Working with kids for a week

Last week , I worked in a daycare with at least 30 kids per day. Can't deny the fact that it was the hardest thing to do. I mean I could've just sat home lazing around the sofa with some cheap ass junk food. But I didn't. Why? I have absolutely no idea. Well I do, a little.. I heard from Musa (co-author of the blog) that the daycare had too little animators for the week. And what did I do? I sais yes of course. Why? Because I'm nice of course. Well, honestly, I'm just a freak who loves kids. Actually it's more of a love-hate relationship, but I still love them way more than teens of my age. I don't have any little kids playing around the house and I do miss the laughing of little children echoing through the house (I had tons of nieces and nephews in my house before) . But of course I hate it when they cry! That's why I called it a love-hate relationship!

Anyways, I agreed to work there with 3 other strangers that I had never seen before in my whole life. They were pretty nice, I was so very glad. Imagine how it would've been if you had like 30 children screaming around you and then there was an adult complaning to you about how you work. Not that I'm bad at it. I'm pretty good. I pretty much look like a child and I also act like one when I see one, so I was good to go. It was perfect. I played with them from 8:00 to 5:00 every single day that week. I was pretty happy. But then! After 5:00. Hell broke loose. I was so tired every single day that I could collapse right there and then! But I had to walk home. So I did. I went home. I arrived at home. I opened the door. I went to my room. BAM! There lies a 90% dead Mita on her bed with tons of other stuff cause she had been too tired and lazy to clean up beforehand. Stupid Mita!  Did I eat? I don't know. Sometimes, I did. Sometimes, I didn't. Did that even matter to me? Hell Nah! I could sleep, finally!!! But then. Guesse what happens. My stomach is singing out loud to the brightest cloud. Oh wait, it's night. Anyway it starts growling like a wolf and I have to get up and eat. After I finally gather strength to stand up.................. I go eat. Duh. Then I come back and sleep again. Oh wait! SKINCARE!! I sigh. I only have strength to do that little thing. I go wash my face neatly, brush my teeth , comeback and sleep some more. After 6 or 7 hours, I wake up and repeat the cycle again.

On a serious note, the daycare thaught me quite a lot about kids and their behaviour. I didn't know that kids cried and made a scene at some random place on the streets for absolutely no reason. These evil creatures! I always thought that something very bad must've happened to them and that's why they cried. I always put the blame on the parents! Now, I understand a little more about the parents and how much hard work they go through everyday. I also had to prepare some games and crafting ideas for the kids. I was on duty to do the crafting. I made an airplane out of 2 sheets of paper. Apparently they liked it a lot which made me very happy of course! I looove their smiles and their laughs! I could also feel myself growing up. I'm always glad when I work there. That is, of course after I rant about how hard it was to work there first!

Here are some photos we took in " het Kabouterbos"

~Mita

BACIB part 3: God's presence

Today I'm going to talk about the Lord's presence in my life. I've always believed, I'm very happy to say that I was brought up knowing God through my parents. That made choosing for Him easier for me. I chose to follow God myself for the first time when I was about 9 or 10 years old. Then I could proudly say that I believe in Him myself and not just cause mom and dad told me to do so. When I told them that I chose to follow God myself, they were even a little surprised, but very happy.
After I chose to follow Him, life became much more fun. I got my first Bible when I was 12. It was a Dutch youth bible, that I got from the christian group I went to then. I was so happy and proud, I read it so often that the book of psalms and proverbs is almost completely in highlights, LOL! I even started keeping all my notes...

I really used to read my Bible a lot and I really enjoyed it. After reading it so often I even became more open about my christianity to my friends, I wasn't scared to share my beliefs with anyone. I was so proud to say that I love Him and I'm loved by the one and only true God! At that time I was having a hard time in school, but thanks to God's strength, I was able to overcome all troubles and pass those years, cause you know what they say:

People in school always used to ask me how I was so sure God was present in my life and why He doesn't show himself to them too "if He were real". I always used to reply by saying: "I feel Him, I feel His presence. He is with me, He is protecting me. He is protecting you, He loves you,..!"
Whenever something happened that would make them praise me I would refere to Him, but still no one believed me.




 I got backstabbed a lot during my first years of secondary school. At some point they even started calling me crazy for believing in God, but I knew that wasn't true, I knew He was and is present in my life. At first I thought of giving up, but I hate giving up so I decided to pray for them.. As it says in  Philippians 2:3-4 : 

"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others."

Because I believed that God was present in my life and I kept my relationship with Him, He spoke to me more. God speaks to people through different ways. To me He speaks through my dreams.. After I found out that it was God speaking through my dreams, I started praying for every doubtful dream. The closer I got to God the more I felt His presence and the stronger I became!

The song I'm going to refere to today is "O come to the altar" by Elevation Worship.

"O come to the altar,
the father's arms are open wide.."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYQ5yXCc_CA

~Musa

I have this friend...

At some point in life

People that you thought were the closest to you, will leave you.

There won't be any fights , betrayal, or even any tears.

The only thing you will feel is loss

The loss of the person that you called your best friend

The loss of the person that you told your embarrassing stories to

The loss of the person that you played with till your mom called to be home asap

The loss of the person that you laughed with about silly things

But the only loss you will feel at the moment will be trust.

You will miss trust in every word they speak.

You will miss trust in everything they do for you.

You will miss trust in every thing you trusted about them.

There will be a time in your life when you will have to let go of people that are not meant to be in your life. Be it your current husband, your lover, your friend or even the person closest to your heart.

If it's your husband, your marriage failed.

If it's your lover, your relationship failed.

If it's your friend, your friendship failed.

If it's the person closest to your heart, your connection failed.

I have this friend.

She is labeled as my best friend.

But to me she is just a friend.

Sometimes she becomes just as important as the strangers on the streets.

Sometimes she means more.

How much more, that I don't know

But she catches up to the label she's put for

It doesn't last that long

I go back home

And listen to music

Then I go back to her words

Somehow she goes back to the point in my life when I lost her trust.              ~Mita

                                                                                                                         

Pic: by Steve De Picker

BACIB part 2: Receiving Christian baptism

Receiving Christian baptism 

As you can see Today I'm going to talk about baptism, but I wanted to combine it with God's love.

So this time I asked my auntie what it meant to get baptized and she gave me a lovely answer. She said "to be baptized means to die for sin and to resurrect with Jesus" The second part of the sentence made me think of my trip to Zambia in March. In church they were singing this song called ressurecting.. one of the lines said "the ressurected King is resurrecting me." ( I will link the song at the bottom) To me it was such a deep line, cause I wondered what do they mean resurrecting me? Doesn't it only happen once. I really didn't get it at first, but the way I am, I just enjoy the music so I went on singing, but when the pastor started preaching the line stuck to my head for too long so I started wondering, what does it mean.. it even started to bug me. 

 I started my research from that one word... I looked it up online and it said that resurrection is "the concept of a living being coming back to life after death." Then i thought okay, Jesus roze from the dead and He is now in heaven and by that we have eternal life, but how can we keep rising from the dead( if that even makes sense).. It kept me thinking. The pastor kept preaching as I continued thinking about the same line. Now tat I  think back the pastor did give an answer( if you'd like the answer the pastor gave me, just say I might make a post of that one too), but I also found my answer that I can apply to my personal life. It's actually very simple (that's what I realised after) it actually just means that whenever we make a mistake we get back into "the ashes of defeat" what means we die again, but whenever we ask for forgiveness, He forgives us and we can start on a blank page all over again. It sounds so logical, I mean who doesn't know that? Have you ever thought about the meaning of "washing our sins away"? Have you actually thought about how special that heppening is? Everyone has heard of forgive and forget, but we all know that it is impossible to forgive or forget some things, even as Christians even if we have to we all still struggle with the fact that we have to forgive... God just keeps forgiving and forgetting, because He loves us so.. To be honest whenever I think of God's love it just keeps amazing me. How is such love even possible? 

With baptism we actually show our friends and family that we are sick and tired of falling in the ashes of defeat and that we have devoted ourselves to following God. Don't get me wrong here though.. It doens't mean that if you're not baptised your not trying your best to follow Him, cause to be honest I'm not baptised either, but I always try my very best to follow His word. Baptism is a personal choice and it doesn't matter when you make it, as long as you do one day.
Baptism ofcourse has much more meaning that what I just stated, but here is a small part. I hope you all enjoyed it! :)
Here is the link to the song (Ressurecting):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf8Zzn4nOzc

~Musa

When you can't sleep

One of a kind it was
That night
When she was awake
At 3:20 AM
At midnight
Where the darkness was embraced

The only light visible
Was the window
By the corner

3:24 AM it was
Disturbed by that sound
That sound that ends all the peace
And the silence

3:27 AM
She was hoping
"Fall asleep, fall asleep"
On the couch
Or by the table
Even the floor
Would be better
Than this

~Mita

Being a Christian in Belgium (BACIB) part 1

I am a Christian, but what is a Christian? what does it mean to be a Christian? Is it just some religious person who believes in "some god", that might or might not be there? Is it some goodie-good person who follows all the rules? Is it someone with a sad life hoping for a better life after they die? In this series I will talk about what a Christian is and how I live as a Christian here in Belgium (BACIB).
Today I am going to start with what a Christian is and what it means to be a Christian.

I looked up the word Christian on google and it said "a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Christianity." What does it mean to receive Christian baptism or to be a believer in Christ?

 First I'll start with what it means to be a believer in Christ.

To me a believer in Christ believes that Jesus has died for you! That He is the truth! That He died to save you, so that you can be set free just as it says in John 8:32 "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." and if you read some chapters after that in John 14:6 Jesus says "I am the truth, the way and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me" . I also believe that God has plan for my life and that my life isn't only mine, but also His, because being a Christian isn't just following a certain doctrine cause you have to, it's being in a relationship with the Lord Almighty and when you're in a relationship with someone you don't just do as you wish. It's the same principle with God.

I also believe God has a plan for my life! God's plan for my life isn't necessarily the same as my plan for my life, but you collaborate with the person and sometimes you have to put that person first. I put God first in my life, cause He put me first when He decided to die for me on the cross. The plan He has for me isn't an easy one, cause sometimes I have to do stuff that I don't want to do, but I have to because God says so and you can't escape from God's plan,  for example, the story of Jonah. For those who don't know the story, it's about a man named Jonah who was sent to go to Nineveh, a small town to spread a message from God for them, but he didn't want to, because the town was known for being an awful place with bad people. So he tried to run away from what God sent him to do, but God eventually made sure that Jonah went to Nineveh. 

So even if you don't want to do something, if it's what God wants you to do, you have to do it.because God is with us we never have to be scared! He is the person I can trust on with all my heart. He is the person I love most! All I need to do is walk by faith, but is that always easy?
HEK NO!
A lot of friends who don't believe think that being a Christian is easy or that it's always "sunny".  Being a Christian isn't easy at all. To be very honest I have had a lot of cloudy days, more than some people who don't believe, cause being a Christian means that your path to the right thing is very small and your path to distraction is huge because the path to distraction is huge I sometimes have problems with always following the rules, also called the 10 commandments.
                                                 
It's not always easy to be a follower of Christ here in Belgium, although Belgium is a Catholic country, most of the people aren't Christian. So it's very easy for a Christian to take a side way that isn't always right. It's very easy to fall in temptation, cause there is so much that looks good on the outside, but isn't actually good for you. In such situation, you have to pray and ask God to help you so that you don't make mistakes that you may regret later on.

Song of the day; I walk by faith
I walk by faith,
 each step by faith,
 to live by faith
i put my trust in you... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1trkrAnTw

~Musa