I was so excited the other day when my sweet friend, Susan, asked me to go with her to Beth Moore's convention this weekend! She's the pastor's wife at Goodlettsville First Baptist and Becca also came along who is the youth pastor's wife there.
In the picture is me, then Becca, then Susan.
In the picture is me, then Becca, then Susan.
Although it was specifically for pastor's wives she knew I had been in that position not too long ago and invited me to go along with her. (I was a junior high youth pastor's wife for 3 years, up until last August when we stepped down.) I can't tell you enough about how amazing God is to speak through this tiny lady! I've seen her one other time when Adrienne and we drove to Cincinnati for the weekend to hear her. She's just so witty, passionate, hilarious and just down-right silly. But she's also able to connect with women like no other. If you've never heard her in person you have to check out her schedule and go to one of her events. You will not be sorry. On Friday night she asked the audience to sum up their life in 6 words before Christ. I am soooo not good at those tasks! But I came up with this: Blinded, insecure, not knowing my place. Ok, so now I'm going to tag my friends about "6 Words" and you have to do it! I love hearing what other people say. Then yesterday she asked us to use 6 words to describe how we see ourselves now, at the end of the event. So here was mine: Carnal thinking comes with Jesus alternatives. I know, not great, but that's all I could come up with in the 3 minutes that she gave us :) Basically her message was about things that aggravate us and how to use a Jesus alternative to deal with our aggravations. For instance: Relationships-an aggravation would be "Whoever we consistently seek approval from, we become their slave" and an alternative would be "Seek God's approval, find your peace". So she always had a Jesus alternative to the things that bother us in this life. Usually it's the way we think about ourselves (either more highly than we ought to or not good enough) or the relationships around us. She gave an illustration about when we've been treated wrongly. She said all of us are under authority and to humble ourselves and not lash out at people or speak badly about other people. For God will take care of them if we allow Him to. Trust God to deal with others. Let other people be ugly without us getting in the mud with them. Fight for true godliness and fight for your heart. We are called to be crucified to our carnal flesh . Starve the things you don't want in your life and feed the things of the Spirit. I could go on and on, but that was the gist of her conference. Maybe someone reading this needed to hear it. I hope so, and I hope everybody is doing well!
Here's a couple more pictures of the event. Travis Cotrell led worship and it was amazing! Beth is on the right in the corner on stage by the punching bag. (which was part of an illustration-along with pink punching gloves!)
Here's a couple more pictures of the event. Travis Cotrell led worship and it was amazing! Beth is on the right in the corner on stage by the punching bag. (which was part of an illustration-along with pink punching gloves!)
Isabella is finally loving Mother's Day Out and church now! Yay! She practically jumped out of my arms to go play this morning at church. I wanted to cry just thinking about how happy it makes me that she's happy. I know that sounds silly, but I can't help it. Anyway, Peter's working a lot more now that it's almost Spring. The baby tigers are out on display at the zoo. He says they're so cute and should attract a lot of attention soon. I'm hoping we can go visit the zoo in the next couple of weeks. I'm especially looking forward to Spring Break. I can't wait to have a week off and just have fun with Peter and Isabella. I'll hopefully blog soon again. Until next time...........don't forget about the "6 Words" before and after Jesus..... I tag Amanda, Mom, Leshia, and Nicki!
