WOA!!! What a weekend!

Let me just say... this weekend threw me for a loop!!

Ill start with Friday. It was kind of a quiet day until I got off work. I go home and my room mate decided that she wanted to go shopping. Ok, I bite. Spent WAY too much money at platos and clothesline! Its ok... I have justification... Ive gained weight and none of my church clothes fit. ;) The plan was to be home by 6 so we could shower and be at freedom hall for the Extraordinary Womens Conference. Well at 5:55pm we drove by a homeless man. And I am ashamed to admit, I essentially looked the other way. I had somewhere to be and things to see and never thought a second thought about him. She pulls into hardees and decides that she is going to buy him dinner. So at this point I am irritated. "Vikki, I need to take a shower!" was my selfish, un-compassionate plea. She was bound and determined to buy him something to eat and that she did.

So here I sit in the passenger seat growing more irritated by the minute. Were in the drive through line at the slowest fast food chain in Johnson City. We finally get his food and head back to where he was sitting. And of course he is on the side so that I am going to have to hand him the food. "good grief" is the thought in my mind. And being the scaredy cat that I am, "Lord just dont let him shoot me or something." I hand him the food and he simply looks at me and said. " You have just saved my life. I dont know you, but I love you and I hope to see you in heaven someday." I felt o about a centimeter tall. He was truly a sincere homeless person down on his luck. And here I am a christian that I have written about! I put my "Holier than thou" hat on. Lord forgive me!!!

We get home and its around 6:30. We both have to shower, drive, park, find our seats in one hour. If you know anything about me... you know that being late flusters me! I cant handle it! So we get to freedom hall and were only about 10 minutes late. We cant find our seats because its dark. We stopped to ask an usher and she aks, are you guys late? I roll my eyes and say yes. She says, "come with me." We follow her to the desk out in the concessions and she pulls out 2 pink wristbands. She puts them on us and said," you now have 2nd row seats on the floor." Talk about feeling about 1/2 of a centimeter tall. She said,"sometimes it pays to be late." O my.

We get to our seat right before my favorite comedian takes the stage. AMAZING is all I can say about the conference. If you have never been, you MUST go! They will be back in JC next year.

We go home and call it a night.

Saturday morning, bright and early we go back to the conference. What a day! God just revealed himself to me in so many ways. He gave me a peace that I had been searching for in so many areas of my life! Then we go home. This is where my story gets kind of sappy! You see Vikki and I have been room mates for 3 years. And let me tell you, we have had a tumultuous relationship. But in the end God gave me more than a room mate, he gave me a best friend and sister in Christ. Well she has been packing stuff and moving for the last month and I was ok until this last time. She took her cat, who I have become severely attached to and so has my cat. It was really the saddest thing. She will be back on Thursday to help me move. But I went back upstairs and I cried and cried and cried some more. I think It as borderline sobbing. I get my phone, I need to talk to someone. I start with James, he doesn't answer. I start at the beginning alphabetically and finally find someone in the V's to answer. I talked and cried, and finally was ok.

Sunday morning comes, I oversleep. Ughh. Pretty uneventful until Sunday night. I had been praying and thinking about directing Bible school. I got my answer, but I pulled the, "God, I dont want to do it!" card. I had every reason in the book to not do it. Im too young, no one takes me seriously, someone else can do a better job... so on and so forth. I had an excuse for everything. But I told God, "If you want me to do it, then you have to show me. Make it evident." When James asked and no one stepped up. They kept trying to get him to do it and he just didn't feel lead to. So, Cindy speaks up and puts me out there. Whew! I think I got some mixed reactions from some people, but for the most part, I felt supported. I am pretty overwhelmed, but I am excited. I have two weeks off work and was wondering what I was going to do with them. Now I know ;) God is so good isn't he?!?!

So this will probably be my last blog for a few days. ITS FINALS WEEK!!! yuck! So I will be studying and moving on Thursday. Its interesting. I have to put ALL of my stuff into a storage unit because I have to be out of my current apartment on Saturday and I cant move into my new one until at the earliest on Wednesday of next week. SO I will be going to NC to visit on Friday evening, then coming back to JC on Sunday afternoon. I have to find a place for my cat to stay and myself for a few days. I have a friend that I think I am going to stay with until its all said and done for like 3-5 days. Kind of scary. So lots coming up... Hopefully I will get some time to stop by and post... if not Have a GREAT week guys and I will be back soon enough ;) Love you all!