Ok so I have a new challege for myself and Im kind of excited.  Pray that I follow thru with it.  I am going to every week try three new things that I have never tried before. 

I am 26 years old today…and I am so so thankful!!!!! 

My former High School Youth Minister now Campus pastor at a christian church in Dallas has alot of good questions…check out his blog…do any of you have some good suggestions? http://fourthplace.wordpress.com/ (sorry I dont know how to link it to his name)

“oh trees, wake, wake, wake. Don’t you remember it?.Don’t you remember me? Dryads and Hamadryads, come out, come to me!” –Lucy in Prince Caspian

All thru out this book I just had this picture of this sadly ruined forgotten city. A city a land and a people that had just seemed to have fallen asleep. Everything was forgotten!!!!! When Lucy speaks those words it gave me goose bumps. I too have felt that feeling. How often in our hearts or in our minds do we hide the child inside of us. How often does the childlike faith inside of us get stuffed away. This whole book seems to echo the message of: AWAKE…oh child inside!!!!

Two weeks ago it was interesting. I went into my two year old room in LifeKids and I had so much fun. I worshiped with all of my heart…and I felt more the presence of God then I had ever before in my life. During the activity, and worship, and teaching I was just put in awe of God and those kids. I held nothing back from God. But then I went the 11:30 adult Experience…and I didnt hold my hands up…and I didnt let the child inside out. I was to afraid of what others would think or see. I stuffed the child back inside!!!! Why is it that I could dance and worship and praise Him with everything inside of me in my UTS classroom but not in the Experience?

Its interesting that in that book Lucy is the first to see Aslan. No one else can see Him. Only her. When she trys to get them to see but they cant…she responds by saying quite responding like an adult. So the same can go with me. I think God wants to bring and is bringing something out of me that is beautiful. But I need to stop looking at things with “adult” eyes. I need to have childlike faith…and I need to not care what others think of me. There is such freedom in that!!!!!

This is what I think anyway…and it is what I have been thinking about. What are your thoughts?

post coming soon…I promise…