New Experience

This Sunday, May 2nd, I start my summer music position at Hawk Point Baptist Church.

I am both really excited and really nervous about it because I don't know what to expect or how things will turn out.

One of the ladies who helps out with the youth group there was telling me about how these kids don't have Jesus, they've never had music in their meetings before and how they're going to look up to me. When she said all of that I felt a few emotions; 1) My heart broke because they don't have Jesus, 2) I got sad because they have never experienced music and 3) I got nervous because I was told that "they're gonna be looking up to me".......baaaaah!

I mean that is a huge honor, but for some reason it's really nerve wrecking.

In the meantime I will just continue to pray that God's will be done in all of what happens this summer and that He will use me in any way that He chooses.
This will certainly be an interesting journey and God will work through it all! :)

New Chapter In Life

Hello friends,

I am just going to tell you about something that is really exciting for me personally :)

For all of my life I have been kind of overweight and I've tried a number of things to defeat being overweight, but nothing has really worked.

This summer I'll be starting the Human Growth Hormone program. It's a dietary supplement that redistributes body fat in a healthy way. It gets rid of the bad fat and redistributes the good fat to make ya look fantastic :)

I'm going on this program because my heart murmur has kind of been bugging me and my doc said that one way to kind of fix the heart problem is to lose weight because that weight stresses the heart out.

I start the program June 1st and would really appreciate your prayers that God will give me strength to stick to this program and to just keep going and pushing through. It's going to be hard because I'm only allowed 500 calories per day. The HGH burns 4500 calories and makes up for what nutrients I don't get :)

So just pray for me :)
Thanks,
-Liz

Funny Story With A Big Meaning

So it has been TOO long since I've blogged....sorry about that.

One story that I would like to share with you happened like 2 months ago, but I just didn't blog about it.

Ok so one Sunday night my brother, Preston, and I were on our way home to spend the night and I wasn't really having a good day so him and I decided to stop by Wal-Mart to get pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. I've had many meetings with Ben & Jerry and they've helped me through a lot of crap that life has thrown at me ;)

So anyway....we get to the check-out lane and the cashier was giving us this look like "shame on you two". I knew that look because I'm black and she happened to be black so yeah....
She came out and said "you DO know that we have bigger containers of ice cream for half the price of this lil thang right?" My brother and I just kind of looked at each other and said "yeah we know hahaha". Then she was all like "I almost didn't ring this up for you because I want you to save money...mmm mmm". If you know me at all, then you should know how much fun I was having with this whole conversation.
After we checked out she said the routine "have a good night".

What I took from that whole experience was this; She was telling me how to save money, when I could have told her how to save her life. No one was really around and we were the only two people in Wal-Mart. I had plenty of time to share The Gospel with that woman and I didn't realize that I missed an opportunity until I got home.

With that said....how do you live your life? Is Christ shining through you or is He hidden behind your facade? Do you take every opportunity that comes your way to share Christ with other people?

It's just something to think about.