Polaroids and Memories!

– March 15, 2008Posted in: Technology

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So after a week with no laptop, I am now in possession of a new Mac! Its been a challenge to keep blogging without one, so apologies if the past week has been a bit lame! I am now back, full steam ahead! But now with an iPhone attached to my hand at all times, this new Mac and a constant addiction to Twitter and Blogging, I think its official that… I am a GEEK!

This photo is me doing my best smug Geek Impersonation, showing my status of Geekship, yet my OK-ness with that! And those are my reading glasses – I have to wear them whenever I read or type.. Someone said they make me look like I’m Swedish… ha.

Anyway…I’ve been reading Deuteronomy today and was struck how many times the word "remember" occurs! God continually says "remember who I am…remember what I’ve done…remember that I brought you out of Egypyt". We humans tend to be forgetful… Memories are important – especially when its remembering who God is and all He has done!

One of my best friends has a fascination with Polaroid cameras..she carries it in her purse and is always bringing it out to snap memory moments! I am thinking of starting to do the same, as now she has a cool collection of photos to remind her of those happy times.. I think as well as God saying "remember" on the big stuff like salvation, he also says "remember" about the joys and blessings He gives us in life; to live in the moment; drink it in and take a snapshot of it in your heart to always remember.

I don’t dwell on those kind of precious memories enough! SO my question for us all today is:

"If you could sum up the happiest few moments in your life, as thought they were two or three ‘polaroids snap shots’ what would those be?"

Here’s mine!

1. Me as a little seven year old girl kneeling beside my Mum by the family piano, praying to accept Jesus into my heart.

2. The band, producer and I sitting in ICC Studios England recording my first ever EP and loving every minute and knowing my family and friends were cheering me on with prayer and encouragement.

3. Me crossing over the American border with my Work Visa for the first time, to start life in the "Land Of The Brave, Home Of The Free"!

Others would be…

- The moment when my 4 year old niece picked me out of the crowd by shoutin "Auntie Fickeeeeeee!" during her Christmas play last year. (She calls me Fickee as she can’t say "V"s yet!!"

-Sitting in my family’s lounge back home, playing my Grandparents "The Wonder Of The Cross" (a song I wrote dedicated to them) with the whole of our family sitting around to listen

- Walking up to the Graduation podium in Oxford, with a latin speech being read out, receiving my degree scroll.

Looking forward to hearing yours! And I’m working on a home video to post here in the next day or two!

Love,
Vicky

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Linz

you last posts werent that bad… I like talking about starbucks… I just got a call back about a second interview there! (yay for jobs with health insurance!)

meh polaroids:
1. one of my friends threw me a surprize birthday party on my 18th… I’d never had a party before.
2. learning that first song on guitar.
3. fishing with my dad and me catching all the fish… eh, I win at life… what can I say?
and I dunno what else, I think my story’s just begining.
http://www.myspace.com/ryanbaileyband ryan

they would all have to do with either music, my wife, my daughter, or good friends.
http://patamo.blogspot.com Pat Callahan

1. Accepting Christ at Hume Lake.
2. Receiving my “call” to ministry at the same place.
3. Seeing my wife for the very first time in my Gospels class in college.
4. Seeing my wife walking down the aisle in her wedding dress.
5. Holding my oldest son for the first time.
6. Holding my youngest son for the first time.
Carina

1. finding Christ
2. the day I met my future husband (wedding this year)
3. this moment (sitting at my laptop, seeing the sea and feeling how warm the sun is)
4. everytime when I check in at the airport
5. the moment when they told me and my boyfriend that we are allowed to go France for studying as part of a double diploma programme (I am living in France since 1 1/2 years now – the best time of my life!!!)
Deborah

Amazing how God has been challenging me recently to ‘live in the moment’ and that is exactly what your blog is about today.
Some of my best moments:
1. Everytime i walk by the sea – it might be the cold northern england coast but it reminds me how big and awesome God is.
2. Experiencing Tres Dias over the summer
3. Playing with my borthers – at anytime.
4. Being baptised and looking into the water knowing i would never feel as clean as that again but that God had/ has amazing things in store.
5. A good worship session.
6. Yesterday – New Wine womens conference in Harrogate.

Sure that there are loads more but they don’t seem to be comming to mind :( I’ll have to go away and keep ‘remember’ing.
http://flyindance0206.blogspot.com Catherine Ong

Hi, I’m a Malaysian Chinese who just accidently stumbled on your music on YouTube and I managed to find this blog of yours. I just want to say thank you for sharing your thoughts and music to the world.

Through your music, I am encouraged in my faith and it is inspiring to see what God is working through your life. I am also a worship leader but I work mainly with youth as I am a teacher in a Christian school. My goal and passion has always to use music to draw people to the One who gives music to the heart.

May I place your blog link at my blogspot?
Jase

“If you could sum up the happiest few moments in your life, as thought they were two or three ‘polaroids snap shots’ what would those be?”

hummm lets see:

1st would deffantly be when i excepted christ into my life.

2nd humm my baptissum, cose my dad was there (not chrisitan, still praying for him).

3rd was god geting me into uni when i couldent possably get in with wot i had (i strugle with all that acidemic stuff lol).

lol nice geek pose, welcome to the club its grate fun get to use some grate gagets and its all just a hobbie lol.
http://www.jonathanpaulmusic.com Jonathan

That’s an *awesome* picture… I love it! :o)

Wow. The happiest moments of my life. I’d like to think that a lot of these are still out ahead. :o) Of course, looking back there are lots of wonderful moments too. Your question was about “two or three” but then you listed two or three times that in your own answer! :o) I cheated a little too… I can’t narrow it down to two or three! Unlike your wonderfully ordered list, the following are in no particular order.

I love to travel. Most of that I’ve done alone… which is great because you are so much more likely to meet cool new people when you aren’t already focused on someone else you’re traveling with. I’ve had some really awesome moments traveling (and too many things come to mind to share here).
* One was when I ended up staying with a friend who I just met on the train into Budapest. She and her boyfriend let me crash at their place when I was rather destitute for a couple days (after my VISA card malfunctioned in an ATM machine) toward the end of some travels in Europe. They showed me the city, brought me to an incredible concert at the music school they were attending, and cooked me some awesome home-cooked Hungarian food. What could have been a somewhat dreadful experience ended up being one of the highlights of the trip.
* Traveling into London with my dad and talking to some really cool people (part of a flight crew) on the way into the city; everyone else along on that missions trip thought that we were a little crazy for doing that since we only had four or five hours layover at Heathrow.
* Canoe rides between islands in Lake Victoria talking one-on-one with veteran missionaries to that area. Asking the missionary pilot in Tanzania to pull a climb and plunge maneuver which allows you to feel weightless for a few seconds… :o)

Some others:
* Sitting at the piano in the basement at grandma’s house, laughing and talking and playing music together.
* Standing up in my brother’s wedding, getting to be his best man.
* Times spent around the fireplace with the family, reading or singing or playing games or talking… or some of the great vacations we’ve had. Mom falling out of the canoe at the lake, or seeing the bald eagles flying close over the water when we were kayaking.
* Taking one of my younger sisters out camping or going on other small trips or outings together. Doing all sorts of good stuff with my brother. Good talks with Dad. Camping/hiking/road trips with a good size group of great friends from church.
* Having Mom take me out for lunch on my “half birthday” that comes around in February (given my August birthday).
* Looking back much further, I remember the day when as a very young child I was upset after I’d done something bad and realized the urgent need to ask Jesus to come into my heart and change me. That was at my parent’s first house, and Mom prayed with me in my room to accept Christ. I think I was four.
* Anything near Lake Michigan. Pier diving, writing in a journal on the beach, rollerblading along the coastline, watching a storm come in…
* More recently, being home for my sister’s tenth birthday was great.
* Taking pictures of the rehearsals for some of my second sister’s high school plays and being there for multiple performances in a weekend. They’re always too good to see just once!
http://brunettekoala.wordpress.com Laura Anne

Wow. It’s funny I think we’re all so busy trying NOT to dwell on negative points of our past, we forget to remember the good times!

Mine…

1. Kneeling on the floor of my room in university halls asking God for forgiveness and to use all the crappy stuff from my life and turn it into something good.

2. My school prize giving when my little sister decided to shout ‘There’s Laura!!!’ as I was about to walk on stage.

3. Leading the church in musical worship for the first time ever at my baptism…God met us so powerfully.

4. Walking off the plane after coming back from Australia last year to begin a new life in my home city.

5. Many moments of hilarity and silliness with my brothers and sister.

6. The same as above with friends at the Theatre School of Dance and Drama growing up!

I also don’t have any pics of good times I’ve had with folks from church I’m at currently, and there has been lots of them! I’m looking forward to more fun times to come, and meeting my friends’ first baby (which I hope is going to be born on my birthday). I think I might start carrying my camera around with me too. I just need to remember to charge it!
vickyfan

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