Summer

I really can't believe the first month of summer is almost over, time flies like crazy when you work full-time and some. Why do the semesters have to drag on forever? Pretty much my weeks have looked like this: Get up every morning Mon - Fri at 6:30am for work until around 5pm, then on Tuesdays and Thursdays go straight to Office Depot after work to work yet another 4-5 hours until 9:30pm. I have been also working 8 hour days on Saturday and Sunday every other weekend. Plus some overtime at landscaping. 70 hour week = good money. Right now I have the best of both worlds - hard work outdoors with fun equipment and country music, and interacting/helping people with stuff I know about.





New Attitude Conference in Lousville, Kentucky is this weekend! I think Na has become my most anticipated time of the year -- better than Christmas, more fun than 4th of July, and lands on Memorial Day weekend (bonus). I have been thinking and reading about how to get the most out of the coming sessions and worship and fellowship. I have found that I can sit through a loaded teaching, take great notes, feel convicted and stand during awesome times of worship, my heart feeling very close to God, breaking me to tears of sorrow at my sin and joy in Christ - but then go home very much unchanged. Sounds like a waste of time and money to me, not to mention my life. So this year I know some things have to change in order to get more from the conference. I need to be preparing my heart. I need to set aside time during the conference to meet with God by myself. I need to create time/make an effort to talk with others about what we are learning over the weekend. Most of all, I need to realize that God is in control of my life, not me. I try so hard to change myself when what I should be doing it bringing things to God and laying it all down before Him.

Please be praying for the whole group of us from Sawyer this week. We will be learning, sharing, and experiencing some important stuff - pray that it will be a time of growth individually and as our church.