"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."- Edmund Hillary
WOW!! Retreat was SOOO awesome!! Pastor Joseph is so awesome!! We are so blessed to have him as our leader!! Okay this is prolly gonna be long sorry...
So the first day of retreat we found out who was in our rap group (not associated with the style of music at all) and I just loved ALL the people in it, They were sooo awesome!! Its so neat getting to know ppl who you don't usually hang out with!! theres a pic of them on my GJPICS site!!But yeah I learned a lot from them!! WE got to play games with eachother and really learn teamwork!! Our team name was the PINK PAPAS from PAPA NEWGUINEA!!! Go us!! But the best part was when we froze our booties off in the amazing race we did!!
The amazing race was like the one on tV and it was soooo much fun;even tho we came in 2nd...... to last!! But It was sooo cold. I was so proud of our girls though b/c no one complained or gave up!! AND Olivia was so encouraging and I aM SOOOOO PROUD of her!!
But the services were the best!! God moved so much in them!! He completely continues to amaze me!!
So here's what I got out of them.....
So I'm really involved in church and every wed. I would expirience God but I never took that home with me. And monday nite I went to the alter to recieve a real, authentic relationship with Christ. And I just went down there and just started praying. And it wasnt until I prayed for God to break my selfishness and pride that I really got something out of it!!
Lately all I've been worrying about is how things will benefit me or glorify myself, and I had gotten to the point where I was just tired of myself and worrying only about ME. I just prayed for God to take ME out of myself or, in other words, make me selfless and then.... I just finally GOT IT! I mean in a relationship; a true, loving relationship; you care soo much more about the other person, all you do you want it to help them, make them happy. I finally relized God and I didnt have a relationship outside of church. I mean when you love someone you want to spend every waking moment being with them.
So I guess I never trully loved God until now. I am so in love with Him and just want to do all I can to honor Him. I can honestly say that I love Him so much more then I love myself. I mean it wasnt fair for God to give his 100% in our relationship and me only put in 5%. It was so unbalanced and therefore so was my life. God needs to be the center of your life, thats the only way you'll trully be level; balanced. I now have such a joy that stupid things that once worried me no longer worry me b/c I KNOW God is taking care of it.
1 COR. 7:21-23
"Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you-although if you can gain freedom, do so. For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is now the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is now Christ's slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men." -verse of the day
*~Megan~*where Jesus is real
So the first day of retreat we found out who was in our rap group (not associated with the style of music at all) and I just loved ALL the people in it, They were sooo awesome!! Its so neat getting to know ppl who you don't usually hang out with!! theres a pic of them on my GJPICS site!!But yeah I learned a lot from them!! WE got to play games with eachother and really learn teamwork!! Our team name was the PINK PAPAS from PAPA NEWGUINEA!!! Go us!! But the best part was when we froze our booties off in the amazing race we did!!
The amazing race was like the one on tV and it was soooo much fun;even tho we came in 2nd...... to last!! But It was sooo cold. I was so proud of our girls though b/c no one complained or gave up!! AND Olivia was so encouraging and I aM SOOOOO PROUD of her!!
But the services were the best!! God moved so much in them!! He completely continues to amaze me!!
So here's what I got out of them.....
So I'm really involved in church and every wed. I would expirience God but I never took that home with me. And monday nite I went to the alter to recieve a real, authentic relationship with Christ. And I just went down there and just started praying. And it wasnt until I prayed for God to break my selfishness and pride that I really got something out of it!!
Lately all I've been worrying about is how things will benefit me or glorify myself, and I had gotten to the point where I was just tired of myself and worrying only about ME. I just prayed for God to take ME out of myself or, in other words, make me selfless and then.... I just finally GOT IT! I mean in a relationship; a true, loving relationship; you care soo much more about the other person, all you do you want it to help them, make them happy. I finally relized God and I didnt have a relationship outside of church. I mean when you love someone you want to spend every waking moment being with them.
So I guess I never trully loved God until now. I am so in love with Him and just want to do all I can to honor Him. I can honestly say that I love Him so much more then I love myself. I mean it wasnt fair for God to give his 100% in our relationship and me only put in 5%. It was so unbalanced and therefore so was my life. God needs to be the center of your life, thats the only way you'll trully be level; balanced. I now have such a joy that stupid things that once worried me no longer worry me b/c I KNOW God is taking care of it.
1 COR. 7:21-23
"Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you-although if you can gain freedom, do so. For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is now the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is now Christ's slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men." -verse of the day
*~Megan~*where Jesus is real