It is beautiful out there.

Tomorrow after I go to the chiropractor in the morning (we're off for Good Friday!) I will be scouting out parks in that area for my S.S. class to go to soon. That should be fun! I'll be sure to bring my tennis shoes so I can go walking. :o)

That night will be the Good Friday service at church, and then going to eat (hopefully at California Pizza Kitchen, but whereever we go it will be a nice time!) with my S.S. class afterwards.

Looking forward to that.

It was a good weekend.

Had lots of fun hanging out with my Sunday school class. How thankful I am for them! :c)

And I felt like the Lord used different events to bring me out of a hard time of spiritual dryness. Sunday night, driving home from a meeting with other full-time missionaries from the church, I prayed for some of the needs they had mentioned, as well as bringing some other things before the Lord. It was encouraging to fellowship with them and hear just a little of how the Lord is working in other parts of the world!

Yesterday morning when I came back to the office, I felt alive again. Refreshed. Renewed. I felt close to the Lord during our time of worship and prayer before work.

Today? I don't feel so refreshed. And in some ways I feel rather challenged. Just further proof of how desperately I need Him. He is the source for abundant life. I so much need to stay close to Him, moment by moment, day by day. Oh, Jesus, help me to this end, I pray!!

Now I plan to go home and spend some time with the Lord before tonight's prayer meeting. I also want to go over my lesson. I plan to share about children in India.

WOW. It's shaping up to be another beautiful weekend.

Blue skies, nice puffy clouds, warm and sunny ... need I say more? :o)

The Lord has been blessing us with such gorgeous weekends!

I had a good afternoon. Worked on quite a bit of correspondence with ministry supporters and staff, wrote Monday's web story, and did a few other "odds and ends" type things. It felt good to get those things done -- and it was mostly fun as well! :o)

It's refreshing to get back to posting after a long absence. Boy, I didn't even realize it'd been two weeks already?! How times passes! Of course, not having internet access at home makes it a little more challenging to write quite as often in here.

Tonight five or six of us from my S.S. class will be hanging out at someone's house and watching a movie. She's ordering pizza for us! She decided that if someone would come and fix her sound system, she would treat everyone to pizza. :oD

Tomorrow? More meeting up with friends, both from S.S. class and from work. And hopefully a nice, long walk in there somewhere. It's shaping up to be a nice weekend.

It's Friday.

And I'm glad. :o) Don't get me wrong -- I LOVE my job! In a big way, it's a dream come true.

But I do also so much look forward to weekends and the chance to relax, catch up on stuff around the apartment, etc. For one thing, I have a stack of newsletters I need to get ready for supporters. :o) Usually I'm able to work on that during the week, but this week has been loaded with projects. That's a good thing, though -- I like projects. :oD

It was really cool to see how the Lord went before me the other night on one. He reminded me of Gretcha and how she would be great to write about for this church-planting article. This morning some supporters had just gotten back from the field and were sharing with our staff.

One related the spiritual darkness there. They told of stepping off the airplane and seeing the rows of men lined up to give rides. They could totally see the emptiness and darkness in their eyes. In contrast, at the very end of the line were some GFA leaders. Their faces were radiant with the love of Jesus. What a privilege that we can be a part of bringing that love to people like Gretcha. She lives in poverty but yet is so joyful because of Jesus! Yet there are still so many to be reached.

Well, I'm going home soon. Have a blessed weekend!

Whew! Busy day and I'm still at the office. I don't really mind, though!

Just I was frustrated earlier when I couldn't seem to get a breakthrough in this one project I was working on. But it's completed and turned in. YAY! Now there's another project to work on. I'm looking forward to it. :o) I like projects! I'll be working on it for a while tonight and will hopefully make some good progress. I'd like to have a rough draft by the end of the evening, especially since it was due yesterday. :oD