Happy Monday!

Good morning everyone. What a wonderful weekend this was, and it just makes it so great that the weather is beautiful now! I love it- everyone has that spring fever, even though it feels like summer here (the high today is 81) but it's still wonderful to get to be outside.

Jordan was at Acquire the Fire this weekend, so I didn't actually get to see a whole lot of him, which is always sad, but he's back now, so it's okay! :-) Friday my mom came down to Spring Hill to help me with the front bed of our house. I am being forced to learn to garden and take care of yard now, which I must admit is not the most fun thing in the world, but I'm sure the more I learn, the more I will enjoy it. We spent some time at Home Depot getting some essentials, a few annuals, and a few new shrubs since some of ours were clearly not making it. She ended up spending the night, which was a lot of fun to get to see her.

We worked on it a little more in the morning before heading back up to Franklin, where we quickly stopped at Kohl's before she dropped me off at Subway to meet Ferris & Trish to pick up lunch for the ATF peeps. We got it and headed downtown to BiCentennial Park in Nashville, after Ernie & Robby made the mistake of leading us to Centennial park first- oh well. We hung out with everyone for a while, chatted, played some frisbee and got to hear a little about the conference so far.

Ferris and I then left and went back to Spring Hill- she ran and showered while I did a rehearsal for a quartet for Easter Sunday, then we both spent some time cleaning the house. (Thanks for the help Reese) The rest of the evening was spent running some errands in Franklin, and we went to bed early since we both had to be at NS Cool Springs ta 7:00am on Sunday.

Sunday, yesterday that is, I got up at 5:30am and we were at the church by 7. We had a joint-service with all the Newsong Congregations yesterday, so I was a part of worship. Ron Luce, the leader of Teen Mania and Acquire the Fire spoke. It was incredible!! He talked about the culture war that the teens of America are immersed in: what it is and then he challenged parents with what they can do about it. It was extremely helpful and just generally awesome. I couldn't help but just CRY both services as I looked from the platform at the faces of these amazing, gifted, alive and precious teens who need help in fighting to save their lives from this horrible war of lies, sexuality, depression, and falseness all around them! God gave me a fresh and increased passion to GO AFTER IT with these kids....SO after church (we finally got out about 1:45pm- 6 hours and 45 minutes after I arrive :-) we went to play Ultimate Frisbee with a whole bunch of the youth. Over 45 people showed up- which was amazing and we even had a few ppl join in our game. They played for like 4 stinkin' hours- my husband's obsessed. I had to make a Costco run, so I left and came back, but it was amazing and gorgeous outside.

By the time J & I got home- we were seriously almost too tired to talk- I made some chicken, brown rice and salad and we ate, sat for a while and literally fell into bed about 9:30. I slept like a baby and woke up full and refreshed this morning: partially by good sleep and mostly by the spirit of God which I can just feel moving in newness! It's so exciting and I am so thankful for that life each and every moment.

We are excited about all that's going on this week: Our friends Austin & Monica Selby from Memphis are coming in briefly tomorrow afternoon....so we'll see them for coffee, then Jordan's parents, Grandpa Chalker, and Erin & Dan come in on Wednesday and Thursday at various times. And we have Life Group and Ferris's birthday this week! So, it's going to be full, but great! Okay, on that note- I gotta go.

Bless you today!