acceptance with joy

Deeper Still Atlanta

Im back from Atlanta and so exhausted !

I went to Deeper Still with 55 women from the Hattiesburg area including my roomy Beverly Webb. We stayed at the Wyndom hotel on Peachtree. Its really a good hotel with a nice little restuarant and Starbucks coffee served in the lobby. I was able to get my grande 2 pump iced mocha no whip, without even going outside.

We were not at the hotel much though. The conference was amazing!

I had never heard Priscilla Shirer before and loved her! She has a wonderful way of blending her personal stories with lessons from Gods word , and most of them were pretty humorous! Actually, she's a hoot!

Her story of eating pancakes from the trashcan had us all rolling!

( they were in a sealed container and never touched anything so you can relax?!?) :)

I was in shock to hear that Kay Arthur is 74! She sure doesnt act like it...she can dance!!! And boy does she know her scripture. She spoke on The calamities , and judgement coming to America if we dont do something about it and gave very good practical ways to do just that. All 7 of them ! She actually got so excited about what she was saying that she forgot to give us point #7 so the entire group of 19,000 yelled out...What s #7?

She was so touched that we were actually listening to her and wanted to know! I guess you had to be there.

Beth was...well Beth Moore! we love her! she spoke on John 1:14 and by the end of the evening we all knew it by heart and all the wonderful details of what it means and means to us individually.

The music was fantastic! Mandessa was good, Travis and the praise team were awesome!

In a nut shell, I cried, I laughed, I praised Jesus and learned alot!

Thank you Lifeway and Living proof ministries for doing this for us!

As an extra treat, Sunday morning we got to go to Charles Stanley church for the 9:00 service. They were having a patriotic service with a secret guest speaker....Newt Gingrich! He spoke on God in America's history and it was very very good. You need to watch In Touch next sunday, you will be blessed. What was really great about it is that it complimented Kay Arthurs session.

I finally arrived home around 7:30pm sunday night. As I walked in the door the phone rang, I dropped my suitcase and ran to the phone...it was Hunter calling from Thailand! I had missed his call earlier in the day and just been praying that he might be able to have a chance to get to a phone and try me again!! Thank you Lord for answering my prayer, and so fast too! My prayer went from my mind to Gods throne to Hunter and back in less than a second..how does He do that? I dont know but Im glad He can! Hunter is happy and safe! Im so glad I know Jesus. Who else could we ask, or want, to protect our children when they are out of sight then the God who created the universe and loves our children even more than we do.

Well. Im going to plopp in a chair and veg out for a while. nigh night!