The most important ingredients.

I’m not talking about strawberries and milk to make a great milkshake or brown sugar, milk, eggs and flour for a cake.

No, no... We are going far deeper than a slice of cake... but to the spirit and soul.

I strongly believe that the best ingredients ever are Hope, Faith and Prayer... Yep, just those three mixed together are what creates the world’s miracles!  

When making a cake... you need milk, eggs or water don’t you? Without it, it will just be powder... and that won’t work... I see the milk, eggs or water as the faith... it is an extremely important ingredient and without it, it won’t work!

Another part of a cake is the taste... you can’t eat a cake that tastes like nothing, gross! The flavour can be Hope... without vanilla essence, coco or icing the cake won’t work. Neither will a miracle if you don’t have hope.

And most importantly you need the flour... if you don’t have the flour; you won’t have a cake... and if you don’t have Pray, than you won’t have a miracle.

But we are only human; we can’t cook the mixture to rise to be a cake... I’m not Lava girl or Ben 10 (who can turn into the fire alien.) Us humans need an oven... the oven has the power to rise up the cake with its heat.

Well after you have added Hope, Faith and Pray... chuck it in the oven... give your mixture to God! He has the power to heat, mix and mash to create miracles!!

It says in the bible...

Matthew 17:20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

I believe this can defiantly happen. The mountain may not jump into another place, but perhaps if you pray with complete faith, the next day you hear on the news... (News music) “Breaking news... small earth quake not hurting anybody has caused a mountain to shift 20meters...” It could totally happen! And only through God.

My best friend Brie is actually in hospital right now with lupus, which has caused kidney failure... it’s pretty bad, if she had left it any longer she could have died! I thank God that she is ok, but if she needs a transplant... she may be in hospital for a long time!

But... I believe with a sprinkle of Hope... a cup of Faith and two cups of Prayer... and a hot oven (God) ;) she’ll make it through!! :)

What things in your life need these three very important ingredients?

All you have to do is close your eyes and pray to God about it.

He will be your oven!

And you can’t get a better oven then that. ;)

Moving on.

Well it’s near to finishing my state high school forever... it’s kind of scary but I can’t wait!  I’m sorry but school was so ridiculously hard for me.

Grade 11 I refused to change, and make choices that my friends I had grown up with decided to make, these choices didn’t agree with my Christian values and sensibility and so I moved on knowing the consequences I would have to take for doing the right thing.

People didn’t want to hang out with a Christian who has strong faith and love for her God as well as not supporting some of their choices. I was still there for others, but with some after I helped them with their problems... well I didn’t hear about them till next time they needed someone to talk to.

And then there were all the bullies! And when I stood up for myself and my beliefs.... far out I might as well have committed a murder! The hog wash I got for doing the right thing, CRICKEY!!

On top of that some teachers were unsupportive and really didn’t seem to care, which didn’t help with some of the situations I was in.

Made new friends...lost some...moved on...grew up...laughed...cried.

But through all that I kept my cool, I didn’t treat others badly because of the way I felt and my problems. I had to try so hard to do the right thing, be the kind of person that at the end of the day can look back and think, “Yes, I’m proud of the way I treated others today and held myself together.”

God really helped me of course, I don’t want to know what could have happened if I hadn’t listened to Him and kept doing the right thing.

True if I didn’t do the right thing it would have made my life so much easier. But if you play the game the way the world does, people will get hurt! And that’s no good, so I’m here to say...

You can do it!!

Keep your cool, and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

If you do the right thing and people are rude and disrespectful to you... well then they are missing out on a great person! :)

Besides it works out in the end. I thought no one noticed or cared, but they did and so many people commented on my graduation signing quilt saying how I am a beautiful person and to not change. WOW! :)

Well, if I haven’t changed with what I have been through already then I’m never going to change! :)

And neither should you if you are a good respectful person then please don’t change! Not for anyone or anything!

You are beautiful the way you are, don’t listen to the rubbish others may say.

Listen to God, He is always right, so wouldn’t it be a great idea to do what he says? :)

And when in doubt, think, WWJD (What would Jesus do?) ;)