After...

I am exhausted. A good exhausted you know. The girls retreat from my point of view went really well. The schedule felt packed and good, yet lots of time for hanging out and getting to know each other. The speaker had a great report with the girls, they all like her and she taught scripturally walking them thru some great passages. I was very thankful for Cammi's talent and heart. She was great to have around to teach the girls!

My friends who did the break out sessions ROCKED!! The girls thought they were all practical and helpful. So i am praying that those hands on activities will mark their brains and keep them focused on Jesus!

They worked really hard at the Fall Festival our church throws for our 'Judea'. Doing all sorts of carnival games and maning the inflatables. We pray that the community was blessed and excited about that.

Friday night we did something really fun! Cammi had recipes for face scrub, hand scrub and toner. We asked the girls upon arriving to wash off all their make up. Some of the girls avoided me when i asked...but i kept being persistent and finally they did, so after the worship we pampered them with home made scrubs. It was fun. Two of my mom's brought a chocolate fountain and we dunked, oreos, marshmallows, pretzels and bananas with punch. It was a nice night for the girls

Before...

This weekend is our Students Girls Retreat...called Just bee... I have been totally consumed and excited about it that i have not been able to blog. So i send this short blog to ask for your prayer. My friends Cammi Owens is speaking the 3 main sessions, Sherry, Kari, Christin, Brenda, Sadie are leading breakouts, and worship is being led by Missy and Shelley.

You can lift up any of those names that would be amazing!! :)

Will give update after the retreat...until then pray! :)

Sad But True

Some of you know that i am a nut when it comes to surfing or anything related. So i was super stoked when there was an app on the iphone for surf reports. It was free and i quickly downloaded it and was totally engrossed for hours checking out spots and thinking how beautiful it must be there or how sad that it is flat today.

Now some of you may not know that for my 30th bday i given a trip by Dad to go to Hawaii with two friends. I call this my midlife crisis year cause i never dreamed my life would look like it did at the age of 30, i mean really single and just met someone who could possilby be my one and only yet i was so tattered from past relationships i was freaking out too much to breath...so Hawaii is what the doctor ordered.

One of the great things about having a december bday is that Pipeline Masters goes on in Dec. So my two friends and i got on standby and went to the surf haven. I got to see all the famous names like Occy, Kelly, Pat, Curren, and Rob and some of my faves like Dorian and CJ Hobgood. We even 'crashed' a party where they all were and go to hear Donovan play! It was a great 2 days!

I say all this to help explain why i check surf reports daily even though i live in the middle of tx! its very sad but true.... I used to think God would allow me to do ministry in a surf shop some where around the world, but not any more, and i am good with it...i just think my soul sometimes longs to just sit on the sand, watch the waves, and breath in all the smells. So instead i check the reports and think man Pipe is flat...thats sad. OR Pipe is pumping today...double over head! I say these things in my head cause no else knows what i mean, i show andrew the picture of the wave hight and he is a great love and says wow that is huge or i guess everyday isn't paradise really huh? and i close the app and look out at the flat land scape i am surrounded by and thank Dad for the beautiful sunsets that i get to see!

Cool photog with GREAT hair...:)

Sadie, Alisa and Me on my Bday eating near where Jack Johnson lives!! :)

Pipeline Masters Judging and hang out spot.

I am reminscking about it all and wish i could go back!!! :)

where the wild things die

So Andrew and i went and saw "where the wild things are" and we were grossly disappointed. I grew up reading the book and enjoyed it, very light hearted and funny from what i remember. Movie not so much! It was a very dark, lonely, sad story about a boy who had some deep issues and no resolution. As far as cinematography it was lovely, well acted, well done wild things but the whole story line was just too abstract and dark for me. It is not a kids movie, so don't even think about it. :) hhahaah if you like artsy, abstract movies than go for it. otherwise don't go!

Ephesians 3:14-21

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen

My reading for this morning....wanted to share

time recorded

I couple of posts ago i mentioned that i was doing a time audit for work. Last time i heard the word audit was back in college during my accounting classes! Its a not fun word. So i was a little nervous or worried or whatever you describe it. So i opened and excel file and begun recording from the moment my alarm went off til i laid my head back down that night. It was interesting and kind of fun...but i did wonder if my time was being filled with what the boss man wanted. I have since finished and he has not addressed anything about it so no news is good news yes? :)

Time is precious. Time slips away from you too. Sometimes we fill it with good stuff and sometimes its bad stuff. Sometimes its just a matter of selfishness or godliness, which do we choose at this moment to satisfy. God is the only one that gives us living water of satisfaction for eternity. That is the most amount of time anyone can give or get! Spend your time wisely!