My amazing dad and the most beautiful baby bug (who's alot bigger now!) He is 'Naya's!!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
these are a few of my favorite things...
My amazing dad and the most beautiful baby bug (who's alot bigger now!) He is 'Naya's!!
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
September...
Well the crazy start to school at the begining of September has come and gone and finally I have time to sit down and write a bit... I'll try not to post it three times today! Work has been great, I really have the greatest job! Sometimes I feel like I get paid to be a youth worker! I love feeling like I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. God has hand crafted this job for me and even on the tough days, when I'm Mrs. Snot snot, I look around and know I couldn't have written up a better job for myself! It has been so interesting (and at most times humbling) to be on the other side of the staff room but I've always wanted to chill with Pim and Bert so it works. Plus, it is sooo fun to be in Cameron's bible class. He really loves it too, I can tell by the way he pretends he doesn't know me because he's afraid if he talked to me, he'd just let all his excitment out in one big squeel! Well having said all that September is going quite smashingly, but not quick enough!
In other news, I have officially put the 'Stang to rest. That's right, we had a little ceremony, I said goodbye and uninsured the car that's gotten me all over the place in the past year, the car that faithfully broke down on me only when I just happened to have money, the car I never really loved and am not really sad to see go. So its for sale, in case anyone has a hankering for a red mustang with a stylish dent in the front right quarter panel and some killer Hawaiian seat covers.
That's all that's new... o and it's 88 for the count, just in case you're wondering!
In other news, I have officially put the 'Stang to rest. That's right, we had a little ceremony, I said goodbye and uninsured the car that's gotten me all over the place in the past year, the car that faithfully broke down on me only when I just happened to have money, the car I never really loved and am not really sad to see go. So its for sale, in case anyone has a hankering for a red mustang with a stylish dent in the front right quarter panel and some killer Hawaiian seat covers.
That's all that's new... o and it's 88 for the count, just in case you're wondering!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
today pete unrau told the story of the old man who, when asked if he liked the music played in his church on Sunday morning said
"well, no. its too loud. there is too much drums and they dont sing anything out of the hymn book. no, i don't love the music, but i love the people who do!"
over the past few months i've watched people i love leave our church for other churches because of the college and career. i've struggled so much with why this hole in the 19-23 year-old singles is widening.
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
today pete unrau told the story of the old man who, when asked if he liked the music played in his church on Sunday morning said
"well, no. its too loud. there is too much drums and they dont sing anything out of the hymn book. no, i don't love the music, but i love the people who do!"
over the past few months i've watched people i love leave our church for other churches because of the college and career. i've struggled so much with why this hole in the 19-23 year-old singles is widening.
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
holding things i love with an open palm...
today pete unrau told the story of the old man who, when asked if he liked the music played in his church on Sunday morning said
"well, no. its too loud. there is too much drums and they dont sing anything out of the hymn book. no, i don't love the music, but i love the people who do!"
over the past few months i've watched people i love leave our church for other churches because of the college and career. i've struggled so much with why this hole in the 19-23 year-old singles is widening.
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
should we be staying?
should we be going?
what can we actually do about it?
is it just a phase that the summer will fix?
all these things i've wrestled with over the summer when last week i went for coffee with a very wise girl... she told me that she was learning to hold the things she loved with an open palm. in typical youth leader fashion i said "oh, that's great madz." and thought about her life and how that would help her. it wasn't until i got home that i realized God was trying to teach me the lesson...
im learning that part of growing up is relationships changing and that i need to stop gripping so tightly to what i once held dear because it sure hurts alot more when God has to pry my knuckles open, as pete said this morning.
im also learning that i not only need to hold my friends with an open palm but also my church. regardless of my warring instincts to run with those who have left while also to stay and burrow into a hole and promise never to leave the family i know, regardless of these two emotions i need to keep my palms open so that God can mold and shape the things i love without having to pull them out of my grasp first.
so right now i dont really love the community feel for young adults my age at our church, i also dont really love that people i've grown up with are leaving but i love the people at my church and i also love the people who have left so i will try to do this all with more open hands....
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