Dreams

Hello everyone reading this :)

I have lots of dreams... lots of big dreams for the future... I won't share them all with you tho, because dreams are something to be treasured in your heart... not something to be exposed to the whole world. But let me just say this... if you have dreams in your heart... don't let them go. Keep believing for them to come true... remember, God is able to "accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope." (Ephesians 3:20) So if you think your dreams are big... God is able to do even greater!

But dreams require practical action from us, too. They don't just 'happen' automatically, they require us to move towards them and take whatever action is required to make them reality. For example, if you have a dream about a certain house, or type of job, you have to save money, or study in a particular area... or APPLY FOR JOBS in that area... [yes, Greg, he's talking about you] :S... anyway... this is all very obvious... but sometimes in life, it's the obvious things that we don't see!

Hold your dreams in your heart. Don't tell anyone else about them if you don't feel it's right. It's like a special secret or surprise... like an idea that you get... if you tell someone about it before it's ready to come out... it can spoil it. Somehow it changes in your heart after you speak it out. Kinda like a baby and pregnancy.

In Matthew 7:6, Jesus said, "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs." And in Luke 2:19, when Jesus had been born, and everything was buzzing around Mary she "quietly treasured these things in her heart and thought about them often." Sometimes after watching a movie that moves me particularly emotionally, I like to just keep quiet and keep my thoughts and feelings to myself, because I feel that by trying to explain them, it somehow spoils it.

Sometimes it might seem like your dreams are never gonna come to pass. Maybe you think you've messed up too many times, and God is taking your dreams away.

Maybe that's a load of crap. :)

Habakkuk 2:3 says, "But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed."

Be patient while you wait for your dream to come to pass! Hopefully with the dream, God will give you an understanding in your heart that it will all come to place in his perfect timing. God's timing is perfect, he is never early and never late. I'm still single, but I think if I'd been married before now, there's a lot have things that I wouldn't have learnt, experienced, and even friendships with the opposite sex that I may not have formed had I been married before now. Now I can take all the things that I've learnt and experienced into my marriage, make a great start with a good foundation, rather than getting married, starting off a bit rocky, and kinda finding my way through it all in the first few years.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 - "God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has placed eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end." Trust him! He's your daddy... he knows what's best for you and when. :)

I think I'll leave it at that for now. I hope someone gets some encouragement out of this... I know I did! :D

God bless and love to you all...

Bloggy-loggy... ur the one...

Hello everyone that reads my blog.

Well, in case you haven't seen the news yet, Newcastle was swept by a terrible storm over the weekend!! I have some pics in my pics section if you care to check them out. (go to myspace.com/gregglesaurus) Gotta put up some pics of the big tanker that got caught on Nobby's beach, too... a very surreal sight in person, let me tell you...

So, how are you all? Good I hope. :)

We got new cordless phones today! :D How exciting. I love technology. I'm gonna have to go set them up soon.

I've been okay lately... I was TERRIBLY depressed this morning when I woke up, tho... but, as usually happens... it was kinda gone once I got up. I think the devil does that to me to try and make me stay in bed sometimes... hehe... STUPID DEVIL! YOU SUCK!

It was soooo weird not having church on Sunday. I went to my brother's church instead on Sunday night. Hehe... their Pastor is funny. Very friendly and down to earth people. I like that in a church.

Lots of assignments to do for TAFE, but I've just about finished. It's been fun, yet sometimes tedious, too. I hate recording sounds, but I love mixing them together. Fun! :D I also finally put some sound to my Killer Iron movie. I might put it up on youtube...

Wellll... that'll do for now. Take care.

Love to you all,
the gregglesaurus

It's been a LONG time!

Hello everyone in blog land. It's been a long time since I blogged on here... or blogged anywhere at all... except for myspace. I only use myspace, cos it's popular and everyone has it... but I still think it SUCKS!

So, what have I been up to lately? Well... I'm currently doing multimedia at TAFE again, which is pretty good. Been a bit of a bludge, lately, though... the teacher's don't really seem to be giving us much work to do. Maybe it's not really worth it? Maybe I should just get a book from the library and teach myself? Still, being at TAFE gives me the opportunity to just 'be' in the environment where I can do all these things I love... and gives me assignments to give me excuses and reasons to do things like make short films or flash movies...

I'm also working as a DJ, doing wedding receptions mostly, and business is good. AND I'm in the middle of a campaign for Microsoft, demonstrating the new Windows Vista.

That's all for now.

the gregglesaurus

Quick entry before work

Well, tomorrow will be my last day at Telstra...

...unless something else comes up. I have applied for a job in Dial Before You Dig, and there are some jobs coming up in faults, which I might be interested in. But what I would like to do is go back to Tafe and finish that multimedia course that I left to go work at Telstra.

I just need something to pay the bills between now and then! I'm planning on going to Centrelink, and I'll be doing some DJ'ing work, hopefully still playing at the restaurant and in November... Love For Sale, my awesome covers band has it's first gig... so there should be some $$ there!!!

Y'know, I really don't know if I was made for a 'full-time job'. I just wanna be able to use my gifts and talents and make money of that... not just spend 7 hours of every weekday doing something that's completely irrelevant to all these gifts and talents God has given me. Well, I did get to encourage a consultant yesterday, who wants to get into politics. So I guess that's one way I could use one of my gifts. But you know what I mean...

I dunno. Anyway, g2g. Wanna have time to make some toast before I start.

Love you all,
the gregglesaurus

Can Queen change a life?

Most of you know, I'm a pretty big Queen freak. So, anyways, I was checking out Brian May's website yesterday, www.brianmay.com, and I saw this link to a part of the website called "Vicki's World". Thought it must've been something to do with his wife... but wait, his wife's name is Anita... it's Geoff Bullock's wife who is called Victoria, I think. Anyway...

I clicked on the link, and saw a picture of a 12-ish yr old girl with short hair. After a bit more perusal, I discovered it was the biographic site of a young girl named Vicki Moore, who had been diagnosed with cancer. Well, not just cancer, but lots of cancer. In her spine and brain... and yeah... anyway, somehow she discovered Queen's music, and she writes several times in her journal about how she would listen to Queen and that would be her safe place, where she would be able to find peace and forget about her illness and pain and just shut everything out. And she ended up meeting Brian May and he gave her a spot on his website where her journal is now located.

Now, this got me thinking... Queen aren't a Christian band, they didn't play under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, in fact, this afternoon I was listening to Queen and in my spirit, just was not enjoying it... I turned it off and it was like - woah. I don't think God's telling me I'm not allowed to listen to Queen, but sometimes, I think he wants me to listen to music that specifically is anointed by him, or ... well, just Christian music. But, I digress. My point is, if Queen can have that sort of effect... why can't the church?

Sometimes, I think there's more to the spiritual realm than what we Christians see. Is it as cut and dried as God and Satan? Or is there some sort of spiritual element to our basic humanity? If psychics power comes only from satan and demons, then why did Samuel come back up when the Witch of Endor summoned him? I was talking to one of my work friends last week about laying hands on people and healing them and stuff... he's a Catholic and he told me about how at his church one time, the priest came and laid hands on this little girl from their church and she was healed... a lot of pentecostals might question that... but you know, he started talking about Reiki and stuff... new age stuff... and... well, at first I gave my Christian-pat-answer, "that's from the dark side", etc, etc... and it probably is... but deep inside, I honestly wonder about stuff like that... the other stuff... and I wanted to be honest with him. It's just one of those things that I don't want to be afraid to question, I don't want to just give a pat Christian answer that I've been taught and conditioned to say, instead of what I really believe or am not sure of. In everything, I want to be genuine, even if that means admitting doubt - not to the detriment of faith, though. But I don't want to be afraid to question things I don't understand.

Okay, way off topic. So, tonight at music practice, we all had to go round and share our dream. And one of the guys there talked about bringing to the earth a sound from heaven, heaven's music... something like that... not just music that sounds like what's on the radio... and that really struck a chord with me (no pun intended!) and reminded me of what I read on the Brian May website.

How much more, should Christian musicians be able to usher into this earth the sound of heaven... a sound that is not of this earth... a sound that is so different... a sound that changes people's lives... a sound that brings life, that brings healing, that brings people to Jesus! I've heard Ian Fisher from Hillsong Church talk about this sorta thing... and I wanna be a part of that. I want to play music that goes beyond the sense of hearing, even beyond emotions, maybe... music that maybe even touches the spirit of man. Music that God can use to bring healing, freedom to the captives, that speaks his love to people's lives...

I've heard some music that I think does this for me. I dunno if it's just my emotions, or if it's God... maybe it's both. I think God can minister to our emotions through music. But I wanna play music that heals emotions, permanently, that just sets people free inside!!!

Okay, I'm going to bed now. Good night all.

Love,
the gregglesaurus =)

PS Hi to Penny! :D who I'm hoping likes my blog!

I'm losing my job...

... and I couldn't be happier!!!

I actually went "yesssss" when I got off the phone, finishing the conversation that let me know the 'not positive' news that I was unsuccessful in my application for a full-time job at Telstra.

YAYYYYY!!!

It means I don't have to stay there!!!

It means I can do something that I actually want to do!! Something that I love!!!

What that is, exactly, I don't know yet...

But I knew, in my heart, especially this afternoon, before they called, that it really isn't what I want to be doing. I can't believe I've been there for over a year. I wish I didn't have to go back on Monday. Maybe those dreams of me taking myself to a prison, or going back to school almost 10 years after I finished were sorta about going to a job that I really didn't want to be doing. And yeah, I've had enough. In fact, I really don't know why anyone is there... I don't know ANYONE at Telstra - at least, where I work - who actually really enjoys it or loves their job. Everyone is so freakin' cynical - even the field technicians. And, so, naturally, it doesn't take long for that to rub off on me.

But I was really praying, "God, if you don't want me here..." when all along, my heart is saying ~ or God is saying ~ "Do YOU even want to be here?" And I had to be really honest, no. If they rang me up, and asked me if I REALLY wanted the job, I'd be lying if I didn't say no.

So now, I really really want to do what God wants me to do. I should finish up there sometime in September ~ if I stay to the end, I get a $1,000 bonus. Isn't that nice? But... God, what DO you want me to do? I don't wanna just do whatever, I really have this desire to do what God wants me to do. Whether that's to get another job, go back to tafe or uni, or something completely different...