Confidence

Oh dear summer how I wish we could meet.... It is the beginning of winter here and I feel as though I haven't seen summer in quite some time that it's almost depressing. That's alright though, because along with winter I have my annual cold right now which is just marvelous... not! Most of the students are here we are waiting on 5 more to arrive in the next few days. With this ash cloud from Chile it's messing up all the flights. Except Air New Zealand which are flying. So a lot of people have lost their luggage. I went to the airport yesterday which is a 45 minute drive one way just to find that the plane was cancelled. I was like sweet, so I went to the baggage claim centre and sorted out all the lost baggage because the students gave all the wrong information. I felt like a mother giving out my info, I don't mind though, I don't know what I would do without my luggage! All the students so far are amazing! I really feel it's going to be a close knit group! They will be a small family but nevertheless whanau. I love the smallness of the school, although there is a lot to pick up the slack on because we are small we all help each other out.
For the welcome dinner tonight I am making Lamb Roast, Roasted potatoes, kumera, pumpkin, Steamed mint peas, carrot, and for dessert I made sticky date pudding with custard and caramel sauce. Traditional kiwi dinner. I am still amazed that God chose me for this job. When I stop and think about it, it makes me laugh because I put the lamb roasts in the oven today and I was like I'm cooking 12kg of meat for 50 people, I've never actually cooked lamb roast so I'm winging it and it's working. A year ago I hated touching raw meat, I just thought it was the most disgusting thing ever! Now, I just grab whatever meat and kinda gross other people out but I don't mind as much because it needs to be done. I believe in anything you need to have confidence in yourself in order to do the things God gives you. If God gives you something to do or picks you for something then that means he has confidence in you to get it done. So therefore we shouldn't doubt that we can't do it. Remember he chose us because we are weak not because we know everything. This has been going around the base and by that I mean a lack of confidence in people. When you're an insecure leader you are going to try and control everything. Therefore you will most likely have a lack of confidence in the people you are delegating to. I mean I'm speaking to myself here too. Whenever a new school gets in, I always struggle with believing that people will get things done because they are new and I don't know if I can trust them or not. We need to trust people which it is a very delicate thing that we need to hold with an open palm. If you hold anything to tightly it will slip out of your hand. Anyways back to confidence it is something that comes over time with going through different situations. Bottom line is to have confidence in the people around you to better not only yourself but the person you're believing in.