Pretty

My home is full of these yummy fall colored arrangements... no they are not my work. My precious and very talented Mom came for a wedding this weekend and left her mark all over my house. I LOVE fall and fall colors and more importantly, I love my mom!

A family friend of ours was married at Camp Marannook this weekend and I was able to reap the benefits. I had a whole weekend of my mom to myself and she brought lovely gifts of oranges, pinks, reds, and yellows that now cover my home. Thanks mom for an absolutely beautiful weekend of quality time, quality talks, and lots of laughing. I am so blessed by your friendship!

Fall is here... and so are mid-terms for the students I meet with, we are deep into football season and therefore just weeks away from Thanksgiving and Christmas. Where does the time go? I just can't believe how quickly time passes. Next weekend we (Court and I) are welcoming into town some very beloved friends and a full weekend of plans. I promise to have some more substance to the blog here in the next couple of weeks... more than sparsely written Thankful Mondays. Pictures of pretty flowers will have to do for now...

Thankful Monday #2

Today I have been almost giddy... T-48 hours and I will be looking at this over my balcony!

I have worked the past 5 Saturdays in a row and this Saturday my friends... I will NOT be working. I will be at the BEACH!!! For my sanity, my health and to salvage my soul and my brain I have to leave Auburn for a short time. The first few days will be just me and Mom. Oh how I cherish our time and this will be no different. Mom is going to teach me to smock! Some of the other things we will be doing while we are there: reading, sleeping, eating, sleeping, time in the word and did I say sleeping?

Dad, Trey and Kat and maybe Court (please, pretty please) will join us Thursday night! I plan to consume lots of seafood, a mojito from Bud and Alley's, Manicotti from Angelina's, and that's just to start the week. My excitement about this trip is slightly over the top. I have never been so ready for a vacation... work sure does put vacations into perspective!

So, on this drab rainy Monday I am thankful for rest, relaxation and the ability and the means to go to the beach!!!!!!!!!

God is so Good.

"Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." - Psalm 100:4-5

This morning I have felt the overwhelming presence of the Lord and his faithfulness. The Lord is so GOOD! I don't really know why or what sparked it... but He is good! My life these past 5 weeks have been needless to say BUSY. I prayed all summer for people and more work and things to do and goodness did he answer my prayers, tenfold. However, amidst the overwhelming days and nights, He has been so faithful. People ask me all the time, "What is like to live in Auburn? I would love it!' and "Don't you just love your job?'" The answers to both of those questions are YES! It's not that's its easy to live in Auburn as a single adult... by the way people, it's not game day 24/7, but I love that I get to meet and share the gospel with students EVERYDAY!!! Yes, I do love my job! It is really a lot of fun, but its not the job that gets me out of bed each morning, its the people I come in contact with and those whom I get to share with about Christ. I love the privilege of being a disciple for Christ!

I don't know what really led to this post except the blog is a little empty and I think I just needed to tell someone how truly great our God is... all the time... no matter what! Students lives are being changed in Auburn... I am loving having a front row seat watching Him work! Please continue to pray that the Lord would bring students to Himself, that He would use those of us "Old Folks" that are still here to raise up laborers for Christ and that He would be GLORIFIED in all that we do and say. God is working and moving and for that I am so thankful! Thankful He is letting me be a part of it all!

If you want to hear some cool stories of what He is doing in Auburn... go here and here. These people truly are the hands and feet of Christ!

"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." - Matthew 28: 18-20