TOFW - Laurel Christensen

Laurel kicked TOFW off!

See how tiny she was

and how big that screen is!

Laurel reckons she is only funny when she leasts expects it.

She must walk around in lala land least expecting it often

cause she was funny... a lot.

As Laurel shared her experiences

I couldn't help but totally relate.

Like totally, y'know.

First of all she wants to run,

I do too!

Second of all she does run,

I so did that and quit.

Third of all she's a quitter*,

so a big as snap!
She went to biggest loser camp thing,

I so want to do that.

 Laurel and Neroli

But the thing that I really appreciated

was her sharing the asking for bread story.

OK the big message that I got from Laurel's talk was...

that often when we pray we think we are asking for

what our heart of hearts wants and needs.

And we kind of are.

Often we are praying for other people

for their health, safety, success, happiness

a million things

but how often do we pray for what we truly, truly want and need?

So Laurel talked about how she had realised this

after she had been in training to run a half marathon,

yes she is mental.

After a bit she injured herself and was laid low.

You know laying low often contributes to life altering realisations.

Laurel's was that she had been praying for lots of wonderfully good things

but not what she truly wanted

not what was and is written on her heart.

Do you hear me (Laurel) here????

It's more than the whole women put themselves second thing.

It's that we, human beings fail to examine ourselves closely

and seek our true purpose.

When Laurel thought she was praying for bread she was getting stones,

as Laurel said that were really pretty stones

but they were still stones.

So we are taught of the importance of pondering what we need to pray about,

to take the result of that process to the Lord in prayer

and listen for His answer.

The pondering step is the bread identification process,

the recipe if you will.

The prayer is the dough, the kneading and the rising,

the answer is the smell of freshly baked bread.

So I'm in the ponder stage about now

and it's not freaking me out

but I keep wondering where to start.

I have so many things I just

(yes I just imagined myself doing a "just so" dip of the knees with a joy filled squeak then, cause that's so me)

so many things I have written on my heart

that I need to check out as potential this is my life opportunities.

 Wish me luck in my bread making,

I'll be kneading it.

Go on laugh, y'know you want to.

Sometimes I really wish I had a breadmaker.

* She isn't a quitter anymore, no really you can see here you can change your ways.