Surrounded By God's Love

Well, that is the title to our Children's Sermon that Kevin and I will give tomorrow at the 10:55 am service. Am I scared? Am I nervous? No not really, surprisingly enough I'm just very excited. And what even surprises me more is how easy the lesson came to me. I guess when you truly trust and mean really trust in the Lord, amazing things can happen. I've prayed that this is what we're suppose to talk about. When we were first approached I started off with one lesson that has materialised into another. And that I truly believe was God at work. In fact when I think about what I originally thought we should talk about has now fallen away and a new lesson was born in its place. Amazing, uh? Well, here is the lesson...

Our girls have two hermit crabs, Pinchers and Bananas. (We will actually have the crabs at church for the kids to see because they love that kind of stuff.) If you will notice the crabs live in a shell which surrounds their bodies and keeps them protected. Did you know that we are just like those little hermit crabs living in those shells? What do you think our shells are that protect and surround us? It's God and His love for us. We are surround by Him and His love everyday through the people we meet, our families and the beauty in the world. So, every time you see a little hermit crab I want you to remember that God's love is our shell. Amen.

Taking A Leap Of Faith

On the heels of our Walk, today I was emailed by one of our ministers if Kevin and I would present the Children's Sermon at the 10:55 service on Sunday. At first my stomach was in my throat, my palms sweaty and my head spinning. Us talking in church in front of...well, everyone? Just for one brief moment I tried to come up with an excuse, we would be out town or I was planning on being sick that morning. Then it hit me out of nowhere like a ton of bricks, after everything we experienced over the past two weekends - we could do this.

I called Kevin and told him what was going on and it occurred to me that JoAn really thought we could do this and wanted to give us this opportunity. I should feel honored. I won't lie and say I'm not scared, because I am. I don't stand in front of crowds talking, heck I really don't like attention put on me at all. Yes, I get up in front of a group of people with a microphone on and dance around, but that's a different part of my personality. But to get up and just talk, is an entirely different story. Wow! It's amazing to me how God works, I've been praying for courage, humility and guidance since the first of the year. I can't believe this is actually happening. Stay tuned, I think it only gets more exciting.

Wow!

that is all I can I say about this past weekend. My life is definitely forever changed because of my Walk To Emmaus. I have felt every emotion in my body from happiness and tears to love and joy. I have truly seen and experienced Christ in ways I never imagined. It definitely changes a person I can say that very confidently. I am seeing the world in a totally different light and have become a different and better person for it.

I think one of the many lessons I have taken from my walk is to enjoy this journey called life and not to anticipate. There will be times in our life when we will be on top of the mountain and then there will be times we are deep in the pit and still other times we are just treking along. But no matter where we are in life, God is always there loving on us and leading the way. I think it's only human nature to want to lead especially when we have no idea where in the world we are going. I have realized this past weekend that we must trust, such a small world but with so much power in it. In Proverbs 3:5-6 it says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding but in all ways acknowledge him. In this past weekend, I trusted God and boy what an adventure we went on, it was awesome!

De Colores!

No Computer, No Cell Phone

I'm leaving tomorrow evening to go on my to Walk To Emmaus for the weekend. Please keep me in your prayers for I will be without my computer or cell phone for basically the next 72 hours. Yeah, I'm a little nervous and a lot excited all at the same time. Kevin went last weekend and had a really good time even though he really hasn't shared anything with me per say. There is this kind of unwritten rule where you don't really divulge anything, so there won't be any expectations. I have actually been wanting to do this for about a year now and now the time is right. I know God will do amazing things weekend because every retreat I've every gone on has been amazing and I'm sure this will be no exception.