I leave for Haiti in 41 days!! It seems unreal to me. God has come through for me AGAIN and I have raised/been given more than enough money for my trip. In fact I feel guilty for even having a teensy bit of doubt that it wouldn't happen, silly me! I have never been on an overseas mission trip, I have done missions here in the US, after Katrina hit we went to Mississippi and Alabama to help clean up, hand out food, etc. I know that I'm going to come home a different person, and I'm okay with that. I can't wait to meet so many awesome missionaries who have given up most everything to move there and change lives, I also can't wait to meet the people who live there and are searching for something to live for. I ask that you keep us in your prayers; for safe travels, a healthy stay, but most importantly that we can touch many lives of hurting people there.
Until next time...Isaiah 6:8
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Coming Unglued
As women we come unglued, lose it, freak out, completely fall apart...it happens, but does it have to? Just because we are women does it mean that we have to act ugly; do we have to have an ugly heart? No, we don't and God doesn't want us to. Just because we can't control our emotions doesn't mean we have an excuse to tear down the people we love the most. So as women let's take a stand, and stop losing it! So, how do we go about completing this extremely hard task of keeping it under control?
That was a question I kept asking myself after I totally freaked out about silly things like Matt leaving 3 Fruity Pebbles in the bowl and now they were STUCK. So I just totally tore down my husband because of Fruity Pebbles. Why do we feel the need to do this? Why can't we just say "hey can you please rinse your bowl just a little better, because those silly pebbles ALWAYS stick." Why is it easier to have steam come out of our ears?
I couldn't figure out how to just chill out, to breath when I got mad, to just wait until I was over it before I brought it up. I'm still having this problem, but I'm learning quickly that when I have kids I don't want them to see me lose it over ANYTHING, but especially not silly things like the dishes. So I need to get a hold on this BEFORE we starting having kids.
The first thing that I know I need to do to overcome this issue is to pray. I need to pray that I can hold me tongue when I just want to scream and yell. I need to pray to have control over myself. So when something happens that I just want to freak out about I just take a few deep breathes and talk about it calmly.
I am doing a study with my friend on a book called Unglued, and we are reading it because we both know as women we need to learn healthy ways to resolve things that make us angry instead of turn into The Hulk.
I ask you as a woman to think about how you react in situations, do you keep it together or do you come completely unglued? If you are coming unglued I challenge you to change it, start praying for the Lord to guide in this journey of creating a new you.
We all have emotions and we need to learn to live with them in a healthy way.
Until next time...Proverbs 21:23
That was a question I kept asking myself after I totally freaked out about silly things like Matt leaving 3 Fruity Pebbles in the bowl and now they were STUCK. So I just totally tore down my husband because of Fruity Pebbles. Why do we feel the need to do this? Why can't we just say "hey can you please rinse your bowl just a little better, because those silly pebbles ALWAYS stick." Why is it easier to have steam come out of our ears?
I couldn't figure out how to just chill out, to breath when I got mad, to just wait until I was over it before I brought it up. I'm still having this problem, but I'm learning quickly that when I have kids I don't want them to see me lose it over ANYTHING, but especially not silly things like the dishes. So I need to get a hold on this BEFORE we starting having kids.
The first thing that I know I need to do to overcome this issue is to pray. I need to pray that I can hold me tongue when I just want to scream and yell. I need to pray to have control over myself. So when something happens that I just want to freak out about I just take a few deep breathes and talk about it calmly.
I am doing a study with my friend on a book called Unglued, and we are reading it because we both know as women we need to learn healthy ways to resolve things that make us angry instead of turn into The Hulk.
I ask you as a woman to think about how you react in situations, do you keep it together or do you come completely unglued? If you are coming unglued I challenge you to change it, start praying for the Lord to guide in this journey of creating a new you.
We all have emotions and we need to learn to live with them in a healthy way.
Until next time...Proverbs 21:23
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Trunk or Treat!
Happy Halloween!! Yesterday was trick or treat in the good ole' town of Salem, and our church had it's 14th year of Trunk or Treat. For those of you who may not be familiar with this, it's basically a semi-circle of cars and the kids start at one end of the circle getting one piece of candy from each car so by the end they have a nice handful of candy. Each car is decorated for Halloween, but with nothing scary. 3D Youth decorated my car, and we had a blast, even though it was FREEZING! We got to meet people in our community and have big smiles on for Jesus!
The Line was so long!!!
Matt really wanted some candy!
3D Youth Car!
Trying to stay warm in my trunk!!!
Friday, October 26, 2012
A Dagger Through the Heart
Now, when you read the title of this blog you may be thinking that it is going to be negative, but it's actually the complete opposite. "Dagger" in this case is actually a person not a weapon, not just any person...the best person! Dagger is my best friend, future sister-in-law, AND the mother of my 2 nieces & 3 nephews...now you may think that is A LOT of children, but don't be fooled; 1 niece and 1 nephew are dogs, 1 niece and nephew are bunnies, and 1 nephew is a turtle. WEIRD I know, but this animals are her children and she loves them I think more than most people love their kids. Anywho, I wanted to take a whole day of writing and spend it on Dags, because she deserves it.
I will never forget when my brother moved to the big city of St. Louis to live with my cousin and met the neighbor, Garrett (brother) and I were talking one day not too long after he moved and told me about the neighbor, Dagger, whom Garrett was quite smitten with. Garrett told me he was in love with her, but she was taken. So he just dreamed and stared from afar. Well as fate would have it her and her boyfriend would end up breaking up and Garrett slid right in. That was over 5 years ago. Last year when I decided to go to St Louis Christian College her and Garrett let me move in. They cleaned out the basement and that become my room. I didn't have to pay any rent or buy any groceries. I miss living there so much! We had so much fun and got even closer.
Dagger is the oddest person I have EVER met, but odd is a good thing. She will walk alone if it means walking right. She does her own thing and couldn't care less what people think. She is a 80 year old lady trapped in a 28 year old's body. She hates wearing jeans and I don't think I have EVER seen her in a pair of them before. She always thinks of other first, and cried when Marshall and Lilly broke up (How I Met Your Mother.) She has terrible taste in TV shows, and made Garrett and I watch them all then time. She makes the best food and is the HALLOWEEN queen. She becomes best friends with people just by looking at them. She loves shooting guns! Everything she wears is sparkly and wears more rings than ANYONE.
She is the best and I can't imagine living without her.
I love you DAGS!
She caught my bouquet!
My sister (Kandi), me and Dags
I will never forget when my brother moved to the big city of St. Louis to live with my cousin and met the neighbor, Garrett (brother) and I were talking one day not too long after he moved and told me about the neighbor, Dagger, whom Garrett was quite smitten with. Garrett told me he was in love with her, but she was taken. So he just dreamed and stared from afar. Well as fate would have it her and her boyfriend would end up breaking up and Garrett slid right in. That was over 5 years ago. Last year when I decided to go to St Louis Christian College her and Garrett let me move in. They cleaned out the basement and that become my room. I didn't have to pay any rent or buy any groceries. I miss living there so much! We had so much fun and got even closer.
Dagger is the oddest person I have EVER met, but odd is a good thing. She will walk alone if it means walking right. She does her own thing and couldn't care less what people think. She is a 80 year old lady trapped in a 28 year old's body. She hates wearing jeans and I don't think I have EVER seen her in a pair of them before. She always thinks of other first, and cried when Marshall and Lilly broke up (How I Met Your Mother.) She has terrible taste in TV shows, and made Garrett and I watch them all then time. She makes the best food and is the HALLOWEEN queen. She becomes best friends with people just by looking at them. She loves shooting guns! Everything she wears is sparkly and wears more rings than ANYONE.
She is the best and I can't imagine living without her.
I love you DAGS!
She caught my bouquet!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
I Am Second
I have really been getting into a ministry called I Am Second. Matt has the book and has had it for quite some time but I just never read it, and well, I still have not read it; but that is about to change. I have heard about the ministry but I never knew what it was actually about. Yesterday just randomly something (well I should say SOMEONE) told me to check it out. I went to www.iamsecond.com and found out it is people telling their story of how God got them through some type of battle or struggle. There are all kinds of people on there, Brian "Head" Welch (member of Korn who ended up finding Christ), Bethany Hamilton (the surfer who got her arm bitten off by a shark), and so many others. It is an awesome website and I plan on starting to book tonight. Also, November 7th the youth group is going to start an I Am Second series. If you have ever felt alone and like you are the only person who has had a certain struggle I suggest you check it out, it will change your life.
Until next time...Matthew 11:28
http://www.iamsecond.com/seconds/bethany-hamilton/
Until next time...Matthew 11:28
http://www.iamsecond.com/seconds/bethany-hamilton/
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
It's not everyday you get a new husband
Matt has been growing his hair out for 5 years (the whole amount of time we have been together.) I have never seen him with "short" hair. When we first started dating it was shortER than now but not short. For a long time he has been saying he wants his hair cut, it's hot, gets in his face, hurts to brush it (at one point he was starting to get natural dreads because he hated washing and brushing it.) He has beautiful hair and I LOVE guys with long hair so I really didn't want him to do it. I have been fighting tooth and nail for him not to do it for at least a year. But the past few months he has been talking about it even more and I knew he really wanted to do it (he has some commitment issues, which is why he didn't do it before.) Since he has been talking about it more and more I thought, I need to support him and tell him to go for it. The past few weeks everyday he has said "I'm getting my hair cut, will you call Tiffany (our hair lady)?" Tiffany only works two days a week and she is AWESOME so she is always booked. But last night she was open, so she whacked all his hair off. I could tell Matt was really nervous about it, he was known for his hair, and it had been so long since he had shot hair we were afraid he wouldn't be able to pull it off. So we put our faith in Tiffany, and once again she did not disappoint. She did a great job and he looks so handsome I can't stop staring at him (cheesy, I know.) Tell us what you think. 
Look at his face!
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
What can music do?
On Sunday Matt and I took two kids from our youth group to a concert. It was Royal Tailor, Group 1 Crew, and Britt Nicole. We were going to go either way because Group 1 Crew & Britt Nicole are some of my favorite artists. While there I learned several things:
1. God has made us all in his image and no matter what someone has told us we really are worth His love & to live a life for Him.
2. Sometimes doing things that are uncomfortable are worth it, if you're doing it so someone else can enjoy something. Let me explain a little better...I don't know who was in charge of the show and setting the stage up, but I'm guessing they have never been in charge of a show before. The way they had the speakers set up, if you were up front the bass was so loud you could feel it in your throat. No this isn't me being an old lady who can't take the noise (remember my husband is in a metal band) it was painful to be up front. So why didn't you move you may ask, the girl we brought with us is 14 and had never been to a show before and she REALLY wanted to be up front and I knew if I moved to the back she would follow, so I stayed! And her face when a lead singer gave her a high five, a member made a heart at her, or Britt Nicole pointed right at her it was 100% worth it.
3. Another thing I learned even made me cry with happiness....Matt and I have been to so many shows and met so many bands it as almost ruined my love for music. How is that possible...well, if you've done something over 100 times it isn't as exciting as the very first time was. I remember going to see bands I love and being so excited I couldn't hold it back, just going nuts when they came out. But now it is not as exciting, don't get me wrong I still LOVE going to shows, but they have lost their EXCITEMENT! So here is what happened....when the first band came out and everyone went nuts, and the lights came on, her eyes got so big! She was beaming, then he gave her a high five and she couldn't stop smiling, she was jumping, and screaming and she had never even heard the band. And as each band got on, she did the same thing over and over again! It made me remember why I fell in love with music in the first place. It makes people feel things nothing else can.
So things that you were once passionate about, but may not be anymore...do it with someone who has never done it before. It will change your mind....trust me!
Until next time....Psalm 33:2-3
1. God has made us all in his image and no matter what someone has told us we really are worth His love & to live a life for Him.
2. Sometimes doing things that are uncomfortable are worth it, if you're doing it so someone else can enjoy something. Let me explain a little better...I don't know who was in charge of the show and setting the stage up, but I'm guessing they have never been in charge of a show before. The way they had the speakers set up, if you were up front the bass was so loud you could feel it in your throat. No this isn't me being an old lady who can't take the noise (remember my husband is in a metal band) it was painful to be up front. So why didn't you move you may ask, the girl we brought with us is 14 and had never been to a show before and she REALLY wanted to be up front and I knew if I moved to the back she would follow, so I stayed! And her face when a lead singer gave her a high five, a member made a heart at her, or Britt Nicole pointed right at her it was 100% worth it.
3. Another thing I learned even made me cry with happiness....Matt and I have been to so many shows and met so many bands it as almost ruined my love for music. How is that possible...well, if you've done something over 100 times it isn't as exciting as the very first time was. I remember going to see bands I love and being so excited I couldn't hold it back, just going nuts when they came out. But now it is not as exciting, don't get me wrong I still LOVE going to shows, but they have lost their EXCITEMENT! So here is what happened....when the first band came out and everyone went nuts, and the lights came on, her eyes got so big! She was beaming, then he gave her a high five and she couldn't stop smiling, she was jumping, and screaming and she had never even heard the band. And as each band got on, she did the same thing over and over again! It made me remember why I fell in love with music in the first place. It makes people feel things nothing else can.
So things that you were once passionate about, but may not be anymore...do it with someone who has never done it before. It will change your mind....trust me!
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