Last week was a whirlwind and filled with such joy! Why, you may ask? It was the annual biblical counseling training conference that my current church, Faith Church, puts on every February. I was blessed to sit under 5 solid days of training sessions. My heart and head are brimming with great truth!
The second, and even better reason for the joyful whirlwind was that many friends from my home church were here for the conference. I was so blessed to see their smiling faces and spend time with them. I miss you Grace Bible Church! But, what a joy to spend a week with friends learning from the truth of God's Word, the Bible!
So, I am coming down off of an incredible week. Today begins a week returning to normalcy. Yeah, those of you who know me know how ludicrous that sounds. LOL Perhaps instead of "normalcy" I should use the phrase "typical routines". Is that better? Normal is always overrated!! :-)
What is typical? Well, I'll tell you...
Monday: a day of flexibility, laundry, house cleaning, work out, tea with a friend this week, reading, guitar playing, chiropractic visit, errand running with a resident today
Tuesday: video call to GBC counseling prayer team, work out, sit in on counseling, evening/PM shift with Helen, overnight on-call backup for my roommate
Wednesday: intern meeting, mid-day shift with Rachel, relax, pray/play guitar
Thursday: another flexible day, sleep in! - yay! (only day of the week), read, study, possibly serve, errands, pray/play guitar before bed
Friday: another flexible day, read, study, pray/play guitar before bed, overnight on-call
Saturday: mid-day shift, rest and prepare for Sunday
Sunday: Sunday school/church service, possible additional fellowship or service opportunities, once a month bible study in evening, this week I'll be working an evening/PM shift for a friend
Latest Lessons Learned:
Many hands, excellent organization/delegation, and many years of practice make a large event operate like clock-work!
The importance of local church involvement for a believer cannot be over-emphasized!!! Local church...if you don't have one, get one! What a beautiful thing!! :-)
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know!
Regarding prayer...if I don't pray much, I conclude I don't really need to. Once I begin to practice purposeful/passionate prayer, I conclude that I can't live without it and long to increase more and more.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I have arrived, yet I will never arrive...
Happy New Year! I had a clear drive on New Year's day down to Indiana. My poor new friends. After 10 1/2 hours in the car I was pretty antsy. Excitement + road fatigue + excitement + new friends + excitement + renewed blood flow to the extremities = hmmm...yep, I'd say I was rather Hammie-like. :-) Did anyone say squirrel??
Thank you so much for all your prayers for me! I have felt them! It has been a whirlwind week and the wind is still blowing. The next week will still be crazy with shadowing our shifts, learning policy, learning our jobs, moving in, and getting settled. Not to mention I'm still nursing my wounds of getting beat rather badly by my mom in cribbage. :-( Yep, got skunked one game and barely not skunked another. It took my mom to school me and put my card-playing pride back in it's place.
Looks like for January Wednesdays will be my busy day. I start at 8AM (after a night shift on Tues ending around 10:30/11P) and finish about 8:30/9PM. I'll have a bit of a break in the mornings (1 1/2 hours) a couple of the weeks. Praying for me on Wednesdays during January would be appreciated.
This post is a bit random, but I wanted to get something else posted before the week gets away from me, especially tomorrow, my first Wednesday.
Latest Lessons Learned:
If someone ever offers for you to "pop" and smell a smelling salts tube, DON'T, put it directly under your nose. You can get the idea of the item's purpose without singing the mucous membranes of your sinuses.
Chocolate fondue provides great fellowship and relationship development!
Wherever I am reading in Scripture, it is very applicable to what will face me that day!
Spend tons more energy thinking about a person's strengths, uniqueness, heart for their job, and contribution to the team than about ways in which it may seem to me that they struggle or are lacking.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Heb. 13:8)
Thank you so much for all your prayers for me! I have felt them! It has been a whirlwind week and the wind is still blowing. The next week will still be crazy with shadowing our shifts, learning policy, learning our jobs, moving in, and getting settled. Not to mention I'm still nursing my wounds of getting beat rather badly by my mom in cribbage. :-( Yep, got skunked one game and barely not skunked another. It took my mom to school me and put my card-playing pride back in it's place.
Looks like for January Wednesdays will be my busy day. I start at 8AM (after a night shift on Tues ending around 10:30/11P) and finish about 8:30/9PM. I'll have a bit of a break in the mornings (1 1/2 hours) a couple of the weeks. Praying for me on Wednesdays during January would be appreciated.
This post is a bit random, but I wanted to get something else posted before the week gets away from me, especially tomorrow, my first Wednesday.
Latest Lessons Learned:
If someone ever offers for you to "pop" and smell a smelling salts tube, DON'T, put it directly under your nose. You can get the idea of the item's purpose without singing the mucous membranes of your sinuses.
Chocolate fondue provides great fellowship and relationship development!
Wherever I am reading in Scripture, it is very applicable to what will face me that day!
Spend tons more energy thinking about a person's strengths, uniqueness, heart for their job, and contribution to the team than about ways in which it may seem to me that they struggle or are lacking.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Heb. 13:8)
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