Last night did not go as planned so much. Kyle put it perfectly- I pick up rocks, I put them down. Not exactly what I had envisioned to be our first real steps into our ministry campus. I had visions of doing some work, some cleaning, smiles and laughter and a quick message to charge up the students and other leaders in their faith and taking ownership in their PURPOSE in life through Christ. My thoughts came through Ephesians 1:3-14 and there in the scriptures, its clearly written that God has given us purpose and meaning in life. I cant tell you how many times I have been asked - I dont know what to do with my life. I dont know what to study in my college career. I just dont know what God wants me to do. What is my purpose? Let me tell you this as I said last night, Who God has called you to BE is MUCH more important than what He has called you to do. God is interested in who you are as apposed to what you can do for him. If you miss out and decide to go in another direction, ignore the calling on your heart from God, choose to go and do something else with your life - Gods will will happen no matter what. It will just be through someone else. Someone else will grow closer to him, someone else will live a life of favor, love and blessings through Him. Someone else will grow in their faith journey and live a life with a higher calling, a bigger purpose and a life full of meaning. Finding your purpose begins with your character and who God is shaping you to become. If you think about it, you are already shaping that person in your future. This doesn't just apply to the teens in my life or the young people in yours. I am talking to you and its personal and I am speaking - heart to heart. Heart to heart - think about where you are today. What friends you have. The close peeps in your life. Your 750 friends on facebook and myspace. No matter what or where you are, God has a plan and a purpose for you but here is the kicker.... It begins with you. You are as close to God as you choose to be. Its that simple. I see every week students showing up on Sunday and on Wed evening bible study and once again - they forget their Bible. Regret happens most of the time in life when we really think about it is when we do something other than what the Bible teaches us. It's purpose to show us how to live!! What to do!! and also what not to do. The people and things and situations in your life are shaping your character. The question is, who's character are you trying to be like? I told my Sr High school kids last night as this time of year they are trying to decide where to go to college. Family plans for the weekends going to visit, reference letters in the mail along with transcripts and hopes and prayers for that acceptance letter. For some, their futures ride on that letter. Long lines of family traditions ride on that letter. How you live in college is more important than where you go to college~ Its all about character loved ones. Who are you when nobody is looking. If you are not letting God shape who you are to become - then what are you doing? Somebody has the molding going on right now... You know who they are or what that is. Question is, will you let it continue or will you find your purpose and meaning in life by following Jesus and let him shape you into something that He created you to be. Its in you...... even if you dont know it yet. Lonnie~

Amazing things are happening! I am so excited to have our first LOL bible study tonight in the new building. Though not fully ready, but ready enough to be in the building! Our first look at almost clean and done ministry campus has me pretty excited about tonight. Excited to see the faces of so many students and the dreams that will come true through what God has blessed us with to reach so many in our community for him. I am excited to be serving along side some great students, if almost everyone shows, well over 75 of them - and hopefully their families and other volunteers. As we prepare by cleaning windows, cleaning up trash, mopping floors, putting furniture together and sharing in some laughs and smiles- I am also very excited to take 15 minutes of their time and share something with them. I am totally stoked to share what is on my heart for this evening and what is to come. God is on the move in so many things and through so many people. Its just gives me chicken skin as my mom used to call it instead of goose bumps - I dont like geese much so chicken skins sticks ... too bad. Yesterday to mention just a few things that have really openened my eyes and my heart to the things God is influencing and making Himself knows. We had a bad storm roll through the area on Tuesday morning early. With trees and power down, we have not seen storms like this here in this area in years. One of my close kids called and told me a tree branch fell across their driveway and blocked their car in so much so they had to drive through the front yard to get out and get to work and school. I figured no big deal, I will take care of it when I get home. After seeing the pictures - holy smokes - it was huge and covered the entire driveway - luckily not hitting anything or taking part of the house out. I stressed all morning over it knowing that this family is my family and when a need arises - well, you step up and just do what you have to do. I left at lunch, drove out to the cabin and picked up my chain saw. Headed back to the office, finished up work when the call came in. Fully prepared to hear they were waiting on me to get started but what I heard was, the tree is gone. Yes gone, like it was never there. Neighbors had come over and took care of the tree, its branches and hauled it off. Nothing left. I was relieved. What blessings God has put in our daily lives, from the people we are doing life with, to the situations that get taken care of - blessings come in all sizes, shapes and through amazing ways. Monday standing in the post office getting 2 of my girls passports for our upcoming mission trip - 2 folks came in without stamps and what was important for these 2 customers became a way for those couple spare stamps my girls mom had in her purse. What a smile but also what a blessing. Small things .... but how often do we overlook the chance to serve and share with someone the small things so that God can then bless us with the big things? Gosh - it just makes me sit in AWE at times loved ones. Last nigth getting home with no tree to cut - I found myself with one of my other close kids at my house. A few weeks ago she had went with her mom to get her ear pierced and last night - nobody but Mr B was looking at her ear. Gosh that just makes my heart right. SO Mr B went to work and tried to get her infected ear fixed up and ear ring out. With little to grab onto and the pain too much - we went to the urgent care and had to let the professional take care of it. A little numbing needle, a little use of the razor knife and a gentle pull on the back - proved to be the only way it was coming out. Infected ear but lesson learned and to think I got to be part of that experience and share in some tough moments. I wouldn't swap those moments for everything and thinking about them- Lord thank you for those moments and for "MyKids" wanting me to be a part of their lives. Even when it hurts, for me to be there means so much to me. Heart to heart - There is more beauty in us than we can ever see. I love it when the real person, the real beauty shines through - Its not meant to be hidden but lived out in the open <3. May this bring you encouragment today... and a chance to see in your own life - the things God is placing all around you for his greater purposes. Look at them today..... and may you have chicken skin like I do. Peace, Lonnie~

Monday and a full week ahead from what I can see. The scary part sometimes is the moments that you dont see. A day in ministry is like no other day - even with work and everything else that needs to be done. Ministry days are never the same and can change in a moments notice. Excited to be hanging out with one of my close kids this afternoon and tonight. Its been a dry month of March for us to hang out. Seems we have been going in opposite directions and life has been pulling us in different locations. Glad to have this time together, catch up, talk and just be heart to heart. Sometimes, a lot of times, faith works. Prayers produce. Praise God. There is nothing better! I have been thinking about this heart to heart thing a lot lately. As I stand more and more in front of these students, they get a small peak into my heart and what I stand for, what I believe in and get to really know me. I am not scared of that at all and in fact - I am totally cool with it because I can't be there like that, I can't expect them to be there also. Working on some exciting things coming up for the month of April. Along with the Bahamas cruise at the end of the month, our fundraising for Jamaica continues and small donations keep coming in. I am so blessed and grateful for those donations and partnering with us to share Gods grace and love to the people of Jamaica in June. I will say that my Life Group is praying and studying a great book by Pastor Steven Furtick "Sun Stand Still" and I am here to share my big audacious prayer that I am asking God for. The other day I was walking out for lunch here at work and 2 of my coworkers were asking me how the trip plans were coming along, how many young people we were taking and the costs assoiciated with it. I was explaining to them that things were moving forward, we are all excited to be going and we have a good bunch of awesome students going and I shared with them the cost of not so much the trip and all but the airfare. With say 11 people going and costs to fly down and back are around $800 - that is a big chunk of change. So I started last week putting some feelers out to some folks at Joe Gibbs Racing and using the word of mouth to flow around our racing community here who might be able to help us with a charter plane to take us and pick us up. I have been really praying this bold prayer now for about a week and what if - imagine with me - someone hears about what we are doing? What if, Joe Gibbs comes and shares with us that he has a plane, a 12 seat jet and was willing to let us use it to take us to Jamaica? What if God put those things into action, moved someone's heart to action and imagine with me - the look on my coworkers faces when God blesses us with this incredible answer of prayer?!?! Are you with me? Imagine the glory and praise and AWE God would get through this and how many people this story will actually touch! So today and until this trip Lord, I am asking and begging you to move hearts, touch a person Lord in the only way you can to move them to help us with our trip to Jamaica. Help us find a way to go and serve the good people of Jamaica for your word, your love and your heart to heart change. Lord I know we will come back changed and I know so that we will touch the hearts of the good Jamaican people while we are there but I so vision the change that we will have. A vision that is so much bigger than our own because its a vision of what could be if we would just take a stand for you and be the person you are calling each of us to be. Imagine the lunch rooms in school, changed because of 1 fired up changed student that came back different from this trip. Imagine that family who will be first hand witness to their daughter who comes back and changes everything wrong in her life and gives it fully over to you. Imagine our church Lord who will have a 12 person seed pod of life change ready to infect everyone around us with the experiences that we just had. Imagine the look on my coworkers faces when the big bold and audacious prayer of sending us a way to go, a plane to charter, a plane to send your word to a place so desperate to hear and know you - imagine the stories and the awe of your word being truth and the impossible is not out of reach because you made it possible. Lord I am asking big, letting it be known and asking you Lord to make it real - show off your glory Lord because its all about you. We praise you Lord, we love you Lord and we ask all of this in your sons mighty name in Jesus. Amen

Wanted: Student ministry Youth Pastor. Must be friendly, open, easy to talk to, have integrity, come to my ball games and/or soccer games, is funny when things are tense, not so serious all the time, sees the good in people always, nonjudgemental, preaches with passion, loves the entire student ministry but also love each person individually, is willing to have coffee at anytime that is needed, available to talk even in the middle of the night, is honest, young, able to talk to parents, that is willing to listen to even the longest of stories, loves life, smiles a lot, caring, nurturing, can encourage even when its not excepted, and loves Christ above all else. Hmmm, not sure if I am missing anything. That is a lot of responsibility. That is a lot of hats. That is why so often, pastors including student pastors and student ministry leaders are in such need of encouragement and are often down. There is not enough time in the day nor is there enough days in the week. There is not enough smiles and words of encouragement to sometimes make a difference. There are feelings of insecurity, failure, FEARs of all kind including letting someone down or losing a person that walks away. The worry of having safety nets in their lives so that someone doesnt see something out of context or a motive that was good but was taken wrong. There is the energy that must be found to continue to fill our own hearts with Gods love, grace, mercy and blessings but also enough to fill everyone elses cup in the overflow. Often times preaching in the mirror is a difficult thing to do when your life is being on display and examined and filled with, "You should do this or you shouldnt do it that way." Odd thing about all this - honestly, we all should be doing this and not just the pastors or student ministry leaders. We are all called to be ministers and share Gods word, love and grace to each other. Your walk with Christ is personal but it is not private. What you are saying and showing others tells others what and where you are with Christ. How important is he? How strong is God in you? Far too many of us live far below our potential. We have the potential but we are doing nothing with it. I have an ipad. I have begun preaching from it and using it in my messages, look up Bible scripture when I need it, check facebook, listen to music and sermons online and podcasts. I know there is far more it will do. Ipad2 is on order and that too - I will be using it far below its potential. Never fully reaching the capacity and helpfulness that it will bring to me. God gives us this strength through his power - otherwise its just potential. Psalm62:11 - One thing God has spoken, 2 things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done. It was awesome last night hanging out with 17 of our students last night. It was awesome last night to give them a chance to talk and share their heart. It was great to leave them encouraged and knowing that no matter what is going on, whatever is happening or whatever they are facing, they can look in the mirror and preach the promise that God has given each of us through his power that he is STRONG and he is LOVING. When you can be at that place in your heart and know those 2 very important truths in your life through Gods power - you can turn away from that mirror and never lose sight of who you are and what you stand for. You will walk away carrying with you more than you ever dreamed possible because you will be living up to your potential, you will be aiming high and differently than so many others, and you will be doing something with all this for a higher purpose. Psalm 61:1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. Ministry is a calling of extremes. This week like last week, there were no 2 days the same. I've ministered on both ends of the extreme, students taking giant leaps of faith and other students taking giant leaps backwards and making horrible decisions. Ministry is about asking folks to give total control over of their life to Jesus - something that is so foreign in our very nature and culture. Thats an absolute extreme but I see it every day. I see faith and Christ working so amazingly in the lives and hearts of some. Gosh, that alone keeps me fired up and that energy and encouragment from them enables me to spread it to others. Its extreme hours, extreme emotions, extreme drama, and extremely important. There is no higher calling, nothing more honorable, nothing more satisfying at times - why would anyone want to do this? Thats a question we each must answer for ourselves. I have my answer..... do you? Job filled and no longer vacant. Lonnie~

God, I am trusting you in this ________. For me, that might mean something totally different than for you. What are you trusting God for today? Faith for me is not this collection of things I have done or accomplished. Its not about getting closer to wisdom for my life or getting something extra from life. Faith for me is stripped down and basically simple. Though not always that way and there are days that faith and trust has its own challenges. Mostly though, if I may speak honestly, faith is me just clinging to the fact that I desperately need Christ. Every single day. Every single moment. When I am in this mode of clinging onto Christ with all I have and my heart and my mind leans in to know more, its then my faith is very real and very alive. The story told in Mark 5 really speaks to me today. Let me share part of this amazing story ... Mark 5:24 - So Jesus went with him. (this is after a man fell at Jesus feet and pleaded with him to help his little daughter who was dying, so Jesus went with him) A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years. SHe had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. WHen she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Just like this bleeding woman, her faith and trust in Jesus was strong. She reached out and touched him knowing that everything was on the line and she fully believed she would be healed, made whole, complete and well again. Not a doubt in her mind that if she could just reach him - it would happen. I too want to believe like that. I too want to lean in and fully trust God. I am at that place at times and other times not so close and strong. The thing is not giving up and pressing through the faith ups and downs but recognizing that my faith is alive. It has to be exercised and tested in order to grow. Sometimes we need to change routines and read a part of Gods word that we normally dont start with. I find a lot of folks who open Gods word in Proverbs - then on to something where they left off. If that works for you, AWESOME! Everyone is different and the thing that is most important is to keep yourself growing, challenged and excited. Thats the kind of faith that I want to have and learn for everyday of my life. Just clinging to him no matter what. Working with Teenagers, "Mywalk" with Christ has to come first. Otherwise I am just leading a bunch of teenager get together so they can see each other and have a little fun. They may need to lean on my faith at times, until they can stand on their own while loving them like Jesus does, every step of the way. Peace, Lonnie~

Today is the day after, hopefully of our last full Sunday with a mobile church label. Our first home base opening hopefully this week sometime will lead us to the mobile school setting for one more breif moment to pray over that school and all the people who have come and gone, all the folks who work at the school and share their space with us and in closing of one chapter to begin another - to thank God for what He has done and what He will do as we leave the school all together and go to our new ministry campus. Preaching a message in the school for the last time in that setting was bitter sweet. I thought a message on Gratitude was fitting and God gave me the words to share and the scripture to apply it. What started out as a TOUGH morning, with Adger my male huskey headed to the ER at 4:30, finally getting to church an hour late for setup and nothing was setup and I had my hair on fire trying to get things setup and in place, video not working for part of my announcements - decisions made on the fly and all the while, stopping long enough before the 11 service to just say - God, this is for your glory and if things dont work, thats okay. If nobody comes, thats okay because someone will and that someone just might need to hear your word above all else. With 4 new students yesterday and a chance to make a lasting impression - I think it went well. The effort and the stress was worth it. Looking ahead to what comes next - I have no idea but isnt that the place where God wants us? I mean totally relying on him? I have no idea what Sunday Student ministry will look like, I have no idea what LOL on Wed nights will look like, I have no idea about much but I do have an idea that God will be part of it and he will shape it how it will look, how it will feel, how it will come to life. I fully trust in that He will lead this thing. Ecclesiastes 2:17 - So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows wheither that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor. For a person may labor over wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless. A person can do nothing better that to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? To give person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Last night with a few folks missing from LifeGroup, we decided to do a little planning for Jamaica since most everyone was there who is going. I finally spoke to our lead person Amanda from Faith Church in Michigan and I put together a group on FaceBook to get the folks together and talking and asking questions and telling everyone about themselves. It was awesome hearing what God is doing there in and through her church. Amanda and her team will be a lot of fun as we serve Christ together in June reaching the lost and the hurting in the good people of Jamaica. I fully know this will be a life changing experience for everyone. With all this being said, I want to leave with you today a question. That question is what do you have to carry? - Are you serving Christ today because of His grace and that you love His word over your life? The people you are serving today, is that message in your actions and in your words showing others that deep root in your heart of Christ? If not, I wonder what is that message you are giving.... a few weeks back we were serving a meal to the folks at the Center of Hope in Charlotte. One student took away after serving these folks for over an hour - her experience had her say that the folks were grumpy and most of them didn't say thank you. Maybe it was you, I dont know. Maybe it was the message you were giving out for you to come away with that message and that experience. If Christ is the root in your heart - it will show. It will show in all you do, the way you act, the way you love people - it will show on your face with a smile and JOY that never leaves. I want to serve the people around me, the people in Jamaica, the new students coming into the LOL and the Flood on Sundays with that root joy in my heart being lived out. I have that in my hands... it is what I carry. In Luke 17 - Jesus heals 10 folks who had been suffering from Lepresy. After each of them were healed only 1 came back to say thanks and show gratitude. Will you be that one today? Thank you Lord for where my heart is today. Thank you for the quiet unseen things you are doing in me so that I can do the work you have me doing through me. May those things bring you praise and honor Lord. Nothing is a chasing of the wind when serving you. There is purpose and a great plan behind it all. As I was struggling yesterday with everything that needed to be done before the service, you calmed me and gently shared with me that it would be as you want it to be. You would use whatever was needed - just as long as the 1 person who needed it received it. I pray for that one person yesterday Lord who needed to hear your word. I pray there was more, I pray for that complacent teenager who is at a place in their faith journey where they are wondering about their walk with you, its been a long time since they have felt you in their life and now that they are having to own their faith because they are not a child any longer - I pray a vision like this mission trip to Jamaica and Thirst Camp in July will shake their faith core Lord and put them back on track in their lives with you. May your power and glory and YOUR love for them be like never before. Nothing of you is chasing after the wind. You are the wind in our sails of life - You sustain us and give us hope. You give us life and you give us purpose. I will carry what you have given me for it is yours that I carry this struggling heart of mine to honor you in all the ways I know how to. Show me the path ahead Lord and I ask that you continue to show me direction. In Jesus name I pray today, Amen

Wow 2 days in a row. This is exciting. I am especially excited for our LOL bible study tonight. Its our last one at the Y in Harrisburg NC. They have been so good to us by giving us the Character room for free for over a year. We started out at Pastor Travis's house for just high school students and it grew out of his living room. They when we added the middle school students, it grew out of my living room and we so needed space to hold a Wed night time together. The room though not that big at the Y has been our home now for over a year. With our last service there tonight, we have been pushing hard to get the students there and get the word out, I went last night and got icecream and the students will make their own sundae's - hey everyone loves icecream - and I have asked miss Kayla to sing while Elijah plays the guitar all wrapped around my message tonight. It should be a lot of fun as we hang out a bit, celebrate all that God is doing and look forward to our church ministry campus the next week.
I can share that though it has been crazy busy and that there are things I need to work on and follow up on, like my Monday night rest and unwind time as well as date night with Carol every other week atleast and also quiet alone time with God - I feel as though I am in a good place with things. I had a conversation this morning with someone who is close to the family but has had a hard time being part of life to someone. I wish I could just say the person but I wont but just know that this student, high school student does not want anything to do with her relative. At least not at this point in her life. Though that hurts this relative, she has tried and tried to do everything to be a part, to reach out to her, to spend time together, sending notes, cards, facebook posts all full of encouragement - it just aint going to happen. At least right now.... in this present season of time.
I honestly felt every single word in her voice. I know that lesson she is learning right now. To step back and give some space. To let things lay for right now and maybe one day in the near or far off future - that seed that was planted will bring fruit. Who is to know but to trust in Gods timing and His ways. He already knows ..... so do what only you can do today.
There are some students who walk away, they pull back and do their own thing. Focusing on the ones that want to stay close, who need to have someone in their life to cheer them on and encourage them and actually want to hear what I have to say and what God has to say through me. That is the amazing part because I never asked for this role or never thought I would be so souled out for God to these teenagers. It happened and it is so much of who I am and what I am.
So it has me thinking this morning as I look down the road of ministry and what that means, the sacrifices that will be made, the time invested, the hurts also that will come and the prayers that will follow as well as lead all this. Gosh its really scary at times. I am being honest. It really is overwhelming at times.
BUT - I believe that I was brought here for who I am, not what I can do. There are better people out there to lead these students, who know God word more than I do, who have a heart also for teenagers, who want to pass on the Word of Christ to the next generation - but I can't focus on that. I have to focus on what I am called to do and living through WHO I am. I must be a leader out of my character. My character is makes me who I am and in leading others - I have to lead through my character. I must lead these students out of my character. I know there has to be balance and I continue to ask God to show me that, what does it look like, how do I do it, and help me not put this ministry and these students faith above my own. Without you and my relationship with you being the most important how can I do lead them? I really do love each of them and I want to be there to listen to them and do what little I can sometimes to help them and show them the way while showing them Christ and the only way I can do that is to lead them out of my fullness.
Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.

Kyle finished his wrestling season this past year year only wrestling in one match. Though he lost, it was a great experience and one that he gave all he had. I think about all the times he had practice, he showed up and spent his heart on that mat, being a team player and learning and sweating and honestly - he is probably as good if not better than some of the other students on the team. On those wrestling days though, he really wasnt on the team. He and a bunch of others sat in the stands and not with the team. He kinda feels like he is part of the team, he is on the sidelines most of the time, he gives it is all during practice and has bruises and hurt body parts to go with it. I think a lot of times, our youth ministry leaders feel the same way. They look the part, they feel like they are part of the team, they participate like they are leading, students enjoy them and talk with them .... but their heart is not fully there. Kyle didnt have any outward meaningful outcome to the wrestling team season even though he was right there in the middle of everything.
Our spiritual lives have to be the top spot in our ministries. Our walk with Christ has to be first and then in our overflow - give that to others. Without spiritual health we wont make it. I wont make it and I have come to realize that when my spiritual walk is lower than when it should be, the things student say, their comments and the things they do really bother me. They bring me down. I have lost so many nights sleep over something that this person did, or said or treated me .... I can't even explain it. But when I am full of Christ's message and walking close in my journey with him - those things dont bother me as much, the painful arrows of discouragement seem to bounce off a little more easily. My mind and thoughts are higher and not hanging onto every word they share or the things that they do. I can handle situation with more grace than ever before and I can love them out of my heart like I should be doing all the time - love them like Christ loves them.
Attending church, small group time, bible study, quiet time, all of those things are great but its not a check box. Its not personal time alone with Christ - that needs to happen for a few reasons.
* time to thank Him - who doesnt thank their father for gifts and love?
* time to share with God your problems and issues and seek Gods heart
* time to lift others to God
* time to just be in Gods presence and just have some personal time with him

Service to any ministry should never come at the expense of your own personal spiritual walk with Christ. God is concerned more about your being than your doing.

I can honestly say - that is where I am today. It is so awesome right now as I look at Carol. She has had a long dry season in the desert with her faith and in her walk. Right now that season is full bloom and on the move. She is invigorated again with the things of Christ, she is reading, writing, taking notes, and showing others her heart. I love where God has her right now and her walk makes my walk easier, her encouragement is REAL, and the love that God has placed in her heart is reaching others around her. It shows, it has its own language as it speaks volumes to all those around her. Proud of you Carol .... keep your eyes focused on Christ and keep that heart reaching to His.....

Heart healthy,
Lonnie~