This and That
It was strange to be in chapel without Mike today.
We did begin our Religious Education program today. We break for the summer. We have a wonderful new volunteer who I think is going to do an awesome job. This was a paid position until our funding was cut thanks to well….”budget cuts” and decisions to disallow chapel programs to use appropriated funds any longer. This is a HUGE job and I’m very thankful that we have Debbie who stepped up to the plate. The youth will take the responsibility to put on a little puppet show each Sunday. Today was hilarious when Debbie’s daughter leaned on the “screen” and it fell over….revealing Steve and Debbie H’s son Steven….. Oh a Zanderism….we pulled up to chapel and he said, “I don’t want to go to church. Those people are always in my business.” Goodness….what business and what an attitude…I know how to pray.
We went out to lunch with Steve and Debbie H and their boys after Sunday school.
I made ice cream for tonight. I spent time in I John. Jamin made caramel popcorn for the girls to take on their upcoming trip.
We went back to church again for the contemporary service at 6:00. Bre sang a solo tonight - unexpectedly. It always blesses me to hear her sing. She has a HEART for worship. I can’t help but remember the first time she stepped out to sing in public. It was a chapel play and another chaplain’s daughter took great joy in getting all the other girls to laugh at Bre every time she sang. I wanted her to quit – OK first I wanted to teach the supervisor’s daughter a thing or two. LOL The director and RE coordinator both told me that Bre had a “sweet” voice. She opted to persevere and preformed in the play/cantata. She did well. At our next assignment she asked to take voice lessons along with piano. She didn’t let the ridicule of others stop her from expressing her heart of worship and now is used of God to usher others into his presence by her wholehearted worship…and now the whole human video thing is added to it. I’m amazed that my “shy” gal is so unreserved in her worship – but that’s how God is – it really isn’t about our strengths after all is it? I wonder what God would have done with Moses if he’d not leaned on Aaron???? Anyway – it awed me to see her sing “Shout to the Lord” and watch her peers (as we are in the student service) begin to rise to their feet in worship – in a military chapel. We are having the time of our life in this service. God is good and on the move….I think He always is…but we don’t always get to SEE so clearly what is going on. LOL
I spent another 2 hours in I John. Yep, gearing up to begin teaching I John at Protestant Women of the Chapel – I think it’s going to be a good book... That we may “know we have eternal life”….I pray it will give confidence where needed and conviction also where needed…honestly this small book of the Bible never fails to do just that. LOL I have to remind myself that this week is only an overview…we’ll be going section by section in the weeks to come and I don’t have to “get it all out there” Tuesday night. I’m blessed that though our ladies don’t want to do long inductive studies they DO want to be in the Word. We are using the Nav Press Lifechange Guides…and I’m doing more study to sort of “shore it up” in places.
That’s our day.
