There is a first time for everything.......

.....Including your first time using an outhouse. Today we went to pick my cousin up from church camp and he was at horse camp so the bathroom there was an outhouse. My almost three old nephew is working really hard at potty training so I took him to the outhouse to use the potty. Being a boy and not good at aim yet I had to remove his shorts and pull up and sit him backwards on the potty. Needless to say it was hot outside and as all outhouses do it was smelly. As he stared into the the deep abyss into which his potty was going he said that deep and its stinky. After accomplishing the great feat of putting peepee in the potty he reclothed and looking perplexed said:" Wheres the silver thingy" Try explaining to a potty training three year old that not all potties flush.

2 x4's from God

2 X 4’s From God.

This year I turned thirty and so did my church. They have been doing a series called the big three-o Noel presented us with the challenge to be in God’s word more. Paul the next week challenged us to be worshipers. The following week JR challenged us to be teachable and this last week Mark challenged us in our finances. One thing that Mark said is that how many times have we not been obedient to a direction of God because we have been fearful as to the outcome? I know of times I didn’t go on short term missions trips in high school and beyond because I didn’t know how I would raise the funds I wasn’t trusting God to provide. I have told several people that I think God wants to use my nursing for him somehow just in how he has continually been my provision through nursing school. My friend Cindy and I went to a selah concert one year and had a joke going there was something she was thinking about doing and said she would do that I am could go be a nurse at a hospital laban ministries was building in the congo. Well it may not be the congo I still sense god asking me to do something outside of my comfort zone. Just today I was talking about ships with someone and I had made the comment it would be neat to work with some place like mercy ships. Then tonight I was reading in the books called Completely His: Loving Jesus without limits. By Shannon Etheridge and she just happends to mention how the lord led her husband to be the chief financial officer of mercy ships international. And again while it might not be mercy ships I cant help but think god is calling me to something bigger than what my life is now. And in all human honesty I also feel so inadequate to be a missionary or something of the likes. But I feel the pull and for the first time in a long time I feel connected with God.

Excellent Books to read

Well its been a really long time since I have blogged. Not much has changed though, I went the LPN position at Ingham count Medical care facility and Rehabilitation services. I love my job and look forward to going to work.... Okay most days sometimes I am really tired but I do love my job. School starts back in session august 23 and I will be starting my last semester of nursing school.

Okay so as far as the really good books to read they are Velvet elvis by Rob Bell and I just started reading Sex God by Rob bell.

Church is celebrating their 30th anniversary this summer and Two weeks ago Noel gave message where he said he could almost bet those that did not have their bible with them probably didnt know where it was or it was sitting on a shelf collecting dust so I took the challenge to start reading so far I have read about Jacob and easu and the whole birth right story and I read all of ester and may I say while the movie a night with the king is a good movie to me it made it look like esther was actually trying to suduce the kings messenger and the king. I have also made it through the first six chapters of Job.

I dont know what I am doing for the fourth I am hoping to do something fun. I went to holland state park last weekend and got fried.

Well I wish I had something deep to say today but I dont if you want a good book to read its velvet elvis by rob bell.