Time to Catch up!!

So Friday I babysat for one of my favorite families at work! They are the best! Then took a fun trip with Nikki and Joni to Ikea on Saturday. I purchased a lamp that is gray and has white embroidered flowers on it, it is fun!

Also another task on my plate this week is I am painting my room a light bluish grayish color! Last night I met Allyson Cary up to go to her apartment to get a dresser I bought from her. We are carrying this thing down about three flights of stairs and trying multiple ways to fit it in my car. Well much to our dismay even though my seats in the jetta went down and everything it was still literally a centimeter or two too short.. ugh. We are just standing there trying to figure out what we could do instead of carry it back up the steps. Luckily there was a random guy and a girl up in the balcony watching up struggle and get irritated. He yelled down to us hey where are you guys taking that dresser. We took it to Allyson's house which happened to be about ten mins way and he was like I can help you I have a truck. We couldn't believe it!

We were so stoked to have this guy and girl help us so we didn't have to go through this again.. hahah!

On another note I might be going to a cycling class at the gym thursday... a little nervous but we will see how that goes.

I have nothing else for now. Hope you have a spectacular rest of your week!!

Worship

I have been doing a lot of thinking recently about worship. I have a hard time remembering that worship is everything I do. All of my thoughts, actions, motives everything! I recently read a book that really opened my eyes called The Air I Breathe by Louie Giglio. I really like the way he was just blunt about certain aspects of worship. One quote that has stuck with me has been

" We have to think carefully about what we're saying...what we're singing. And who we're singing to. Sometimes we would be better off saying nothing than standing there and lying to the face of God. Our worship would honor Him more if we stopped singing and realigned our heart with His.".. what a powerful thought.

Something is going to grab your affection. Someone is going to captivate your heart and mind. One thing is going to rise to the surface of your values and drive your life, aiming your steps and determining your destiny. Do we have our future based on our desires? The perfect Christian relationship, the perfect job, perfect friends etc that will define our destiny? OR are we focusing and trusting and letting Christ be the center of our affection and captivate our hearts completely? Because when we choose to do things our way we are essentially telling the world and God that He is not good enough to lead our lives and meet our needs. Whatever you worship, you become obsessed with. Whatever you become obsessed with, you imitate. And whatever you imitate you become. Whatever you value most will ultimately determine who you are.

When our worship is small we have in a sense reduced God in our hearts and have clouded our vision and allowed our hearts to become distracted. The best thing about the God I serve is that Even though He is the God who holds galaxies in place with His power, He also invites us anytime to look up to Him and behold His greatness. He invites us to call Him by name and be His friend.

Ultimately true worship is a whole-life response to God's greatness and glory. A response that taps our mind, our soul, our heart of passion, and our strength.

I am going to leave you with another quote:

" If you don't like who you're becoming, take a quick inventory of things on the throne of your heart. If you want to be more and more like Jesus keep your worship focused squarely on Him."

After reading this man my worship stinks. I pray that we can all reset our focus solely on Christ and what He has done for us and respond accordingly.

Hope this encourages you as much as it encouraged me..

Choir Tour 2010

This past week has been great we went on choir tour with the youth to florida. It was a fun trip. I really loved hanging out with the kids and getting to know them better. I am so proud of them just when you think you barely have enough energy to push through the are all fired u with energy for the show. They are so great! There were tons of fun memories to come away with. A quick not detailed list is: Bus games. IPOD Kareoke. Near Death Experience getting to Busch Gardens with Rebekah driving :) . Black Widow pranks. Sam and Josh being shut in a walk in freezer. 101 questions. sample sentences for word of the day. story time on bus two. Just talking to kids and getting to know their life. Daytona Beach. Being on the NOT sauna bus. Rudy and Palmer. Sam Leper running into an automatic door and breaking it. I am sure there is more but thats all the came to mind right now.

Overall I got closer with a lot of the youth over this week, and for that I am greatful! They are a great group of kids.

Then Saturday night I got to hang out with Rebekah Sarah and Tims family. They had a fish fry for Timothy's boyscout ranking! It was great to just hang out the fish was delish. Then we watched princess diaries and took it easy.