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I didn't get to Braehead....I instead done my shopping in St Enoch centre and Argyle Street. Whilst I didn't get everything I was looking for apart from my art materials on my visit to Millers, I did find some nice wee shops to spend some money in...so another trip is required to IKEA and other stores to get the rest of my shopping done..Needless to say that Glasgow was jumping with people!
In tonight, wee night off to sit and relax :)

Just an observation before I head...but no one seems to comment anymore....have the old el jay ways died out or is it just me and no one wants to chat...or do I need to add more friends to ma wee list?

*hint hint* - talk to me please before the el jay folks take me away for talking to masel!

I always find it awesome that in worshipping....the hunger for God is intensified and renewed! Making me ever more hungry for more of Him after I have fed for Him. The Everlasting Fountain of Life! *shouts a wee "amen in there*
I am about to head out to go Christmas shopping..I think I am gonna dress in some armour and chainmail and go with a spear in hand...I think it MIGHT stop folks from pushing and shoving in the usual pre Christmas crowds. :)
Seriously...heading out to Braehead if I can find it...I feel that since coming back from US I am having to learn directions and "how to get to " placse all over again...and my sense of direction wasn't exactly "A plus" in the beginning. Going to drop Dad off to pick his car up in Glasgow and then try from wherever it is to get to Braehead...or maybe some other big retail park if I cant manage it to Braehead. Tho I do think a trip to Ikea might be on the cards...way hey!
Ok...going to get ready...just back from a wee trek with the big dugs and I'm soaked....that's Scotland for ya!

I have found myself REALLY tired the past few days....I am wondering if my recent trips to the gym are making me more tired or if it is the lack of good weather. Anyways, my last few nights in bed have been quite sound..i am sure they would be even more complete if I didn't have to fight for my right to sleep in my bed. I have had two little pups...well two big dogs trying to sneak in at night because they are cold..I end up with no blankets and squished into the corner up against the wall.....not the most comfortable of positions to sleep in!
Anyways..I am off to bed...got work in am...nothing exciting to report today..there's always tomorrow!

I was not shoked, but maybe a little surprised this week to hear about the Reverend Ted Haggard of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. He admitted to a life of sexual immorality and drug taking. When I hear news like this, it makes me all the more determined to let NOTHING get in the way of my relationship with Christ. It causes me to re-examine my life and take note of areas where my level of conviction isn't where it should be..and lets me re-adjust.
It just emphasises the fact that sin always takes you further than you want to go, involves and harms other people and keeps you longer than you want to stay.
I just pray that the Haggard family and his local church stay focused and dont grow weary in well doing. It's so easy to lose interest and your focus when someone you have respect for falls and admits to something you just dont expect...But God is in control and He will cause good to come from this...even when there seems no way..He will make a way to bring glory to His name..amen!

I wonder if there are days in life that are just made or planned to be that little bit out of the ordinary....

Today I received an email from a friend I hadn't spoken to and desperately missed since April this year.....heard nothing then an email out the blue...

Then..an old friend (different from above) who I used to chat with regularly and lost contact due to a disagreement emails me also out the blue today and wants me to call asap...

Christmas shopping in town...I get a call to go home so I rush to the car and I'm driving home...well not quite, I am stuck in traffic (kingston bridge) and so I get a call 20 mins after the first telling me there is no rush to get home....

Whilst shopping, I sat down for a brief 10 mins to have a coffee..an older gentleman approaches me and asks if he can sit next to me....no problem or so I thought...well he is sat there mumbling away to himself talking about credit cards and bus schedules and asking me what I think...personally I was thinking that he was lost and I needed to get up and as far away as possible...crazzzzzy.

I eventually get home...take the dogs for a walk up Cumbernauld fields and I temporarily lost a dog...that was until he came back with a rabbit hangin from his jaws.. (dont worry it was already dead)..so I got a few odd looks like I was some kinda rabbit catcher from the folks who work at Cumbernauld House....

How was your day?

Seems it has been some time since I posted on LJ...not really sure if I can post and keep updating....but I will have a go.....I have found myself logging into LJ to read what others are going through and whats happening, this is usually at some unearthly hour...
So, what earth changing experiences and dramas have I missed? Am I still on people's friends list due to the fact that it's been about 2 yrs or more since I last logged on....am I LJ extinct...who knows...I am sure time will tell...Here's waiting for the next post...

I hear you think and ask yourself.....where oh where is Stace, right? *cough cough*
Well truth be known, I have been tremendously busy the last few weeks...Next week is the Midterm exam week and I have a huge load of work to do for then. I have also been very busy with the Dream Team, (This is Pastor Richard's team of interns)...there is a lot of work and responsibility, but it's awesome and well worth all the work!
I have a few reports to write out for next week and a few books to finish reading up between now and then...things seem to be moving very fast towards my graduation in May 8th! I can't believe that it has been near on two years that I've been here! I don't know what I'm gonna do once I graduate..I am planning to be home in Summer for a few months to work and see where God wants me to be...I will have someone special with me...if not a few people from the States....so that is gonna be very exciting....please keep this trip in prayer! I wanna so bring back Angel with me, but I'm hoping that the finances work out good for it all.
The weather here has been much like Scotland...I can see Scotland in Pensacola...quite a nice change form all the recent past cold fronts...but it won't be long until the sun is shining and I'm diving from Air conditioned buildings to the at conditioned buildings! Everyone in the house is doing pretty good..
There has been a lot going on spiritually.....it has been very intense this past while....it's been an uphill struggle but yet at the same time God has been pouring out continuously..There has been such intercession and prayers made to release whatever is being held in the atmosphere....I think gradually it is breaking...yesterday seemed like an initial break thru....The school went to voluntary prayer at 7am....at 2pm the room was emptying...people are just so hungry for God and it's amazing!
For me personally, this has been the hardest semester...there has been a lot going on...and God has been ripping me apart and letting me see me for who I really am...but yet building me back up the way He wants me to be...it's a delicate time, yet an exciting one....out with the old and in with the new...thats what I'm keeping in mind!
Well....trying to think what else I need to update on for the time...right now...my alarm clock and I are going to spend some time alone :)
Blessings - Stace

I left Pensacola on the 15th and arrived home on the 17th December...I feel like something from Gullivers Travels.....what should have been an 18 hour journay turned out to be a 2 day ordeal with an extended time/sleepover in Manchester Airport!
Well....Mum blessed me with the ticket to come home and I didn't really know I was coming home until like 10 days before I was leaving....so I didn't tell anyone...except those who had to know...and left it a wee surprise for my friends...and church folks...I think the best reaction I had was from Karen Wylie....we were driving individually to church one night and she happened to overtake the car I was driving and to her surprise saw that I was driving and not Liz, the person to whom the car belonged.. :o)
I have had an enjoyable time so far.....I have enjoyed the rest being in the family home and not the usual day to day running about like what I have been used to in Pensacola.
I have been seeing an Osteopath for treatment on my back and it has been wonderful... what a relief for pain...though finding pressure points and having pressure applied tends to be a bit painful at first...and the pain kinda fades..it's weird...you gotta try it... :o)
Well...I still not tried typing my Nashville report on here yet...I might try it once I get back to Pensacola..as I don't have much net access here..Scotland's a wonderful place....especially when it's all icy and cold and I know in 3 weeks I will be back to the heat of the Sunshine state again :O)Well almost....it's still kinda cold over there but won't take long to heat up again.. ..
I must make time with Karen & Laura whilst I am here...if you guys are reading this....then you have the right to remind me!
OK....time is running out....have to run..
Blessings

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why is it that when I type something and go back to a page and come back all my typing is gone...Thats twice is happened and I am not happy! Grrrr

Be back later and I might type it in ...shhesssh what a waste of time..

I am not sinning....

I typed out my livejournal yesterday for more than an hour and with a quick diversion to my attention I turn around to check what I'm typing and my journal has gone and was unretrieveable! "Cry, all I wanna do is cry"....taken from a BRSM drama. .
I want to journal my trip to Nashville, Tennessee last Wed thru until this past Mon. I will start over when I get the time!

I am alive...just asleep!
Thanks Laura for helping me with my typos! Bless you sis!
When I can get another 5 mins to breath, I will add more to here later! I am feeling way too goofy for only 4 hours sleep!

Signing off . . . . . Stace x

I am alive...just asleep!
Thanks Laura for helping me with my typos! Bless you sis!
When I can get another 5 mins to breath, I will add more to here later! I am feeling way too goofy for only 4 hours sleep!

Signing off . . . . . Stace x

Quick post...
I have a zillion and one things to do, but I am still alive...Bless you guys!

Stace x

I'll add more on here at the beginning of the week.
Tommy Tenney is preaching here at Brownsville tonight. All is well..

Love, peace and chicken grease!

I don't know whether or not to treat this like a live journal or whether to think of it more as my private agony aunt column! Any thoughts?
I went home a little frustrated yesterday worrying about the amount of work I have to do and the little time I have to do it in! However saying that I went home and done nothing last night but eat! This morning I am off to go work with Pastor Jody (President of BRSM's Assistant)....I'm doing a little graphic work on the computer....I like to think that I'm venting myself graphically...but I wouldn't go telling all and sundry that that is what I'm doing...they might think something else!
Last night was so nice....yeah I ate but a friend came round late last night and we sat and laughed and got up to some mischief...the usual when someone visits your house late on in the night!
Well, with all thats going on here at the school and the church, things seems to be in order and God is still in control!...Don't you just love change?!
Choir practice tonight with Mr Lindell Cooley...I am thinking about going to hear Benny Hinn on Friday but can't decide between that and Tommy Tenney hear at the 2nd last Brownsville Revival Service for this year...what does one do?
I need my dose of Christmas Carols....it doesn't make the week somehow right if I aint singing something like "O Come O Come Emmanuel"..you know what I mean?

Keep hanging

Stace x

It's Tuesday....
And I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders...I guess I am kinda feeling a little stressed as I near the end of my 3rd semester at Bible School and I look at the moutain of work that awaits my attention..and I think... Do I even have time to look thru it and think about what I'm gonna do with it?...*sigh
Life isn't all that bad....this is a time of transition and testing...a time it seems as though God is rocking our (church's) boat...and seeing who hangs on for dear life..
School is much the same...though a good challenge does us all good! Challenge keeps the fight interesting!
I hear that a few folks are coming over from Ireland this week..I just hope and pray that they bring some chocolate with them....else I dunno what I will do...stress and no chocolate, what will a girl do?! :)
This past weekend was nice...more relaxing than normal....I dunno whether or not it has something to do with one of my roommates being out of town...I also said cheerio to Matt...my long term buddy..he's moved form Pensacola to Arkansaw..I dunno why..I don't think he knows neither!
Well....all is well with my soul...Mama Hugs continues to pray for my heart....I keep confessing with my James 5:16 partner..I also have an Ephesians 4:29 partner! If you don't what all these partners are...look them up and see! I think I'm gonna make an appointment with Bill Sudduth next and make sure my WHOLE system is cleared out :o)
The washing machine doesn't work....it's leaking....
We found a cockroach in the house last night...now squished to the carpet and I'm sure he's still there...or at least half of him is, the other half is still stuck to the shoe that Ellie killed him with!
We tried to hide a fish in Matt's car twice....but on both occasions the little sole has stunk us out of house and home!
The weeds continue to grow up and around the house..
The mosquitoes still "love" me..
We managed to cause a riot in the Sunday School last weekend....some guy patted his belly and said he was well blessed...well the girl sitting next to me joined in, "you and me both, bro"....well that got us all giggling...for at least 20 mins!
Well signing off before the cobwebs start forming around me...

Stace x

Well I guess I would like to thank both Laura & Karen Wylie for referring me to this site. I would like to thank my roommates for putting up with me. I would like to thank BRSM for giving me the most awesome opportunity of sitting here in a school where the Holy Spirit has free reign. I would also like to thank my mother for without her, none of this would have been made possible. Thanks MOM! Oh, eh I mean MUM!
I think this site is kinda neat.....though it means having to type it up on here as and when I desire and also having to fill in my actual paper journal at the house...Yeah I do still kinda like to be traditional and write on paper..I'm not completely taken over by the whole electronic life!
I am trying to decide which kinda mood I am in today....I'm sitting in the computer lab here at school. All is quiet..well all is too more than quiet I guess..Part of me wants to be goofy and see if I can find an interesting answering machine message on the internet to use for my home phone. I tried looking for one yesterday...all I say is one word...cheesy! I want something really funny and have no imagination to come up with something of my own...so if any of y'all who are reading this have an idea...please feel free to drop me a line!
Guess I am wrapping this up for now....will return soon...Oh and thanks to you guys Karen & Laura! I owe ya's! - Stace