One of Those Days---again.

Why do I have these sort of days?

They seem to be happening way too often.

I just want to hide.

I don't want to really be around anyone.

I want to just get my "chores" done and be alone.

I don't feel my best today--I'm just being totally honest with you.

I am off-kilter emotionally.

I hate it when that happens.

I just want to sleep.

And cry.

~B

Be Still and Know that He is God.

The alarm went off this morning with this song playing, and it was incredible.

God is.... breath-taking.

~B

Sara Groves

Along with David Crowder* Band, Derek Web, Jon Foreman and all those other glorious musicians out there, I also love this artist: Sara Groves.

She is an incredible musician. She is honest in her lyrics and I so appreciate it.

If you haven't heard of her, or haven't given her much of a chance, today is the day to start.

Her new album is beautiful.

~B

Makes a Great Substitute When Times are Tough

Hubby,

Just think of all the money that we'll save!!

~B

Yes!! FINALLY!!!!

Our prayers have been answered--THEY are coming to
the Lifelight Festival (Septemebr 2010).

My hubby and I have already made plans
for a date that night
(and front row standing rights--everyone move out of our way).

And it's FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Thank you, Lifelight!!

~B

Dario--Can you and the wifey come with us?? ;)

How We Love Them.....

David Crowder* Band--good stuff

Lifelight 2008

I was pleasantly surprised when my hubby brought home the new
album from Switchfoot "Hello Hurricane" and the liner notes
had this photo in it.

It's from the Lifelight Music Festival 2008.
The prize tents in the back seem to prove that.

I put an arrow in the area that my hubby and I were standing and staring.

The concert rocked my face off.

~B

Where is It that I Need to Be?

I'm tired and down this morning.

I haven't been sleeping good.

I wake up and lay there wondering how my Lord wants to use me with my church-it's very mind-consuming.

I want to make a difference.

I want to make a difference for Christ.

I have felt the nudge to do many things for my church, but it seems like hardly anyone else gets on board and I am feeling very low about that (amongst other things) right now.

I want to reach people for Christ.

I want to be in a body of people that truly want to "give chase to souls" for eternity.

I am feeling lost.

We had a a children's ministry for little ones.

That was seven years ago.

They all grew and we changed the ministry to include other ages.

And the kids got rowdy, and we tried to do that for a few years and we moved to a gym.

The gym was a good plan, but the kids were rowdier than my spouse and I could handle.

So, this summer, after A LOT of discussion, we decided to not do it anymore.

It was a BIG decision.

But, the Lord brought someone else in to work with these kids and it's still going and I am so happy about that. I just hope that it continues next year.

Last night we had a get-together at our church for these kids. We had them put together "Operation Christmas Child" boxes and seeing the children, hurt.

One part of me was SO glad to not be the one yelling at them, but the other part of me wanted to cry, because we put so much time and energy into that ministry and those relationships, and now it's done.

I have been in a transitionary(sp) period the past few months, praying and thinking, and praying and thinking, about how and where God wants to use me within HIS church.

And I don't know what to do, or where to go or who to turn to.

I want to start things, I want to fire up my church. But if I'm the only one doing the enthusiasm, is that where I am supposed to be?

Please show me, Lord where you want me and what you want me to be doing.

This limbo stuff confuses me and I don't feel useful.

~B

Just a Reminder to Myself

I was reminded of this scripture this morning. I just thought that I would share. If you want some background on the verse, read Job.

~B

Job 38

The LORD Speaks

¹ Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:

² "Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?

³ Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

⁴ "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.

⁵ Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?

⁶ On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-

⁷ while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels ^a]">[a] shouted for joy?

⁸ "Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,

⁹ when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,

¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,

¹¹ when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?

¹² "Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,

¹³ that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?

¹⁴ The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.

¹⁵ The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.

¹⁶ "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death ^b]">[b] ?

¹⁸ Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ "What is the way to the abode of light?
And where does darkness reside?

²⁰ Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

²¹ Surely you know, for you were already born!
You have lived so many years!

²² "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,

²³ which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?

²⁴ What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

²⁵ Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,

²⁶ to water a land where no man lives,
a desert with no one in it,

²⁷ to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?

²⁸ Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?

²⁹ From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

³⁰ when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?

³¹ "Can you bind the beautiful ^c]">[c] Pleiades?
Can you loose the cords of Orion?

³² Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons ^d]">[d]
or lead out the Bear ^e]">[e] with its cubs?

³³ Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God's ^f]">[f] dominion over the earth?

³⁴ "Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?

³⁵ Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

³⁶ Who endowed the heart ^g]">[g] with wisdom
or gave understanding to the mind ^h]">[h] ?

³⁷ Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

³⁸ when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together?

³⁹ "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness
and satisfy the hunger of the lions

⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens
or lie in wait in a thicket?

⁴¹ Who provides food for the raven
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?

Job 39

¹ "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

² Do you count the months till they bear?
Do you know the time they give birth?

³ They crouch down and bring forth their young;
their labor pains are ended.

⁴ Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
they leave and do not return.

⁵ "Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who untied his ropes?

⁶ I gave him the wasteland as his home,
the salt flats as his habitat.

⁷ He laughs at the commotion in the town;
he does not hear a driver's shout.

⁸ He ranges the hills for his pasture
and searches for any green thing.

⁹ "Will the wild ox consent to serve you?
Will he stay by your manger at night?

¹⁰ Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness?
Will he till the valleys behind you?

¹¹ Will you rely on him for his great strength?
Will you leave your heavy work to him?

¹² Can you trust him to bring in your grain
and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ "The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

¹⁴ She lays her eggs on the ground
and lets them warm in the sand,

¹⁵ unmindful that a foot may crush them,
that some wild animal may trample them.

¹⁶ She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;
she cares not that her labor was in vain,

¹⁷ for God did not endow her with wisdom
or give her a share of good sense.

¹⁸ Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
she laughs at horse and rider.

¹⁹ "Do you give the horse his strength
or clothe his neck with a flowing mane?

²⁰ Do you make him leap like a locust,
striking terror with his proud snorting?

²¹ He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength,
and charges into the fray.

²² He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;
he does not shy away from the sword.

²³ The quiver rattles against his side,
along with the flashing spear and lance.

²⁴ In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground;
he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

²⁵ At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, 'Aha!'
He catches the scent of battle from afar,
the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

²⁶ "Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
and spread his wings toward the south?

²⁷ Does the eagle soar at your command
and build his nest on high?

²⁸ He dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
a rocky crag is his stronghold.

²⁹ From there he seeks out his food;
his eyes detect it from afar.

³⁰ His young ones feast on blood,
and where the slain are, there is he."