Sunday Mind Dump (through the eyes of the wife).

1) I don't recall my life being this busy over the summer in a very long time. In a way its been good because its kept me from thinking to much. Its not hard to keep your own life in perspective when so many around you have lost their loved ones.

2) Monday and Tuesday are a bit of a blur. I think I spent most of the time at home chilling. Other then that I can't tell you what I did. LOL

3) Wednesday Marc and I attended the funeral of the brother of the young man that Marc has been a mentor to for the last couple of years. Melvin did a great job. I never actually met his brother but cried like a baby through most of Melvin's speech. I had texted that morning before leaving that something had to done about all of the senseless killing that was going on in our communities. Somehow or other we as the church must do better. That afternoon Melvin showed me what should be done when he asked several of his family members to give up their life to Jesus. 20 people (or more) got up out of their seats and excepted Jesus as their savior. Its a moment I will never forget.

4) Friday Marc and I went on a "day date". We spent very little time talking about church but just enjoyed the sites and sounds of the city in which he has been called to lead. I reccomend it to everyone. Sometimes we spend so much time talking about church that we never take the time to just be a couple (sort of like when we first had our children and our whole conversation stemmed around them).

5) Friday evening we headed to a friends home to just hang out. We ate some good food, watched a few Michael Jackson videos and basically just enjoyed the company of one another. Marc said he may have been laid off from work, but he feels like he has just been on vacation for two weeks.

6) Saturday we spent time with family celebrating the 4th of July. I probably did the most cooking I have done in a very long time.

7) Many of you have asked me about Marc and how he is doing and what his plans are for the future. Still not sure, but next week he starts working as an independent consultant/contractor for the telephone company. He's taking one day at a time and surprisingly he is fairly calm about making the decision to try this on his own. He hasn't ruled out working for another company. That will depend on how steady his contract jobs are and if we can afford to pay our own health and life insurance.

8) The numbers were down today at WABC, I think in part because of the holiday weekend and the start of the summer break ( I debated myself several times on whether I would go to church this morning. Finally decided that if the 99 year old lady from our church could show up to give God the glory then so can I....LOL).

9) Marc announced today that we will finally get a hearing with the city to see of we will be able to move forward with phase 1 of our building plans. Please keep us in prayer.

10) After all of the uproar in the last few weeks I have decided to just take one day at a time, and leave all of my cares and burdens in God's hands.

11) Our vacation to Bama is still undecided at this moment, but I will be going to DC in a few weeks to attend the Women of Faith Conference. I have a feeling this will be good for me (at least I am hoping).

12) I have not been to NLP in over a month! Hard to believe but we have been so busy at WABC that I have not had the time. That will change in a few weeks because I plan to take the ladies from our Women's Ministry Team to their Summer Fling. Its a promise that I made a while back..........that we would go some place special and just be pamphered ourselves. There won't be any foot washing but we get to eat and watch a chick flick! Works for me. LOL