man i just took exams in both of my classes and don't even have the grades back yet and now it's finals. so this weekend will be caughting up on reading, watching the final few classes, and studying my butt off! Thank goodness i have a few days off this weekend.
as i look out my office window, the trees outside are so green -- i love this time of year - the smell of fresh cut grass, the flowers - i'm thinking i'm going to go to walmart and buy flowers to plant rather than try the seed thing again this summer. i purchased tons of flowers last week for our open house and they were nice and cheap -- not to mention i don't have to wait for them to grow to see the flowers bloom.
had an interesting week - was accused of not paying my rent and thus, almost evitted - went to the court house and found out who really owns the house i live in, pulled over in beaver and played the dumb girl thing and had the cop feel bad for me, found out that one of my worst days at krispy kreme ever was not a total waste -- the easter weekend saturday i managed to tick off a lady in drive thru resulting in a 800 complaint call and get secret shopped all in one 6 hr. shift. BUT. . . yesterday the retail and site eval. came back and wow i didn't do too bad -- although i forgot to upsell - the secret shopper had nothing but positive things to say about my service - and to to boot she nailed me both in store and through drive thru - it was nice to go in last night after some very long days there to be recongized as having done a good job. i'll admit, i was proud because that day sucked really bad - but God was in control and turned my crap into beauty. also this week, i've had the best conversations with several of my volunteers -- it's refreshing to know that God not only sends folks to help serve but also for us to minister to them as well -- I praise God for the Becky's, Paul's, and so many other volunteers who give up time, talents, and resources to just be available and to see God use them. I met Pizza Joe himself - that was cool!! who would have thought a chicken club 7" round pizza during lunch time would result in my talking with Joe who started Pizza Joe's -- he didn't have a name tag on nor did he tell me who he was but from our conversation i knew -- sharing that with Kevin was cool because i remember 5 years ago being told Kevin needed to meet that man and to know that God got ahold of Joe and now he's being discipled and is sowing into God's work - that's cool -- i began to think if maybe that's another reason i'm at the Kreme to not only have a personal witnessing ministry but also to build relationships with Johnny Paycheck and others inorder to have them meet Kevin and be used by God to sow into this ministry. -- it's funny, with in one week of each other I will celebrate 5 yrs. at the Mission and 1 yr. at Krispy Kreme -- God's got a sense of humor!
okay - this post has been so random but that's really how i feel my life has been the past month or so - randomness that leads to me seeing God in the most cool ways
tonight i get to celebrate with my friend jessica -- twins!! And I praise Him for those He has put in my life and those He has removed from my life -- it's all for His Glory. life changes, people change but God never does -- that's a promise to build on.
i can't sign off without commenting on this -- today is the national day of prayer -- i understand why we have it but shouldn't every day be a national day of prayer? shouldn't we always be communing and communicating with the Father -- Isn't that a lesson we learn and see modeled through Christ? Why is it that the lowest attended services in churches are prayer meeting if churches have them at all? now it's like me calling the kettle black - i'm not able to attend beaver's prayer meeting regularly - they are on wednesday's and i generally am working - but that doesn't stop me from praying - but i am missing out on a huge blessing -- if you've ever attended a prayer meeting - a real meeting where the spirit leads and not the clock - well. . . then you know the power that God displays through and to those doing battle on their knees! some of my precious God moments are with students in prayer or at my church with my spiritual family on our knees praying for God's leading, for God's man for our church, for healing, etc. i would have to say the best program or event i've lead at the mission was when i first started and we had to down-size. . . morale was low - God put on my heart to prayer - and weekly, 3 of us would meet before chapel at 7:30am for intercession -- how powerful!! and then where was the thursday morning prayer times on campus -- only 2-3 of us but we had sweet fellowship and most defiently we were in the presences of our Savior - kneeling at the throne of Grace even though we were in Skye Lounge. I trully believe God will not heal our land or churches until we cry out - not just for help as the children of Israel did in the time of the judges but in true heart and gut repentence - that will only happen when we bow our knees and hearts to be still and allow God to try our hearts and show us the evil and allow Him to be the Redeemer - to clean our hearts.
Let's not just pray to day but everyday!
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