Busy Busy Busy

I have been busy lately, but that is normal. Since the last post my flight has been booked, I have registered for the trip, and mailed in my registration fee for the Dominican Repbulic trip. It is getting closer and I am getting more and more excited!!! It is all becoming so real!

Last week was really busy I did something every night after work... One of the most exciting was the 2011 Relay For Life of Cabarrus County Kick-off. I am excited to see it getting kicked off and everything starting to fall into place.I think Relay is going to be awesome this year, with some changes being made and knowing a little more about how things need to run! The committee is great and they are all working to make it a wonderful event, which I am really thankful for. I am learning a lot about myself and a lot about keeping things organized, delegating, and that I can't make everyone happy. Even when we try our hardest we can't please everyone, and ultimately the only one person we need to please is JESUS.. He demands our ALL. Do you give Him everything that He deserves? I say all of that to myself, I know there are many days were I over look the little things in life that He has given me and brought me through.

I am reminded on a daily basis by something about the journey I went through just 4 1/2 years ago with cancer. Lately, it has been because I have been sharing my story with a lady that her mom is currently going through chemo and parts of her journey remind me of my journey and I am able to share what helped me get through, and hopefully I am being an encouragement of some sort to her and her mother. Please keep them in your prayers, God knows who they are without names.

Update

Good evening! I know it has been a really long time since I wrote. I really am going to try and be better at this. For a few reasons, 1 I really like to blog, and 2- to keep you updated on my life and things going on with me.

In my last post I wrote that I was planning on going to the Dominican Republic on a missions trip with some friends and a group that do medical missions trips. Well an update on that is... Flights are booked and I will be mailing a check next week for room and board while we are there. I will have internet access while I am there and I plan to update my blog when I can while I am there and a few pictures. The dates of the trip are April 1-10. I just feel this is all God me going. There have been a few things that have happened and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to go, but God has made Himself known and made it possible for me to go on the trip. I am so thankful for this. Chris Tomlin has a song called "I will follow you" and it just fits everything that is going on in my life right now. Here are the lyrics:

Where you go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay
When you move, I’ll move
I will follow…

All your ways are good
All your ways are sure
I will trust in you alone
Higher than my side
High above my life
I will trust in you alone

Where you go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay
When you move, I’ll move
I will follow you
Who you love, I’ll love
How you serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose, I will follow you
I will follow you

Light unto the world
Light unto my life
I will live for you alone
You’re the one I seek
Knowing I will find
All I need in you alone, in you alone

In you there’s life everlasting
In you there’s freedom for my soul
In you there's joy, unending joy
and I will follow

I love all the words but this line always stands out "In you there's joy, unending joy" How true is that!!!
Please keep the team and myself in your prayers as we prepare to go on this mission's trip and as we travel and server April 1-10. All prayers are appreciated.

Stay tuned for more information..

Serving Him <><

Hello Again.

I have a few thoughts on my mind tonight and blogging seemed like a good place to write it all down...

1-I don't like cancer it takes so much away from everyone. Whether you have or had cancer, your a family or friend of someone who has or had cancer. Yes, cancer can change a lot in a person and I wouldn't trade having it for anything. Although, it is a horrible disease. When I was going through chemo I spent 5 months not doing the things I was use to doing, but learned a lot. It takes so many people that we love away from us. It takes our moms, dads, grandparents, siblings, children, friends, etc. away from us, way too soon.. This is brought on by loosing a friend who had been battling cancer for the last few years. She was such a sweet lady.

2- I am really excited about planning to go to the Dominican Republic in February on a mission trip. I have never been on an overseas mission trip and I can't wait. I have started to prepare. I have my passport and my immunizations and have started collecting some medical supplies to take with us when we go. I am going with some friends and it is a medical missions trip. I am not sure exactly what I will be doing, but I know that whatever it is I will be doing to the best of my ability, serving and giving God all the glory in it!

Lastly, I have been listening to a lot of praise music lately and today heard this song from Kutless, and it made me think... What are your thoughts? If you lost it all would your hands be lifted high to Him ?

I'm Still Yours
If You washed away my vanity
If You took away my words
If all my world was swept away
Would You be enough for me?
Would my beating heart still sing?

If I lost it all
Would my hands stay lifted
To the God who gives and takes away

If You take it all
This life You've given
Still my heart will sing to You

When my life is not what I expected
The plans I made have failed
When there's nothing left to steal me away
Will You be enough for me?
Will my broken heart still sing?

If I lost it all
Would my hands stay lifted
To the God who gives
And takes away

If You take it all
This life You've given
Still my heart
Will sing to You

Even if You take it all away
You’ll never let me go
Take it all away
But I still know

That I'm Yours
I'm still Yours

Oh, I'm Yours
I'm still Yours
I'm still Yours

Well Hello there!

So evidently I am not good @ blogging and forget all about it. Nothing has really happened since the last post.. Well not that I can think of.

I am done writing.. Goodnight.. :)

An Email I got today

I got this email today and thought it was really good. I had a rough day to several different things that I just would rather not discuss and God is definitely showing Himself to me since I've gotten home and that everything is going to be just fine!

God's order may be observed in the hatching of eggs.

For example:

-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.
(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.. The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God ordered that this animal would have a huge body, and for this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of fruit, vegetable, and grain seed sections and segments, as well as in the number of seeds/grains.
-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.

All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundredfold - all even
numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

God gives us a surprise when we cut an apple in half horizontally--there you will find a star!

Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and will be fragrant with His presence. Only the God-planned safe life is successful. Only the life
given over to the care of the Lord is fulfilled.

The lives of each of us are ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if we will only entrust Him with our lives. If you try to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide us to a profitable end.

Sunday Thoughts

This weekend has been pretty good. Except for the fact that I had to have the radiator replaced on my Explorer, I named it Eddie not long after I got it four years ago. This car is like my baby, I have taken very good care of it and it's everything I wanted when I picked it out. Eddie has seen his share of body shops in the last 3 years, from 2 hail storms and then I was rear ended in Sept 09, since then he has been running just fine, until about a month ago it started sound funny and not wanting to shift gears right. The dealership told me just 2 weeks ago that it was just something with the transmission needing to be reprogrammed so they did that, and the problem wasn't better, but was told that it could take up to 500 miles to start working... Well Thursday when I left work and drove around UNCC's campus my car started over heating, so I went straight to the Ford place, and Friday morning they called with the diagnosis and it was the radiator, dad told them to fix it. Sat morning we went to pick it up and it was almost $300 less than what we were told. I was thankful for that. After that I came home cooked some breakfast and then spent the rest of the afternoon @ the pool with my sister n law. Good times just hanging out and relaxing.

Today, Sunday was great!! Like I said in my last post, God has been working on my heart in several areas. This mornings church service just reassured me that God is in control and it will be ok. The songs we sang reminded me of being at camp about 10 years ago. We sang "Open the Eyes of my Heart", and then one of my all time favorite songs "All in All" This is probably my favorite verse :"Taking my sin, my cross, my shame, rising again I bless your name, You are my All in All. When I am weak You lift me up, when I am dry, You fill my cup, You are my all in all. Jesus, Lamb of God, worthy is Your Name."
Then "Be Thou my Vision" was sung, what another great song. During the 2nd service while standing in the choir, we sang "Open the Eyes of my Heart" I looked out and saw a girl who I use to babysit just smiling and I remember her singing that song with me when she was 3 years old, and I know even @ 3 she was praising the Lord, such an awesome inspiring moment.!!

Now off to bed.. more to come this week..

I think my blog spirit is coming back

I know it has been forever since I've done anything with my blog. I feel that I might be getting back into doing it again. I enjoyed blogging when I took the time. I think I should take the time to blog again amongst other things. I only wish I knew if people read it or not. Oh well, it is a place I can release "My Random Thoughts".

I've been really busy since my last post. Relay For Life was great and I stayed busy planning for that and I had a wonderful time! I am the co-chair again this year, and I can't wait, it is going to be an awesome year!!!

I am still selling thirty-one as a part time job, I am really wanting to pick up doing more shows this fall, and pick up my business. If you know anyone who would like to host a party, please let me know!

Work has been good, I am learning a lot of new things.

Hmm... I am ready for some changes in my life I'm gonna let God do the changing though, He's been pulling at me and I've been resisting, but I am ready to let Him work in me.. In my head they seem like nothing big, but really they are big things.... I just want to live every moment of every day for Him and Him alone, not for me. I saw this today and loved it, I am going to lean on this as I let God. "No matter what, I'm gonna trust in YOU!!"
That is what I am going to hold onto.