The people I love!

Well, This morning I was doing my quiet time and it was all about “sole sisters”. It was a hard chapter for me because ever since I have left most of my friends in Atlanta things haven’t really been the same. Well, I got to thinking…most of you know that Wednesday nights I go over to Trisha’s and we do a bible study with her Shelly, Jo, Rachel, Adrienne and Krista. I love that one night of the week. It is so encouraging and so fun to hear what God is doing in everyones life. The more I went through this study the more I realized…I have amazing ladies in my life. They are such good friends and have become like family to me. Some of them I have known for a while and some I just recently met. They are all AMAZING girls!! Some of you know that one of the scariest things for me was having to make new friends and meet new people. I honestly thought this would never happen. But it did. For women we NEED other women in our lifes. I am so thankful for the friends I hvae. Last wed night Trisha said something that really stuck with me. She said “If you had everything taken away from you except for the things that you thank God for, what would you have left?” That really hit me hard. Most of the times we ask God for more than we thank him for. Other than my husband and the obvious stuff…I thank God every day for these ladies. I would not be anywhere without them. I love you ladies from the bottom of my heart!!

Life.

So, life right now is crazy. A lot is going on. Church is awesome!!! I am workin on my new job starting in may. And now we have decided to rent a house. So we are moving in a month and I have not packed one box. Even though this sounds very exciting it is very stressful. We are seriously taking a huge step in faith because we honestly aren’t sure where money is going to come from. We have already had some awesome things happen and we know we are doing what God wants us to do! I trust God in what we are doing even when times are hard and I really don’t think he knows what he is up to. But, everything is going to work out perfect!! We may be broke…lol…but we will be where God wants us to be and we wont be making any regrets. Keep us in your prayers because the stress level is very high. Love to everyone!

Marriage!

Well most of you know that I have been married for a little over 6 months now. It has been a fun but hard journey already. Not only did we get married, but we moved away from all our family. That was a huge adjustment. ( From what I hear it will be soo good for us).  Well I never actually realized how hard it is to be a wife.  I thought that I had to stay at home all day and clean and have a perfect dinner on the table waiting for my prince to get home…well let’s go ahead and get this out…I DON’T  COOK!! I am slowly learning but that is another adventure in itself. Well anyways…I thought i had to do all these things that now I don’t do a lot of. If I were to stay at home all day everyday I would get bored out of my mind. I respect all the women who do stay at home because I would do nothing. I have to be working.  Well since I have a job dinner is definitely not on the table every night waiting for him to get home. A lot of the time it is on the table waiting for me.

Although marriage has been hard and challenging I still remember the first time we met, the summer we spent together dancing in the rain,  and more than anything, when he looked at our best friend and said “one day I will marry her”. Not believing him because we were only 15.

Things have been great!! To sum it all up I love my husband with all my heart and look forward to all the plans God has for us.

Uptown!!!!! YAY!!!

Well this morning we had another AWESOME morning at Canvas Church. Woke up early and got going. I felt so much better that I didn’t eat McDonald’s…Thanks to Rachel and Mark I had a lovely breakfast.

I talked with Ryan this morning about uptown stuff and now I am totally pumped about it. I cannot wait!!!!! We had a kids meeting friday night which already got me excited but to hear some ideas from a boy who would actually be in there was awesome! Sometimes you can get the best ideas from an 11 year old. ( I think that is how old he is.)

I know how hard it is to visualize something that isn’t there yet, but I have an awesome piture in my mind. I think God is doing great things with Canvas and he is going to do great things with the kids program!!!

My job!

So, I have this job. I have been working there for about 5 months now. For a while I have been wondering why did I get this job and why would God put me in a place where I am so unhappy. I thought I was going to love this job. It seemed awesome until I actually got into it for a while. Now it isn’t that great. I was really wondering why I was there. I kept saying that if that is were I am God put me there for a reason. Well last night I was just sitting around and my manager and her kids came to pick up some things. They have been out of church for a while and I have been inviting them but never pushed anything on them. Well I was telling her kids that we are having a carnival with jumpy things and cotton candy and good stuff like that. Well my manager just looked at her kids and said “I think we are gonna go to April’s church” . It took me by surprise. I was so excited!

After that I totally realized why I had been put at that job. I have a hard time rememering that God is in control and everything he does is for a reason. I work with some really nice people and for me to have a chance to reach out to them is awesome!!!

I was telling this to the ladies last night that you never know when something awesome will come out of something that may not seem awesome to you at the time.

So here I am!

Well my lovely husband has been bugging me about getting a blog so here I am. I am finally giving in and seeing what this is all about! I hope I have something interesting to talk about.  :)