Summer time brings life to my soul. Especially in the state I live in. According to Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, I am officially a resident of the South. And the South brings amazing heat. This week it’s been in the cooler lower 80’s, but before that we were averaging high 90’s into the low 100’s. I could be found with a huge smile on my face any and every time I stepped outside as the heat washed over me…
It’s been a whirlwind the past 7 weeks. Seriously. I feel like Dorothy in the scene where she looks out her bedroom window in the midst of the tornado and see’s bits and pieces of her life (cows, fences, people, pigs) whizzing around her. Thankfully there are not many cows, fences, and pigs in NOVA, but there are PLENTY of people in need of God’s love. And those people are whizzing around us daily. Chuck and I are very honored…
We celebrated our ONE YEAR Anniversary at the Jersey Shore! Wonderful family friends gave us a wedding gift of their beach house, right on the shore. It was awesome to be able to show Chuck my family’s all-time favorite vacation spot. Life is good at the beach. =)
An incredible date we went on recently. The marvelous GREAT FALLS. I really do think they should be called “Marvelous Falls”, Great doesn’t do any justice.
All of the sudden life has gone from easy-going, laid back, and chill to full speed ahead, faster than the speed of light, and plain old BUSY. I anticipate life to remain at this speed as we continue to move forward in youth ministry. With all the craziness going on, I just had to stop in and say PRAISE THE LORD for the privilege of serving him full-time and getting paid for it! Could there be a better job on…
My friend, Laura, was sharing with our ladies prayer group last night and her thoughts really spoke to my heart. She was almost exclaiming how tired she is of suburbia. Laura has such a longing for God to use her mightily alongside of her husband. She longs to be out in nature, even on the top of a mountain and be able to open her arms wide and proclaim….everything….to God. Though she struggled to make sense of the deep longing…
As Chuck and I’s one year anniversary approaches (20 days!) this month there have been some significant changes going on. Before our wedding, we chose to take a year off from full-time youth ministry. As we sought wisdom and counsel from others we were really excited to spend our first year focusing on our marriage and each other. Chuck agreed to a verbal contract with IBM for one year. We joined a church just a couple miles down the road…
God has flung the doors of writing opportunity wide open for me in the last several months. Baptist Bible College (my Alma Mater, yay class of 2004!) has recently developed a teen E-magazine that just came out yesterday. I had the privilege of writing an article for them. I guess they liked me because I am now going to be published monthly by iMPACT. If interested, you can check out the magazine here: http://digital.turn-page.com/issue/10983 iMPACT is looking for feedback…
It’s been mentioned before, but now I can finally post the real, live version of my first published article in a magazine since being a Dubbe. I praise God for absolutely amazing opportunities! (Published in the May/June 2010 issue of The Baptist Bulletin) Click on link below to view article in new window. View article in new window
~ Hearing my Grandma tell me she’s proud of me ~ Chuck and I attending our first ever marriage conference ~ Watching “Chocolat” and both enjoying it ~ Having a sister-in-law who is a nurse practitioner ~ Chuck confiding in his sister ~ Talking to my Mama on Mother’s Day ~ Talking to both of my Grandmother’s on Mother’s Day ~ Receiving a gerbera daisy after our church service ~ An unexpected steak cook-out with new friends ~ Awesome leftovers!…
