Pansy Blog!

Apparently my blog called my sister-in-law and said that it missed me. My blog is a real pansy! Just call me up and talk to ME! Don't go talking to someone else and have them tell me for you! Geez!

To pacify my blog...here is a new post:

I recently realized that I needed to work on my attitude toward church. Long story short I was acting as though it was all about me and what I liked and wanted. I pretty much thought mine and Craig's opinion would fix whatever was wrong...because we are always right. It was like all of a sudden I became aware of how ugly I was being. I have been in conversation with God on how to fix it. I think we're making good progress.

On another note; Kai got tubes in his ears and has started speech therapy. We've only had one "session" but the next one is this Friday (and I'm excited). I can already tell a difference in his speech since the tubes. I have went from thinking I would never have a conversation with my son to seeing that it might just be a possiblity after all.

The thing that is constantly in the back of my mind is...MATT AND STACY ARE MOVING BACK TO LOUISVILLE!!! I was happy to just have them move closer but to have them here in town is so awesome!!! I hated that all my family was here and Craig's family was scattered around. I know Craig wished it was different but he was cool with it. My kids were spending so much time with my family and I wanted so badly for them to know Craig's family just as well.

I am praying and believing that this church will flourish and make a richter scale registering spiritual shake on this community. I have always loved my brother-in-law's preaching and my sister-in-law's mentoring abilities. They make a great team and are bound for awesome things to further the Kingdom.

Our youth went on a trip to Forward Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I was very cynical and assumed they kids would like it but wouldn't really take anything from it. Well God showed me how silly I was for being so cynical. I saw these kids change in a matter of 3 days. Right after Forward they went the next day to Youth Camp. I had always heard bad things about camp (I never went to one growing up). I heard how lame and backward it was. I didn't expect anything to come out of that either. Again, God showed me how silly I was. There was a guy who did a session on Reaching the Unchurched. From what I've heard this guy was the real deal (aka Relevant). The teens really gleaned alot of knowledge and understanding from this session. I would like to give this man a BIG hug!

I am learning to break off my cynicism (one piece at a time) and am now expecting mind-blowing things from our youth. Am I still a little cynical? Honestly, yes and I'm working on that. I can't wait to see how silly God will make me feel here in the near future.

I gotta go, my kids are...well...being kids