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"In Your presence there is fullness of joy"
Psalm 16:11

FLOURISH

Place Your Life Before God

12 ^1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

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OPPOSITE WAY

Living in the same town 
For all these years
Doing the same old things
Hanging with the same crowd
And it’s starting to get crippling
You’ve never felt in place
And you tell yourself it’s all okay
But something’s different today
You want to run the opposite way

And it seems like you’re locked in a cage
And you need to find a way of escape
When everyone is setting the pace
It’s okay to run the opposite way

The Father sent His Son down
The light of men
The cross He bore was crippling
Rejected in His own town
They couldn’t see the sun shining
He knelt in the garden and prayed
Father, let this cup pass from me
It’s not Your will for me to stay
Your will for me is the opposite way

And it seemed like He was locked in a cage
And He couldn’t find away of escape
But through the cross He conquered the grave
My Jesus ran the opposite way

Oh, and through the cross He conquered the grave
Oh, He ran the opposite way
Yeah, through the cross He conquered the grave
So you could run the opposite way

http://leelandonline.com/opposite-way

SOME THOUGHTS!!

La sal y la luz del mundo

¹³ »Ustedes son como la sal que se pone en el horno de barro para aumentar su calor. Si la sal pierde esa capacidad, ya no sirve para nada, sino para que la tiren a la calle y la gente la pisotee.^[b]
14 »Ustedes son como una luz que ilumina a todos. Son como una ciudad construida en la parte más alta de un cerro y que todos pueden ver.¹⁵ Nadie enciende una lámpara para meterla debajo de un cajón. Todo lo contrario: la pone en un lugar alto para que alumbre a todos los que están en la casa. ¹⁶ De la misma manera, la conducta de ustedes debe ser como una luz que ilumine y muestre cómo se obedece a Dios. Hagan buenas acciones. Así los demás las verán y alabarán a Dios, el Padre de ustedes que está en el cielo.

INDEED!! IT IS A REVOLUTION OF PEACE!!

SHOUT IT LOUDER!!

BALLET

 I used to be a ballet dancer in a company in South Africa, but for many years I had pushed the love of dancing to a little place somewhere in the back of my heart as I hopped around the world pursuing some of the other things I love doing. But God knows even the dreams and desires that lie dormant in the far reaches of our little human hearts, and lovingly He brings us to places where we can flourish in those areas again. After having moved to Australia from Dubai in August last year, it was such a delight to be a part of the team doing a number of dance items for ‘Colour Conference’. Only about a week before the first Colour Conference, I was asked to create a dance to go with the moment when ‘Colour 2013’ would be launched. Given the music, the instrumental of ‘Mighty to Save’ and the brief: A Revolution of Light, I literally popped up onto the beautiful big stage and just… danced. With rehearsals for all the other pieces I was involved in and the short time until the conference began I didn’t have much time to think through choreography.  

 Just by doing it on stage over and over, I feel like I developed a rhythm and with the well trained eyes of some of the team on me, giving me choreographic guidance, slowly a dance emerged. All that was left to me was the wonderful task of allowing my body to do what I think most of our souls feel like they are doing when we praise Jesus. Fly. And then breathe… (five minutes of flying can be tiring!). For the second Colour Conference at the Hills Campus, two wonderful friends joined me up on stage and we had the most special time trying to illustrate through the freedom of dance, how God sees His princesses around the world.Love, Les(Hillsong Dance Team)

http://hillsongcollected.com/creative/from-our-prima-ballerina