This last weekend was seriously amazing!
The interns, plus the Glenwood youth, were involved in the Ignite Hope weekend; an event which is all about social action and expressing God's love to the local community. It was the responsibility of the interns to plan all of the social action projects that were to take place in Llanedeyrn (where Glenwood is based) and we organised projects such as a car wash, a mass baking extravaganza and a Funday for everybody to attend. I was totally blown away at how many people actually turned out for the Funday - 400 in total - and that afternoon was so great, as it united the community and it seemed that people from Llanedeyrn were genuinely comfortable with being in the church. Winner! What's more, I loved getting to spend more time with the youth and to see them grow in confidence when chatting with members of the community of Llanedeyrn. Favourite story of the weekend --> several of the youth had been prayer walking (you guessed it...walking and praying) around the estate and had prayed for a guy to win the lottery. They saw him the next day and he had won £3.50! I love how God cares about these seemingly little things in our lives and I am so super proud of both the other interns and the young people who served so amazingly. Fancy washing the badger anyone...? :P
Recently, as part of our Leadership Academy, we had a session on our identity in Christ. Now, what was totally ironic about this was the fact that, over the last few weeks, I've really been struggling with this. For a long time, I have periodically felt really rubbish about myself and I am so aware that when I stress or freak out, the first thing I do is become self critical and overly sensitive. In the first two terms of my internship here in Cardiff, I rarely felt like this which was great and I totally thought that this was something that I'd grown out of. Then I came back after Easter. In the last few weeks, there have been times where I've felt really low and down about myself and my abilities. It's kinda sucked if I'm honest.
However, I'm learning something massive at the moment. So often we rely on our feelings and use them to dictate who we are and our identity but I have been totally challenged to make a sometimes difficult choice and to believe what God says about me. Memorising the Bible has never been the most appealing thing in the world to me but I guess that I'm now realising how important it is to know truths about yourself when you're feeling rubbish - because let's face it, we need to decide to believe God and to trust Him with our self worth if we are to truly follow Him. My favourite at the moment in Isaiah 43 4 which says 'Others were given in exchange for you. I traded their lives for your life because you are precious to me. You are honoured and I love you.' I've decided to keep learning Scripture because you can't beat what God has to say about you!
In other news, I'm seeing MUMFORD AND SONS(!) at the end of this month!! Massive thanks to Lucy who gave me her ticket after I couldn't get some for me and a friend - blessed me so much and cheered me up totally last weekend! Loves <3
Thanks for reading this and also to everyone that supports me and prays for me - much appreciated! Love to y'all ;) xx
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