1. Happy Birthday to my brother Brian, my niece Kayce and my dear friend Taylor Reed.
2. I'm so stinking ready to see Gulf Shores.
3. Thanks to my mom for the great package of stuff you sent.
4. Thanks to my friend dawn for your continued prayers and words of life.
5. Thanks to my friend Phil, well for just being a friend (congrats on the house)
6. Please pray for us...we are changing housing sites this weekend...should be a butt.....I mean and awful good time!
7. Yes Shannon, I absoluetly believe in miracles!
8. Brandon...see you soon buddy! YW 09!
Here we are...after this week I am only going to be blessed by the Cheyenne Reservation for three more weeks. I have missed so many people, but I have learned so much from this culture and these people. We have had 5 weeks of programming which is probably about 300 students and over 50 adults (totally guessing here). We have worked on numerous homes and organizations in the area. We have been able to touch many lives through the love and sacrifice of students and adults to come and be with us for a week in this great land.
I was on facebook tonight and ran across a friend's status (waddup RQJ...miss you and the fam dearly!) Her status said simply this: "Each of us is a vital piece of thread in another person's tapestry, even if we don't realize it or appreciate it." I am not totally certain of why this grabbed me, but it did. I began to think of all the people in my life. I thought about my parents and brothers, I even thought about the lady that used to clean our house every other week, Geraldine. I also thought about the people who have been so good to me, as well as some of those people I have tried to forget. I thought about pastors who lovingly cared for and mentored me, as well as the ones that could not wait to see me go. I thought of the lay people and students that have loved me endlessly. I thought of many of my facebook friends (so probably you) and then I began to think of all those people I have met this summer. Lonnie Littlebird, Tim WhistlingElk, Clinton and Jackie Small, the staff, the adults, the students. You know, it is hard to see while in the midst of a season, but if you stop long enough to think about it, you realize how important EVERYONE in your life really is to you and who you are. When I think of my friends status and the people I have met in my life, I can't help but think of Joseph and his coat of many colors. After the 27 years God has granted me on this earth, I am finally beginning to see the colors that people have added to my tapestry. I wont lie, some situations and people it is hard to find nothing but a simple black thread that makes me want to pull it from the tapestry, BUT I know that I learned from all of them. I know that everyone in my life, has spun their own unique thread and woven it into my life. AND, i know because of God's promises, He is going to finish this tapestry he has begun in me! I cant wait to see who else's thread weaves it's way into my life.
In closing I want to thank all of you, for weaving into my life. I appreciate you being a part of this tapestry God is working on.
Father, I pray that my friends and I would be so willing to surrender our tapestry to you. God, that our hopes and dreams of the final product would become no longer central, and that we would simply allow you to do the weaving in our lives. Lord I also pray that the thread we use to weave into other's lives add beauty. Holy Spirit Come!
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