Soo...life these days!
I am soo excited to have the summer off of work! mainly because it allows me to spend more time with my little darling who is growing WAY to fast, but also because it allows me to get more involved with youth!
One of Tyler and my goals for this summer was to start a Bible study just for the seniors that graduated this year! Let me tell you, IM SOO EXCITED!!! we met for the first time yesterday and it was SOO awesome. I feel myself drawn to college students more and more in the last few years, and older high schoolers. Probably since I only graduated a few years ago, but mainly because when you go to college you face soo many changes and different people. Tyler and I really wanted to help these kids prepare for the hard lifestyle of going to a University where Christian living is a minority of the students, and help them be able to stand up for themselves when faced with hard questions about their faith. Seriously our discussion during the study yesterday made me want to be like, ok we are meeting EVERYDAY!!! They are just so ready to soak up the information, the Word, and have a sincere desire to serve God daily!
Of course I am just loving this group of kids, which only means one thing! A RETREAT!!! Tyler and I thought, you know this group of seniors we were able to meet and see grow since Middle school. We are really gonna miss them this fall, so why don't we take a trip with just them this summer. SO DISNEY HERE WE COME!!! Thanks to lots of weddings, and generous youth leaders, we are taking several of the students to Disney next week for a day and a half.
If you know me at ALL you know that i am infatuated with Disney, so I am beYOND excited to get to go, relax, and have more awesome discussions with these kids at the condo we are staying at. I know God is gonna do some great things and reveal Himself to all of us in a new way.
For example, yesterday during our discussion God revealed to me a time in my life when i was pursuing Him so closely that His Holy Spirit was leading me, without my even realizing it. I was in my teens and was planning to go on a missions trip to Trinidad with several other people from my church. It was going to be my first missions trip and I was BEYOND excited...to begin with. As the date for us to leave got closer, my heart and mind began to change. I lost my excitement, and had this very negative feeling about the trip, like i WASNT supposed to go. (Of course this was very confusing to me at the time, but I can see now what was happening). Anyway, literally the DAY before we were to leave something happened with several of the team members, and my sisters and i did not go on the trip.
Honestly, i thought at the time I was just to scared, but yesterday talking with our small group we were discussing how the more time you spend with God and the Holy Spirit, the more in tune you will be to hearing His voice in your life. And it hit me! I know and remember that in that period of my life, i was very strong spiritually and that God was very real and close to me. And I realize now, that those negative feelings I had before that trip, was the Spirit showing me something was not right! Can I tell you how EXCITED I was yesterday to see that for the first time?
There have been many times in my life when I felt God leading me directly through something..and it is ALWAYS exciting to see it or realize it was His hand moving me.!!! LOVE IT!!!
ok..thats all for now...following Him step by step. kat
