Who new a simple complement could make someone feel so special! I know when I receive complement my day suddenly becomes better. It amazing how God can make us feel from something so simple. But anyways, I have a story :)
Today when I opened my facebook, like I do every other morning, I notaced I had a birthday. I was rushing to get ready for school and I decided I didn't know the person that well so it didn't really matter if I said happy birthday or not. Ok so after rushing, rushing, rushing I finnally only had one thing left to do, Brush my teeth :) As I was brushing away I was thinking about God and all of a sudden he told me to say Happy birthday! What?! I have to be in the car ready to leave now! I dont have time to turn my computer on, open facebook, log in, type a message and send it! But, God made time. For some reason he stopped Jake from leaving for 5 mins which was perfect timing for me to type a simple "Happy Birthday, I hope you have a blessed day and all your birthday wishes come true! Lots of love Taylah" and send away.
When I got home I opened facebook and their was a reply. "Thank you so much for my birthday wishes! I had such an amazing day and you contributed to that! I would LOVE to get to know you more :) Be blessed"
WOW! Who knew a simple 'happy birthday' could make someone feel so much more special. But it was not me, It was God, ALL God! I am so glad I listened to Him and now I have a new friend, which I know much have been part of His plan :)
Hope this story teaches you how far a complement can go! Its just amazing how God speaks to us and touches so many lives! I am so blessed to have such a loving heavenly father :)
Have a blessed night/day Ya'll :)
xox
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
ALL is possible!
Today in P.E intead of participating in playing the Oh-So-Fun game, cricket, a few of my friends and myself started talking about God. There are some who believe and others who dont. Trying to explain as to what point God has control over us is extreamly harder then I thought. He does not have control over out actions. He speaks to us but it is weather we chose to listen that gives Him power over our actions. God has compleate control over our bodys! With Him all is possible! I am going to give examples and most will involve Chrissie as I have seen so much healing and miricals that God has performed through her :)
When Chrissie was on a drug called Vec she should have been compleatly paralized, but, God worked through Chrissie and showed the world how powerful He really is! Chrissie lifted both arms to her "I love Jesus" balloon. All thanks to Him :) God worked through Chrissie to show so much of His amazing work and draw people alot closer to Him.
In our religon discustion when I said this someone asked, "Well why does He give people cancer and let people die?"
God has a plan for all of us and sometimes its hard to follow His plan and sometimes it doesn't seem fair but we do not know why God choses to do these things that don't seem fair untill the day we face Him. When I started talking about Chrissie again someone said "But she died." Yes Chrissie went to be with Him but that was all part of His plan. Although it doesn't seem perfect to us and untill we go to heaven we will never know why such an amazing little girl had to be taken away but it was His plan. Its in His hands and it has been since he placed us in our mothers womb.
The death of Chrissie was a sad, sad thing but her reason of being here was nothing short of forfilled. Chrissie touched and changed so many peoples lives and her battle for her life and mirical performed through her will always live on. Chrissies life is STILL making a differance even though she is dancing with Jesus now. When Chrissie went to live with Jesus I know her greeted her with a smile and "Well done good and faithful servant".
When Chrissie was on a drug called Vec she should have been compleatly paralized, but, God worked through Chrissie and showed the world how powerful He really is! Chrissie lifted both arms to her "I love Jesus" balloon. All thanks to Him :) God worked through Chrissie to show so much of His amazing work and draw people alot closer to Him.
In our religon discustion when I said this someone asked, "Well why does He give people cancer and let people die?"
God has a plan for all of us and sometimes its hard to follow His plan and sometimes it doesn't seem fair but we do not know why God choses to do these things that don't seem fair untill the day we face Him. When I started talking about Chrissie again someone said "But she died." Yes Chrissie went to be with Him but that was all part of His plan. Although it doesn't seem perfect to us and untill we go to heaven we will never know why such an amazing little girl had to be taken away but it was His plan. Its in His hands and it has been since he placed us in our mothers womb.
The death of Chrissie was a sad, sad thing but her reason of being here was nothing short of forfilled. Chrissie touched and changed so many peoples lives and her battle for her life and mirical performed through her will always live on. Chrissies life is STILL making a differance even though she is dancing with Jesus now. When Chrissie went to live with Jesus I know her greeted her with a smile and "Well done good and faithful servant".
With God ALL is possible :)
God used Chrissie to show His amazing work to the world! I am so honored to have been apart of this precious Serbain sensations life. I miss those big brown eyes so much Chrissie but I know you are happy in His arms, dancing away to the Cinderella song :)
I love you precious princess, so so much
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
For as little as a cup of coffee
How often do we hear that phrase? Did you know for as little as a cup of coffee a day you could get things that you so badly want. Yes WANT not necessarily need. This money can give us life insurence, health insurance, income insurance, ect. But although these things are importants we can live without them easily. But what about the love of a family, a thing too many of us take for granted. Did you know that for as little as a cup of coffee a day you can save a life of an orphan? An orphan that is tied to a bed for most of its life. An orphan that has no-one telling them how loved they are, or how treasure they are. An orphan that has no-one to tuck them in to bed at night and sing them a lullaby. An ophan that, without a family, will soon die.
While companys are advertising the importance of car insurence, for as little as a cup of coffee, who is advertising the importance of the life of an orphan, for the same price and a little love?
It is understood that not everyone can give money to orphans in need but EVERYONE can help! EVERYONE can pray, and prayer is a mighty thing for with God ALL is possible. EVERYONE can raise awarness for these orphans, maybe their familys are waiting to hear about the distressed cry of their precious child. We can ALL help. There is ALWAYS a way!
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows. Isaiah 1:17
While companys are advertising the importance of car insurence, for as little as a cup of coffee, who is advertising the importance of the life of an orphan, for the same price and a little love?
It is understood that not everyone can give money to orphans in need but EVERYONE can help! EVERYONE can pray, and prayer is a mighty thing for with God ALL is possible. EVERYONE can raise awarness for these orphans, maybe their familys are waiting to hear about the distressed cry of their precious child. We can ALL help. There is ALWAYS a way!
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows. Isaiah 1:17
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Coincedence or God?
About a week or so ago I was asked to discribe what its like to have someone as such a big part of your life having Down syndrome. My answer was "Its amazing" but it didn't tell much to the person who was asking. It isn't really a question that can be anwered easily, but, a few months ago I came across an awesome anology on a friends facebook. I didn't think to use this anology when I was answering the question but later that afternoon I thought alot about it and tryed to find it. After looking through most my friends facebook pages I gave up and decided to put it into my own words on my blog.
This morning I opened my email and notaced someones picture was something to do with this anology! I asked if she knew about it and sure enough she did! At first I thought it was just coincedence but it is clearly the work of God! He is amazing, With Him ALL is possible!
Anyway I would love to share this with you, Enjoy :)
I am often asked to discribe the experiance of raising a child with a disablity- try to help people who have not shared that unique experiance to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It feels like this...
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of travel guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. Michelangelo's David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It is all very exiting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plan lands. The stewardess comes in and says "Welcome to Holland"
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I dreamed of going to Italy!"
But there has been a change in flight plans. They have landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The imporatant thing to remember is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, femine and desease. It's just a differant place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a differant place. It' slower paced then Italy, less flashy then Italy. But after you catch your breathe, you look around.... and you notace that Holland has windmills.... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away because the loss of that dream is a very sagnificant loss.
But... if you spend your life morning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, and lovely things.... about Holland
When I read this amazing anology I realized (although I'm not his mum) I feel the exact same way about Oscar. When he was born I was scared, I was angry, I was confused. I questioned my faith, I questioned myself and I questioned my love for my precious baby cousin. Even 3 months later I still had not realised how great 'holland' is. My nextdoor naighbour Annie was born (not DS) and I questions why Oscar had to be like this but everyone elce was normal.
When I started getting support from people all around the world going through the same experiances I was able to accept and embrace the joys of Down syndrome instead of avoiding the subject all together.
Oscar has made me realise SO much! Instead of thinking, Why can't everyone be 'normal'?, I think, Why cant everyone have DS?
The world would be a more happier loveble place :)
Holland is Amazing!
This morning I opened my email and notaced someones picture was something to do with this anology! I asked if she knew about it and sure enough she did! At first I thought it was just coincedence but it is clearly the work of God! He is amazing, With Him ALL is possible!
Anyway I would love to share this with you, Enjoy :)
I am often asked to discribe the experiance of raising a child with a disablity- try to help people who have not shared that unique experiance to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It feels like this...
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of travel guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. Michelangelo's David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It is all very exiting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later the plan lands. The stewardess comes in and says "Welcome to Holland"
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I dreamed of going to Italy!"
But there has been a change in flight plans. They have landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The imporatant thing to remember is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, femine and desease. It's just a differant place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a differant place. It' slower paced then Italy, less flashy then Italy. But after you catch your breathe, you look around.... and you notace that Holland has windmills.... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away because the loss of that dream is a very sagnificant loss.
But... if you spend your life morning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, and lovely things.... about Holland
When I read this amazing anology I realized (although I'm not his mum) I feel the exact same way about Oscar. When he was born I was scared, I was angry, I was confused. I questioned my faith, I questioned myself and I questioned my love for my precious baby cousin. Even 3 months later I still had not realised how great 'holland' is. My nextdoor naighbour Annie was born (not DS) and I questions why Oscar had to be like this but everyone elce was normal.
When I started getting support from people all around the world going through the same experiances I was able to accept and embrace the joys of Down syndrome instead of avoiding the subject all together.
Oscar has made me realise SO much! Instead of thinking, Why can't everyone be 'normal'?, I think, Why cant everyone have DS?
The world would be a more happier loveble place :)
Holland is Amazing!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Judgement
Yesterday I opened up Lorraines blog, just like I do everyday. I found words of scripture with a message after. She talked about judging people, disruped adoptions inparticualar.
If you would like to have a look please follow the link below,
www.allarepreciousinhissight.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-for-everything.html#idc-container
This blog post stood out to me, like many of her posts. It made me realise I am too quick to judge, infact, I should not judge at all.
Humans are not perfect, God did not make us perfect. We make mistakes, We ask for His forgivness and we learn from these mistakes.
Who are we to judge others? We have no right to judge someone for their mistakes (or what we see as mistakes) We are in no position to judge unless we are in the EXACT same position, which we never are as God made us all indervidually and NO-ONE is ever in the EXACT same position.
We should never judge, that is Gods job on our judgment day.
One of the anologys used in Lorraines blog is a young girl that is pregnet and decides to put the child up for adoption. This girl would be judged for her decision. Her decision to give this child up for adoption as she can not provide for the child herself. We are in NO position to judge this girls decision as we are not in her exact position.
We are in no position to judge anyone for anything. God is in that position, not us!
I would like you to think about how many people YOU judge and how many people judge YOU for decisions you make.
"And the heavens proclaim rightiousness, For God Himself is judge."
Selah
If you would like to have a look please follow the link below,
www.allarepreciousinhissight.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-for-everything.html#idc-container
This blog post stood out to me, like many of her posts. It made me realise I am too quick to judge, infact, I should not judge at all.
Humans are not perfect, God did not make us perfect. We make mistakes, We ask for His forgivness and we learn from these mistakes.
Who are we to judge others? We have no right to judge someone for their mistakes (or what we see as mistakes) We are in no position to judge unless we are in the EXACT same position, which we never are as God made us all indervidually and NO-ONE is ever in the EXACT same position.
We should never judge, that is Gods job on our judgment day.
One of the anologys used in Lorraines blog is a young girl that is pregnet and decides to put the child up for adoption. This girl would be judged for her decision. Her decision to give this child up for adoption as she can not provide for the child herself. We are in NO position to judge this girls decision as we are not in her exact position.
We are in no position to judge anyone for anything. God is in that position, not us!
I would like you to think about how many people YOU judge and how many people judge YOU for decisions you make.
"And the heavens proclaim rightiousness, For God Himself is judge."
Selah
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Boss your heart
Ok, so everyone has been asking about my 'boss your heart' necklace and I thought I would share the story behind it.
For those of you who never heard me talking about Chrissie, she was a serbian orphan adopted in October 2009. She had massive heart issues and had a massive heart surgery on the 19th of Apirl. On the 28th of April Chrissie was in a life threatening situation and when her Mum, Lorraine, told Chrissie to "boss her heart" (Chrissie loves bossing things around!) her stats all came back to normal for the night.
The morning of the 19th of May a necklace was released saying "boss your heart" and Chrissie became the girl that tought the world to boss their hearts. That night Chrissie went to live with Jesus so the necklace became a tribute to her.
Unfortunatly I wasn't able to get the nacklace so I ingraved one myself to remind me of the day Chrissie bossed her heart but also remind me to boss my heart.If you would like to read the blog post from the day Chrissie Bossed her heart you can go to the link below...
http://allarepreciousinhissight.blogspot.com/2010/04/wonderful-wednesday-witnessing.html
Boss your heart day was only one of Chrissies amazing miricals and even though she is living in heaven now she is still changing so many lives. God sure did make His presents known through Chrissies time in hospital. It was ALL part of His mighty plan. I love you so much Christyn Joy Patterson, You changed my heart forver sweet angel, Rest in Peace
For those of you who never heard me talking about Chrissie, she was a serbian orphan adopted in October 2009. She had massive heart issues and had a massive heart surgery on the 19th of Apirl. On the 28th of April Chrissie was in a life threatening situation and when her Mum, Lorraine, told Chrissie to "boss her heart" (Chrissie loves bossing things around!) her stats all came back to normal for the night.
The morning of the 19th of May a necklace was released saying "boss your heart" and Chrissie became the girl that tought the world to boss their hearts. That night Chrissie went to live with Jesus so the necklace became a tribute to her.
Unfortunatly I wasn't able to get the nacklace so I ingraved one myself to remind me of the day Chrissie bossed her heart but also remind me to boss my heart.If you would like to read the blog post from the day Chrissie Bossed her heart you can go to the link below...
http://allarepreciousinhissight.blogspot.com/2010/04/wonderful-wednesday-witnessing.html
Boss your heart day was only one of Chrissies amazing miricals and even though she is living in heaven now she is still changing so many lives. God sure did make His presents known through Chrissies time in hospital. It was ALL part of His mighty plan. I love you so much Christyn Joy Patterson, You changed my heart forver sweet angel, Rest in Peace
Happy Birthday Beautiful
This post is 2 days late.. Sorry :)
Happy 20th Birthday to my beautiful sister, Lana!
She is the oldest of us 5 kids and she has been an amazing big sister!
For those of you who don't know Lana, Boy your missing out!
Although Lana is the biggest bitch she is such an amazing person, God truly blessed us when He sent her into our family.
Lana doesnt live at home anymore which is a bummer as I miss being bossed around so much, ut it is great going to see my big sister at HER house :)
For Lanas birthday she had a few of her friends over for drinks Tuesday night and we had a little fire and all just chilled around it for a few hours. Although it wasnt much it was alot of fun and more importantly Lana enjoyed herself :) She is also having a BBQ at her house on Sunday then going out clubbing which should be lots of fun!
Happy Birthday Beautiful, Thanks for being such an amazing big sister. We all love you so much Boofles (:
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so." ~ Proverbs 3:27
Happy 20th Birthday to my beautiful sister, Lana!
She is the oldest of us 5 kids and she has been an amazing big sister!
For those of you who don't know Lana, Boy your missing out!
Although Lana is the biggest bitch she is such an amazing person, God truly blessed us when He sent her into our family.
Lana doesnt live at home anymore which is a bummer as I miss being bossed around so much, ut it is great going to see my big sister at HER house :)
For Lanas birthday she had a few of her friends over for drinks Tuesday night and we had a little fire and all just chilled around it for a few hours. Although it wasnt much it was alot of fun and more importantly Lana enjoyed herself :) She is also having a BBQ at her house on Sunday then going out clubbing which should be lots of fun!
Happy Birthday Beautiful, Thanks for being such an amazing big sister. We all love you so much Boofles (:
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so." ~ Proverbs 3:27
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Friday night fun!!!
My 3rd post today! Got some much stuff going on that I wanna share :)
Atleast when John woke up we were able to have a massive BBQ breakfast!
Fridays night..... soooo good!
All Oscars family came down for his big brother, Darrens 18th birthday. While they all went out to see the screaming jets, I stayed home with Kerry, Ange and Sam and watched the kidos :)
They all arived home at around midnight, boy was that interesting!It ended up being such an awesome night and proved how much of a heavy sleeper I am (I intended on getting up in the early morning to feed Baby Tyler but did not hear him once, Turns out he was up the enitre time I was asleep).
We finally got to sleep around 2am to be woken by kids at 7!Atleast when John woke up we were able to have a massive BBQ breakfast!
Pete and David left soon after breaky to go moto riding, the rest of us just chilled inside (was frezzing out!)
All in all it went from being a baby sitting job to being an awesome night followed by an amazing day!
I love my extended family like I love my blood family.
Caroyln, Paul, Shell, David, Pete, Key, Kerry, Wayne, Darren, Ange, Sam, John, Bren, Oscar, Tyler... Thanks for making this weekend amazing (: Love yous all so so much 
Oscar and Aunty Key, I absolutly love the photo!
How cute is this pic! I see Oscar riding one of them in the future... AHHH!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
A letter to Oscar
Oscar is so loved, by people all around the world and one day I hope to show him that through 'A letter to Oscar'. I have made a group on facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120956057949173
I would love for you all to look at it. This group will be used to get addresses and follow where Oscars letter is. If this becomes a big thing I will be able to send Oscar story into the new and raise Down Syndrome Awareness! Although this would be awesome my main goal is to one day show Oscar how loved he is by people all around the world!
I hope you become apart of 'A letter to Oscar' and share your lovin with my boy aswell as raising awarness :)
Thanks ya'll :)
Will you send me some love?
Meeting Baby Tyler
After 3 months of waiting I finnally got to meet baby Tyler this weekend! Tyler is my cousins, Wayne and Kerrys new little boy :) He is Oscars nephew too.
How cute are his smiles!
The whole time I was there Tyler was laughing and smiling and talking! When I was feeding him he would suddenly stop then when I looked down at him he would give me the biggest smile.
I love his big brown eyes so much!
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