Winter Conference - 'Illuminate'

Glenn are you eagerly waiting or something? I've been meaning to get to it, but this whole being sick thing has interfered.

It was quite the interesting week. I got to share the room with 3 other girls. Some food went bad, but other than that most things ran smoothly. The speaker was great and I'm actually interested in visiting his church when I get a chance. I was a bit surprised with how many things God had obviously pieced together without my knowledge. I prayed about which seminars I should go to on the first day and to my amazement I ended up using what I learned in the 'How to share the Spirit Filled Life' seminar when I was doing 'outreach' the next day. Outreach was good. The intimidation wore off after the first couple people. I even ended up switching contacts with the person that I had been witnessing with.

I got several comments from people who enjoyed watching me worship. I was particularly stunned by one such comment:

I watched you on New Years as you praised God through dance in the corner..it was BEAUTIFUL. I was so touched watching you...really what a gift!!! I'm sure that God was so honoured by your praise... I pointed you out to my roommate and she said she was almost brought to tears. Thank you for making my desire to praise God greater!

AHHHHHHH!!!! Why would anyone want to watch me? That's like stepping in on a private moment between me and God. It's okay, I'll forgive them and pretend like they weren't watching (for my sake). It seems like I may actually be having more of an impact than I thought. To think that my unplanned and uncoordinated movements (that at times nearly cause me to fall over) are actually capable of having a positive effect on people...okay...so I knew that much because I've had plenty of comments before, but I never really thought too much about it. I guess to some people it could be a big deal.

And moving on, here is something that I wrote during the week and I fail to remember what it was, so I will be just as shocked reading it as you are:

Thank You God for this day of sharing and how encouraging it was. Thank you for the opportunity to pray for others. Thank you for pairing me with Heather. Thank you for this quiet time alone with you. Thank you that you have a divine plan. Thank you for showing me a life of prayer and how to direcr everything to you. Thank you for showing me to thank you for the opportunities that you give me and to remember that my success and failure is found in you. Thank you for the encouragement that I had today. Thank you for showing me how I can still get closer to You. Thank You for preparing me for this time of evangilism. God, I place my heart before you.

Hmmmm... I don't think I'll ever write like that again. Not that I wrote anything bad or wrong. Simply that it reminds me of how much last week was a week of change and that I'm constantly changing, never again the same person...so I couldn't write that if I tried. In conclusion I'd like to thank Jesus for His contribution to the week. I plan to write more later about New Years and the adventures that came alone with that.