Life Lessons..part 1

When i decided about three years ago to learn how to crochet, i never thought that i would learn so many things about life. That wasnt my goal. My only goal was to learn a new hobby that i could do during all this "free time" i have since being on disability.

The first major lesson i learned was to never give up but always keep trying. If you are determined to do something and you keep trying inspite your mistakes and failures...you will eventually accomplish it. I know that this isn't something profound, and we probably all already know it. When i first started learning how to crochet i was so excited abotu my new found hobby. I actually thought it would be a piece of cake and i would have no trouble learning. Well after a month, my excitement quickly turned into confusion and frustration. I felt like i would never figure it out. Then i stopped for awhile and picked it up again later. This time i was determined to learn and so eventually i did.

There are times in life when we're faced with a challenging situation. Maybe at first we're encouraged and feel strong enough to face it and fight through it. But then nothing seems to be happening or maybe our attempts don't work..or maybe the situation just drags on. And that's when we eget so frustated that we want to give up. Sometimes we just need a break from it ...a chance to catch our breath or get a second wind. Maybe we need sometime to step back and get a different view of it, and refocus. Once we're refocused, we can take it on again...and this time we can accomplish it.

Stay tuned for part 2

Youth Last night

Last night i got to help with worship at youth. This is something that i've been wanting to do for a long time. I've been praying that God would give me opportunities to play keyboard and it's fianlly happening. So i was really excited when our youth pastor asked me to help with worship. We were only going to do a few songs, but i ended up playing for over an hour. Halfway through we ended up breaking the youth up in groups to pray for one another. And they spent a lot of time going after God. It was awesome to see God moving through them.

Beautiful day to walk through a garden

Yesterday after a fun filled Nemo bday party for my nephew Scotty, My mom and me went to the daniel stowe botantical gardens. It was such a lovely day that we didnt' want to go home. So here are a few pics from the gardens....

Talent Night

Last night we had a talent night at youth. I'm so amazed at how much talent there is in our youth group. We had everything from playing instruments, skits, singing songs to balancing a soccer ball, painting and cooking. I even played the keyboard and sang a few songs myself last night. The youth were awesome. And we had a lot of people come out to support them...it was great. So here are a few pics i took from it. one the youth took some really great pictures last night so i might be posting more after i see hers.

This is Brett playing with his band The Paper Cities...


The Paper Cities did 3 songs ..Evie plays the bass and sang the first song, Brett plays electric guitar and sang the second one, and Benj is on the drums



And this is Dylan playing an amazing guitar solo


Paige did sing language to the song "Give Me Your Eyes" by Brandon Heath. She's studying to be a Deaf Interpreter.


Here's Jana doing a violin solo


And Haley and Stephanie sung a duet