Peace like a River

It has been a little over a month since my last post, but life has been a little busy to say the least. I have started to settle into life in Houston, and I am really happy about that. I believe that this season in my life has been about God wanting to spend alone time with me. I have for the first time in my life really started to appreciate this season of my life known as "singleness." I get to come home to a quiet and peaceful house. I get to spend hours reading in the tub without interruption.

This past weekend I decided to take myself to lunch and a little shopping. I started by going to Target. As I walked in the store I saw a man and woman arguing at each other about whether to get a basket or not. Then I saw a mother with a small child in her basket. She was yelling at him to sit down so that she could try and find a new shirt. This made me laugh inside a little... Not because I was laughing at them, but because as a single woman we are told that we need to hurry up and get married and have children. I am not saying that there is not any joy to be derived from being married and having children. I am just saying that I am gaining a respect for my personal time alone. It is a gift to have all of this alone time with God! Since the new year I have already read: 1)Radical Womanhood-Feminine Faith in a Feminist World 2)Feminine Appeal 3)The Guy Questions 4)A Million miles in a Thousand Years 5)Crazy Love... I am currently reading Forgotten God and Same Kind of Different as Me. I have loved every single one!

As for the rest of my world- I have started getting involved at my new church. I am going to the Women's Celebrate Recovery Group that meets on Tuesdays. I am also helping with the High School ministry on Sundays. Most recently I have agreed to be the High School Go-Ops Director. This means that I am in charge of coming up with and organizing missions opportunities for the high school kids. I am so pumped about this. We are going to start on a local level to get the kids involved on a regular basis. Then we are going to grow this program on a state-- then nation-- then international levels! Yeah!!! My hope it to put together a senior Mission to Brazil in 2011.

Speaking of Brazil I am leaving two weeks from today to go to Brazil again! Please pray for my words to be from the Holy spirit, and that our team would have reckless abandon for the Gospel message!!! We are going to work with the teenagers that we saw on the September trip. I have been trying to prepare what I want to talk to them about. The verses that have been laid on my heart are: 1 Corinthians 7 (all of it), 1 Peter 3:1-6, Jeremiah 1:5. Please pray over these verses.

Well, so long for now... I will update you as 2010 unfolds!