I Don't Wanna Stay Up All Night

Note to self: Do not go to school if you have not slept AT ALL the night before!

Today I nearly fell asleep in class. We had an assignment due at 8.30am this morning for Chemistry and if it wasn't for ANZAC day yesterday I probably wouldn't have got it done. The assignment was a titrations internal, so if you don't know what that means it was a type of experiment where I had to measure the concentration of oxygen at Hunua Falls, and to be honest I'm just glad it's over. It was probably one of the most strenuous, time consuming assignments I've had to do yet and it was only worth four flippin' credits. It was an assignment that I probably spent more time complaining about than any other, and my whole class would probably say the same. When I was in Australia in the holidays, I took my laptop and chem books over with good intentions of actually getting some work done, but obviously my lack of discipline, laziness and terrible time management got the better of me. I decided that I would just enjoy my holiday and suffer the consequences later, and suffer them I did. I spent literally ALL DAY yesterday doing it. That was starting the report and finishing it all in one day. There were times throughout the day when I cried and thought- stuff this, it's only 4 credits but then I had to tell myself to shut up and just do it. I started at 1pm (after waking up at 12pm.lol) and finished the whole report at five o'clock this morning. That's like 14 hours of stupid work! It took waaaaaay longer than I had expected. Anyway, the good thing is that I got it done and was one of the first to hand it in :) not sure if that counts for anything but yeah I'm just glad it's over. The thing I learnt today is to never pull a full on all nighter and then go to school the next/or well the same day. That was the worst idea ever. In the morning I was fine but it hit me by about 11am (luckily I had a free period) and I was so tired all day. My plan was to go to senior assembly and just 'rest my eyes' but as I was heading over to it, I was told I had a Pasikifa meeting with some uni people to talk about stuff that at that moment, I really didn't wanna hear about. My eyes wanted to close on me and my brain was not processing anything properly and I must have just looked so out of it. Got home at 5pm tonight, tried to do some work and fell asleep til about 9.30pm. Now, I'm awake and I can't sleep!! Not good. Not good at all. Worst part is now I feel sick. And tired. And I don't feel like going to school tomorrow...

RUS Challenge- 31 Days in Proverbs

Hello blogging world (or facebook people if you saw this through that :P)

So, I haven't blogged in a while simply because I've been so busy with school assignments and stuff that by the time I think of this, well actually, haven't thought about blogging in ages. So yeah.

Anyway, I thought a good way to get back into blogging would be to write about my RUS challenge. On Sunday at church, Pastor Stephen set us a challenge to read just one chapter (or part of a chapter) of Proverbs for each day of April (ie. 1st of April read Proverbs 1) and the first day of May and then as we read through it to ask God for something important from that chapter/part or whatever. Then to share it with someone whether it be through Facebook, texting, blogging or simply just joting it in a diary. I think mine will be a combination of all of these.

To be honest, I've kind of lacked in the whole reading my bible and have used my assignments as an excuse to not do it or think that it's okay. I found tonight, that after putting time aside to actually read my bible (yeah, I missed the first actual day lol) that I was very wrong about my idea that God was all good with my laziness to connect with Him. So I guess I'm excited for this challenge now and ready to see what God's gonna reveal to me over this time :)

Here's what God showed me tonight (I combined both Proverbs 1 and 2 since I missed yesterday)...

Day One- Proverbs One


Proverbs 1.7

Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge,    but fools despise wisdom and discipline.


Proverbs 1.33
But all who listen to me will live in peace,
    untroubled by fear of harm.


The 'fear' which is illustrated in verse 7 isn't one from which I should be afraid but more that we should acknowledge that God is sovereign over everything and knows how everything is gonna go. To fear the Lord is to give Him the respect and honour which He deserves, to be in awe of Him and to recognise that He is Lord of all. By doing this we learn how to live in his ways.


Listening in or tuning into his voice brings peace to all of your other worldly situations, such as exams or assignments or any dramas going on that are beyond my reach.

Through reading these passages I was convicted of what I had been doing, which was pretty much nothing, and urged to listen into the voice of God more. Sometimes, although it may sound dumb, I forget that God has all the solutions to my problems and if I spend more time with Him he'll reveal these solutions to me. After all, God is the solution :)

Day Two- Proverbs Two

Proverbs 2.1-2

My child, listen to what I say,

and treasure my commands,

Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.

 and concentrate on understanding.

Proverbs 2.7

He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest.
    He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.

Proverbs 2.10

For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul

These were the verses which were highlighted to me as I read through the chapter. My understanding of them is that God was showing me that if I start to become more attentive to his word, and live with integrity then His voice will become clearer. This is particularly important for me, as sometimes I neglect that fact that a little white lie here and there is fine, like saying I spent all night doing an assignment but didn't fully finish when I'd been on Facebook for some of the night. I'm gonna make a better effort from now on to stop doing this and live my life with more integrity. Let's see how it goes.

Wow. Another long post :/ Oh well, excited for what God has in store for me over the next few days, weeks, months...

:D