Dislike thinking of titles

I don't like having to think of a title everytime i want to post something, so please forgive me on this one! Today has been good overall. Lou and I took a drive and went to Milton Keynes for some shopping (it was a lovely thing to see a baskin robbins at the mall). She then took me on the scenic route back home- it was beautiful.
Do you have ever one of those days where you can't exactly fully describe what is bothering you, or heavy on your heart? I think i am having one of those days....or actually one of those weeks. However, God has given me peace about a lot of things this week as well and i need to be thankful for that. God has been really teaching me to be thankful and worshipful even when things are not at a high point in life. It really is easier said than done. its easy to fall into a spirit of complacency and whining and i don't want to go in that direction either.
My devotions last night were great. God really brought up a subject that i have been dealing with for quite sometime and the tears just started coming. It was all about God's timing and waiting on Him to bring things you desire into your life when he deems it fit and not in our own timing. It was powerful to say the least and God and i had a great conversation. I slept better last night than i have in the last week.
That's me for the day. Have a good one!
Blessings,
Jana

Thoughts that make you go Hmmmm

So, today I get an email from my travel agent saying that it is going to cost me $250 canadian dollars to switch my flight at christmas to july. Now $250 is roughly just under a quarter of what a full plane tickets costs. My question is.....is it more worth while just to go home at christmas and buy a new ticket to come back to school in january or do i just pay the fee and don't go home until july?
I am at peace with staying here in the U.K. for christmas, and i have many offers to do various things with my friends over the christmas break. However, it would still be really nice to go home for Christmas. The price though it just really expensive. I think i may need a parent-child conference sometime soon!
Anyways, on to more amusing topics of conversation. Tonight, Karen and I are trying to round up a bunch of our guy friends to go watch a movie. We have not told the guys what movie we are going to be seeing because we know that they would back out right away! We are planning on seeing the Princess Diaries 2. We watch what the guys want to watch all the time and now it is their turn to squirm in their seats for a little while and watch a chick flick. I think it would do their egos a lot of good to sit through a chick flick for once.
I am currently listening to Mat Redman's song Facedown. It is definately a powerful song. The glory of God is so powerful and overwhelming and the only true response is to fall facedown.
That's all from me for tonight folks. Have a good one!
Blessings,
Jana

God is just Awesome!

Just when you think God can't get any better, He blows you out of the water and you realise He is even better than you can ever imagine! That is what God taught me over this last weekend. My weekend was great. My friends here.......especially my disney chick girls are fantastic (everybody better wear their ring again sometime soon!). We had a girls night on saturday and it was a lot of fun. We ate pizza, ice cream and of course when you get girls together there is always chocolate (and plenty of it)!!!! and we watched Leo movies....one of them did feature Johnny Depp and that was a nice treat. It was so much fun just to have the girls together and to hang out with me. God really did give us a blessing in female friendship and bonding. Don't get me wrong, I enjoying hanging out with my guy friends. However there are just some things and activities that are so much more suited for an all female group than a mixed group.

Sunday was also a fantastic day. Karen and myself with the help of Lou, pulled off sunday roast for 9 people. First of all it was the first time i had cooked for that many people at one time and secondly it was the first time i had cooked a sunday roast in my life. Thanks to the help of phoning my mom back in Canada of all places (which Lou found humerous just to call canada for cooking advice) i can claim that Sunday lunch was a success! In fact, we're planning on another one for Nov. 7 and with even more people. I've had a request though...pumpkin pie...that will be another first for me (pumpkin pie, but not pie in general), but seriously how hard can it be?

The sunday evening service @ church was great and after the service my whole cell group plus a few others prayed for healing in my knee. There is definate improvments in it since cell prayed for it on wednesday evening and even more so since last night! God is truly great in his abilities. and i don't mean to make that sound like an underestimation either. Then to top off the day, my academic supervisor at home gave me the final okay to be here for school for the whole academic year!

Thank you God for those days where you just completely show us how amazing you are and how much you care for us in every aspect of our lives. You don't need to give us those kind of days, but you completely blessed me and enriched my life even more yesterday and the weekend. I just want to say Thank you!!!

Silence

Lord, Silence is not a natural state for me.
For you, silence is needed.
Clear my mind of all clutter,
Of needless noise that filters through,
constantly from the moment i wake up-
until the moment i fall asleep.
In silence you speak to me and reveal yourself to me.
Peace replaces noise and heartfelt worship replaces clutter.
In your prescence, silence becomes golden.

Starting Out

This site was highly reccommended to me as a way to post a wide variety of thoughts and I thought I would see what it was like. I also thought it would be a good way to keep all my family and friends back in Canada updated on what is going on in my life and what God is teaching me at the moment.

For those of you who don't know what part of the world I am in at the moment, I am in the country of England, in a town called Luton which is a 30 minute train ride north of London (which for the geography challenged is the capital of England). I am going to university at the University of Luton until June 2005.

Now some of you maybe asking...just how did Jana end up there? Good question...when I first arrived here I was aking myself the exact same thing! I won an academic scholarship through the University of Manitoba through a sport tourism exchange program. I applied for the scholarship in February 2004 and lo and behold I ended up having the top academic grades and was given some money to come over here to study. I left Canada Sept 11,04 (I know...I had to fly on that date of all dates and I hate flying! But it was ok...for Air Canada that's saying a lot). Originally, I was only suppose to be in England until December 18, but God has strange and wonderful ways of making things happen and it now looks like I will be here at least until close to the end of June 2005.

God has brought wonderful people into my life in the first month i have been here; through the university chaplaincy and at St. Mary's Church where I am regularly attending (For those of you who are curious, the website is www.stmarysluton.org check it out). They have blessed me in so many ways and i appreciate them so much (you people know who you are and i thank you!!!).

I didn't have too many expectations when coming over here, but what few I did have, God has completely surpassed them beyond my imagination. I truly feel content and at peace and I fully know that this is where God wants me for year to come.

I think i have written to0 much for one sitting, but i get excited easily and then i write more.

Blessings to all,
Jana