... And I'm off!

Hey friends!

Today I leave for an amazing adventure! In a few short hours I will be flying over the Atlantic Ocean (for the first time) to embark on a five week trip where I will be in Jordan, Syria and Israel! I am going to the Holy Land and will be seeing the places that the events that we read about in the Bible took place and see where our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, lived, walked and did His ministry. I will be trying to keep you all updated as much as possible through this and facebook! I am so, so excited for this trip and cannot wait to see what I will be able to see and learn a lot of new things!

God bless and take care!

-kAt.

This Defines Your Life... (copied from my other blog)

It is the Easter season and it seems a natural thing to reflect on the power and importance of this weekend... It seems to me that no matter who you are that what you believe about this weekend radically changes the way you live your life.


This weekend has radically shifted the entirety of history. I am not even making that statement as a Christ follower (though I certainly am that). No matter who you are you have to admit that this weekend, Easter weekend, has shifted the very course of history and the future in ways that we will never fully understand.


The reality is that whether you are Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian or Atheist this weekend completely defines the way you live your life.


You are either living your life for Jesus or you are not. If you live your life for Jesus it would be because you admit and accept that He died on the cross for you and was risen again by the power of God three days later. If you are not living your life for Jesus you would admit that you do not believe Jesus is the Son of God and that He did not rise from the grave three days after He was brutally killed on the Cross.


Easter weekend defines the way you live your life...


Are you living your life striving to be the best follower of Jesus knowing that He went through the most brutal of deaths so that you may live in right relationship with the Father?


... I say this often and I will say it again here in closing. I refuse to believe that when we die and stand before Jesus, with the holes in His hands, would be glorified and honoured by His followers living mediocre and ordinary lives. The empty grave ought to be a compelling and motivating factor to the point that there is a noticeable reality in the way we live our lives.


He is Risen,

-kAt