Did you know...
... A coffee at Jorien's place doesn't always turn out to be coffee..? today we have smoothies instead!
... traffic in Eindhoven can be quite a challenge..? i believe it was working against us today on our way to the Fontys Campus.
... the distance between the fontys/ TU campus and down town was a little longer that I thought?! it's a maze.. really...
... McD's in Eindhoven can be veeeery slow? Jorien had to wait 20 minutes for her burger.
... I always eat a Quarter Pounder at McD's? Guess what i had today ;)
... running shoes can be very expensive? O_o
... I can't find new sport pants!? help meee!
... we almost bought new sunglasses? some were actually kinda cool.. but we didn't find IT..
... we didn't have time to sit down for a drink in the sun cause we walked so much?!
... there was a note with 'One person only' on the door of the toilets? that made me laugh so hard.
... that place was very hygienic?
... we took the bus back to car.
... Jorien and I love to play Skillet VERY loud in the car. (and we're about the only ones of our friends that like skillet)
... I have no clue what else to write here..?
... so I'm done?!
zaterdag 21 maart 2009
woensdag 11 maart 2009
You Will Survive
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Happiness does not mean living without pain or hurt—not at all. True happiness is learning how to live one day at a time, in spite of sorrow and pain. It is learning how to rejoice in the Lord, no matter what has happened in the past.
You may feel rejected and abandoned. Your faith may be weak and you think you are down for the count. Sorrow, tears, pain, and emptiness may swallow you up at times, but God is still on the throne. He is still God!
Convince yourself that you will survive. You will come out of it and, live or die, you belong to the Lord. Life does go on and it will surprise you how much you can bear with God’s help.
You cannot help yourself or stop the pain, but our blessed Lord will come to you. He will place his loving hand under you and lift you up to sit again in heavenly places. He will deliver you from the fear of dying and he will reveal his endless love for you.
Look up! Encourage yourself in the Lord. When the fog surrounds you and you can’t see any way out of your dilemma, lie back in the arms of Jesus and simply trust him. He has to do it all! He wants your faith and your confidence. He wants you to cry aloud, “Jesus loves me! He is with me! He will not fail me! He is working it all out, right now! I will not be cast down! I will not be defeated! I will not be a victim of Satan! I will not lose my mind or my direction. God is on my side! I love him and he loves me!”
The bottom line is faith. And faith rests on this one absolute: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper…” (Isaiah 54:17).
by David Wilkerson
Happiness does not mean living without pain or hurt—not at all. True happiness is learning how to live one day at a time, in spite of sorrow and pain. It is learning how to rejoice in the Lord, no matter what has happened in the past.
You may feel rejected and abandoned. Your faith may be weak and you think you are down for the count. Sorrow, tears, pain, and emptiness may swallow you up at times, but God is still on the throne. He is still God!
Convince yourself that you will survive. You will come out of it and, live or die, you belong to the Lord. Life does go on and it will surprise you how much you can bear with God’s help.
You cannot help yourself or stop the pain, but our blessed Lord will come to you. He will place his loving hand under you and lift you up to sit again in heavenly places. He will deliver you from the fear of dying and he will reveal his endless love for you.
Look up! Encourage yourself in the Lord. When the fog surrounds you and you can’t see any way out of your dilemma, lie back in the arms of Jesus and simply trust him. He has to do it all! He wants your faith and your confidence. He wants you to cry aloud, “Jesus loves me! He is with me! He will not fail me! He is working it all out, right now! I will not be cast down! I will not be defeated! I will not be a victim of Satan! I will not lose my mind or my direction. God is on my side! I love him and he loves me!”
The bottom line is faith. And faith rests on this one absolute: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper…” (Isaiah 54:17).
by David Wilkerson
dinsdag 3 maart 2009
The Thief
Your eyes are full,
full of the future of us
The air changes as you look across
at me in that wondering way
It is as if
I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Conspiring, converging
without giving us any say
You sing me to sleep,
talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to
You're ruining me
with secrets and gestures and looks
With sonnets and second-hand books
Playing the chords in me
nobody knew how to play
You sing me to sleep,
talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to
It fits in your hand like the water in rain
It unlocks our two different selves
and shows we are the same
Rather than wait 'til I
put me out for the taking
You're breaking
You're breaking into my heart
and I'm letting you
Your eyes are full,
full of the future of us
full of the future of us
The air changes as you look across
at me in that wondering way
It is as if
I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Conspiring, converging
without giving us any say
You sing me to sleep,
talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to
You're ruining me
with secrets and gestures and looks
With sonnets and second-hand books
Playing the chords in me
nobody knew how to play
You sing me to sleep,
talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to
It fits in your hand like the water in rain
It unlocks our two different selves
and shows we are the same
Rather than wait 'til I
put me out for the taking
You're breaking
You're breaking into my heart
and I'm letting you
Your eyes are full,
full of the future of us
vrijdag 27 februari 2009
The Wonderful Everlife
Just wanted to share this wonderful band with you all!
I had the chance to meet them last september, and booked them for a benefit concert at my church last week.
Gosh.. can i say they are awesome?! Really the sweetest girls!!
And oh they can rock. They performed at my church with their full band.
They have some awesome guys playing with them!
If you get the change to get to see them, I'm telling you.. go!
And you might as well get their new EP! Acoustic rock chicks, with beautiful voices!
Check the video below! Live at Eindhoven!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Deb
I had the chance to meet them last september, and booked them for a benefit concert at my church last week.
Gosh.. can i say they are awesome?! Really the sweetest girls!!
And oh they can rock. They performed at my church with their full band.
They have some awesome guys playing with them!
If you get the change to get to see them, I'm telling you.. go!
And you might as well get their new EP! Acoustic rock chicks, with beautiful voices!
Check the video below! Live at Eindhoven!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Deb
zondag 22 februari 2009
My insecurities
Hello World! :)
It's been way too long since i last wrote a blog! so here I am.
I was thinking about what to write, when i started to look back at all the things that happens these past 6, 7 weeks.
I'd like to share a little bit with you about my insecuritied, and how God has been working in me in the pst weeks.
If you have met me, and you know me a little, you probably noticed I can be insecure about myself, and especially my capabilities.
All the things that happened with school last summer didn't really help, and made me REALLY insecure about my ability to really do what they wanted me to do. I seem to fail time after time, and that put alot of presure on me. When the end of my last internship was coming closer, stress came, presure came. more and more.
Januari wasn't really a great month. it was exhausting really.
Januari 23rd: Due final report intership (this is what i didnt seem to get right.. for some reason it never contained what they wanted to read..) I did my best, personallt handed to my teacher.
Januari 27th: Portfolio Assessment. THE Exam. You can't imagine the work i put into that.
And it all comes down to this 30 minutes. 2 teachers. Asking me aaaall these questions about what i've learned in the past years.
After 30 minutes i had to wait outside so they could decided whether i passed the exam or not.
After a few monutes they congratulated me. I had a score of 90. Which means i passed the exam with the highest possibel score.
That was the first time in a year that i felt like i really did something goog. That I was really able to do it right.
Januari 30th. The day my teachers, me and my supervisor from the internship would come together and talk about my internship, and my final report. The exam from the 27th gave me some more confidence, but that was fast gone when my teacher told me the final report was, once again, not good enough.
BAM! Down to level zero.
I could cry, right there. Maybe i should have. This teacher just broke me down. And i dont think she even realized it. It's not that i cant take negative feedback. It's the fact that this was the 5th time, and only she was complaining about my reports. I didn't get negative feedback on my reports from any other teacher. Just her.
About an hour later i found out why my reports weren't good enough. I just didn't get the right picture of what should be in the report. I've had a wrong picture of her expectations, for 17months.
I got a chance to write the report again,and this time i did it right.
I was so hapy when she finally told me this last report was very good. Finally i could close this part of my study, and move on the the last part. One more year. Gradution Project.
When i look back on that time i can see how negative feedback from this particular teacher broke me down. Little by little. I don't think she realized it, but her way of communicating made me insecure about myself.
It made me insecure about my capabilities.
A few weeks later. Februari 21st. (Yesterday). Benefit Concert.
The big day was here. Today we would have a concert with Nuclear Playground and Everlife, to raise money for the childrens home in Porto, Lar Evangélico Português.
I was very very excited, but a nervous too. Again my insecurity.
I knew i had everything settled, and that i did it right. It just didn't work that day. I started to doubt stupid things like if i had the right dinner and if i had all the stuff we needed (although i checked that like.. a million times already).
I'm sure everyone in the building that day could see how my head was spinning.
When i look back on these two situations, I clearly see God's hand. I see how He placed people around me that got me through all this. People that helped me be more secure. That helped me to be proud of myself.
My dad telling me he's proud of me. My friends telling me i did great.
A friend pointing me to the positive, when i'm too focussed on the negative. Another friend telling me what she admires in me.
All those people, help me to be more secure (and really... God works through the most amazing people...in most amazing ways!)
I don't thik i realized all this till this morning when i was looking back at yesterday and thinking back to everything that has been said by various people that day. I think i was stopped 3 or 4 times by different people, telling me to relax for just a few seconds, and telling me that everything was great.
They stopped me for just a few second, to tell me the 4 most encouraging words, you are doing great.
The million 'thank you's' I've heard after the show almost drove me crazy. I didn't do it for me, if did it for the kids! I seriously told a few people to stop thanking me.
Looking back to all this, this morning i could hear God say: "DEB! Wake up! YOU DID GREAT! Yes, you did it for the kids. But for once.. take the positvie feedback and let it build you up! I chose to use YOU for a reason! Stop being so insecure about yourself. Trust Me. I will make you capable."
Maybe you recognize this. Maybe you are just as insecure as me sometimes.
If this is you.. i want you to know God can do the same things in you as He is doing in me. But you have to let Him. He does amazing things, in amazing ways.
Open your heart for Him. Give Him a chance and some time! You'll be amazed.
Love,
Deborah
It's been way too long since i last wrote a blog! so here I am.
I was thinking about what to write, when i started to look back at all the things that happens these past 6, 7 weeks.
I'd like to share a little bit with you about my insecuritied, and how God has been working in me in the pst weeks.
If you have met me, and you know me a little, you probably noticed I can be insecure about myself, and especially my capabilities.
All the things that happened with school last summer didn't really help, and made me REALLY insecure about my ability to really do what they wanted me to do. I seem to fail time after time, and that put alot of presure on me. When the end of my last internship was coming closer, stress came, presure came. more and more.
Januari wasn't really a great month. it was exhausting really.
Januari 23rd: Due final report intership (this is what i didnt seem to get right.. for some reason it never contained what they wanted to read..) I did my best, personallt handed to my teacher.
Januari 27th: Portfolio Assessment. THE Exam. You can't imagine the work i put into that.
And it all comes down to this 30 minutes. 2 teachers. Asking me aaaall these questions about what i've learned in the past years.
After 30 minutes i had to wait outside so they could decided whether i passed the exam or not.
After a few monutes they congratulated me. I had a score of 90. Which means i passed the exam with the highest possibel score.
That was the first time in a year that i felt like i really did something goog. That I was really able to do it right.
Januari 30th. The day my teachers, me and my supervisor from the internship would come together and talk about my internship, and my final report. The exam from the 27th gave me some more confidence, but that was fast gone when my teacher told me the final report was, once again, not good enough.
BAM! Down to level zero.
I could cry, right there. Maybe i should have. This teacher just broke me down. And i dont think she even realized it. It's not that i cant take negative feedback. It's the fact that this was the 5th time, and only she was complaining about my reports. I didn't get negative feedback on my reports from any other teacher. Just her.
About an hour later i found out why my reports weren't good enough. I just didn't get the right picture of what should be in the report. I've had a wrong picture of her expectations, for 17months.
I got a chance to write the report again,and this time i did it right.
I was so hapy when she finally told me this last report was very good. Finally i could close this part of my study, and move on the the last part. One more year. Gradution Project.
When i look back on that time i can see how negative feedback from this particular teacher broke me down. Little by little. I don't think she realized it, but her way of communicating made me insecure about myself.
It made me insecure about my capabilities.
A few weeks later. Februari 21st. (Yesterday). Benefit Concert.
The big day was here. Today we would have a concert with Nuclear Playground and Everlife, to raise money for the childrens home in Porto, Lar Evangélico Português.
I was very very excited, but a nervous too. Again my insecurity.
I knew i had everything settled, and that i did it right. It just didn't work that day. I started to doubt stupid things like if i had the right dinner and if i had all the stuff we needed (although i checked that like.. a million times already).
I'm sure everyone in the building that day could see how my head was spinning.
When i look back on these two situations, I clearly see God's hand. I see how He placed people around me that got me through all this. People that helped me be more secure. That helped me to be proud of myself.
My dad telling me he's proud of me. My friends telling me i did great.
A friend pointing me to the positive, when i'm too focussed on the negative. Another friend telling me what she admires in me.
All those people, help me to be more secure (and really... God works through the most amazing people...in most amazing ways!)
I don't thik i realized all this till this morning when i was looking back at yesterday and thinking back to everything that has been said by various people that day. I think i was stopped 3 or 4 times by different people, telling me to relax for just a few seconds, and telling me that everything was great.
They stopped me for just a few second, to tell me the 4 most encouraging words, you are doing great.
The million 'thank you's' I've heard after the show almost drove me crazy. I didn't do it for me, if did it for the kids! I seriously told a few people to stop thanking me.
Looking back to all this, this morning i could hear God say: "DEB! Wake up! YOU DID GREAT! Yes, you did it for the kids. But for once.. take the positvie feedback and let it build you up! I chose to use YOU for a reason! Stop being so insecure about yourself. Trust Me. I will make you capable."
Maybe you recognize this. Maybe you are just as insecure as me sometimes.
If this is you.. i want you to know God can do the same things in you as He is doing in me. But you have to let Him. He does amazing things, in amazing ways.
Open your heart for Him. Give Him a chance and some time! You'll be amazed.
Love,
Deborah
maandag 5 januari 2009
Winter in Eindhoven
Just a short blog to share my day with you.
It snowed last night.. much more than we all expected...and much more than it did in years..
This resulted in the biggest chaos i've seen in years in my hometown.
I haven't seen so many cars stuck on the road in my life..
I haven't been in such a long trafficjam in my hometown ever in my life.
And never.. did i have such a long journey to work..
Usually it take me about 30-40 minutes.. today it took me 2,5 hours!!
But besides the long journey.. this was one of the coolest days of this winter!
Playing the snow with the kids at work.. enjoying the pretty sights..
I loved it!
So.. here are a few pics of winter in holland!
It snowed last night.. much more than we all expected...and much more than it did in years..
This resulted in the biggest chaos i've seen in years in my hometown.
I haven't seen so many cars stuck on the road in my life..
I haven't been in such a long trafficjam in my hometown ever in my life.
And never.. did i have such a long journey to work..
Usually it take me about 30-40 minutes.. today it took me 2,5 hours!!
But besides the long journey.. this was one of the coolest days of this winter!
Playing the snow with the kids at work.. enjoying the pretty sights..
I loved it!
So.. here are a few pics of winter in holland!
donderdag 1 januari 2009
Hello 2009!
Happy New Year!
I can't believe 2009 is already here.. Time really flies..
I can remember this exact day last year.. Januari 1st 2008.. the day before i left to Portugal.
I remember having a party and saying goodbye to aalll my family and friends.
A year has passed.. and looking back i can say this was one more amazing year. Maybe one of the most amazing in my life.
I look back on so many blessings, and I'm really grateful to God for everything he has given me in 2008.
All the new friends, the places I've been, the things He led me to do. It was absolutely amazing!
And this really makes me excited about 2009. Because I know God has so much more in store for me (and you!). Great things will happen in 2009!
I'm excited and really can't wait to see where God is gonna lead me this year, what great things He will do.
I really hope you can say the same thing. I hope you feel the same excitement, the same passion burning inside of you to be the person that He wants you to be. He can use you and me to do great things in this world.
A world that needs God, that needs Love.
All we have to do is be available. Say Here I am God. Take me as I am. Mold me, Use me.
Show me a vision like Isaiah saw,
Where the angel touched his lips and he sinned no more.
Let me hear your voice saying “Who shall I send?”
I’ll say send me Lord,
I’ll follow you to the end.
Show me a vision like Eziekel saw,
An army of light from a valley of bones.
Breathe life into these lungs of mine,
So I can scream and shout of your love divine.
Search light, burns bright, floods my eyes,
Invade me, serenade me, I’m giving back my life.
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing in my hands,
But here I am send me.
I’m in Jacobs dream seeing heavens gate,
Let me climb all night on my ladder of faith.
Wrestle with the angel till my body is weak,
Dislocate my bones for it’s you that I seek.
Show me the light Paul apostle saw,
When he fell to the dust and he could see no more,
Open my eyes, open my eyes,
Open my eyes, open my eyes.
Search light, burns bright, floods my eyes,
Invade me, serenade me, I’m giving back my life.
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing in my hands,
But here I am send me.
I’m frightened what you’ll find,
When you open up my heart,
I’m walking in the light,
Cos it’s light that changes the atmosphere,
So touch these lips that criticise,
And put a song in my mouth that opens our eyes
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing, I'm nothing, There's nothing, I'm nothing
But here I am send me!!!
May this new year be full of joy and happiness and may the Lord lead you (and me)to places where you can be a blessing to others!
Love,
Deborah
I can't believe 2009 is already here.. Time really flies..
I can remember this exact day last year.. Januari 1st 2008.. the day before i left to Portugal.
I remember having a party and saying goodbye to aalll my family and friends.
A year has passed.. and looking back i can say this was one more amazing year. Maybe one of the most amazing in my life.
I look back on so many blessings, and I'm really grateful to God for everything he has given me in 2008.
All the new friends, the places I've been, the things He led me to do. It was absolutely amazing!
And this really makes me excited about 2009. Because I know God has so much more in store for me (and you!). Great things will happen in 2009!
I'm excited and really can't wait to see where God is gonna lead me this year, what great things He will do.
I really hope you can say the same thing. I hope you feel the same excitement, the same passion burning inside of you to be the person that He wants you to be. He can use you and me to do great things in this world.
A world that needs God, that needs Love.
All we have to do is be available. Say Here I am God. Take me as I am. Mold me, Use me.
Show me a vision like Isaiah saw,
Where the angel touched his lips and he sinned no more.
Let me hear your voice saying “Who shall I send?”
I’ll say send me Lord,
I’ll follow you to the end.
Show me a vision like Eziekel saw,
An army of light from a valley of bones.
Breathe life into these lungs of mine,
So I can scream and shout of your love divine.
Search light, burns bright, floods my eyes,
Invade me, serenade me, I’m giving back my life.
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing in my hands,
But here I am send me.
I’m in Jacobs dream seeing heavens gate,
Let me climb all night on my ladder of faith.
Wrestle with the angel till my body is weak,
Dislocate my bones for it’s you that I seek.
Show me the light Paul apostle saw,
When he fell to the dust and he could see no more,
Open my eyes, open my eyes,
Open my eyes, open my eyes.
Search light, burns bright, floods my eyes,
Invade me, serenade me, I’m giving back my life.
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing in my hands,
But here I am send me.
I’m frightened what you’ll find,
When you open up my heart,
I’m walking in the light,
Cos it’s light that changes the atmosphere,
So touch these lips that criticise,
And put a song in my mouth that opens our eyes
Here I am send me,
Here I am send me,
There’s nothing, I'm nothing, There's nothing, I'm nothing
But here I am send me!!!
May this new year be full of joy and happiness and may the Lord lead you (and me)to places where you can be a blessing to others!
Love,
Deborah
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