Moving Forward

crazy busy

Hey everyone! My life has been pretty nuts for a while and doesn't show signs of stopping, but here's a little update for you. VBS (vacation bible school) was last week an I was just asked to help with the jr high kids by singing during worship... not a big deal right? Wrong! I ended up leading the entire week, but it was awesome! I fell in love the with kids and had a blast with them! Down side of the week? I got a flat tire on my way to church early one morning... luckily I was able to get to my sister's house and take Terry's car for the day. He's graciously been letting me drive his car for a week now. So, my tire turned out to be more then just a flat... my entire rim is shot and there's a huge chunk missing from it. So not only do I have to get a new tire, but a new rim too! Rims are NOT cheap at all. The ones for my car run about $600-700 EACH. So my amazing friend, Greg who lives next door and fixes anything and everything on my car out of the goodness of his heart told me to go on eBay. Well we went on and he found me a rim for my car for about $120. I ordered it and it came in 1 day. Awesome. Nope! They sent me the wrong one. So right now I'm in the process of sending it back so they can send me the right one. This doesn't even include paying for a tire. Well, like I said Greg is awesome and he worked out a deal with the tire place to hook my up with all 4 tires for really cheap. So I'm getting all new tires for less then half the price I paid last time I got new ones. Chrishelle is a "sports" car, or so they say so she has some expensive specialty tires. Dang she's high maintainence!
On top of that stuff I've been trying to finish painting my house and get it all ready because my mom found me a cheap one way ticket to fly down there and drive a bunch of stuff back in a truck. Everything happened so fast with that and I had no idea I would be going to AZ this week, I thought it wasn't going to be until the end of july. Sadly my big, fun plans for this weekend had to be cancelled and I'm really bummed because now I don't get to see my bfffff until july. Darn being adults and having jobs (well, not me so much) :). But in spite of all of that I get to see some olds friends from AZ and spend time with them so I'm pretty excited about that. Not too excited about loading a huge truck in 108 degree weather, but we have some of my bro's friends helping out so that'll be good.
Other then little things like moving ACROSS the country , life has been good. The Lord remains my source of strength through the craziness. My ministry is already growing and I'm enjoying spending time with the kids at church. They're a fun group of kids. I'm really looking forward to being settled and spending more time with them. Also, I'm still looking for a job so please be praying about that. It'll be in perfect timing, I know! How amazing is His love for me!!
I'm really excited for Blake and Emily's Virginia wedding in two weekends. It's going to be a huge blast... especially with my bff, Stephanie coming!! Road trips with Beach are great!
Um, I'm really missing my friends right now, but I get to see everyone really soon... even Michelle and Stace for Carley's wedding! John and Ash and moving back from CA and Laura and Tripp will be back from their year in Taiwan, so there are fun days ahead! I'm excited to be back in fellowship with Ashley D., Carley, and Laura. I'm hoping we're going to be starting a bible study together soon!
I hope you're well. Be blessed today.

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength." Phillipians 4:12-13

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:16-18

posted by Moving Forward @ 11:48 AM