pray.

i've been having an interesting week in terms of prayer... i've been asked to pray for a few people and when i did something really cool happened... each time i felt overcome by this feeling of privilege... like i got a glimpse of understanding of how privileged i am to not only get to pray for a friend and help carry their burdens, but what an amazing privilege it is to get to speak directly with the creator of the universe.

i am so thankful that i worship a God who is open and welcoming. He wants His children to come to him and talk to Him. He is an amazing Father, unlike any Father in the universe. He meets our every need and helps us get the most out of life, if we let Him.

who, or what can you pray for this week?



this was a picture i took on my bike ride home after work on Friday... it was so nice outside and i dunno... i just feel so blessed to get to live in a place where i'm free. free to do anything! jump in a river! bike in nature. its sweet. Thank you God!

jon juane has an identity crisis.

my poor blog has been neglected quite a bit this last little while...

when i started it, my blog was a space where i could spew a lot of the spiritual stuff in my life i was processing.

then... life kind of ate up my time and i suddenly didn't have the time i once had to put all of my spiritual processing into perspective...

and then... the spiritual processing slowed down because i wasn't as intense digging into scriptures discovering sweet gems from God...

and then... something would happen and i'd feel like i was on the cusp of something sweet... like a spiritual revival of sorts...

but then i continued to let life eat my life.

last night i sat in bed from like 9:45 until 12:30 unable to sleep. totally exhausted but my brain would not shut off.

all i could think about was how i have always known my life was destined for greatness but i feel like i'm thriving at mediocrity. i'm forgetting who i am.

two years ago i felt so in tune with who i was at that particular season of my life and today i feel so out of tune i can barely recognize myself in the mirror. i see traces of "me" but i struggle with knowing if that is REALLY me... how authentic am i being?

i need some quality time with God. i need to soak in His presence. let His word totally renew my mind and recharge my soul. through this whole time I have never felt far from God... just ignorantly undisciplined.

i talk to God every day, all day. i feel as intimate with the creator of the universe as i have for a while now, i just feel ignorant. stagnant. i'm not learning new exciting stuff anymore. i'm just in a dry place. but i am still totally captivated by who He is.

cynics can scoff all they want, but Jesus Christ is unbelievable. read His teachings... they are unlike anything imaginable. they are SO inspired by God it's unreal... what historic leader other than Jesus expanded their empire with love and not force? whatever. i'm totally getting off track here.

so major identity crisis- whatever. i think it's called growing up.

if i'm really honest with myself, the whole thought of growing up terrifies the living daylights out of me.

what does that expression even mean? living daylights? pfff.

thats all for now. thanks for reading my ramblings.

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i made bagels

i made bagels a while ago, and they were seriously delicious. i took some pictures so i thought i should share them with you...

in case you don't know this about me, i am absolutely addicted to bagels. we live down the street from a Kettlemans, which just might have the best bagels in the world. I had to cut back on my bagel intake because it was just getting out of control! Anyways, one day I thought i should try making some bagels of my own... I looked up a recipe online and just went for it! Here's what it looked like:


mixed the dough in our kitchenaid mixer and cut off chunks of dough.



rolled the dough into rings.


shaped them the bagels and let them sit for a few minutes on a tray.


boiled them for a minute on each side.


threw some sesame seeds on them! yummo.


baked them for 10 minutes on each side.

the end!

They didn't turn out to be nearly as good as Kettlemans, but that was expected. They were still delicious though!

I just got my wisdom teeth taken out yesterday morning so looking at these pictures is almost torture!

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God's love is extravagant

For the last few weeks I've just been feeling like I'm getting drenched in the love of God. His favour is so heavy on me it's hard to walk! Despite this miserable cold I've been fighting, it's awesome.

This weekend my sister-in-law Jenna married my great friend and former housemate Jesse from university. Getting to hang out with family in Muskoka was just fantastic. My family was invited to the wedding too which was cool! My mom, sister, brother-in-law and their kids were all there to celebrate... Watching Jesse and Jenna's parents during the whole wedding was just a great reminder of how much God loves us. The look in their eyes the whole weekend was just screaming "I LOVE YOU! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU! I LOVE YOU!"

That is what I think God's eyes cry out when He looks down on us everyday but we clutter our lives with so much crap we can't see or hear Him.

I'm missing my church but luckily I was invited to participate in this men's group on Sunday nights. It's great. I feel like I'm learning by osmosis.

My mind is all over the place. Time to watch a movie with Charlo.

Goodnight.

must blog more.

In totally unrelated news- check out this massive dead fish I saw floating in the Rideau Canal last night when Char and I were biking home from a fun date. Sickness.

oh my word.

i need to blog it out people.

so tired- need to elaborate more later.

my aunt passed away last saturday- and Jesus has been showing up in my life with POWER.

i'm hearing Him like crazy and it's sweet. i'm seeing Him like crazy and it's sweet. He has been my strength and hope and peace through this whole process... and i have crazy peace. Thank you Jesus!

please pray for saturday. it's her funeral and i just KNOW God has big plans for this... there will be people there who He wants to speak to. it might just be one person, it might be a lot... but I know God is showing up- and its going to be sweet.

thank you Jesus! you are real, and powerful, and full of grace and peace.