An Avalanche of Grace

I have been playing this song non-stop since I first heard it. 

WOW is all I have to say.

This Song is my Prayer right now and my 'go-to' when things are feeling a little crazy.

I have just come back from Colour Your World woman's conference hosted by Hillsong and my goodness Jesus has smashed my heart and thinking all over again.

For a special presentation we heard the story of this inspirational woman who sings this song on the new Hillsong United Aftermath Album.

On the little video Jill told her story that I have followed for the past 2 years after reading her story on her blog.

She truly is an inspiring woman of God who has trusted wholeheartedly on her Majestic, Healing Saviour to heal her broken and wounded heart. 

Even in the midst of heartache when most people would just want to run and hide, instead she clung to Jesus and choose to Worship and sing praise in her tough season and wrote and sang this amazing song with Brooke Fraser less then 2 weeks after giving birth to her first son at 6months into her pregnancy. He was only on this planet for a few short hours.

I am forever grateful for the journey I am on and that each and every day I walk with the Creator of the Universe, 

The One who gave His only Son to die for the mistakes I have made (and there are plenty of them)

though by HIS GRACE, I can live in Freedom.

Kristie xx

Fasting....

Well as you know a few weeks ago whilst the Hubby was away I took a week long social media fast. This basically had me unplugging both my TV and Computer and I tell you what.....Me and My Jesus are all the better for it.
Our relationship has gone from strength to strength and I am learning so much more and who I am in Him and how He sees me through His eyes. So Precious.
So I'm doing it again.
Tomorrow will be exactly a week till COLOUR YOUR WORLD CONFERENCE. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so EXCITED. I didn't get a chance to go last year and was almost not able to go this year either though MY JESUS as always has blessed his princess with being able to go YAY.
I know without a doubt He has some BIG stuff in store for me at Colour and I don't want to miss a thing so I have decided that I want to be as prepared as I can this means doing another fast and whats even better Hubby is doing it with me this time. So much better when you have someone special to share the journey with.
This time around Ill be writing it in my journal so that I can blog about it after colour.
I so cant wait to get so completely lost in my Saviour this week, He really is THAT GOOD.

Love to you all and see you all soon.

Kristie xx

RELAX

'Relax,

I'll take it from here.'

sweet words placed on my heart this week from my beautiful saviour. 

A promise that if I cast ALL my cares on Him, I will have rest, HIS rest.

Me & My Jesus are pretty tight this last two weeks 

and its only going to get better.

Cling Tight to your Saviour, He is the ultimate relaxation from your weariness.

Kristie xx

'Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:29-30

Things Im Loving..

So I have been seeing a lot of posts lately about Things people are loving and thought I would join in. Hope it works.
Here is where I found the link.

And here is what I'm Loving.

This Little Man has stolen my heart.

This week has been just the 2 of us during the day, oh my heart it has been Divine.

This is us today playing with his little people train set, he Loves it.

Made my heart sing as I watched him.

Kristie xx

Soul Food

Next week Mr Hubby is leaving on a Jet Plane (at least I know when he'll be back again).

So for this little lady I will be Unplugging ALL electronic devises for the whole week, a sort of social media/network fast type of thing. Its a little daunting but know that it will be well worth it in the end.

I have a list of a few things I want to achieve around the house though the one thing that I CANT WAIT to do is get completely lost in my Saviour, Oh my heart does long for uninterrupted tangible presence of His Holy Spirit and I plan to experience it over and over. My heart skips a beat just thinking about it.

Something else I will be getting completely lost in is these....

Kristie xx

p.s welcome to my new followers Tammi, Debbie & Widge.
I feel extremely honour you are here. Enjoy

Perspective..

As I sit and write this my amazing hubby is crashed out on the lounge with a stomach bug, Master D is playing mariocart on the wii (he started big school yesterday - post on this later and today they rang me to pick him up as he had vomited) and lastly Master G is sleeping.
As I look around our entire bed contents is lying about the lounge room as we had to sleep in the lounge room the last 2 nights as its been soooooooo hot and the only air con is in this room,
The kitchen sink has enormous piles of dishes that are either drying, soaking or needing to be washed. There is washing that needs to be put away.
And my entire house is in dire need of a MASSIVE spring clean.

Even amongst all this mess I am grateful that I am surrounded by the ones I love, while today a family grieves the loss of a young man who served his country.
That the roof over our head is intact, where as some of those in North Queensland have had theirs ripped off.
Our water is clean to drink and in abundance, Townsvilles is not.
I have the freedom to proclaim that Jesus is my Lord, where some countries people are jailed or even worse killed for this.

 I could easily get frustrated and turn inward to wallow in my self pity but I'm not going to.
I make the choice to look outwards and thank God for all that I have and continue to pray for those around the worlds that are weathering much larger storms than I.

Kristie xx

Hear my heart oh Lord

Trying to find the words to understand what I want to express right now is difficult as I'm confused myself as to why certain things happen in our lives.
When I was in school I remember always striving to make sure that I was liked by everyone and if someone didn't then I would do whatever it took to change their minds, change who I was to be more likable to them which would then mean that some of those that already liked me would start to draw back as they were not liking the new me so the vicious cycle would start and continue on for many years. Craving attention was always my downfall growing up as I would be searching in all the wrong places, even the darkest of places just so that I would be getting what I needed, getting my tank full. Little did I know that I was chipping away at my self, slowing bringing destruction to my heart. Even growing up in church I never turned to Jesus for the fulfillment.
This as I got older lead me down an extremely dark and destructive path that eventually completely shattered me into a thousand pieces. Over the past 6 years I have been slowly putting those pieces back together and believe me I am defiantly no where near finished. Yes, I have come along way and am doing a whole lot better though this journey is not yet over. Along the way though I have had to put aside friendships that were just holding me down wanting me to stay as low as I could. JESUS has been an incredible release when things are just getting too much, when I feel as though I just don't want to open my eyes to yet another day. As the 'Footprints' poem suggests at this point in my walk with Jesus, I only see one set of footprints in the sand as He is carrying me.

Oops that was not exactly what I wanted to post about originally, love when you set out to do something yet somewhere along the way the spirit steers you in a new direction without you even realising. Love those moments.

What I was writing about at beginning was that seasons change us and sometimes it seems for the not so good, and sometimes for the oh so good.  In this season we are battling some big stuff in our house, since my husbands motorbike accident 2 and half years ago we have been riding a very emotional roller coaster that never seems to end. In 2 weeks he will be traveling to Brisbane for a week for specialist appointments that will hopefully tell us the full extent of his injuries and what is yet to come. THAT is the part that has been scared, petrified even. Is my heart ready to hear what they have to say? is it ready for the worst is it even ready for the best? my biggest question.....How long do we have him for?................................................................................................................
........................................................... Am i ready for THAT?
This is when i cling to my Jesus for dear life with tears streaming down my face, Can I do this? Can I live the next years with the thought in the back of my mind that at one point in my life it will just be me in this union of marriage, will I have to travel the rest of my journey with just my kids by my side. will there be a morning I wake and he is not by my side. I know this feeling oh to well as I experienced it so tangible 2 and a half years ago when we were in the mist of it all. Everyone of these questions flooded my mind as we waited, waited for him to wake up, waited for the phone call that he had gone to be with Jesus (thank the Mighty God we never got that call), waited to see what the damage would be and now as we prepare for the future I look to Jesus for comfort, understanding, wisdom, strength to carry my kids and husband through this next year as we continue this challenging season.

Kristie xx