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Baptiversary

Today is my "Baptiversary" as James so cleverly put it! ;)

Can't believe it's a whole year!!

I feel like I ought to write something more intelligent - but I can't think of anything! Will maybe add more later!

Minster Ball 2007

Here is a cartoon version of my housemates and I at the ball, and the minster all lit up.
Thankfully it wasn't as cold as when I went in my first year! We had a most enjoyable evening.
I would put more photos up, but they will take over!

Petition

Did you know that you can vote for things related to the government?

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Philippians 3:12-14 Contemporary English Version (CEV)

Running toward the Goal
12I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize. 13My friends, I don't feel that I have already arrived. But I forget what is behind, and I struggle for what is ahead. 14I run toward the goal, so that I can win the prize of being called to heaven. This is the prize that God offers because of what Christ Jesus has done.

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
[American Bible Society]

Five Things You May Not Know About Me

Thanks Phil for tagging me - (and explaining to me what that was!)

Five things:

1. I enjoy playing Bingo with my uni friends.

2. I prefer ginger nut biscuits when they've gone soft.

3. I tipped my little sister head first out of a baby bouncer when she was a baby.

4. I was the only girl on the cricket team at middle school.

5. I can do this with my eyes (excuse the bad old video ;))


I tag Sarah and Rachel

Beauty

1 Peter 3:3-4 (New Living Translation)

3 Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. 4 You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.

Beauty. Something we long for, and yet something that is a battle. We are taught that it's what's on the inside that counts, and yet we all still long for beauty. We admire beautiful sunsets, the sea, creation. Media shows us beautiful people, and we admire theirs' and each others' beauty. So is it wrong to seek visual beauty, or is it only when the beauty of the person as a whole shines through, that the external beauty is really beautiful?

I look at some of my friends, and to me they are amazing and stunning. Their beauty shines through and it's hard to describe, but by the worlds' standards they are dull or even ugly. So is the quote, 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' true - or can we all see beauty if we look closely enough?

Why beauty? Is it shallow to seek beauty? Beauty comforts, beauty relaxes and refreshes. Beauty captures our imagination and sets us running wild and free.

Does beauty have to have a price? Can beauty thats not our own always make us feel good?

(This is both my thoughts and thoughts from 'Captivated' by John & stasi Eldredge)