WEEKEND!!

I'm getting ready for a MUCH needed trip to see some of my girlfriends Ali and Anna that is LONG overdue:) These are the first two people I met when I went college and let's just say we were inceprebale from then on. They both live is Dallas not.. Ali is working and is a speech pathologist and Anna, married now, is a school nurse. We have enjoyed many good times together and our trips never disappoint! I love these girls and am so thankful and blessed to have such good friends. I will update later on the details and I leave with a few pics from the past:)

One of My New Favorites...

"Lead Me to the Cross"
~Francesca Battistelli's version

Savior I come
Quiet my soul, remember
Redemption's hill,
Where your blood was spilled, for my ransom

Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost

Lead me to the cross, where you love poured out
Bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself, I belong to you
Lord lead me
Lead me to the Cross

You were as I
Tempted and tried, human
Word became flesh
Bore my sin and death, now you're risen

Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost

Lead me to the cross where you love poured out
Bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself, I belong to you
Lord lead me
Lead me to the Cross

To your heart
To your heart
Lead me to your heart
Lead me to your heart

Refreshment

This week was a hard one.. Cheyenne, my little cousin who lives with us, came down with pneumonia and had to be hospitalized last Monday night...Thus my mom had to take off the whole week to help take care of her. I took over my mom's days at school so that she could take care of things. I have been trying to take all my tests for my certification also so it has just been REALLY hectic and stressful but it's life.

Luke's parents were doing a short little conference in Brownwood this past weekend and most of his family was going to be with them so we headed out there to spend some time with them. It was such a refreshing weekend and something we both needed. It was a great reminder of how to be living and we learned some new things too. Some of the things that Bobby talked about was when Adam and Eve sinned their spirit died and every man/woman born since have been born in "Adam's" image thus we are all born into death not life.. When Jesus "the second Adam" came and died on the cross for us and offered us spiritual life. Most of us are still living like we are dead instead of living in the Life we have as believers and letting Jesus work through us.. We read Romans 6:1-9 and here is what it says..in a nutshell it says that if we are believers we are baptized (immersed) in his death on the cross with Jesus when he died for our sin and that when he rose from the dead we rose with him in NEW life. Most of us, me included, have been living like he is still dead. One of the people at the conference said that the degree to which you are immersed in the water is the degree to which Christ lives in you. WOW!!! That is so true how many times do we just immerse ourselves enough to get what we need at the moment to get by instead of being TOTALLY immersed and experience what REAL life is like??

There were so many good things talked about at the conference and I am so glad that we went and got to learn so much....It is so exciting to see God work and to be a part of it.


Today I am going to FULLY IMMERSE MYSELF!!!!!! How about you???????