Zeke and Hartlee Today

Easter with the Fam

gracias a dios

a VERY yummy dinner and dessert tonight
once
a walk to the park with zena
an empty house
spain mid year conference
skype and those girls out there
my cacti might not have bugs anymore
intimacy with jesus
grace chapel friends
lifetime movies

help me help me!

My outlook decided to erase all of my inbox....anyone know how to help? Please please please!

I've been trying to figure out what to write on here for a while. November 15th I was robbed and they took my computer (among other things) and for some reason my heart just hasn't been in this blog since then. But I enjoy writing on here (and staying in touch with people through the blog) so I'm jumping back in tonight. Nothing amazing has been going on in my life lately, so I'll just give you a random list of updates:

-Sir Edmund Hilary, the first person to climb Mount Everest, died today. Few people know about my love of Mt Everest. I've always wanted to summit the dang mountain, and I spent many evenings in college training. I've read nearly every book written about it and waste many hours checking on websites and such. That's about all I have to say about that right now.

-In other news, I just got back from Denver Christmas Conference! It was fun to get to be with students from Missouri State and to be able to catch up with my staff team. They are incredible! I can't wait to join them and get to live life with them.

-I am listening to a song right now that says "Lately I've lost my tongue, today you found my song...I sat beside you and became myself" and I like it.

-I need to spend time with Jesus now. Perhaps He will teach me something profound and I'll write more in a few hours.

Boulder Family

Christmas!

I just found a worship song in Spanish that is dear to my heart. It warms my heart to remember Mexico and the ways the Lord used that to radically change my life. Thank you, Father, for your mercy and goodness.

I've been having a hard time with relationships in my life lately. I know, it's a pattern. Someday I will be refined and will know what it is to have healthy relationships! In the meantime I am in this "process" and I don't like it.

Here are some things I am learning in the middle of this time:

-It is foolish to flatter people, it is wise to speak truth to them. This is both for me speaking to other people, but also for people speaking to me. I think I have finally learned this in regards to talking to my friends, but I am just beginning to see the value of it from other people to me. Especially when those people are close, both physically and emotionally, and the last thing I want to hear is something I have done wrong. But it is wise. It is refining. It is humbling, if I let it be.

-The Lord has to be my sustainer. I must be centered on Him or else the winds push me right on over. If I'm connected to Him and my security is in Him, then things people say will point me closer to Him. And if I'm connected to Him, whatever happens each day will not crush me (i.e. support appointments or lack there of, relationship difficulties, running out of gas with $1.72 in your pocket). But life is so much more rich when I remain connected to the Vine.

Okay, enough rambling. Thanks for reading, dear ones.

Gracias a Dios

[field trip to the museum

an hour long rest time

something fun in the mail today

my new water bottle

tim finn

awanas tonight

my new bike helmet

walk to the park with zeke and hartlee today

babysitting job tomorrow]