33 Miles & Fee

I have been to many concerts in my life, but Friday night I went to my very first Christian Rock Concert and it was AWESOME! My good friend Gino had an extra ticket to see 33 Miles and Fee and invited me to go...Thanks a bunch Gino! We had such a good time! Anytime you ever do anything with Gino you know you are going to have a blast and laugh A LOT!!! Below is a picture of us after our Sushi dinner and heading to the concert.

The concert took me back to my day's at Centrifuge (for those of you who don't know, Cenrifuge is a church camp I would go to in the summer.) There you are in a big auditorium pack full of people doing nothing but worshiping our Father. What an amazing feeling. It is like you can literally feel the love of God just pouring out. People dancing, hands and hearts raised to God, heads bowed in prayer, voices lifted up praising our Holy Father. You feel like no one can touch you, harm you, and the ways of this world are just and afterthought. It's truly an unbelievable feeling.

So today as I am driving down the road, still on a high from last night, and looking back over my life...all the sudden I see it. See what, you ask. I see the path that I have taken to become the person I am so far, I see the path that I have taken to bring me closer to our Father. All those moments that I didn't understand why I had to go through, were now like a perfectly mapped out road trip. Every bump, every hurtle, every joy, every sorrow, every single moment had a reason. WOW! Not that I didn't know that God had a plan for me before (and still know his plan is not complete) but I had just never looked back and thanked God for every moment and every person in my life. People that at the time, I could not ever fathom why my path had brought me to them. Ever wonder that yourself? Without those moments and people I would not have the relationship with God that I do today.

I just finished up a Beth Moore bible study, and by the way if you ever get a chance to do one of her studies, DO IT! In one part of the study we talked about that pivotal moment where we are headed in one direction and God picks us up and turns us in another...we may not like it at the time, but when we look back we can see that was the moment He changed us. At the time of the study I could not pin point that moment in my life, I though maybe it hadn't happened yet. The thing is, it is not just one moment or at least not for me, it is many moments. Many times He has picked me up and put me back on track, many times I have been heading down a dead end road and He turned me around. Isn't that just amazing? How every little detail He has already worked out, how He does have a plan for me and you, how He does whatever he can to bring us closer to Him.

Lord, as I write this to night, I pray for those that are heading down a path in their life and don't known why. I pray that you will pick them up and put them on the right track to you and I pray that one day they too will look back and Thank You for your will and your way. Thank you for showing me the right direction even if there were many bumps in the road along the way. And Father God, I also know that my journey is not complete and I trust with all my heart that I will look back one day and have many more pivotal points in my life where you have picked me up and set me on another path. I pray for those that are reading this that do not know you, I pray that they too will one day open their hearts and mind to your love and know that you can handle anything and take care of anything that they might be going through. In your most precious name, Amen.