The brevity of life

To live everyday as if it were your last...About a week and a half ago I received the sad news that a close friend of mine from school had passed away. She was my age (27) and was one of the most loving, caring and enthusiastic people that I’ve ever known. Her life touched so many people and she will be missed dearly. I’m comforted by the fact that she was a child of God and is now in heaven with Daddy. Her death made me think of life. I know I spoke about leaving a legacy in my previous blog, but this just brought the urgency of it back to me. What am I doing today??? Who are there that I can call, that I can say to: “I love you” or “I’m grateful of having you in my life”? We can so easily live our lives as if we’ll be on earth forever and we become lazy in doing good...even to step out and make a difference. I don’t want to waste the life I’ve been given... I want to live it to the full! I once heard the saying: “Only one life, it will soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ, will last”.

So, family...here I come
Friends...here I come
Home cell...here I come
Work...here I come
Bosnia...here I come
Children of Mostar...here I come! :-)

Bosnia News:

I finally bought my U.K to Bosnia tickets this past week. It took a while, because I first needed to confirm the dates and also find out about the voyager miles a client had (mentioned in previous blog). Unfortunately the voyager miles available were not enough for the ticket, but it was worth a try. I might look into getting a credit card with voyager mile points...it could come in handy for the future.

Other news is that I will be sharing at a big home cell gathering this Friday (25 June) at church. For friends in the area, you are welcome to join us @ Rhema church, FH2 at 19:30pm. Please pray for God’s guidance as I prepare for that.

I’ve also confirmed the date for my “Bosnian Party”. I’ll be having that on the 24th of July at my house in Randburg @ 15:00pm the afternoon. Anybody interested, please give me a call or email me so I can forward you the details.

The next step for me is visa applications. For the U.K visa, I need to apply about a month before departure. Thus, am looking to submit that around the 15th of August. This gives me just under 2 months to raise some more funds as you have to have about R20 000 in your account to show you’ll be able to support yourself whilst in England. For the Bosnian visa, similar requirements apply but as mentioned before, I’ll need to personally go to the London Bosnian Embassy to submit the application even though I’ll be emailing some of the documents prior to that time.

Praise report – I thank Jesus that I’ll be able to stay with friends from Novimost for my time in England. They’ll also be getting me from the airport ... so I won’t have to worry about additional travel expenses!

That’s about it for now...have a blessed week and remember...”Only one life, it will soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ, will last”.

Laura xx