Time Out for Women!

Congratulations NICCI!!

November 24!! That isn't very long for you to get up here and visit!! :)

Nicci, are you going to live in the dorms or with Erika?

Of course we will say an extra prayer for them and their families. I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't believe it when people do that. It makes me sick!

Okay on to sometime a little lighter...Time Out for Women.
It was AMAZING!!
First, our little church bookstore, the one and only, had a giveaway! Guess who won?!! Yup me!! I won Hilary Weeks (she's a church singer) book about the background behind some of her songs! (She writes her own songs.) She was AWESOME!

You guys know I don't cry very often, Hilary made me cry! With her song, If I Only Had One More... it made me realize how much I take for granted. I'm going to try and find the lyrics for the next post.

I'm going to share some of the main points from all the talks. They were all so wonderful and I highly recommend it to EVERYONE!

Questions can be powerful. What makes more of an impact... I love you versus Why am I so blessed to have you? You look great vs Have you lost weight?
Our beliefs are embedded in the questions we ask ourself. Do I love me? Am I fat?
Two most important questions we can ask ourselves are...
What Beholdest Thou? meaning 'What do you see?' What emotionally, physically, and spiritually, do you see?
2. What do you want out of it? This can even be as simple as deciding where to go on vacation. Your question shouldn't be 'Where do you want to go?' It should be What do you want to get out of it? Then plan your vacation from there. It will be a much better time for your family.

You can put this in your pocket for all those times you guys debate over the church! (haha haha!) But it's an interesting fact. No other organization (church, business, government, etc) of people has as much leadership with WOMEN in the world! (I think the most common thing that I've heard bad about the church is that it doesn't involve women. Now stick that in your bonnet and suck it!)

Eve is the Mother of all living things BEFORE she bore a child. That's the start of our church beliefs.

Mother guilt=bad. Do you feel guilty when it snows? Then why would you feel guilty over things you can't control like other people's actions.

If you start with high difficulty, you get higher scores even if you mess up. So what if we had degrees of difficulty on our life. We don't get to see the degree of difficulty on our or other people's life. We can't judge.

Do caterpillars know they are going to become a butterfly, or does God want to surprise them? (Do we know what we are going to be or is God going to surprise us?)


OK so I think that's enough for right now. If you want more thoughts, let me know. I have 1.5 day left! :)

Julie- are you craving anything with this one?