Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
This week: Aldersgate Conference
I guess I should stop saying "I'm going to post [day/week] about whatever..." because the reality of my life is that it may or may not happen. :-/ The seminars I went to at Ichthus and Alive are still cooking in my brain, and I don't want to post about it until I process it further.
This week I'm going to the Aldersgate Conference on the Holy Spirit. Aldersgate is a ministry connected to the United Methodist Church, for the spiritual renewal of the UMC. This will be my 4th year, I think...no, my 5th year going to it, and it is always a HUGE blessing. I warned the church where I'm currently attending that I may be a pretty on-fire and outward in my worship for a few weeks afterwards. :-) I'd rather be that way all the time, but this is a very traditional quiet church and it would be overwhelming to them.
Last year was an awesome conference - I got to sing in the worship team, and I was so on fire it took until I got laid off to simmer down some. What has bothered me a lot lately is that despite my best efforts to keep from getting down, getting laid off from the church has really hurt my walk with the Lord. It isn't that I don't trust Him, it is that not only does the future look really blurry, so does the present. I wish I could understand what is going on -- I know, I know, our ways are not His ways, and there is no way I could understand God's plan. I'm just tired and frustrated that at the end of a year that for the first time I truly felt like I was totally focused on Him and being obedient to His will, the wheels came off and now I feel like I'm lost.
I'll keep trusting that He will work it all out, and that He will give me my heart's desires.
This week I'm going to the Aldersgate Conference on the Holy Spirit. Aldersgate is a ministry connected to the United Methodist Church, for the spiritual renewal of the UMC. This will be my 4th year, I think...no, my 5th year going to it, and it is always a HUGE blessing. I warned the church where I'm currently attending that I may be a pretty on-fire and outward in my worship for a few weeks afterwards. :-) I'd rather be that way all the time, but this is a very traditional quiet church and it would be overwhelming to them.
Last year was an awesome conference - I got to sing in the worship team, and I was so on fire it took until I got laid off to simmer down some. What has bothered me a lot lately is that despite my best efforts to keep from getting down, getting laid off from the church has really hurt my walk with the Lord. It isn't that I don't trust Him, it is that not only does the future look really blurry, so does the present. I wish I could understand what is going on -- I know, I know, our ways are not His ways, and there is no way I could understand God's plan. I'm just tired and frustrated that at the end of a year that for the first time I truly felt like I was totally focused on Him and being obedient to His will, the wheels came off and now I feel like I'm lost.
I'll keep trusting that He will work it all out, and that He will give me my heart's desires.
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Alive Festival
Well, if you didn't see on the news last weekend, the Alive Festival had some adversity with the weather but pulled of a great success!! Because the tent I borrowed leaked, and blew down partially one day, I slept in my car all but the first night. Boy, am I glad that my Escape is as big as it is! However, it took me all week to recover from the lack of sleep - actually I'm still working on it. :-) I feel bad for all the people who were going to go to CreationFest this week, and didn't get to.
Alive, though, was truly a blessing and spiritually uplifting. I'll be posting about some of the seminars I went to at both Ichthus and Alive in the coming week. I also have some more pics from Ichthus, but sadly, all of the pictures I took at Alive disappeared before I got them onto my computer. My digital camera is a little one that to change the batteries you have to take out this screw, and last time I put in new batteries I didn't put the screw back in so I'm assuming that the batteries got loose enough that they lost the pictures. :-( I had great ones of Paul Baloche, Desperation Band, and Parachute Band.
Ah, well, that is the way it goes.
Alive, though, was truly a blessing and spiritually uplifting. I'll be posting about some of the seminars I went to at both Ichthus and Alive in the coming week. I also have some more pics from Ichthus, but sadly, all of the pictures I took at Alive disappeared before I got them onto my computer. My digital camera is a little one that to change the batteries you have to take out this screw, and last time I put in new batteries I didn't put the screw back in so I'm assuming that the batteries got loose enough that they lost the pictures. :-( I had great ones of Paul Baloche, Desperation Band, and Parachute Band.
Ah, well, that is the way it goes.
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