The Up-Swing has arrived!!!!

So this whole weekend and few days have been great!!! So much fun! Remember how jake ALMOST caught a home run hit at the Brewers game tonight but the 9 year old behind him caught it instead and then he flipped out and this is all on video circulating the web. lol Oh and our tickets were bought in the parking lot and we were not even supposed to be where we were! The ice cream rocked. The district convention was amazing and the new publications are rocking my socks off!!! PLUS we met Jessica Simpson in Burlington at a junky restaurant on Sunday night! The boys were like 10 year old girls who just met the Backstreet Boys. lol i loved it. She is gorgeous!!! Basically we have had fun and are starting to all mesh and enjoy it all. I feel the up-swing beginning!!!! YES!

Lauren!

Reflection...

Have you ever sat down and looked at yourself in the mirror. Stared into your own eyes. Contemplated who you were looking at? Today has been one of those days. When all i can do is think about myself. Not in a self absorbed way but putting my life together like putting together a puzzle. Seeing how each piece made me a whole picture. I realized how much things that i have experience have really had a profound effect on me. How much the truth has really shaped me. How people have left scars on my heart and others have made my heart so filled with love. But mostly i realized how much i have changed. I don't think I have ever really and truly noticed that before. How different i was only a couple years ago. How drastically my life has changed directions. But overall i can't complain. I love where my life is going. I know what i am doing, and who i want to spend my time with. Every day has something in it that makes me laugh or smile. I have friends who genuinely care about me. And simply knowing that alone is a gift from Jehovah. Putting Jehovah first and really focusing on that, making every part of my life centered around serving him in either a different or fuller way has brought me more joy than i could ever imagine. I feel so privileged to be where i am now. It took a lot to get here and I know that it will take much more work to get where i want to be. But with time i know i can make it and one day I will be a complete picture. I just need more pieces.

Strength!

I was just sitting here thinking of strength. Its amazing how strong we need to be. Its not a physical strength but a mental strength. Its hard to be as strong as we need to to muster up to everything we have to face in life. Then when we feel like nothing can push us off course something shoves you out of no where. I can't imagine what i my life would be with out Jehovah. Its amazing really. District Conventions always ground you make you realize what you have and how stupid you are for taking things for granted. I sit there and i put myself into everything, but not in a selfish way. In a where am i kind of way. I sit there most of the time thinking man I have so much to work on, but i know that i can get there. If not in this system i will when i reach perfection and that is a beautiful thought. So even when i feel weak i know that Jehovah can make me strong.