:: Learning to need You... ::
So this week has been both super blessed and super crazy at the same time. Clearly, we're in a Spiritual war zone here.
On Monday I had my great and awesome drama team meeting which consisted of great times in prayer, really great ideas being shared, and overall good times. It's so great, because we've decided as a group that spending 15 to 20 minutes at the beginning of our meeting for prayer is the best way to go. We totally didn't do enough prayer last year so starting up with this is just toatally awesome. We're also considering doing outreach for the year by basically going to youth groups or doing things around campus. Well...since I am volunteering at a youth group this year...I totally have an "in!" They have just restructured their setup to include some large group time and that is the perfect time for skits. They may come in once a month to do one, but we already have that promised to His House. When I talked to everyone in the youth group setting, they said that they were totally okay if the drama team only came in like once or twice the entire year. They just think it would be cool for the kids to have someone else come in and do a skit.
On Tuesday I went to this thing called BSF or Bible Study Fellowship. It was pretty awesome to say the least. This Bible Study has to be the most organized one I have ever seen. It's got 6 pages of notes on the chapter you're reading, discussion groups for the chapter you're reading, questions for the chapter you're reading, and a lecture for the chapter you're reading. You basically study an entire book in a year, taking a week to go over an entire chapter. It's great! You're going over the entire thing with a fine-toothed comb and picking up all of these awesome tidbits of information. Plus, they have it set up where you do some of the reading every day, which is perfect for anyone who struggles with getting into the Word everyday...which just so happens to be me.
On Wednesday I drove to Hart, Michigan for work. In some ways that whole experience was a little defeating because the school was totally not ready for me to be there and install the software they needed. In fact, they only had one of the computer that it needed to be on. So, I had to install it on one and then hope that the image ghosts correctly to all the others when they arrive. Ghosting is great, but I've already had to go to more than one school this year that didn't have a properly ghosted image. Slightly upsetting, but still work all the same! Despite this, it was a great morning because I got to listen to some Kenneth Hagin sermons in the car. I got through two tapes by the time the trip was over!
Also on Wednesday I had a doctor's appointment. This is where Satan really tried to hit me hard. I got there, and they didn't get me in for about 30 minutes or so. Then they come in, the girl is a resident doctor so she isn't too completely sure about what should be done so she brings in this other doctor to sort of make sure she's doing the right decision. Already, the patient is not at ease. Either way, they come to the conclusion that my scar is not simply oozing scar tissue but is being aggrivated because my body is trying to reject the suture they used on me in Italy. These doctors tell me that if I don't get an operation it's just going to keep happening. Of course I am just so taken aback by the fact that I will now undergo my third surgery in less than a year, that I have no clue what to ask these people. So, I call my mom, tell her about it, and she signs me up to have a second opinion appointment with a surgeon that came highly reccomended by my hair dresser (she's had multiple abdominal surgeries too). So on Sunday night after Bible study I'll be driving home to go to my next appointment. It would be soooo great if this doctor reversed that decision. I am more than tired of having surgeries.
Despite that downfall, I heard some great news about Brian Livengood. He smiled in recognition at someone...praise God. My friend John is also going to be in his church choir and he has an awesome new girlfriend in his life, praise God. My Home Acres youth group meeting went so well. We just had great ideas flowing and our spirits were just totally connected to His. It was awesome, praise God. And today, I have lots of work! Which is great because I need to add some money to my funds. Speaking of work, I should get going.
...That I'm learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You
and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies
On Monday I had my great and awesome drama team meeting which consisted of great times in prayer, really great ideas being shared, and overall good times. It's so great, because we've decided as a group that spending 15 to 20 minutes at the beginning of our meeting for prayer is the best way to go. We totally didn't do enough prayer last year so starting up with this is just toatally awesome. We're also considering doing outreach for the year by basically going to youth groups or doing things around campus. Well...since I am volunteering at a youth group this year...I totally have an "in!" They have just restructured their setup to include some large group time and that is the perfect time for skits. They may come in once a month to do one, but we already have that promised to His House. When I talked to everyone in the youth group setting, they said that they were totally okay if the drama team only came in like once or twice the entire year. They just think it would be cool for the kids to have someone else come in and do a skit.
On Tuesday I went to this thing called BSF or Bible Study Fellowship. It was pretty awesome to say the least. This Bible Study has to be the most organized one I have ever seen. It's got 6 pages of notes on the chapter you're reading, discussion groups for the chapter you're reading, questions for the chapter you're reading, and a lecture for the chapter you're reading. You basically study an entire book in a year, taking a week to go over an entire chapter. It's great! You're going over the entire thing with a fine-toothed comb and picking up all of these awesome tidbits of information. Plus, they have it set up where you do some of the reading every day, which is perfect for anyone who struggles with getting into the Word everyday...which just so happens to be me.
On Wednesday I drove to Hart, Michigan for work. In some ways that whole experience was a little defeating because the school was totally not ready for me to be there and install the software they needed. In fact, they only had one of the computer that it needed to be on. So, I had to install it on one and then hope that the image ghosts correctly to all the others when they arrive. Ghosting is great, but I've already had to go to more than one school this year that didn't have a properly ghosted image. Slightly upsetting, but still work all the same! Despite this, it was a great morning because I got to listen to some Kenneth Hagin sermons in the car. I got through two tapes by the time the trip was over!
Also on Wednesday I had a doctor's appointment. This is where Satan really tried to hit me hard. I got there, and they didn't get me in for about 30 minutes or so. Then they come in, the girl is a resident doctor so she isn't too completely sure about what should be done so she brings in this other doctor to sort of make sure she's doing the right decision. Already, the patient is not at ease. Either way, they come to the conclusion that my scar is not simply oozing scar tissue but is being aggrivated because my body is trying to reject the suture they used on me in Italy. These doctors tell me that if I don't get an operation it's just going to keep happening. Of course I am just so taken aback by the fact that I will now undergo my third surgery in less than a year, that I have no clue what to ask these people. So, I call my mom, tell her about it, and she signs me up to have a second opinion appointment with a surgeon that came highly reccomended by my hair dresser (she's had multiple abdominal surgeries too). So on Sunday night after Bible study I'll be driving home to go to my next appointment. It would be soooo great if this doctor reversed that decision. I am more than tired of having surgeries.
Despite that downfall, I heard some great news about Brian Livengood. He smiled in recognition at someone...praise God. My friend John is also going to be in his church choir and he has an awesome new girlfriend in his life, praise God. My Home Acres youth group meeting went so well. We just had great ideas flowing and our spirits were just totally connected to His. It was awesome, praise God. And today, I have lots of work! Which is great because I need to add some money to my funds. Speaking of work, I should get going.
...That I'm learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You
and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies