Anyone who missed Aaron's message last Sunday... gosh! you must listen to this. I believe, this is an awesome example of new wine. http://www.thevine.org.hk/grapevine/pages/audio.html. For those not familiar with how this works, scroll down the page and choose the 6.00 PM message on Sunday the 26th. And even if you're not a memeber of the Vine, you are most welcome to hear it. We all know that when God speaks, so many times, He's addressing all of us and not just those inside the room at the time, which is why I so love pod casts and the whole media thing.

Pastor Tony's message was really good too and I haven't listened to Maggie's yet and am looking forward to that : )

Anyway, Aaron's message comes at such a great time for me.

Excerpt for Cheryl's journal 27 Nov. 2006...

This last month or so I'm in a very special place in my relationship with God. It's more personal and intimate than it has ever been and I am loving my Bible... and Aaron's message gave me that same excited feeling I get when I ... watch a movie say, and it's an amazing movie, and then I meet someone who has seen it too and is just as taken with the movie as I am. That's like so awesome ... and together we get all hyped and excited talking about it. It was like that.

You know, there was a time in my life when I never knew that the Bible would get me so excited. I almost wince as I say this right now, because today I know that nothing else in my life, comes anywhere close to the valuable treasure that my Bible is to me, but when you don't know... you just don't know. It freaks me out a bit that when the blinders are on, it's like you can't see what's right in front of you, ... but anyway... Praise God, the blinders are off and I LOVE MY BIBLE!!! and everyday, may I learn to use this precious word of God, the way He wants me to.

Gosh! I remember as a kid how often my dad would try and get me to read our Bible. He never ever made me, but he would ask me to, every now and then. I did not listen to him, and of course now I'm like, ' Cheryl you knuckle head!!!' but I so love my dad for planting those seeds in me.

Our God is precious and falling in love with Him and doing the whole 'for better or for worse' thing with Jesus is the best decision I have ever made. It's so amazing to be crazy about God? it's like... intoxicating. I can't get over Him. I just can't. Right now, I'm in a 'crazy fan' sort of place about Jesus... I'm in a 'Jesus you're my Super Hero' place and I love it and I never want to lose it and so I'm writing it down here to read anytime down the line.
I never want to find myself straying from this place of awe and wonder and fascination for my God, my hero, my knight in shining armour, my friend, Our Awesome God.

Gosh! I feel like a giddy headed teenager right now, hehe! and I like it.




I love the many levels on which I can connect with God.
When I'm in deep pain or anguish, I can turn to Him,
when I have a huge crisis on my hands, I can turn to Him,
when I need sound advice and wisdom, I can turn to Him,
I can be disciplined by Him when I am being stubborn,
I can sit on His lap and delight in my daddy like a 3 year old would,
when I need a buddy I can turn to Him,
and, I can experience the intoxicating feelings of first love with Him too.
He satisfies my every need.

Lord may I always turn to you, in everything, for everything. Jesus, come alive in me and show me how to commune with my Father the way you did.