GOD SPLIFFS

I had the most peaceful week, not of my whole entire life but it was up there in my top 10 days of intense peace. I collected my new hot pink Tatty Divine name necklace; it was a birthday treat from my Mum. I’m just in love with it! It’s just so ghetto fabulous. It’s gorgeous……I LOVE IT!



BRAZIL BEAUTY
I met up with my gal ‘Brazil Beauty’ for mid week Brunch…home cooked warm Brazilian cheese bread and fresh pineapple and pineapple smoothies. It was perfect! I met ‘Brazil beauty’ gal at Church last year and we just clicked, we’ve been Christians around the same time so we share the same ‘new to the faith ’ struggles. I haven’t worked out whether it’s the Brazilian in her or a gift of raw passion from God, but I tell you seriously when she talks about Jesus, you know she’s in love with him BIG STYLE! She’s on fire!! I love it!


We had a lovely day together and prayed for each other before I left. I had been stressing about this blogging stuff. I’d let anxiety creep in and started to worry that I might run out of things to write about and get writer’s block and what will happen when I get married and have children, will the content be fun and witty- ‘Christian gal in the nursery’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it! I have a horrible habit of racing ahead in my mind. At sometimes I think, it’s the gift of imagination but I now realise that rehearsing negative ‘what if’ scenarios is seriously damaging to my emotional health. I remember reading that 90% of what we worry about never even happens. I just get sooooooo anxious sometimes, God is freeing me little by little but it can be such a battle some days. I can be such a little ‘scaredy cat’ but after ‘Brazil beauty’ gal had finished praying for me speaking out to God asking him to lift my anxiety that was weighing me down, it was amazing, I just felt like the rucksack on my back filled with anxious thoughts about the blog had been removed by God.


GOD SPLIFF
I just felt so care-free and peaceful like I had just smoked the biggest ‘God spliff’ ever it was just fantastic. I even turned down an invite to a celeb party and the chance to see Marcques Houston perform in the flesh because I didn’t want to risk losing any of my generous portion of peace. I felt so high! I think Mr Houston is absolutely gorgeous and living proof that God made man. Genesis 1 v 27 says “ So God created man”. I know it sounds crazy but I seriously think that one of the reasons cannabis smoking is soooooooo high in our City is that people hunger for the high of inner peace, that carefree feeling, nothing can beat it. For some there’s nothing like a cannabis spliff at the end of a crazy day and maybe we are created for peace and if we don’t know Jesus we don’t know that perfect, pure, peace is available for EVERYONE 24hours a day, 7 days a week.


I used to smoke cannabis mainly in my teens and I can honestly say the peace of God is sooooooooooooo much more of a high, purer, richer and cheaper too. It’s addictive - I seriously felt like I couldn't be bothered to speak, now that is a pure madness because I’m 'miss chatterbox'. My mind felt like a clear glass of mineral water.


BC(before Christ)
I remember once BC about two years before I became a Christian, I was such a binge thinker and was suffering from ‘disturbing obsessive thoughts’. I had a boyfriend at the time who was a Christian but slipping big-time in a life of ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’ with me his non-godly gal. He saw I was sooooooo distressed one night and offered to pray for me and I didn’t even believe in God but I agreed he just cuddled me and I remember feeling his head pressed against my head and he didn’t pray out like ‘Brazil beauty gal’ he prayed in his head and after I remember feeling a slight hint of peace in my mind the awful thoughts hadn’t ceased but there was a lift in the intensity of them and I remember afterwards thinking to myself “maybe the Christian God is real”. It’s amazing now, I live my life putting my faith in the God’s word in the Bible and when I do what he says it really works. Exactly what he says will happen actually does happen!

I can never get my head around the fact that the Bible really is timeless and always relevant.

I suppose human nature is human nature….eh??

The Bible says “Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.( 1 Phillipans 4v6-7 The message )


It’s crazy as this verse describes my exact experience. I don’t have doubts now but in the beginning of my adventure with Jesus, I often used to think to myself “ is God really, really real” and the one thing I couldn’t get over was the peace. I just never had a ’fresh glass of mineral water’ mind before. It’s such a superb gift from God! Faith in God’s word is just insane, I read earlier this week that faith acts on God’s word and then sees.

RED LIPSTICK DAY
It’s Red lipstick at Harrods today, I read it in my Grazia mag and think it’s just fabulous that they are dedicating a whole entire day to Red lipstick, I j’adore Red Lipstick, it’s just so bold and glamorously gorgeous and can transform an outfit in a hot minute!! So London’s beauty junkies will attend the event in their droves and celebrate ‘Red Lipstick day’ with activities and makeovers. Sounds so fun, I can’t even grab one of my gals and go along as I’ve got my telesales job in the evening! ;-( …..Oh well always next year eh??! The event will be heaving with London’s committed-to-beauty disciples who will learn even more from the make up artists about achieving pout perfection.



I’ve come to the conclusion that Jesus is kind of like a bright Red lipstick in the sense that like red lipstick many gals rule him out, before actually giving life as his disciple a tester. We can live with such a ‘change phobia’, addicted to our cosy comfort zones, scared of change and transition even when it comes to lip colour. Bright red lipstick stands out from the crowd and many gals shy away from ever trying red because they know it will mean they’ll stand out and many gals shy away from Jesus for the exact same reason. I believe there are gals who deep down would love to experience the uber glam feeling of red lippy even for just one night, but won’t venture into the red lippy arena due to fear that friends or work colleagues just might not approve and it’s sooooooooooooooooooooo the same with Jesus. I was so petrified to say yes to Jesus and become a Christian because I honestly thought I’d lose my friends and have a ‘size 0 social life’. Getting over that hurdle wasn’t easy for me but I suppose I know they are my true friends now but clearly from my fear I wasn’t so sure BC. Praise God! I didn’t lose my gorgeous gals, but my relationships are slightly different now in many ways i.e. my non-Christian gals no longer share their detailed ‘SATC sex stories’ with me but I think my gals and family would all agree that I’m a much better friend, sister and daughter than BC (before Christ). Like red lipstick you can always give Jesus Christ a tester and if you don’t like what you see, you can wipe it off and strut right away!!!

Chat next week peeps! Thanks for reading my post!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx