on the bus...
Why were there ancient egyptians in egypt and what was their purpose....????
well then I heard a conversation in front of me and It got me thinking....
Maybe there were ancient civiliztions in the world to provide tourisim to places in the world where there isn't really anything else spectacular(i mean that very Very loosly. but anyways I think the ancient egyptians were there provide a way of life to the people here... like the fact that most of their econmy is based on tourism without the pyramids and temples what do they have here??.....the disguting Nile....I bet Katelynn and Steph can atest to this since they are on a cruise onit now and it really is pretty gross...I love you guys lots and one more thing....

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!
(P.S the driving here is about 15 times worse than in mexico and the men are like millions of times worse here)

Friday, March 21, 2008

I'm sorry

I can’t believe it.
It’s so amazing.
My mind is confused by its beauty.
How did you stand Jesus?
When the world did nothing.
When all hope was gone.
When your Father fully abandoned you.
When it was your turn to stand.
When you took on every sin, every heaviness, every pain, every sorrow, every evil, every injustice, every broken heart, every judgement passed, every tear shed, every knife plunged, every fear, every shout that caused one to be lost.
I think of myself and am ashamed of my weakeness.
You were human yet you took on every evil.
The one that gave you strength could no longer be with you
Because of the evil you took on.
You were alone.
I can’t imagine the pain and emptiness of such aloneness.
I’m sorry I wasn’t there to hold the cross for you.
I’m sorry that I was too caught up in being the voice in the crowd that mocked you.
Forgive you for mocking you still.
You stood alone
Your father could no longer give you strength
He could no longer be near you
Because of the evil you took on.
Because of the evil that I clothed you in.
I know my hands were there as the cloak was drapped around your shoulders.
I know that my finger was pricked in making a crown of injustice that would sit on your head. Did my heart know then that you were my king?
I am pained by whatever pain I caused you.
I’m sorry.
I know those words mean nothing.
But I’m speechless and my heart’s cry can find only the words:
I’m sorry.
You were human.
I think that I have been good.
Then the arrow pierces deep inside my heart.
The arrow that bellows of the fact that I am the worst of sinners.
I am no less guilty to the one who swung the hammer that plunged the nail in deeper. I know my hand was there also giving the arm that swung the hammer my strength. Pushing the nail deeper until pain was no longer- just numbness. Just an ache that my heart, the heart of your daughter, the one you love, chose to swing the hammer.
I’m sorry.
Why would you do it?
I will never possess the power to understand even a fraction of why all that pain was suffered for the one inflicting the pain.
Why would you do it?
I’m not even worth one scar.
Why would you do it?
Was my face in your mind?
Why would you do it?
My face is not worth a single whip.
I’m sorry, Jesus.

I'm sorry Precious one
I’m sorry for what they did to you.
I’m sorry for what I am doing to you.
I’m sorry.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I agree

Okay, so, mylandra's in Egypt which is really cool- but i'm really jealous about...
my parent's got rid of the van and bought a new car and i didn't even know about it until i saw a strange car parked in our drive-way. trent has a really cool new bunnyhug- seriosuly, i hope he wears it on friday so you guys can see it- its tremendous! (good word)
i'm getting mad at my law class cause we always have debates that somehow lead to how christianity has brain-washed our culture and we all need to free ourselves from such an unliberal culture. grrr. seriously that smart guy was right about post-modernism being everywhere in our culture. the enemy was really smart in creating such a thought in our minds. grrr. anyhoo, it would really honor me if you guys could pray that i would remain strong in my faith and be willing to have courage and speak the truth in love. thanks- love you.

Oops!

i just realized i made a typo. it's WRITE not RIGHT. Sorry.....it was bothering me. just so you know i'm not an idiot. i'm weird....but not an idiot.