God is in Control!

We have just had visitors for a few days, Colin's parents were here for 3 or 4 days on their way back home to Ocean Grove after being on holidays. They went up to Darwin through the centre of Australia and due to some troubles with the caravan they had to come back this way, which was great for us because we got to spend some time with them while also getting a fair bit of work done. We sat down for the slide show of their 7 week trip and looked at some amazing pictures of the Australian countryside including some awesome pictures of Uluru in all different colours as the sun changed around it. I have been thinking about God being a bit like that HUGE rock...... funny how our minds work, but I am thankful that my God is the centre of my life and the rock on which I stand. Reminds me of a great verse that I have taped up on my desk. "My soul finds rest in God alone; my Salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I shall never be shaken....

This is one of my all-time favourite songs, and gives me joy and comfort............ Why should I feel discouraged, Why should the shadows come, Why should my heart be lonely, And long for heav'n and home, When jesus is my portion, My constant friend is he; His eye is on the sparrow, And I know he watches me. Chorus: I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free; For his eye is on the sparrow, And I know he watches me. Let not your heart be troubled, His tender word I hear, And resting on his goodness, I lose my doubts and fears, Tho' by the path he leadeth, But one step I may see; His eye is on the sparrow, And I know he watches me. Chorus Whenever I am tempted, Whenever clouds arise, When song gives place to sighing, When hope within me dies, I draw the closer to him; From care he sets me free; His eye is on the sparrow, And I know he watches me. Chorus Blessings on the journey.................with love Kylie XXX

It's not always easy to praise God. I know in the past few weeks we have had a few things go wrong. Firstly we were in an accident and the poor car was hurt! Thankfully we were not, although I did get a sore foot from the accident, that's what you get for trying to put the brake on in the passenger seat, but I had some prayer for my foot and praise God it was healed!!! Yay God! Then last week end we had to say goodbye to our beloved Jessie. She was sick earlier in the year and not supposed to last as long as she did. We had to have her put down on Saturday, which was very very sad for us, but we thanked God that we did have some extra time with her and that she was a very good friend to us and companion. She gave us loads of good memories and laughs and I think that she knew that she was going somewhere as she was extra loving and we had some great memories of her last days with us. I dont know how theological it is, but it gives me great comfort thinking of her running and lea...

Well, Sunday morning Colin woke up and was not feeling very well, and it's not really like him to not feel he could go to church. So I assured him that I could battle on without him and sent him back to bed. I had planned just to do the sermon that he had prepared. In fact, he had prepared it for about 3 Sundays earlier and right before church began he felt that God was directing him to preach about something else. He said to me that it seemed as if he wasn't the one that was going to preach this sermon. And well, it seems as if I wasn't supposed to preach it either! Cause after spending some time putting together some power points for the Bible verses he had used in the sermon, and being able to look at his sermon, although briefly, I was leading the congregation in worship when I really felt God speaking to me and telling me that we were to spend time in prayer as a church instead of anything that I had planned. Ok, but........now normally I am the sort of person t...

Seems like we have been away forever, though really only not even two weeks. It is so good to be back home here in Kadina and although we haven't been on holidays I feel like God has really renewed me to do His work here in this place. So many things have happened since we've been away. Firstly we were at officer's fellowship and had a great time of refresing and learning some new skills for reflection and just really having some good God time. Then we had to leave fellowship early cause we were leaving to go to Melbourne on the Thursday of the first week, but a dear friend was rushed to the hospital in Adelaide and we thought we would go and visit, when we had an accident in Adelaide, someone ran into our car - didn't give way to us, so that put a little dampener on us getting away when we wanted to. We were very grateful that DHQ loaned us a car to get over to the Children First conference and to the Mission 2008 conference because they were both really really good an...