Camp # 2

Camp number two we leave early tomorrow for, it has some bitter sweet, we are excited to take a little trip from our reality and rest in the presense of God. We are also excited to meet new friends, this is a new section for us but we are grateful they have welcomed us with open arms, and we appredciatte that and hope we can be a blessing there.

At home, I will greatly miss my beautiful daughter, Holly,Honey wish you were going with us, and we will greatly miss you pastor and his family and our very goode friends, the Conleys. We love you all very much yo.....yeah!!!!! BBQ Friday night!!! See everyone then.

WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Part two--4th of July Celebration

...And on to the Conley's home for more fun with family, food, friends, fellowship, and fireworks! Thank you for opening your home to us as if we were family. We love you! A very special thank you to Bro Kevin and Bro Glenn for providing our great fireworks show. It was great and I appreciated it!! You guys are all awesome. Very nice to get to spend some time with the Garcias, we miss you and it was great to spend the day with you. Love you all!!

4th of July "THANK YOU" part one

Wonderful start to the 4th of July holiday. Family, friends and food... Thank you to the Krantz family for opening their home to part one of our 4th of July celebration....The BBQ...the game of spoons, the tributes, and the rollerblading. We love you and are very grateful you are in our live. Pastor, Thank you for your service to our great country. It's because men like you that we enjoy our freedoms!

Behind the walls

It seems like its taken so long to get here and came so fast all at the same time. I had the opportunity to go to Leo Chesney womens prison for a time of what was suppose to be observation. Circumstances changed, as they so often do, and I actually got to teach. Well, I had planned to go in and just teach...but...as I relized that approach was not going to be a good thing, I switched gears and instead testified about what God has done in my life, how great God is, and the value God places on women. I'm in awe when I stand back and look at how God will lead us and move right into a situation. As I talked about how much God loves us/them, how valuable we are to God, how God used Mary, Ruth, Tamar, Bathsheba and Rahab, all women with assorted personalities and past, some walking forward after committing unspeakable sin, how He used them in mighty ways, the tears started to flow. Even the ones who made it clear that the only reason they came to bible study was to get them out of their room, they even had tears running down their face. I left confident that those women felt God. I'm looking forward to going back and seeing what God will do behind the walls.

I'm very grateful that we serve a God that allows us to make choices. No matter what situation or circumstance we find ourself in we have a choice how we would like to respond to it. I have a great life and I want God to know that I'm thankful for it. I have an awesome home life, friends, family and so much opportunity that it astounds me. I serve a great God!!

Which country will it be?

Belize, Ethiopia, Uganda or Bahamas? That's the question of the day.

Thoughts on thinking....

Have I been taught what to think, or how to think? And if I've only been taught what to think, do I really have any chance of seeing significant change in my life or life time? Doesn't significant change entail one's ablility to self reflect, think beyond, or outside the box? Has a generation of facts and information taken precedense over methods and concepts?

The bible is full of patterns, methods and concepts. We can see that these always produce an expected result. (you do A&B and a logical result will be to expect C) Our life is full of patterns, our outcomes are the results of patterns we have followed in our life. If we want the same outcome then just follow the same pattern, go with the flow, don't ever rock the boat...but don't ever expect more or different than you have now. The same actions are going to produce the same results, everytime!

Am I too lazy, lack too much courage? Is it so much easier to go with the flow? To not have to take responsibility for one's own outcome, or am I missing out on an abundant life by not asking questions, gathering information, using it effectively, creatively and logically, to be able to come to a reliable and trustworthy conclusion that enables me to live and act successfully?

Uuummm...who just said that personal growth is uncomfortable, but it is always the right thing to do and leads to the right outcome? I want to grow, I want great things for the lives of my kids, myself. How much revival will I walk past because it doesn't fall into the confines of what I've been taught to think? How many outcomes in my life will be different because I've learned how to think.......

Almost a post...

I have all these wonderful and great things to blog about, how God is moving, the wonderful things He is doing, etc, that I wanted to tell you about....but....I almost forgot that I have a very important piano test that I must study for. Maybe I can blog in a few days....until then....God is always good!!!!