Back again....

It has been ages since I have blogged, and yet, it seems as if I have a person or two that may be interested in my blog, still. I am so sorry about my laziness in blogging. I will try and be more faithful, for it always seems as if there is a lot of things that are happening and interesting things going on in life. My blogs will be shorter, so as then I could blog more often.

My husband Jon and I just got back from Bushnell, Illinois, where we had our Cornerstone festival, about our 22nd one. Everything went very well. We had great weather, good attendance, about 24,000 people or so, safety for everyone, and lots of positive music, speakers, etc. etc. I organized the children's Art Rageous tent, and helped supervise it. We were packed and ran out of supplies. My most memorable moment was when a little boy, who the day before, kept throwing rice and flour in other kids faces and had to be removed from the flour box, gave me a big hug when his mom picked him up. The second day he had such a better day, and it only took a boundary and a lot of kindness and interest in an art project that he was making, that seemed to speak volumes to him.

Often I have disliked 'social events' very much, and other times not. I had a social moment that I did not like at all, got my feelings hurt and excused myself from the scene. I prayed and this is what I came out with, which I felt was from God. I just needed to know that God was hearing me and that I could hear from Him. I found these Scripture verses, that really did speak to me. In Psalm 139:2 & 3, it says, " You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down, You are familiar with all my ways".
Then I read, "He was a man of suffering and familiar with pain. Surely He took up our pain bore our suffering". Isaiah 53:3 & 4. (So, God is with me in those moments, and understands my pain, and where I have come from). Last of all, and most reproving. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of the others". "In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind, Christ Jesus had: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God, something He used to His advantage". Philippians 2: 3-6. Hopefully, in the next social event that I am not comfortable with, I will remember these words, God is with me, He understands where I come from, but be interested in others interests, don't worry about myself. You just never stop learning or growing......