Yesterday was really an amazing day!!! We went to the nursing home in between services, I was in Candace's group, as usual! :) The group was, Me, Candy, Ben, Jen, Elizabeth, Dianna, & Melanie. We sang to more ppl than usual. Which was great!
One thing that stood out was that one of the residents, we've met her before...She quoted
Romans 12:1-2 "I bessech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." and I just thought that was kinda encouraging. :)
Anyways On the way to church, in the van Jen & Me started singing some songs, all goofy like. It was SO fun! lol! :)
Afternoon service...it was a
really great message, very convicting also, and it really made you think. Bro. Joe preached. The title of the message was "Walking with Wise Men" one of the main verse he used was
Proverbs 13:20 " He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."I'll try to sum up what I got out of the message, it's hard to do sometimes but..anyways. I'm just have this new gratitude for all the wise godly people that God has blessed me with, and put in my life, and to start really learning from them, and to separate myself from the "fools" & the world. Even if it does mean standing alone. Which will have to be done. Bro. Joe said it won't always be easy, but you have to despise the shame before you can stand alone.
Because the decisions I make now at this time in my life, whether I choose to keep my focus on God or to go the way of the world, these decisions will affect the REST of my life. I don't want to be teetering from side to side. But to stand for what's right, and keep my focus completely on the Lord!! Even if it does mean standing alone, which will have to be done at times, and won't always be easy..... Just to use my time more wisely also.. It has me thinking alot.... Well Chruch got out around 6:00..only cuz the time change.
Then after church it was playtime. Which was alot of fun!! :) Rebekah & I matched. Then I went with Melanie and Dianna, to the playground at picnic table where Mel B. & Rachel were, cause they were trying to connect to Stephen on Skype, so that everyone could say hi to him...but that took AWHILE!!
SOO in the mean time, Dianna and I walked around the tree at the playground, we were bored. ;) Then we just went walking and talking around the church property, we talked about different things, one of them was school. :) We found Melanie & Bethany, they both joined us, then Mr.Muldrow told us that Mel & Rach were in the office trying to get connected so we went in there, it still took a while..we waited looked at different tracts on the table. Bethany finally left to go play volleyball, because they had to leave soon.
Then FINALLY, we got connected with Stephen on Skype...all of us(me, Mel, Rach, Dianna, Melanie, & Mr.Muldrow) said hi, then Mel & Mr.Muldrow did most the talking, actually Stephen did, telling what he had been doing in Mexico. Then Gabby the daughter of the missionary fam he's staying with, came and said hi. Let me tell ya she was SO cute!! :) He was doing good, couldn't talk long tho because it was about to be dinner time. We said our goodbyes, and such.
Melanie, Dianna & I went and played volleyball, Rach & Mel came a little later. We got a real game going after while, it was fun too! :)
We didn't go to Taco Bell this week. :-/ Oh well tho. Melanie, Dianna, Me, Kristin, Rachel, Julie, & Mandi did talk for a little bit out in the parking lot. The convo's we had were kinda funny! ;) lol! That's about how that really happened. It was a REALLY GREAT DAY!!!! :)
p.s I am VERY sorry that I didn't take ANY pictures! ;(
Goodnight, ppls! ;)
