Getting Out of the Pit

I wrote the following late last night. I was too tired to finish so instead of posting I saved it. I will give you more thoughts at the bottom.
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Wow. What an awesome God I serve. Words really can't describe just how wonderful He is. I know I fail to even try too many times. However, today I was reminded. My God is phenomenal. He did some mighty works today.

Today, our church hosted Beth Moore Live Via Satelite. We were one of about 500 churches across North America. In all, there were about 150,00 women (mostly anyway) all gathered to worship God at the same time. Very powerful.

We began planning this event just under 2 months ago. Not very long at all considering the magnitude of an event like this. But God totally ordained this event. He called one of our ladies to head this up. And she was obedient to His will. He certainly blessed because of it.

We had some obstacles in our way. This biggest being this was a satelite broadcast--LIVE--and there was potential for bad weather to interfere. And in case of inclement weather, the alternate plan was a high speed internet broadcast. Guess what our "high speed" internet is: satelite. That's all we can get in little bitty Central City (other than dial-up). So pretty much we would be outta luck if inclement weather arose. Which if any of you paid attention to the weather today, it was bad. But we had been praying all along for 1. good weather and if not 2. a clear broadcast. Today, during the first worship session, the satelite did go out briefly. But we all starting praying-Shaun laid hands on the satelite equipment-and it came back...and stayed on! Praise God!

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Whew! What a day. I was curious as to how I would feel the "morning after" such an awesome event. If it was just a mountain-top experience, or really life-changing. I guess I won't know if it's life-changing or not until later, but I will say this: the devil tried really hard to get me down this morning. I didn't get much sleep (thanks Cayson!) and I woke up with a sore throat. I was in a foul mood. However today actually turned out to be an awesome day. I had to make the decision that I was going to worship my God despite my weak flesh. God is good.

Now, more about yesterday. The thing that I thought was so neat about yesterday was how the weather reflected the state of our spiritual selves. When we arrived, it was dark and gloomy, with storms all over the place. There were also many women who were facing their own storms. Including a lady sitting in front of me. I have no idea what was going on with her, but I knew she was broken. Rhonda, our leader, had us sitting at the back so that we could see everyone and be able to pray for those that might be visibly needing it. So I began praying for her. I prayed for her all day. The message was "Get Out of that Pit". Anyway, by the end of the day, during the third session, she made the comment "The storm is over." I assume she meant her spiritual storm. Then I glanced at the door and beautiful sunlight was pouring in. So many women were set free from bondage and the sunlight was such a beautful picture of that transformation.

God really brought a lot to my attention, as well, but that's for another blog, another day! Goodnight everyone and have a great week!

Random happenings

Yay! Cayson is sitting in a high chair now! Well, actually it's not an actual high chair. It's a booster seat that straps into a chair and it has a tray like a high chair. It works just as well and doesn't take up near as much room. Anyway, he is doing so great. And he knows that when he gets strapped in that it's feedin' time!

Speakin' of feedin', tonight we found something that Cayson does NOT like: peas! I really don't blame him, either. He made the funniest face. I hated to laugh at him, but it was too cute. He won the battle tonight, but we're going to try again tomorrow night.

In other news, our student ministry room is almost finished! This picture is taken from the cafe area that we created. If you can't tell, the ceiling is black, walls are bright red, the "chair rail" is sheet metal, and the floors are hard wood. In the cafe area, one of our church members, who is a contractor, took plaster and "bricked" the walls. It looks and feels like brick, but it's really not! How cool is that?

This is one of the entrances to the cafe area. Notice the "brick".

This has been such a long and drawn out project. It's nice to know it's almost done. And best of all, our kids are getting excited about it.

Well, I guess that's it for tonight. Oh, wait, I have to brag on my hubby for a minute. He's so good to me! For Valentine's day he woke me up with breakfast in bed. He served me eggs, bacon, waffles, and this:

It's a journey necklace. I was very, very surprised!

Ok, now I'm done! Goodnight all!

I love this picture. It's a little bit hard to tell in the picture, but Cayson is so ticklish! Especially on the neck and when you have lots of facial hair like his daddy does! He was laughing so hard! Very cute!

Here's another picture so you can see how much he's grown. He's up to 19 pounds now! Oh, and that's his newest outfit...his daddy picked it out for him!

Pray for me

Please! I really miss my family. I haven't seen them in little over a month now. I'm still not used to that. It's just hard to get away; especially when we have to be back for church on Sunday. Plus, with gas the way it is, we just can't afford to go a lot. So remember me in your prayers, please!

Cayson Updates

Sorry it's been so long since I posted. I haven't been able to collect my thoughts lately. I've had some good ideas for a few posts, but just a lack of energy to put much more thought into it. So, like Suzanne over at Joyful Chaos, you just get an update.

We started Cayson on carrots this past week! It's his first vegetable. At first he didn't act like he liked them, but after he got used to it, he did pretty good. We started green beans last night. It actually went pretty well.

Also, here's some pretty exciting news: Cayson sat up by himself for several minutes last night! In this picture, he's kind of leaning forward a bit, but he definitely sat straight up for a little while! I'm so proud! And an added bonus was that it happened while talking to my parents via web cam. They got to witness the whole thing.

Now, for my weekly-ish question. I cannot get Cayson to take a bottle. It's not too big of a deal, except I can't really leave him with anyone for an extended period of time. And it's not that I want to leave him a lot, but there are a few occassions that it would be nice if I could have a babysitter. Our bi-monthly outreach night is one example. He won't even take one if I'm not in the room. And we tried to introduce a sippy cup. He liked it at first, but hasn't liked it since. So, any ideas?