I decided the site could use some change...for fall! :) Hopefully it's actually clearer, and larger to read.
Yesterday I spent a few hours at Bethel! Yea! I haven't been doing that so much lately so it was very cool. I went to chapel because Caedmon's Call was there. Met up with my pal Alan for that- good to see him- so proud of the Bethel freshman! :) Then I went downstairs cuz I was gonna hang out with Tate Watts with his BSC booth. When I got there he was talking to Mike Loween! Yea! Never get to see that boy. The three of us had some cool conversation. I was encouraged. Tate had mentioned to Mike that there was a camp program director position open at another camp and Mike said that he was just waiting for God as what to do next with his life. Well, he even made a comment like, "like Sara, and now she's a full blown youth pastor!" This kid knows...and I haven't thought on lengths on this, but it is something always worth remembering. If you wait on the Lord, even for years, He will answer that in ways you never imagined it. Ever since spring of my senior year (2002) I had no clue what was going to happen with my life. But that was okay for me. God doesn't want us to make our own plans for life. We might have to make choices here and there, but what He really wants is for us to be sensitive to His calling. And all along that way, He will take care of us. I know this is true for me in so many ways, and also for Mike. He blesses us in SO MANY WAYS!!!! In Mike's waiting (and I hope he doesn't mind me sharing about his life!) he has had the opportunity to work in Korea and travel to other countries around there, spend time with his family (including a new nephew and mom with MS), work with his home church, and now this summer, get married! I wish that we all would be able to surrender to God's will and not giving into the pressures of what this world expects from us. Something I got out (thought of in a fresh way) of a conference last week is that if we love God, He will give us what we want. Now that doesn't mean to give lip service and say, "I love You God, now give me this." It's about truly falling in love with Him so much that you actually want what He wants for you, so of course He will give it to you. It's something you can really understand when you experience it.
I was also encouraged in the fact that though I rarely talk to Mike these days and he has a married life, he knows my journey and continues to encourage it He brings up things that I forget. He was right on the button about saying that I was waiting on God for so long and now I've got a great thing. I went "oh yeah, I did email him a lot in those days" and he paid attention. He would write to gently remind me to seek God because He is in control. Not because I didn't know it, but all of us need those reminders. Talking to him briefly yesterday was refreshing. So, thanks friend, and that was my rambling for the day.
So yup, then I hung out with Tate to help him recruit for awhile. Good times. It's gonna be way hard for me to not be there next summer! Then I was off to drive, and off to youth group.. Great day!
Today and tomorrow I am going to Youth Leader conference through Bethel Wahoo! Should be great! I love having days off from the bus company! ;)
Later!