cheerful.

i think we use the word 'life' so often that it becomes so easy to overlook all of what the word holds in itself, the complete beauty and intensity of it. its crazy to think that this little four letter word can mean so much.

life.

• the memories slash experiences of the past and the prospects of the future
• the ability to live and breathe in a world full of lives.
• existence.
• the ability to be in the presence of God.
• the noun that sums up all the comings and goings, all the ups and downs, all the joys and heartaches of what goes on from the day of your birth to the day that you die.
• something that defines us as people, our personalities our background and status.
• an opportunity to do something great.
• a journey.
• a story.

every single person has been given a life.

a life worth sowing into, a life worth your company, a life with a past and a life with a future, a life that jesus came to die for.

"its not dying we need to be afraid of, its never having lived in the first place"

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the other day i re-discovered the beauty of omegle. i know it sounds gay. but i remembered about it when i was really bored slash procrastinating tidying my room(which i did in fact complete today). Anyway i ended up chatting to a 22 year old whose 5month old daughter died just before christmas. she only wanted someone to talk to. it amazes me how much hope you can bring into someones world just by ceasing an opportunity. her story made me cry but i was able to spread light in her world. it was beautiful.

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my room smells nice at the moment. i like smells. i like the smell of freshly cut grass, the smell of flowers, of fresh air, and the smell of food. i also like when you get a new perfume or spray and its a completely different smell to the one you previously had. i like that when you add a small bit of coriander to a salad it changes the smell entirely. and the taste.

everyone says that over the holidays they eat more crappy food. thats usually the likely story for me but not these holidays. i've found that since i have more time, ive really been enjoying making healthy food. and pottering around experimenting with new flavours.

Nicola Hinman is the best cook i know.

i miss that nutter.

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i enjoy the look of mopped floors. which is probably why i mopped the floor in my room three times today. i enjoy having wooden floor in my room. it means i can spontaneously break out and tap dance.

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i love the knowledge you can gain just by reading. i can almost guarantee that if you read something for the first time, you will learn something new. i wish i was faster at it, i would definitely read heaps if i was. my seven year old cousin started reading novels when she was five. she can now read three books in one day and is one of the most intelligent kids i know. not like intelligent as in brainy but in like world view, her opinions and even the way she talks. i wish i read more when i was a kid. i also wish i had more time slash focus to read. its a beautiful thing.

chloe ruth de'ath

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in the last week ive found a new hobby. i love reading through name books and finding out what names mean. i think its amazing how perfectly suited peoples names are to their personalities. i love the meaning of my name. i wouldn’t swap it for anything else. it matches every word that has been spoken over my life. the meaning of a name is powerful.

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i love dressing little girls up all pretty. the other day i dressed kaela boo up as a princess. we curled her hair and put a pretty necklace on her. she went and picked one of my flower headbands to put on (a lol one the I had made in sewing class in year 7) and found some heels in my wardrobe. It was very important to her that she had a big bow at the back of her lacey dress so we found a random scarf and tied it round her. she pranced round the house as if she was the most beautiful and important thing in the world. then she wanted me to take photos of her ‘in a really pretty place’ so we went out to the garden and she sat on her favourite chair. All the time i was taking photos she was saying ‘don’t i look lovely lissy?’

-the meaning of kaela is adored and cherished.

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i find it very difficult to capture the essence and beauty of the garden of eden with just words. especially when there is no place on earth like it. eden was heaven on earth.

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p.s. everything you learnt by reading this blog, was probably pointless, but at least you learnt it.

p.p.s. i really like this picture.