Beauty Overflowing

This past weekend God gave me a tremendous opportunity to help lead worship for a girl's retreat at FBC Ellisville and to be quite honest.....it was one of the most powerful weekends I have experienced in my entire life.
The theme or name for the girl's weekend was "Beauty Overflowing" and the main verse for the weekend was Proverbs 4:23, "Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life."

The speaker, Kayla Meyer, was very genuine whenever she spoke. She talked about many things such as guarding your heart, being in community with one another, having a mentor, being honest, etc... I could tell that she was very passionate about what she was saying and I definitely felt God tug at my heart every time she spoke.
Learning about inner beauty has opened my mind to new perspectives on how to be truly beautiful. It's kind of like you see this gorgeous girl and you think she's perfect in every way, but then you actually see her "true colors" and then all of a sudden she isn't so beautiful anymore. Instead of judging that person we are called to love which is why we should pray for God to touch those people in such a way that they can't do anything else but yield to God.
I know for a fact that without God I cannot be truly beautiful.

Another thing that really touched my heart the most about the weekend was the times of worship.
I was blessed to sing along side Emily Slates and even though we were leading those girls in worship I think that we were broken for God as well as the girls.
I know that I was...but the exciting thing about being broken by God is that He fixes us again. He picks us up from where we are and brings us up to Himself.
On the last night of the weekend God's presence was felt and tears were shed (the good kind).
Seeing the girls pray with each other and encourage each other in love was completely amazing to see and experience.
I am so glad that God gave me the opportunity to be at "Beauty Overflowing".
Even though He shows me something new every day; I experienced change at that retreat that I'll never forget.

Whoever is reading this......YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!! and I love you!
God Bless,
*Liz*