too much fun, all i can say

Tearing out carpet/gettin fiberglass all ovr you/breakn a wall down a few walls/meetin a little kid we named bubba/makin videos, spencer actn like a news anchor/serving hot meals/bagging bread/taking a nice shower after gettin dirty/going out to supper/having a nice yummy diet coke/playn lazor tag (grls dominated no joke)/riden down a kiddy slide/playn putt putt/ me, spenc, jonny p beatn justin so we got starbucks @ 11 pm/fat-free white chocalte mocha/playn hide-n-go seek till 2am/being dared to dress like moses/chuggin energy drinks @2am.
This is a big summary of what you call a fun fulfilled day of 247! our sayin is work out but play hard too! we literally have not had a dull moment yet!
Gods done so much jus within our team since we’ve been here, always go go go and were tired but continue to just serve the people here! I’m excited to watch our team grow not only together thru this but to grow within our relationship w/ him! such an amazing opportunity here! Cant wait to share more, but for now I’m goin try to chill maybe catch a bit of sleep!

Add a comment September 27, 2008

day 1 of hurricane relief!

16 hrs in a van plus 1 dramine equals a butt load of sleep! i read one chapter of a book and then was out for the rest of the trip! i would get up for stops and thats about it, and to eat! we finally made it to houston around 430am and jus parked it in a random parking lot and just slept till 7ish
we finally made it to the church we are stayn @ around 9. we started off w/ a little team mana time, a little nap…yes i slept yet again for an hr. we served meals from the church then that afternoon went and took meals to families. its beyond bad here! since i moved to florida one of my prayers have been what breaks your heart God I want it to break mine..and how you see people i want to see it too…well today i got a glimpse of it! its like u drive past one house is gone and the neighbors is still standing! tons of hurting people and many homes gone, but prayerfully we can bring light into this hurting world!
i’m a really selfisj being but today and jus being here your focus doesnt even begin on urself its all about them…its been cool to see my grls grasp the same thing too! update soon!

Add a comment September 25, 2008

Two weeks in a nutshell!

We are two weeks into 247!!  Its been a blast but some of the biggest challenges thats indeed!  I love love love my team!  The girls are wonderful, sometimes I feel as if they encourage me more than I do them!  Such a lifegiving group!  The guys on the team are halarious, no joke!  First morning of workouts John screams HEY GIRL HEY and you have to hear the voice to even get it so y’all prolly don’t think its that “funny”!  Our team is already working so well together, bonding, team building activities, it literally blew me away watching them work as a team so quickly! 

We had a low ropes and high ropes course a this past monday.  We played had a blast!  Everyone was so determined to get thru each event, because most teams would’ve given up when they couldn’t figure it out.  247 slogan is 247 NEVER STOPS!  So we don’t stop until we get it.  One of the greatest memories of the high ropes was Eberly (EBZZZZ) and Lindy climbing the latter thing and halfway up they were stopping and having a hard time, so all of us on the bottom thought oh they are quitting but they finished and they finished strong.  As they helped one another up and just encouraged one another was the coolest thing alive to watch!  I couldn’t have done it w/o JONNY P!!!  I’m being serious too, I hate heights, big time fear!  But he’s 6’5 atleast and would boost me up and then he’d jump up, I only had to help him once! 

Goodness I miss home like no other though!  I just realized I have two months from wedenesday until I getta be home for Thanksgiving yay!!!!!!!!  I can’t believe it! I’m so ready to see friends and fam!  I love the support each of you have given me though!  It means more than y’all will ever know.  Whether its an email, a text, a phone call, a package (mommy) whatever it has been, its been a blessing to me! 

Each day is a new day here!  Somedays amazing, some days your sad!  But each day is to make an impact in someone elses life!  Its been a fun/challenging journey but without bumps in our lives it wouldn’t be as much fun right!!  Growing each day to love it more and more!

Going to Texas for Hurrican relief!  We leave tomorrow so please be praying for us and just the heart of the people we will impact tomorrow!!

Add a comment September 22, 2008

Making the most of every opportunity

I have started to call Florida HOME, its kinda weird but the BEST feeling to now say I am at HOME!!! I still miss Arkansas,home, friends and family but its starting to be a family here!  I have started making friends and loving life here!  I get to ride my bike to the beach whenever I feel the need too!  I live one mile from the beach kinda crazy but amazing!!  So over the past two weeks its been amazing to just find a place of contentment for once!  God is so goood!!!

So we start 247 officially with the first years tomorrow!  I couldn’t be more than excited, been ready for this day for a really LONG TIME!!  I just know that God is going to do amazing things is so many peoples lives!!  I’m ready to run this race with all my team!!

Add a comment September 8, 2008

Becoming comfortable in an uncomfortable place

Greetings from Florida!  Each day is a new day to rejoice in the day he has made for us!  I just continue to have to cling to him and his will.  Its been a challenging week, I miss home like crazy, when I see pictures or talk to people I get overwhelmed but then I have to refocus myself to know this is where I’m called for this season of life!  Its exciting, fun, scary, anxious days, all the above!  Learning to trust in our God has been amazing for me because I have never had to trust and allow him to rule fully over my life until now!  His is a scripture Lyndie gave me one day this week when I was struggling!  I really meditate on it day and night now!  Maybe you guys will find comfort through it also!! 

Psalm 25

Of David.

 1^[a] To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

 2 in you I trust, O my God.
       Do not let me be put to shame,
       nor let my enemies triumph over me.

 3 No one whose hope is in you
       will ever be put to shame,
       but they will be put to shame
       who are treacherous without excuse.

 4 Show me your ways, O LORD,
       teach me your paths;

 5 guide me in your truth and teach me,
       for you are God my Savior,
       and my hope is in you all day long.

 6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,
       for they are from of old.

 7 Remember not the sins of my youth
       and my rebellious ways;
       according to your love remember me,
       for you are good, O LORD.

 8 Good and upright is the LORD;
       therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

 9 He guides the humble in what is right
       and teaches them his way.

 10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
       for those who keep the demands of his covenant.

 11 For the sake of your name, O LORD,
       forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

 12 Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD ?
       He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.

 13 He will spend his days in prosperity,
       and his descendants will inherit the land.

 14 The LORD confides in those who fear him;
       he makes his covenant known to them.

 15 My eyes are ever on the LORD,
       for only he will release my feet from the snare.

 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
       for I am lonely and afflicted.

 17 The troubles of my heart have multiplied;
       free me from my anguish.

 18 Look upon my affliction and my distress
       and take away all my sins.

 19 See how my enemies have increased
       and how fiercely they hate me!

 20 Guard my life and rescue me;
       let me not be put to shame,
       for I take refuge in you.

 21 May integrity and uprightness protect me,
       because my hope is in you.

 22 Redeem Israel, O God,
       from all their troubles!

We have to thank God for everything and all circumstances even when we are uncomfortable!!  Thanks for all the support and prayers!!  Love yall and miss you guys ARKANSAS!!

I LEFT MY HEART WAY BACK IN ARKANSAS (247 MOXIE 07-08)

2 comments September 1, 2008

New Home in Florida

I really don’t know where to even begin.  I left on Thursday and got to Florida Friday.  What a journey it has been!  Many challenges already!  My parents left this morning, not fun, but God has given me alot of strength to deal with it!  Its not going to be easy at all and I know that!  I truly am blessed!

Add a comment August 24, 2008

The Goodbyes have Started!!!!

As I looked back on my last post about being emotionally driven, I start to think about all the goodbyes that have started!   I said bye ot my best friend who left for college yesterday.  Wednesday I told alot of the Real-lifers in Maumelle (Greater Little Rock for some of you) bye, Thursday I did the same and it’s a whole lot harder than I ever had dreamed of.  I knew this would be a challenge but didn’t realize what type of challenge it would be and I guess you could say I’m trying to figure it out ha  

Reality did hit not just telling people  BYE but also Wednesday my daddy bought him and my mom their plane tickets home for next Sunday, I WAS LIKE WOW, I’m really leaving!  Not much of a point here but the goodbyes have started!  Hopefully I will get to say bye to most of you!!  I think I need to go pack!  Been packing little by little and its not half way done maybe it is!!

Add a comment August 16, 2008

IN a worldwind

Over the past two days I feel like a world-wind has just swept me up and gotten a bit distracted or should I say a very strong attack from the enemy!  Its been a challenge but just learning through it all and knowing how sovereign our God is will keep me trucking along each day at a time!! 

Well tonight at elevation we happened to watch the video of Christine Caine when she came and spoke last week at our services.  I almost left just because I had listened to her like 3 times all together last weekend and heard it all!  But as I walked out to get water the Spirit spoke to me that I needed to go hear it once again!  I was like OKAY God what do you want to show me.  I’m pretty stubborn and want my way or the high way or my time!  So I walked back in and was like OKAY now what!  Well as I listened to Christine once again fro the 4th time now, I realized that God wanted to remind me of somethings!!!  And forsure He did so.  Here are a few things that I took out of listening a few times to the same message:

We give up on big dreams because they get too hard and they are even visions and dreams that God gives us, and I feel like somedays I compeletely believe Gods going to use me in a “big” way and other days I don’t, but all I do know is that I have to strive and live for my dreams and visions!  Hes going to do it but in HIS TIMING.

She talked about 12 years of being abused and that part of her story but said she gives God the glory for not being abused for 30 years and the freedom she lives in now!  We always go back to our past and think about all the crap we have been through but don’t rejoice as much for the freedom and things he has brought us through! I know I don’t and need to more daily!!!!!!

What legacy am I leaving??  Have I given up and thrown my leg of the race away?  Am I living a mediocre life??  Am I seeking God fully???  Have I given up because its too hard??  Just tons of things going through my mind tonight to just seek through and pray through. 

I hope that this will encourage each of you just to see who and what your living for!!  Gods got HUGE plans for each of you and will use each of you even when you don’t feel equipped because he has equipped each of us to share his word!!!  Okay peace out for the night!!!

1 comment August 4, 2008

A Bittersweet Time

As today its August 1, never thought this day would come.  I remember thinking that I had 3 months before I moved, well now I have 20 days!  Its such a bittersweet time to be honest!  I’m getting so anxious and ready to just do it!  Instead of oh I have this many days!  God has been moving in my life more than I ever thought he would.  To get really real with life this summer has been a very dry time with my intimacy with God.  I had fought it alot and would not seek him completely then finally two weeks ago I just broke!  It has been the best few weeks just seeking God more than ever before.  I had to come to this time of brokenness to fully seek Him and surrender all things to Him!!  I truly live my life with no regrets, as challenging as it might be at times I have loved everybit of it (after its all said and done). 

So I have started to pack my bags for this new journey and season of life!  I just ask for many prayers for my family and their peace with the situation living 18 hours away from HOME, me to seek his kingdom first and foremost, have confidence in the leader Christ has made me to be, a heart to lead girls and equip them to be mighty women of God, the families and people we will reach, and many more.  I appreciate each of my family and friends who are so supporter and a true blessing in my life and my calling!!

Will keep you all posted throughout these next 9 months!!

Hugs

whit

Add a comment August 1, 2008