Beth Moore - So Long Insecurity!

So even though it seemed like it wasn't going to happen - I am going to be in Woodstock, GA tomorrow get to see my sista Beth Moore speak live on her new book "So Long Insecurity". Those of you who know me, know that I love how God has used her to teach so many women about the Word of God and that she is SO down-to-earth.

I pray for safe travels for myself and my little car and I can't wait to hear a word from my Father this weekend! Praying for you all to have great weekends and wonderful time with friends and family!

Busy, Busy, Busy......

Haven't had time to blog lately, but wanted to drop in and update. We are all doing well. Chris is VERY busy with work this time of year so he has been gone quite a bit. Jacob is trying to finish up school for the year and the girls just finished TCAPS which they said "were a breeze". :) I am busy with work and school myself and am also preparing for our trip to South Dakota coming up on June 10th. We will be serving again on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and I will be directing the VBS there this year. Please pray that I can get everything ready to go and that the Lord will use our family in a powerful way to help the people there on the reservation.

"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you."

Jeremiah 32:17

Jacob

Well, another year has passed and I wish time would slow down. Jacob will be 15 tomorrow and eligible for a learner's permit! Wow, can you believe it? I am so blessed to have such a wonderfully unique son and can't wait to celebrate his b'day tomorrow! Hope you have a blessed weekend!

Melissa

The Messiah Tour - Atlanta

Chris and I are headed out tomorrow at noon to help chaperone a trip to the CIY Believe Messiah Tour in Atlanta. We are really excited and blessed to be able to take such a great group of Middle Schoolers to the event. Please keep us in prayer for safe travels and that it be a changing event for our Middle Schoolers.

www.ciy.com

Melissa B.

A few Easter pics

Easter.........

My favorite holiday is, and always has been, Easter. I have many great memories of great Sunrise Services, yummy homemade Easter meals and Easter Egg Hunts at my grandmother's house. This year my family will be coming to my house (as has become tradition) and I am SO excited. We will also be celebrating Abby's 13th birthday this weekend and I am so thankful for her! She was born on Easter Sunday 1997 and this is yet another reason Easter is so special to my heart.

As we draw closer to the day we remember Christ's crucifixion and point our eyes towards the cross, let us all be thankful and remember the ultimate Sacrifice. Are we sacrificing it all for him? Do our lives generate sacrificial giving and do our lives shine for Christ? Take time to ponder on His journey to the cross. Take time to reflect on your own journey to the cross. Are you making one daily?

God's Timing

"But everything has it time, and the main thing is that we keep step with God, and do not keep stepping on a few steps ahead - NOR keep dawdling a step behind.

- Listening Hearts

Discernment in Your Calling....

Discernment comes from the Latin word discernere, which means "to separate", "to distinguish", "to determine", "to sort out". In classical spirituality, discernment means identifying what spirit is at work in a situation: the Spirit of God or some other spirit. Discernment is "sifting through" our interior and exterior experiences to determine their origin. Discernment helps a person understand the source of a call, to whom it is directed, its content, and what response is appropriate. Discernment also involves learning if one is dodging a call, is deaf to a call, or is rejecting a call. (from Listening Hearts)

Lord, give us discernment.

A Calling.....

I am currently reading a book called "Listening Hearts" and for the next few weeks am planning on sharing some excerpts from the book with you. As I am discerning with prayer and scripture, God's own call on my life, I encourage you to do the same. From the first excerpt I think it is most important that we realize that God "calls" each of us. We, each and everyone one of us, have a calling. That's so cool! So, here we go, Exerpt #1

"God calls each of us. There are a variety of calls, and no one call is inherently better or higher than any other. The call of a priest, monk, or nun, however sacred, is, in and of itself, not a suuerior call to the call of an architect designing a house or a mechanic repairing a car, or a nurse caring for the sick. It is our faithfulness to God not our station in life that honors a call."

Advice from Melissa.......

Even though you have extensively off planned and actually pullled a pretty cool Middle School Lesson for your Wednesday night group, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, let them burn their sins in a coffee can INSIDE the church. That is all I have to say about that........