A Song for Everything

As we reach the middle of the year I am reminded of how at the beginning of the year I said that this was a year to try new things, step out of my comfort zone and let other things go. I believe I have made a good try at this as I have done a few things this year that I have not done before and I have been out of my comfort zone although maybe not as much as I should. What about you? looking back on the last 6 months what have you done? June has been a slower month (sort of) for me but oddly it is flying by! I ended May auditioning for Legally Blonde the Musical. I was actually quite nervous about it actually, probably more of the dancing side but I did really want to get in. If you haven't seen or heard of the musical you should get online and check it out. It is a fantastic, energetic show and fun for the whole family! So I got the role of Vivienne, who is the mean character haha but she should be a lot of fun to play. Performances run in November so we haven't started rehe...

Wow I can not believe that we are already into May, so much is happening this year and it is flying past! Is that the same for you? It isn't just me? I hope you are well and that you had a wonderful Easter and holidays. Easter seems so long ago now but I had a wonderful Easter. I was the guest artist at the Belgrave Easter Convention at Belgrave Heights. It was a wonderful weekend actually such fabulous speakers and a chance for me to sing a lot over a number of days and to share with the people attending.  I got there on Good Friday afternoon after singing at Moreland Salvation Army in the morning with and for my sister Lauren as she was leading the service. Anyway, I was able to spend from Good Friday afternoon until Monday Afternoon at the conference and was able to present a range of Easter music that I was thankful went over very well. It was actually lovely for me to be able to hear the speakers and other things that were going on as I normally fly in fly out so it was grea...

I have been truly blessed this last week! On Thursday last week I found out that I had been successful in the Gallipoli 2015 Ballot and had received a Double Pass to attend the Dawn Service & Lone Pine Service celebrating the Centenary of ANZAC!!! I am truly blown away and excited that I would be one chosen out of 43,000+ that were in the Ballot. It also allows me to share it with Dad who has always wanted to go and this makes me happy! So Dad and I are heading to Gallipoli next year! (now to save for it haha). Also this week I had the SA Mary Kay Quarterly Awards and took home numerous prizes including Unit Queen and State Queen of Sales plus I also moved up to Team Manager which is one step away from my goal of Director. I truly love the company, they are wonderful to work for and so giving. If you want to read more about that night  go to my makeup blog at http://makeupbybecr.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/dreams-stars.html . So Easter is coming, it seems a little later th...

Over this last week I have been thinking about how life can change "in a moment". Either one minute all is well and the next its not or it can change towards the good, achieving a goal, getting the job etc and yet we never really know when this is going to happen. It was 2 years ago on Tuesday (11th) since my brother passed away, 2 days before he had a car accident. We had woken up on that Friday expecting a normal day and "in a moment" everything had changed, he was in a coma and would never be the same again.  I was thinking over this this week and realised how many times it happens in our lives. Change happens everyday and so much of it we can't control, we had no idea we would lose Alex, those people on the Malaysian Airlines flight had no idea they would go missing nor did their families. On the other side, I have received calls this year to do new things, things I never really thought I'd do and weren't expecting so again "in a moment" ...

So it’s the middle of the night and it seems that you have your own film or television show going on in your mind. There's a situation, you see it as it is, as it really happened, then you see it as you wished it happened, then you see another way, then another way, you change how it went, there are multiple alternate endings the list goes on………..and you don’t sleep!!  Does this happen to you to? Or is it just me?? I don’t believe it’s just me haha I know that many of us do it, especially us ladies :-P Over thinking, negative thoughts and creating drama in our minds is very common. I realise that I am a dramatic person and I love a good performance but although the situation might be out of my hands, the way I think and react are in my control if only to turn them over to God. We can choose how we think and act and I am making an effort to turn all my thoughts over to God and his promises. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says “We demolish arguments and every pretension that...

Happy New Year!! I know I'm almost a month late but I still hadn't said it to you and it is a happy new year, is it for you? I began this year with people I care about and actually my Christmas holidays were like that too and it was wonderful.  My sister Lauren, my brother in law Aaron and their daughter Bella (my beautiful niece) were over here for 10 days and it was just lovely to spend so much time with them. Children always make that time of the year more special and although Bella is only 1, she just bought so many smiles, laughs and fun to the time.  How was your Christmas? did you get some time off? So then a New Year happened! I say it like that because it kind of felt like it appeared out of no where! 2013 was a great year, a busy crazy year at times but a good & blessed one and for the most part I had a ball. I continued my trips interstate singing both with Staff Band and as a soloist, I did two musicals - Little Women and For Unto Y'all two very different ...

Have a lovely Christmas and I'll see you in the New Year!! Bec x