Spring Break

Here's what's been going on with me during spring break. I went to a church St. Paddy's Day party. Dan won a green hat for being the fastest at word search. We ate green food and Irish stew. It was loads of fun!! Mostly we laughed a lot.




















I made jewelry for my secret pal at school. Inside the stone it says "Holy One".
















I have almost finished staining my kitchen cabnets. Woo Hoo!!!! I've been doing this for about 9 weeks.

















I've done a little gardening.





























I've journaled a little and doodled a lot.














And I've watched movies. I really liked this one a bunch.





Well, that's spring break.

Cruisen

I haven't blogged in a long time... I don't know why; I guess I was too busy. Anyway, Here are a few photos from our cruise with some of the church.



We really had a good time and did some of fun things. This was in October of 2007.

Let's see... karaoke night was really enjoyable.



The food was incredible. The ports were very interesting. The shopping was the best. Singing on the back of the ship was fun. But my favorite time of the whole trip was with my brothers and sisters on the top deck under the stars. That was soooo the Lord. The stars were so close and bright. You could see nothing else out there but darkness. It gave me the feeling of being very small and insignificant. And how large my Lord is.

Walking

We've been walking around the neighborhood in the evenings. It's been such a mild summer. We haven't even hit the high 90's this year. (Now that I have said that, we will.) It's just so nice to walk in the cool of the evening with other believers and talk with our Lord. It makes me love where I live.

Thank you Lord, for your church, your body.

A Blessing Box

Recently my blogger sister (also sister in Christ), Deborah, sent me a blessing box. I decided to share this with my sisters in Christ that live here in Arlington.

These are some pictures of some of us opening the box and discovering it's contents. Each item was wrapped individually in pink or purple paper. And when we opened the box, it smelled soooo good. We oooed and awed, ate M&M's, and sniffed everything with a scent. At the end of our evening together, everyone had a couple of things to take home. We all felt very special to have someone, we have never met before, (living in a state that none of us has even visited) bless us in such a generous way.

Thank you Lord for people like Deborah! Who love with your unconditional love.

A surprise for the Church

At our most recent meeting of the Church in Arlington, we spoke of being sheep and knowing the Shepherds voice. And how the sheep aren't concerned with anything except the Shepherd. One may wonder off ... but the Shepherd is the one to go out and get the one that wondered off. The Shepherd breaks the legs of the one that keeps wondering off. The Shepherd leads His flock to still waters because the sheep will drown in running water. The Shepherd digs a pool beside the running water so that the sheep will have still water to drink. There are many more things that the Sheperd does.

Then we open a package that we recieved from the Church in Saint Paul. And in it is a letter, a DVD, some Belgian hot chocolate, some pictures with poetry about the Wizard of Awes, some packing paper telling us who we are in Christ, and a Lamb cookie cutter.

So the next night we got together to watch the DVD, drink Belgian hot chocolate and make lamb sugar cookies (Actually Robbin made all of them. But we watched). Here's a picture of some of us in the kitchen. What a wonderful time in the Lord!

Thank you Saint Paul, you are a blessing to us!
Thank you Lord for Saints like these, and sister Churches!

Really Fast Trip

Some of us from the Church in Arlington went on a trip to Jacksonville, Florida this past weekend. It was a whirl wind trip. With a van rented we left Arlington, Texas on Friday at noon and drove to Pennsicola, Florida. It was about midnight when we stopped at a hotel. There were many bathroom stops in between there.

The next morning we were off again. This time for only 4 to 5 hours. When we reached Jacksonville the brothers went to thier meeting while we (the sisters) went to Ponte Vedra to visit my mom and dad.

My dad is there being tested by the Mayo Clinic for a lung and liver transplant. He has gotten on the liver transplant list but still waiting to find out about the lung transplant.

After visiting for a while, we (mom too, dad wanted to rest) took off for the beach. Annette had never been to the East Coast before. We all had a blast looking for shells and little souvenirs. Mom's cell phone rang and it was Ben asking that we come back to the Jax neighborhood. So back we headed with all our treasures in hand.

It was the sister's turn to have a meeting. The brothers went to Ponte Vedra to visit with mom and dad.

A couple of hours past and the brothers were back to pick us up for the long ride back to Arlington. But before leaving the sister's in Jax had made sack lunches for each of us for the long ride back. Thank you sister's for your thoughtfulness. With sack lunches in hand there were hugs all around and we were off once again. We drove straight through this time so that people would have time to rest during Sunday before having to go back to work on Monday. We arrived in the Arlington neighborhood at 12:30pm. It was nice to be home. Although we had a terrific time.

Thanks Lord for keeping us safe in more ways than one.

Camping Out

This past weekend some of the church went camping. We had a blast. We sang, and ate, and fellowshipped all weekend long. Some of us rode bikes. Ben did all the cooking and cleaning. Except for Bob cleaning Sylvia. We laughed and told stories. Annette was in a tree again! We tryed to take a picture with the timer on the camera. I guess you can see how that turned out. We burned all of our expectations. Just gave them to the Lord so that He can have what He wants in a meeting. After all it is for Him that we come together. All of it was alot of fun! Even the cold.
Thanks Lord for your body!!!

Missing you Vancouver

Some things are just amazing. Here are some pictures of 6 women from Vancouver, Washington (along with the women in Arlington, Texas) that are parts of churches that have never met until February 2006. The amazing part is that instantly we were like family. Here's 12 to 15 women all in agreement on one thing and that's the Lord. These women come from different backgrounds, different age groups, different religious upbringings, different hobbies, different ages of children. Yet what binds them together... no, draws them to one another is the love of a living, breathing, holy Lord. A Lord and creator found inside of one another. The whole weekend was full of discovery. We learned names and habits and likes and dislikes of one another. We ate and slept, laughed and cried, stepped into unexplored territory together. And when they were gone... it was like there was part of ourselves missing. I hope that some day soon the sisters in Arlington can go to Vancouver and for a short time to be reunited with our missing parts.

Love to all of you. Wish you were here. All praise to our Amazing Lord, Jesus!