Looking for the Sunrise

    So you think Abraham's will be intimidating? I know I did. If you got o EAC, you know what I am talking about. If you don't go to EAC... Abraham's is a group of prayer warriors that has been meeting together on Mondays for ... oh forever (20 years plus). I have long wanted to join their ranks but always felt a little... unworthy.   I was afraid to go, afraid I wouldn't even know who they were talking about and that I would have nothing to add to the group. Yes I know these are convenient excuses. Really it boils down to I thought I was too busy and well that I was... unworthy. Yeah I know, I said that already.   I have felt the call to go strongly for weeks now but I kept 'forgetting'. You know Sunday morning I would be all 'yeah yeah I'm going to go..." and Tuesday morning I would be going "oh yeah, I really meant to go last night..."   I had a visit with my pastor this week and we talked about all the things that w...

My favorite day of the week, Sunday :) The day our schedule seems reversed a bit. Bobby sleeps and I get up early to enjoy the quiet dawn. I use the time to get ready for Sunday school, reflect on the week past and the plan the week ahead. I seem to be the most creative on these early Sunday mornings. Communion with God can be so sweet in these still moments before everyone else gets up. Sunday mornings are my favorite time for sure. This morning I awoke with my brain buzzing with ideas for bible camp this coming summer. I'm working on how to make the Bible seem not so intimidating to those young ones (and maybe myself in the process!) Working on a game for opening chapel and wondering how the the things God is teaching me will work their way into the 34 times I have to speak this coming July. It's an exciting process for me as the ideas form into pictures in my head and I get a really clear outline for a session. I am also pondering all that God has done in my heart the...

One month of 2013 gone, finished, completed. It feels like it flew by and yet it feel like Christmas was FOREVER ago. I guess that old saying about time have having no meaning has some truth to it... Anyway, what happened in January? How am I doing with my goal of being present in the moment. January was busy with all the usual synchro and basketball, youth group, babysitting and all that other child related stuff with the added bonus of semester 1 final exams. Anna and Brenna survived even though they did both come down with a nasty flu bug right at the end of finals. I think I am doing well at living in each moment and allowing it to be. I am consistently happy and mostly headache free. I am sleeping well and tackling things like bible study and house cleaning. I don't succeed everyday, in fact I fail a lot but I feel like I am moving ahead so I'll take it. The highlight of January was probably Emily's basket ball tournament, they didn't win but it was fun to wa...