Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ok, Ok, so I've shown a really pathetic commitment to blogging but I'm going to try to make a come back. Thank you Brienne for your patience and encouragment!

I have a million things I want to write about but fortunatley for you, I've shortened the list.

First of all I just want to begin this post by saying I am extremely proud of Jase! He graduated from seminary last month and not only finished but finished well. He makes it so easy to be a proud and grateful wife.

In light of graduation we have really been spending a lot of time talking and praying about the future. We are so ready to start pouring our lives into international students, and I am so hungry to really disciple some other hungry girls. There are times when I feel like I want to explode, but I quickly remember there are reasons why we are right where we are right now. Someone at church asked me this morning if I was disappointed that our plans for Memphis were not coming along as quickly as I was hoping they would, and I thought -some days yes, but most of the time God lets me remember not to be disappointed in anything that He has ordained. I need to be ready to rejoice even if it means sitting in the waiting room for a long time. He has always been so gracious and faithful to us that it would be hard, much less ignorant to question His purposes now. We are thankful for whatever He decides to do with us, and whenever He decides to do it.

Last weekend we decided to get away for a few days to really spend some time with the Lord so we stayed at a little lodge in Granbury. We spent most of the time just reading and praying and it was such a blessing to my soul, and I think to our marriage as well. While we were there we had some guests who just refused to stay away....

We did feed them a couple times after they showed up and jason even managed to teach them to jump and eat from his hand or catch it in mid air. It really was a lot of fun...
The lodge we stayed at was great, as well as cheap which just made it that much greater. We had this nice view....




So it really was a great weekend and we were thankful for the intimate time we were able to spend with the Lord.

Also wanted to show my latest "trash to treasure" project-
We were driving one day and saw four of these ugly chairs on the side of the road just waiting for the dumpster to pick them up- but since they were in great shape structurally I decided I would try to save them- so the before shot....

then after a little painting and "distressing"- it now has a "shabby chic" style...



Well this post became fairly long unintentionally so I'll go ahead and save the rest of my ramblings for later.

3 comments:

brienne said...

yea for blogging and WELCOME BACK! i so look forward to reading. AND superb job on the chairs! do you a corresponding table?!?!

Robin said...

so glad you're blogging again. i love the chairs!! did you cover them? my chairs are in desperate need of recovering b/c of a certain boy named noah :)

Becky said...

awesome chairs!! I'm gonna come sit in them one day...and maybe steal them for my own house. :-)