prayer

Pastor Joe prayed for our Africa team last night. It was awesome. When we got off the stage though, we were ready to go! 3 more days...

Isaiah

ISA 55:4,5
"See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples. Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor"
with a reference to ISA 49:6 "... that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth..."

bright side

So my husbands Miata blew a belt and knocked a hole in the radiator. Now we're a 1 car family for a while. Luckily, I'll be in Africa!!

flight time

Yikes, just added it up, 47 hours of flight time on our trip!!

reading

Took a break from leadership books this morning to read the book of JOB. I am not even close to blameless, yet I try to think I know anything? How humbling.

1 week

Less than one week until I'll be flying away to Africa !!!!!!!!!!!

it's Josh's bday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!

learning

So I am trying to train myself to be a leader. I am reading every leadership book I can get my hands on right now. I'm on my 3rd John Maxwell one currently. I desire for someone to come along beside me and teach me, kinda like my own personal Yoda. But it seems people are too busy or just not interested in mentoring anymore. I have a glimpse of the vision that God has for me, but not by any means a complete picture. One thing I know now is that I'm supposed to be learning as much as I can over the next few months. I think I'm going to need this wisdom next year.
One thing I have been reminded of in recent weeks is to not rely on people to fulfill your needs. God is teaching me reliance on Him and strength from within myself. Certain people have disappointed me and hurt me deeply recently, but I can't let that shake me or keep me from where I'm supposed to go.
Anyone else been where I am ??

thankful

I am thankful for an amazing God who can get me through anything. And I am thankful for the wonderful, wise, cool husband that God chose to give me.

remembering

One day while we were in Monterrey at the conference we were asked to come up and pray for all the attendees. They were pastors and church leaders from all over Mexico and we were just supposed to walk among them and pray over them. Well I remember thinking to myself as I wandered through the crowd, "who am I, that I should even be used to bless such amazing men and women", but the thing is, they didn't know who I was, nor did it matter. And that led me to thinking that they could have thought that I was a pastor myself or a president of a large corporation. They didn't have the crutch of knowing my history, so they wouldn't even doubt if I told them such things. I could have been anybody, without the weight of my past 34 years. It's almost like at home people label you early on as such and such, and changing who you are can be difficult, unless you go somewhere where no one knows you.
(Not that it matters who you are when praying for people, it just occurred to me then, is all.)

close call

Ok, I almost just had a VERY bad wreck. I was cruising through the intersection of 183 and 1431 at about 45 mph, with a green light, when all of a sudden I see this man in oncoming traffic decide to run a very red light and turn left right in front of me. It all happened in slow motion and everything; I could just see he was about to hit me and I got all braced and ready, but also floored it and swerved out of his way, big time, thinking I'd probably roll the SUV, but avoid a direct hit to the left side of my body. Praise God, somehow neither happened. I was fast enough and God must have kept my car from rolling. Once the car stabilized and I came to a stop, I then thought I was having a heart attack. It hurt so bad. Gotta love adrenaline.
Another day, Saved again.

pray

Please pray for our Africa team. Most of us are under a great deal of spiritual attack right now. The intensity of which some of us have never seen. It is all in Gods hands at this point. Only He can get us there. We are all at the end of ourselves, which I know is where we should be, but it's hard. It's a moment to moment struggle. I know God is going to do something big through/in us if we can just make it there.

quote

"Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must". Mother Teresa

Monterrey

a trip with pastor David Mclendon to speak at a conference in Monterrey, Mexico









just a sample, can't post them all! :)
It was a wonderful experience, got to meet some great people and see some amazing things. I hope to go back in June..