painting

I have found myself extremely stressed out the last couple of days. So I decided to turn Chris Botti up as loud as I could while I painted. It's been a while since I have created something. Whether it be a painting or designing stuff for the church. So it was so nice to be able to enjoy great music and an empty canvas just waiting for me to dive into a world of color. I don't paint often but when i do I love it. And my paintings mean so much to me. I'm not an artist but I do love trying. Someone asked me today if I would ever sell my paintings and i don't think I could. In some ways my paintings are just the illustrations of what God is speaking to me. And I'm glad that He and I share that. Well here are my three latest ones...

I really need to keep up with my blog...But I really don't have anything exciting goin on right now. Most of my life consists of church stuff which is fine for now.We had an awesome service yesterday. We finally had good weather. That last couple of weeks the weather was so bad all the churches in our community shut down accept us. But, only about 50 to 75 people came. Which was good and yet we are used to the 200 that come so it just felt empty until this last week. It was great seeing everyone again. It was almost like everyone went on vacation and decided to come back on the same day. Two people gave their live to the Lord which is awesome and we had some great ministry time and that was before the sermon. It is just great being a part of something that you know God has His hand on. And now it's Monday and Sunday feels like it's tomorrow. There is so much to be done. So......I'm going to quit writing so I can be productive. Until next time : D

New Room

I've been living in the house that I'm at right now for about 6 months now. The room that I call mine was a boys room before my. It had sport stuff everywhere on the walls. along with a life size thing of Michael Vick. My dog was not a fan of it. Anyway last night I decided enough was enough so I gave in a makeover Holly's Edition. so hear are the before pics.

Here are the after pics. Enjoy...Lindey....

Runaways

Anna and I ran away yesterday. We went to Grand Rapids for the day. It was awesome. We shopped at Target Anna went to T.J. Max ('cause I refused to go... it's not my favorite store) and then we went to a Japanese restaurant called Tokyo Grille. It is definitely on my favorite list. There food is incredible and I'm always craving the sushi. Well, Anna had never been before and I knew she would like it so I took her there. She was boarder line embarrassing. 

When she get's excite about what she is eating she 

doesn't talk with her inside voice. She kept going on and on about her food but seriously after a while i told to at least lower her voice. it didn't work. Anyways....... then we went to the mall. pitiful I know but when you don't have a mall that's closer than an hour away you always make a point to go. So we did. Then we saw a movie and headed home. It was a relaxing day. We should have more of them. It is still cold up here and yet we are having a warm day. The sun is out (which is rare) and it is so beautiful. It's only 28 degrees and we have about 14 to 16 inches of snow. I really haven't been enjoying it lately but today it beautiful.

God in the city

You know I've never been one for church functions, probably cause I've been to a lot of them. But I didn't think I had a choice since I work at the church that's having the function. Tonight we had a dinner for all the new people that have been coming to our church for January. We had about 45 people show up. They came with their spouse or they came with their whole family. I had a blast. I finally got to meet some people that I didn't even know went to our church. Sunday mornings I rarely get to talk to a lot of people just because we are singing when they all come in and/or I'm play as they leave. As we went around the room introducing ourselves I was amazed at the different stories everyone was bringing to the table. It was so refreshing to hear these people say things like. "A friend of mine just told me to try you guys out once and I did and I haven't left since."  or "I have been really hurt by church people in the past and I didn't know if I could trust a church again until I can here." or "I got saved the first Sunday I came and the next week I brought my sister and she got saved. I've never felt so loved by a church." I can't tell you how encouraged I am. I underestimate what we (the church staff) do every week. It is totally worth it. Everyone that came was so excited when they left. They heard our heart for our community. As I'm sitting here I'm listening to a song by Chris Tomlin that states exactly how I feel.  "greater things are yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city." God is doing some great things here. 

Blogging..... You know I've never been one to write. But I'm trying to change that. 

I guess I'll consider this a diary of my great adventures that are full of life's challanges and you are invited to read. What is life if you can't share it with others.      -H