He shares a melody; tells me to repeat it.: psalm 116.

I want to share with y'all something I wrote in my journal the other night. I'm usually not very good with words and my mind is always going a million miles a minute, so it always helps me to write out my emotions and cries to the Lord.

I could only explain this season of my life as this: excitement. Your love for me is being revealed to me in so many ways-the laughter of my little siblings, Randle's constant support and encouragement, the inspiring lives of the people invested in ministry around me, Your provision for my Clear support, the miracles and transformations you are making in my heart and in the lives of those around me, the all-around joyfulness of having such an intimate, face-to-face relationship with You. In life, it's so easy for me to get wrapped up in the mundane. It's easy for me to sometimes get discouraged by routine or stagnation. but I'm finding so much joy in who You are lately. Yes, things get hard and painful sometimes. Yes, I still have to maintain routine and deal with disappointment. But You have created me for something amazing. My life has a purpose--completely defined by what I allow You to do in my life and how I bring myself to be used and moved by You. You delight in my successes. You long for my heart and you are jealous for me--You desire for me to find my rest and my sanity completely in You. You love me with a love that is so deep and so powerful--a love that has allowed me to walk in freedom and joy and an eternity of perfection in heaven...as a daughter of the light, a daughter of the God of salvation and of all that is, was, and is yet to come. Why don't I just stop and embrace that? I want to be brought to my knees in adoration of you. Your love and Your mercies will never be taken from me. I'll never be beyond the grasp of Your hand. nothing I do will take Your love from me. That kind of grace is unfathomable to me. Father, thank You for being unfathomable.

Let me be open and ready for Your whisper. Allow me to see Your miracles and evidences of love in the everyday workings of life. Give me Kingdom eyes, Abba Father. You are so good. You are so constant. you are so beautiful.

Thank You for allowing me to walk before you--in the land of the living. (Psalm 116:8-9)

Here are some pictures from Staff Retreat!

Learning the staff dance....Hannah and Grisel are more gracefully talented that I am, I'm afraid..

BLUE TEAM at Intensity 2012...the incredibly freezing and muddy staff game. We were supposed to get half of our team across an extremely cold and rather deep lake...I lucked out. Being short and little rocks.