Life and the Single Christian Girl…………..

Take the time to rest.

Do you find yourself looking forward to a day where you can just stay home?

I do.

Do you have a day where you can relax, read, unwind and watch TV?

I have found myself looking forward to a day where I can just stay home and listen to music.

I love a day where I can read, where I can create, where I have time to refresh myself.

I do need this time, where I have some time to reflect on my week.

This week has been quite busy.

Do you find that your mind just needs to switch off a bit?

I am finding that I need it today.

Sometimes I feel guilty that I am having a day off.

Although I do think that this is getting less as I realise that with my work that it is necessary to have that self-care.

Take care of yourself, take the time when you can to rest.

Take the time to rest on purpose.

If you cannot take a whole day to be refreshed, take an hour.

Book in an hour for yourself in your weekly planner.

You are important.

Yes you are.

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl………………

Let Your Light Shine

My thought for today is- Let your Light Shine.

If you look at the words it says YOUR light Shine.

YOUR LIGHT

Do you sometimes find yourself comparing yourself to others?

Comparing yourself to others robs you of your gifts and talents.

Comparing yourself robs you of what you love to do.

There is room for everyone to share how they want to shine.

Are you an artist, a singer, a writer, a dancer, a parent, an Aunty, a friend, a speaker there are many more examples of what people enjoy doing.

Or are you comparing your body with others.

Please let me say to you that you are unique.

One of the scriptures that I love is you are wonderfully and fearfully made.

Embrace that.  

Then let your light shine in whatever you are doing.

There will never be another you.

What you do is your signature in life.

What you do in your unique style.

I love seeing what other people are doing and learning from them.

I am speaking to myself as well. Sometimes I find myself not wanting to finish a project for fear of it not being good enough.

Then I think but to who’s standard am I trying to compare with.

Write that book, write that song, learn to play an instrument, go on that holiday, sing on stage and share your passion with others.

Shine Lovely Shine.

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl……..

What are you Passionate about?

That is my thought for today.

Is there somewhere you see injustice, where people are suffering?

Maybe you are passionate about the welfare of animals.

Maybe you are passionate about the environment.

What are you passionate about?

I know that we are not all called to be a missionary.

There are things that we can do right where we live.

We are all called to make a difference in the world.

We need to give people hope, that they have purpose and everyone does.

I love my job, I have said this quite a few times.

Every student that I talk to or see, I always want to look at them and see their potential.

I believe that all children have the potential to make a great difference in the world.

Everybody needs to be encouraged.

When I was in Bali in 2011 I was on an impact trip where we visited 7 orphanages, I saw hope.

Even in an orphanage I saw Hope, I really did.

I remember the last night we were at one of the orphanages where we had been helping out I remember speaking about the children’s future.

I remember saying to them thankyou for having us you have been amazing and I have never laughed so much.

I said to them I can see you being a Teacher, Security, in Hospitality, a Pastor you will be amazing. You will make a difference.

Be a world changer.

I am still incontact with some of the students in the orphanage and the people who care for them so beautifully.

They are now in hospitality school and one is working towards becoming a Pastor. I love that.

What can you do now to make a difference in someone’s life?

How could you encourage someone who is going through a hard time?

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl…………..

I have had another full day and I love it.

I am looking forward to a sleep in on Saturday morning.

Now I am home and have been thinking about what I want to work on next.

I have a great need/desire to develop a support group for women who are recovering from an eating disorder.

I already have the name-

My heart and dream would be no one would ever suffer from this illness.

It is such a devastating illness and I think that some people still do not understand how deadly it can be.

Nobody asks to have an Eating Disorder.

If you are going through this illness I hope that you are getting help.

I would really love to encourage you.

You can do it and recovery is possible.

It really is.

Share what you are going through with someone who you really know that you can trust.

Please get some professional help, find someone that understands what you are going through.

You are so worth investing in yourself, to live a full and abundant life.

You have so much to give, what are your dreams?

What are your goals?

What can you do today to make a difference?

If you are journeying with someone who is going through this illness, be kind to yourself as well.

I get this because I have lived this and have recovered.

I feel that I want to and need to share what I have gone through.

I am free, truly free.

My life now is so full and diverse.

I have amazing friends who journeyed with me and now have seen me come through it.

Thankyou to those who journeyed with me.

You are amazing.

I know for me going back is not an option.

There would be no way that I could, for me it is just so exhausting.

I hope that you realise that you are worthy, valued and loved. You really are.

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl……….

I have just arrived home from a very full day.

My days are never the same and I love the diversity.

I am really enjoying this season of my life.

Today some of the amazing women that I work with were discussing the subject of being single and where to find a guy.

It might have been to help me the single girl?

I loved their advice and help.

I know I have been talking about this subject for a while.

Where do you meet a really nice man?

I just don’t know.

We talked about online dating but I don’t think that is for me. I know it has worked for some people and that is amazing.

Then we talked about what sort of man, it was that I’m looking for. 

Gosh I sound like a lioness trying to find her partner, prowling around the jungle.

Lisa Bevere has a great book called Lioness Arising (just saying).

Anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then there was talk about going out on Friday nights to a bar.

I just know about that.

I think that what I am not doing is looking when I go out. I go out with a purpose and then forget to look around.

I am not saying that everything will be amazing when I meet a guy. Nor am I saying that I cannot be happy until I am married.  

I am pretty independent. Probably a bit too independent and I need to let people help me sometimes.

Although I do need help putting items together that I buy from IKEA. I just cannot work out the instructions.

So what to do?

I know that I will keep on enjoying life, keep on trying new things.

Also I need to open my eyes, to what is around me at the time.

I really love this scripture from Proverbs 31:8-9-

Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the down and outers.

Speak up for justice!

Stand up for the poor and destitute.

This scripture has been resonating with me for a while.

I love it and I really do what to make a difference.

So I think that the man I would love to meet would need to have the same purpose and passion about helping people and making a difference.

Would love to hear your suggestions?

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl…………..

Why is it when I am ready to go to sleep that my mind decides it is time to write a song?

What is with that?

I get all these ideas and I am really tired.

I think that I will need to record the words and then work on them when I am more awake.

I suppose at that time of night and going to bed is when I start winding down and relaxing.

Aaaahhhhhhhh!

I have never been one to really set aside a certain hour for songwriting.

Except if I am visiting my music mentor in Melbourne then we just work and work two full days on writing.

I think for me it is more spontaneous and I just need to write ideas down when they come to me.

I have a few notebooks full of song lyrics and I need to re-read them and work on the songs. I try not to throw any of the ideas away.

I have been thinking a lot about Princess Heart Journey the book and I really want to include in the book the song. 

Princess Heart the song was written in 2009 it is about my journey and what I have gone through.

I feel that now it is time to release it and I will be re-recording it this year. I think that I really have to set a deadline for myself.

Let’s set the deadline- by the end of September 2014.

Okay now it is done.

I have also written a song called Sister to Sister, I wrote this song after I went to a Colour Conference in Sydney at Hillsong.

They were talking about The A21 Campaign and what they were doing in Greece at that time. Also about what was happening with girls and women around the world.

I remember sitting with friends and we just cried the whole time they spoke about it.

When I arrived back home I felt really passionate about making a difference and so the song Sister to Sister was written.

So my project is to work on Princess Heart Journey book and then to re-record the song Princess Heart.

Feeling very motivated and excited.

Making a difference in May 2014.

Princess Heart Journey continues………

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs.

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl……………..

I need to slow down I think, I have way too much on my project list.

Really I do and I just thought about it today. Mmmmhhhh!

I need to rethink want it is that I can do for now. Then things will all work out well.

Today was my Monday and what a Monday it was.

I must say though I have crossed a few things of my to do list today.

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

I have finally booked into a first aid course.

I have taken the plunge these are things that I have wanted to make a decision on for a while.

Now the decision has been made it is such a feeling of relief.

It feels kind of good knowing that these are off the list.

Today I was also completing my 365 days book and I found the words LAUGH OFTEN.

That is my thought for today.

I think that sometimes things can get too much and you just need to have a good laugh.

When was the last time that you have a good laugh, one that comes from right down in your stomach that you cannot stop laughing?

One that also makes you have tears of laughter?

Do you have someone that is good at making you laugh?

Do you have people that you can hang out with that just make you enjoy life?

Do you have those friends that can see things from a different perspective?

Can you put on a funny movie where you can have a good laugh?

One of the TV shows that I really like is the American Version of The Office.

Oh my goodness, I just love that show and I love it when I am able to watch a few in a row. It certainly makes me laugh.

Laughing is good for you. It can give you a great workout.

So today laugh, laugh and laugh.

Oh I also brought some new grey boots, just needed to let you know.

Love my shoes.

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Life and the Single Christian Girl…………..

Overwhelmed

Today I am just feeling so overwhelmed and I don’t know where this has come from.

I feel that I have so many decisions to make and I feel that I need to make them all now.

Spiralling into a panic now.

Deep Breath aaahhhhhhhhh!

Deep breaths don’t really help me (don’t even know why I wrote that), when people say try deep breathing it makes me feel frustrated. I have found what works for me is to do something physical.

I need to have some wisdom and some clarity of what I need to do now.

Do you ever have those days where you just find it really hard to focus on what you would love to do?

I think that we all have those days sometimes.

It is a bit of a learning curve.

What is important and what is it that I really need to focus on.

Maybe just for today. 

Just to focus on what I can do today.

Want can I do today that can move me closer towards my dreams and desires.

Choose one thing from you list and work on that until it is completed.

You can also group ideas together as projects you want to achieve and then work on them.

Pray, pray, pray for the right decisions, for wisdom, for clarity, for direction and for peace.

Why is it that we always leave prayer until last?

So after writing this I have decided to work on my Princess Heart Journey packages to send out to Churches, to Schools, to Youth Programs and to Women’s Groups.

Will share more tomorrow.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx