Life through Joy's Eyes.
Working for a high school ministry is an ever evolving adventure. Today's adventure was learning the importance of fully relying on God. Buckle up. It's quite a ride. Earlier in the week, I met with my compadres about this weekend's service. There were a lot of moving parts. For one, we had the student impact ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am now blogging to you live from the site of Student Impact's annual winter camp - BLAST! We are in full swing and are getting ready for students to arrive tomorrow night! The stage is finished, lights are blasting, audio is kicking, and video is looking stellar. Over the past two ...
Not only has this past week been the first week of January, the first week of 2013, and the first week of the rest of my life, it has also been a glorious adventure. In the past week alone, I have started a new job, not been on any kind of social media, have started and ...
Many years ago, my family had a favorite chinese restaurant that we frequented. On three separate occasions, I happened to receive the fortune, "Patience is the key to all joy." If you know me very well, you'll quickly realize that patience isn't necessarily one of my strong points...which makes that fortune all the more funny. ...
This past Sunday, I was able to be a part of two beautiful forms of community: Baptism and a thanksgiving dinner with Huntley Student Impact. Both forms of community were absolutely life-giving in their own ways. Baptism is always a joy. There is nothing quite like seeing the faces of people when they come out ...
One thing that I have always loved to do is creating memories. Sometimes I do this without thinking...sometimes it takes form in non-traditional ways...other ways it is normal. But only sometimes. Two of these precious memories come from my small group of junior and senior girls at Willow Creek Huntley. Over the past year, we ...
"Courage. What makes a King out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes the Sphinx the 7th Wonder? Courage. What makes the dawn ...
