Days off

Today is HOT! It finally feels like what summer SHOULD feel like. It is 36 degrees outside! I am so slow in everything I do today, because it feels like my body just wants to melt haha.... it's taken me 3 hours to do laundry, eat lunch and clean

.... I watched some John and Kate +8 and Friends in there too, lol.

I had a wonderful 9 days off!

I got to experience some of the summer festivals our city has to offer, go to a Leadership conference which confirmed a lot of things and helped me reflect on the things God is doing in my life, and just have a lot of fun hanging out....

Taste of Calgary!

I went with Karyn, Sarah and Julie. There was some REALLY good food there. We even got suckered into signing up for a 3 month subscription to the Herald to get 40 extra food tickets. Man, i'm regretting it now... this morning I came into the kitchen and our table is covered up in perfectly folded newspapers... I don't think any of us have actually read any of them!!

It was a lot of fun!

I ate this delicious creme caramel desert and the butter chicken and naan from Taj Mahal was awesome too.

Julie P, Karen, Erica and I took a spontaneous trip to Big Hill Springs to have a picnic one evening:

I hung out with the boys as they watched UFC :

All in all it was very relaxing, just what I hoped for .

I'm now back at work.. not too sure whats going to happen when September comes around. I applied for a new job, but I'm waiting to hear about an interview...more on that later as things unfold.
In the next 3 weeks i'll decide if I'm going back to school again, while working part-time, or taking the year off from school, to work more and save money and maybe get a bit more involved at church.

All in all, I feel like God is really teaching me how to relax into being in a relationship with Him.
He's showing me an awesome side of Himself and our relationship. It’s amazing how the Holy Spirit teaches us. God has placed me a in a spot where I can build relationships with those who are not in a relationship with Him...it's been a while. I feel blessed to be a part of His plan.

I'm also learning how to be a leader, at church in a position of leading worship (something I've been TOTALLY scared of! and NEVER saw myself doing!) and at work.
I'm learning what it is to align my heart with God's and to rely on His timing and it definitely doesn't always come naturally…

“’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” Isaiah 55:8-9

Life's pretty exciting these days.