tremble

today, as i'm snowed in and unable to worship with citychurch corporately i have a prayer.  i want to tremble at the Word of God. i don't want to get all worked up over my bank account or the number on the scale.  i want to tremble at the Word of God,  alone.  the Bible, the Life-Giving-Word-Of-The-Almighty-GOD, is LIFE.  that Book gives LIFE.  i need life and desire to LOVE the Word.  that plus a mid-term for grad. school, a head-cold that is making me miserable sums up today!  

enjoy it.  READ some today, it will be LIFE to you!

Cassie

Snow Day, Snow Day!

I will, for the rest of my life, remember today!  I got to be a part of the BIGGEST snow I've seen in my lifetime.  Kudos to the weather peeps this time, they hit the nail on the head.  It started "icing" last night around...I don't know, 8:30?  That continued until 6am when it changed over to snow. And it snowed, sometimes I thought it was "blizzard-ing"!  It snowed until tonight and it is supposed to pick back up and snow into tomorrow. WOW, it's so beautiful! It's 9:20pm and it looks like day time from the reflection of the light on the snow.  Kelsea, Brittany, Conner, and Jamie came for Alicia (me too, but I hate being cold and wet so snow really isn't my thing) and they tried to sled...they described their experience as the "opposite of fun".  I think sledding, round 2, will be much more successful tomorrow for them…and maybe...me?? I don't know, I'll have to see.  I am hoping everyone is warm tonight, as much fun as it is to have a day off, I can't help but think of the people whose paycheck will be less because of today or those who don't have electricity due to the many power outages.  I am also wondering how this weekend is going to play out.  Our church was supposed to serve dinner at the Salvation Army tomorrow night, have a membership dinner, and service on Sunday.  I'm not sure what's going to happen but I'm resting in the fact that God knew all this was happening so He has a plan and I'm trusting Him for it. 

I hope you had a great snow day as well, if you got snow.  And if you didn't I hope your day was great, whatever you were doing.  If you've got any fun stories or ideas of things to do in the snow, let me know! Maybe tomorrow I'll venture past my "uncomfortable-ness" and head out into the weather. 

Oh, and sorry Jeremy for my many made-up words in this post!  Actually, I'm not really sorry...I guess I just recognize the fact that I have so many. 

So, here are a few shots taken by the talented, Alicia Widner.  Keep your eye on her work; she is going to do BIG things in photography one day.  I'm praying the Lord will bless her "dreams" and allow her to work for Him through the art of capturing moments on a camera.

oliver loving the snow! 

our neighbor's fence, we LOVE the old doors!!

i love him. his tongue isn't always like this!!

beautiful girls! brittany (left) the lovely and talented alicia (right)

i love this picture of conner! she is so cute!!

3 of my girls! conner, kelsea, and brittany. they are all about to go away to college, 

i'm already crying about it!

night time was falling and alicia was still taking pics.  this is our neighbor's 

tree in their front yard. one of my favorites!

Frazzled...like always

So, I realize I never finished my blogging about Passion and it's been so long now I can't remember details. However, I am getting the digital downloads dropped to my computer every week, so I'm re-watching and will share about the wonderful things God did/is doing over time.

I am trying to get 2 loads of laundry done, a million papers graded, grad. school homework STARTED and finished, and read 2 books of the New Testament by 10 p.m. tonight. Needless to say, it's a busy day but what am I doing? I'm propped up on the couch blogging. I read Kelly's blog at: http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/ , I've been reading for a little over a year now and it makes me want to blog more. So, here I am.

I just wanted to take a sec and let you know that God is doing something in my life.  I honestly don't know what He is doing exactly but, He is at work!! I can't tell you how amazing that feels. I have felt so disconnected from Him. I know I always have Him with me because I have accepted His love and forgiveness through Jesus, but there are times that I distance myself from Him for one reason or another.  I have felt that distance for a long time but  He has been at work all that time softening my heart and wooing me to Himself. I am humbled and amazed at His faithfulness!   I am loving His Word, I am reading through the New Testament in 30 days along with a church called Elevation Church (www.elevationchurch.com).  It has been such a peace giving experience and I have been in awe of how alive and active the Word of God is.  I have also been seeing the Lord work through my church in amazing ways.  People are changing and healing, PRAISE GOD!

Ok, again, I'm frazzled and this has no "flow" or structure.  I'm sorry, I just wanted to post a little something about what's been going on.  I'm going to try to get some things knocked off my list while listening to some Hillsong United.

Have a great Saturday!!

Cassie

Passion-Day 1

Passion – day 1

We packed up and were backing out of the driveway at 4 am this morning.  We were crammed and excited.  It took us a good 2/3 hours to get good and awake this morning but once we got going, it was great. We finally found our hotel, which is pretty swank and just relaxed and got, geared up for a great night.  After a FREEZING at the Marta station, we borded and after about 30 mins riding public transportation, we exited at the Phillips Arena and got registered at GWCC.  We have David Crowder tickets in hand and wristbands on our wrists and we are SET!  We are checking out all of the “do something now” stuff, which you can do to, check out the website (www.268generation/passion.com) and do something now as well.  We have ONE hour until we begin.  So, to the bathroom for a quick stop/wind blown hair-fix and the journey begins!!  I’ll be checking back tonight.

1:00 am

We just got back, tonight was awesome but exhausting.  Charlie Hall leading worship and Louie speaking…more on this later

 g'night!