Not again!!

There is an epidemic going around.....yet another friend is pregnant. I know that it's the stage of life we are in but seriously how many more people can have a baby? :)

Congrats to Lauren and Jeff! We are really excited for you!

Sorry that I haven't updated on here recently. Life is crazy right now with the first quarter coming to the end. Assessments and plannign have consumed my life so much that haven't done anything but do that!

Fun news though...our church may have finally found land to build our new church on. We vote as a congregation on Sunday and hopefully if the vote passes we will have a new church home. Sadly it will take years to build the sanctuary and therefore we may never see it. We've been thinking a lot about what lays ahead of us after seminary. I'm so very impatient and would like to know now but it is not the time to know. It's all in the Lord's timing and we are willing to follow the Lord where ever He take us.

I'll try and update later after all the papers are graded and the report cards are written. Until then...

Evidence of the Lord's hand

God is GOOD! Over the last week, I had the privilege to hang out with some of my oldest and dearest friends. Each of them is dealing with different issues but with all of them I could see evidence of how the Lord is using them and stretching them. Right now when my life feels sort mediocre, its awesome to see big ways that the Lord is working. Two of my friends are pregnant and it was really cool to see how the Lord is using their experience to bring them to a greater knowledge of His love, grace, and mercy. I was so encouraged by them and I hope if they are reading this that they know how much they have blessed my life with their stories. I'm praying for both of you.

Their visits have also helped me to examine what the Lord has done in my life. One of my dates was with a friend that I've had since middle school. Our time together showed me how much I have changed and how much my knowledge and love of the Lord as increased in the last 10 years. I am amazed by how much the two of us have grown and how we continue to be friends after all this time. I praise the Lord for lasting friendships built on Him!

Col. 2:2, "that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ"

Totally surprised

Ok so I love surprises but usually I am good at figuring them out before they happen but this time Jeremy pulled one over on me. For weeks I have been wanting to go see the play the Lion King while it was playing here in Raleigh. I thought I was going with my mom but then my dad rearranged his business trip so he could go. It seemed like everyone I talked to was going and the whole time Jeremy kept saying how expensive it was. Little did I know...

Last night I came home from work starting to work on dinner, thinking I had to lead my girls' Bible study in about an hour. As we sat down to dinner and were discussing the evening, one conversation lead to another and Jeremy told me my plans were different than anticipated and we were going downtown to the see the play. I was absolutely shocked and so excited!! So excited in fact that I couldn't finish my dinner.

The play was everything I anticipated and so much more! It brought me back to my childhood as I sang along with the songs and it rekindled my love for Africa. The costumes and setting were amazing! It by far was the best play I've ever seen and definitely worth the late arrival home on a school night.

Jeremy definitely racked up some brownie points on that one! :)