Feeling so proud, honored, blessed, etc.

Yesterday was a very long, but good day. The day started out with a Stirring meeting for all of the small group leaders. It was amazing. I feel so proud of my church as it is growing up. Matt and I have been at The Stirring for almost 5 years now and let me tell you it has changed a lot! We are so blessed to have Dan and Alyssa part of our team, and even though they have only been here a short amount of time, the impact they are having is already so evident. (Thanks you guys!)

After the meeting we went out to lunch with our good friends Andrew and Rosetta. It was awesome. I love love love that the Lord has blessed us with SO many incredible people in our lives. The Borgics are amazing and I was so blessed by our lunch with them. God is moving in all of our lives and in our community and it's so exciting to hear what that looks like for other people. I was totally inspired by what God is teaching the Borgics and it made me what to learn more about the doctrine behind what we believe. The strawberry raspberry margaritas were also amazing! If you are a margarita fan you have to head over to Chevy's and get one of these before they are out of season!

After our lunch with the Borgics we headed over to Billy and Heather Brown's house. The Browns are amazing. Matt and Billy have been best friends for about 13 1/2 years now but in just the last year it has been SO incredible to see how God has brought the 4 of us so close. Daily I am blessed by our friendship with them and yesterday was no exception. We had a great discussion about our small group and where we feel like God is moving us for the next trimester of small groups. I am excited!!!

So a little later we headed over to the church to help Meghan sort out all of the backpacks and stuff for Erase the Dark. I was BLOWN AWAY by how much people have brought to give to the kids of Cypress School. We sorted through 75 backpacks, piles of binders, paper, pens, pencils, crayons, etc. and I was incredibly moved by the generosity of our church! Our goal is 250 backpacks but we are well on our way thanks to all of the amazing people at The Stirring!

And finally it was time for church. It was awesome!!! I don't know what God is doing to me because it seems like I am in such a time of transition but one thing is for sure--He is definitely making my softer (that's how Matt put it). Seriously I cried like 3 times during worship and church last night! What the heck? If you weren't there you really need to podcast it, check out thestirring.org.

After church the day got even better. Matt and I went home to make dinner but while dinner was cooking we sat down, by the fire, with a glass of wine, and had an AMAZING talk. We ended up encouraging one another, and then praying over one another which was SO AWESOME!!!!! And then, of course, I cried AGAIN! This month has been so hard for me but so amazing at the same time. I am so thankful and so blessed in so many ways, and I am so grateful to God for everything that he has given me in my life--the good, the bad, and the very painful. That was a lot of "so's"! :)