My time at home is coming to a close. I have 2 days left before I head back to Labrador. I leave Monday morning, bright and early, head into the airport to fly out at 7:00 and will eventually land in Makkovik at 3:30. . . (I am taking the flight that goes all the way up the coast and all the way back down. I am the second last stop).

Anyway, I had a great summer, it was absolutely fabulous. The only complaint is it went soooooo fast and I would have liked to spend more time with my mom and dad as a family. I shouldn't complain though because no other profession in the world has 2 months of vacation time in the summer. With that being said, I look at this summer close two ways: 1) it is disappointing that it is over so fast but (2) I am getting closer to going into ministry which my heart is longing to do. I cannot wait to do what God has called me to do. God has placed this on my heart and I cannot wait to see it through.

One of my biggest desires of this school year 2006-2007 is to grow closer to God. I am pretty positive that my relationship with Him will grow immensely this year. I have a strong desire to discover more of His Word so that I am absolutely equipped to do His work. I also pray that God will use me and that I will do an excellent job at teaching this year.

I thank God for the summer that I have had home.

Many blessings!
Rebecca

MY PRAYER

Dear Jesus,

I pray Lord that you will always be my focus.
I ask Lord that you will always be by my side.
I thank you Lord for the love you show me.
I just ask Lord that you will draw near and that I may shine for you.
Help me show others Christ.

Thank you Jesus!

With much love and praise, Rebecca.

So 5 hours or more have passed since I placed this prayer on my blog site and I have already done wrong. Jesus, please focus my eyes towards you and continue to purify my heart. You are an awesome God and I love you with all of my heart. On Sunday, I hope through the music I share at church show others how glorious you are and I hope that people will see the desire I have to follow you and listen to your will. I love you Jesus just help me to be whole! Forgive me for not keeping the focus upward to you. Thank you Lord.


Thanks!

OH... The JOYS of Packing

Ok... today I went to St. John's. I had a great day, Crystal and I had facials done. It felt so relaxing, nice hey? Anyway, we got back at around 7:30 and was greeted with PACKING. This is my 7th year of packing. You would think by now that I would be an expert packer... but I am sorry to say that I am not. Yes, I got the clothes thing down and ornaments and stuff like that... but groceries for a year I have decided is not in my packing expertise.

Imagine this ... this is truly what my house looks like at the moment: 12 huge rubbermaid containers, 3 - 12 packs of 1 litre juice, 200 bottles of water, keyboard and supplies, guitar, loads of duct tape, and a table full of dinosaurs, insects, and animals on the kitchen table. Yes, that is my hall and kitchen at the moment. It is rather funny. I have presently over 620 pounds of stuff... that isn't including the water, the juice, the keyboard, or guitar. Crystal and I have become very creative in ways of weighing things.

Some include: (1) stepping very quickly on the weighscale and placing items to be weighed on it, (2) manuevering ourselves very quickly, and my personal favourite (3) lift heavy item, Crystal cover her head with pillow, I lift with all of my might and pray that I don't drop it. Ok. yes, now I think my biggest packing challenge has definitely been Makkovik.

Anyway, for all of you out there who pack... I know what you are going through. I have packed up 7 years in a row for moving apartments or house, 5 years for camp, and countless camping trips. Yes, I show much compassion towards those of you who pack! But the important thing is this: BE POSITIVE and HAVE FUN while you're are doing it.

OK I should go and finish packing. I am officially the duct tape queen and some more containers need to be duct taped before the transport comes to pick it up tomorrow.

Alright, we just made memories that will last a lifetime. Have a great day and keep smiling for God.

Rebecca

Just a Thought

Yesterday after the passing of my grandfather, God revealed to me a passage of scripture as I sat privately in the Chapel of the Health Sciences Center. It just shows how God is always there for us and is always ready to take our hand and comfort us. Let me share it with you:

"I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself, he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. John 5: 19-20

I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live." John 5: 24-25

I do not call that a coincidence that I turned to that scripture when I went to the Chapel. I really believe God revealed it to me to give me a great sense of peace about the death. God's love is definitely amazing.

Thanks

My Grandfather

Today I said goodbye to my grandfather. He was 81 years old and in the past year and half became very feeble. Although his death today was pretty unexpected, I had prepared myself for his death for the past five years. But no matter how much time you have to prepare yourself, death is hard and difficult especially when you are there for the end. But I knew that I wanted to be there with my grandfather as he lived his last hour. I wanted to be there to comfort him and support him, show him how much we all loved him and be able to pray for him. God's presence was certainly in the room as we watched him in his last hour. Thank you Jesus for always being there for us. Many memories flooded my mind as I watched him drawing near to his end here on earth. I could remember always being that interested in Nanny cutting his hair that I would be stepping on his toes by accident watching in curiousity. I could remember all the camping trips that I went on with him. I could remember the times we drove down around the bay. I could remember all the times he gave money to me which believe me was often... it started with one dollar bills and eventually in the most recent years twenty dollar bills. I reflected a lot as he passed away and I prayed silently to myself. But let me say that my grandfather looked very peaceful when he died and in fact looked like he was sleeping. I thank God for that. I also that God for the life that he had and I pray that his funeral may be a funeral of celebration. My grandfather was a very special man to me and I am very thankful that I was able to be close to him.

In faith, Rebecca

Many Blessings!

Well, it has been a long time since I have posted! I have spent the past two weeks away from my house. THe first week I was at music camp... which was an awesome experience and the second week I spent in Quebec with my friends Beth and Crystal. Both weeks were filled with many blessings. Music Camp was filled with many ministry opportunities and it was the most refreshing week that I have experienced all year. I am so thankful that I was able to go to music camp and be a witness to many kids!

Well as I have said the past two weeks have been great but...

Let me tell you about one blessing in particular.

Last summer, I had the opportunity to go to Montreal for 5 weeks. One night while I was doing my devotionals I heard God speak to me to follow the cross to St. Joseph's Oratory. I did just that on that beautiful evening. I went to the church and entered the most beautiful prayer garden I have been in and I watched the most amazing thing... people lined up to pray at Jesus' feet at the Crucifix. Yes, it was moving.

Well on Friday night I had the opportunity to make my way back to the prayer garden in Montreal and once again I was blessed. God met me right there. As I walked through the garden and prayed and admired each Station of the Cross I could feel God's presence moving. By one station a wheelchair had been left where a person had been healed earlier in the day. That was a blessing. However, when I got to the last station of the Cross where Jesus was resurrected I had an amazing experience as I looked up into the eyes of Jesus. Throughout my walk through the prayer garden I had focussed my prayers on many different things but one thing that I kept coming to my mind was something that I had been struggling with. So at each station I prayed about that. When I got to the last Station of the Cross and looked to Jesus a wonderful peace came over me and God spoke to me. I finally got it as tears welled up in my eyes. No matter what is going on in our life GOd is always going to be with us and He is right there looking down on us. I was ever so blessed but my blessing did not stop there. As I left the oratory I decided to make my way down to St. Catherine's Street... Downtown Montreal. As I was walking to Indigo books, where I spent a lot of time in summer 2005, to purchase a Christian book to read on the plane I was handed a pamphlet. The pamphlet looked much like a pamphlet for a visa or mastercard. On the cover it read "I can't get no satisfaction" - the Rolling Stones. Very interested, I opened up the pamphlet and was fascinated to discover that it was a Christian ministry pamphlet. So I decided to try and find the booth and I had the delightful opportunity to watch young teenagers stand in Downtown Montreal with Bibles in the middle of the homeless, lost, and prostitutes sharing the Good News with anyone who wished to listen. I was blessed and I was even more blessed when I was able to share with one of the teenagers. I pray that you will all pray for the teenagers who are standing up for what they believe in. As I walked away with the pamphlet in hand I headed to Indigo where I picked up a book that looked interesting and guess what... when I started reading it later that night the first chapter started with the words on the pamphlet. I really believe that God places us in places for a reason. God blessed me on Friday night in Montreal and He used me to witness for Him. I thank Him for this opportunity and I pray that when you hear God tell you to do something that you well indeed get up from wherever you are and go do it.

Here is the chorus of the song that I wrote in July 2005 after I had left St. Joseph's Oratory.

Follow the cross, don't turn away
Walk in the faith, to conquer the day.
Let Jesus lead no matter how you feel
Follow the cross, go pray and be healed.

If you ever have the opportunity to go there... make sure you do!

Many blessings
Rebecca