weekends

i love weekends! don't get me wrong, i love my job...but weekends are my downtimes and i need them badly! =)

friday night was a football game. we got beat...again. poor guys...we've only won 1 game this season. but i will say, the team we played, i heard was ranked like 6 or so in the state...and they only won 49-14. (only...haha!)

megan was in town this weekend and we met up for the game. megan lives in new orleans and is going to seminary there. inverness is her home-away-from-home. after hurricane katrina, she spent several months here waiting for things to get to the point to return. it was good to see her.

this is megan and i eating beignets at cafe dumond in new orleans this summer! YUMMY!!!!

saturday was a very relaxing day. the only thing i really did was go see my mom and then have lunch with cherise. the rest of the time i just hung out watching football. GO GATORS!

today was pretty relaxing too. i loved church this morning...as always. i'm so very thankful to be a part of cornerstone baptisit church. pastor greg does an amazing job of teaching the word and it always feels like he's talking straight to my heart.

i started reading a new book today. Having a Mary Spirit...allowing God to change us from the inside out.

i was planning on just reading it, but it has a study with it that i think i'm going to do. it'll take me a little longer to get through it, but that's ok.

here are just a few blurbs i got out of the first 2 chapters:

• Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Ps 51:10 [i love this verse...that's what we all should be longing for...a clean heart.]


• God never withholds good except when He has something better to give.


• "Our task here on earth is to show the world an accurate reflection of what God is like. To show them, through our lives, who God is."


• God wants us to have a life so surrendered to Him that He can do His work unhindered. [He sure doesn't need our help!]


• Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6 [it's so great to know that God isn't giving up on me!]


• "Lord, i can not do this unless you enable me."


• I can't imagine anything more terrible than getting to the end of my life only to discover that God had so much more in mind for me-more freedom, more joy, more peace, more true effectiveness. and i missed it all, simply because i refused to change. [hmm..that's a good one.]

so in all of that..this is the prayer (i stole it from the book) i want to pray over my life....

Lord Jesus, I give you my life.
I invite You to have Your way in me.
Take me and break me. Shake me and make me.
Fill me and spill me. Change me and rearrange me.
But whatever You do, Lord....don't leave me the same.
Spirit of wisdom and revelation, I welcome Your work.
Open my eyes so I can see...my ears so I can hear....
I choose truth over comfort, challenge over complacency.
Lord, make me forever Yous.
And most of all, make me like You.
Amen.

and as great as this weekend here at home has been...what i REALLY wanted to be doing is attending the wedding of my friends josh and leslie. their wedding was yesterday afternoon in covington, louisiana. i just couldn't take friday off of work and that's the only way i would've been able to pull off that 12 hour drive there. (stinking job....it always seems to get in the way!!!)

so josh and leslie...i wish y'all the best. i'm so thankful that God put you both in my life! =)

me and the sweet couple this summer when they came to see me while i was at world changers.