Ministry

Yesterday was such a wonderful day! Leading singing in chapel was definitely an interesting, humbling, and encouraging experience. I led 2 songs: "All Creatures of Our God and King" and "The Greatest Commands" while another guy led 2 other songs. I woke up yesterday morning not having a clue how I was going to get through it because I just sounded awful-but God gave me the strength and the voice to do it! It was beautiful standing up there and seeing people's faces as they were singing. And as I have stated before-I am not a feminist and have no agenda as a woman in the church-but yesterday it was just incredibly affirming and beautiful as every woman that was in chapel yesterday (most of them my good friends) made eye contact with me and flashed me this huge affirming smile. I can't explain it-but it just really encouraged me and was a special moment that I don't think I will ever forget. It reminded me of the verse in Hebrews that says "we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses". I also received much affirmation when it was over-which of course is always encouraging, but even more-to me-was humbling.

The rest of the day was just nutty-I had a great conversation with one of my good friends in Lubbock, and then last night was madness-you'd think that I would finally learn to not overcommit myself, but alas, no I have not...I am singing on the worship team this coming Sunday at Highland-so I had practice at 6 there, but I was supposed to be at Minter Lane to teach Junior High at 7-but we were learning a new song, and I did not get over there until 7:20 (and that was leaving early from practice!) I had told Nick that I would be late, and when I got there I wasn't sure which classroom they were in, so I was looking all over for them-and I passed one classroom which I thought they were probably in, but it was WAY too quiet! ;) So, Nick helped me find them-and it WAS the classroom I thought it was!! What the heck? For the love...they are NEVER that good for me-of course, it was some parents and another guy-and apparentely they behave better for guys (could someone have told me this about 4 months ago?) ;)

So I did get my lesson in-I talked about the different names of God and it was really interesting-I even learned a lot!! The parents that were in there told me afterwards that they knew the class was a handful and actually apologized that they had not supported me before now, and told me they appreciated what I had done. WOW! That was encouraging-and really impressed me. I appreciated that a lot, and I have to admit that I will actually miss teaching this class-they really are a great group of kids (just hard to keep them focused!)

So goes ministry...and I am most definitely not done yet!!! satan will not win this fight-because it has already been won. I have been called for this purpose and I know that, and God has plans for me...His timing is perfect (OK, someone remind me this every day, alright?!) ;)