Celibate and Sane: Birthday Double Vision

June 15, 2011

Birthday Double Vision

There goes another birthday, and here comes another year. My mum and friends contributed some money towards a cotton summer wrap-around dressing gown that I am getting made by a seamstress. I've spent ten years trying to find a robe that's not in fairy floss pink or blue or made out of polyester, and have finally now found someone who makes them in cotton. I've asked her to make it in dark purple or raspberry. I'm sure that's probably not the most exciting subject to most people, but when you live in the sub-tropics, cotton clothing is essential in summer-time, otherwise you feel like you're wearing plastic-wrap all the time!

I completed some more work placement at the respite centre on my birthday and was surprised at lunch-time by a lovely white mud cake from everyone there. Then in the evening, my friend Ana, young JD and my flatmate JayCee surprised me with another birthday cake and some gifts. For a moment I thought I was seeing double because my family had purchased an IDENTICAL birthday cake to the one I had received from the respite centre!

Then my family delighted me further with a chocolate fountain and an addition gift which was shaped similar to and felt almost as heavy as a brick, covered in gift-wrapping.

"Oh wow!" I exclaimed, "My very own brick! I've never owned my own brick before!"

The wrapped 'brick' turned out to be around 800grams of plain chocolate. Yum! And of course we had to try it out in the new chocolate fountain.

JayCee had prepared some apple, marshmallows and lollies to try out in the melted chocolate. It was all delicious, but though I'm not a keen marshmallow fan, I found the marshmallow covered in chocolate was the most delicious out of all that we tried.

Sigh! My birthday chocolate dream wishes came true!

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”