*sigh*

I am more than overdue on this, but I guess in my own defense I warned y'all that I'm not good at keeping up on it!

Anyways, an update on my life-- it's good. I'm feeling much better about wedding plans than I did a week or so ago. Things are starting to fall into place. I like that. Even more so than the planning I look forward to marrying the love of my life. Coming home to him. Falling asleep with my snuggle bug. Going grocery shopping together. Making decisions about our home, our life. Before we were engaged, I said that 9 months would be ideal for 'planning purposes' and although I am so happy to be engaged to him, but 9 months is a long time to wait!! We're making it work though.

Volleyball is going well. I still wondering if I am learning more from them, and about me, than I am teaching them about volleyball. Hopefully this is the goal of all coaches, but commonly I think that Kristin and I are teaching them more life lessons than volleyball skills. This will be better for them in the long run of course, but I want to be kicking butt on the court as well!

TFC is going well as well. We had 14 teens for the third week in a row. It's our favorite number I guess. : ) Really though it is a nice number to start out with. The teens push me and teach me so much as well. They are great and make me laugh each week. What I love most perhaps about chapter is that it pushes me to study the Word in such a way that I can turn around and teach it to teens who may ask just about anything. Even more so it's the fact that God hammers something from the Scripture that I'm studying [to be able to turn around and teach] in my life and then I can turn around and present it to them who God is also working on in the same area. It doesn't always make sense to me, and I'm not sure how it all works, but it does. :) And that's what really matters.

To start off this Fall we are going through the book of 1 Corinthians verse by verse. It has been pretty good so far, at least I think so, and the teens seem to say as well. Tonight I was really hammered with 1 Corinthians 2.8

'...the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory...'

When studying this I just kept repeating in my mind, 'if they had understood it, if they would have only gotten it'. Over and over again 'if they had only gotten it...if they had only gotten it...if they had only gotten it...' I couldn't help but think, if I only would get it what would I be doing differently? How could I be used differently? What would I not be doing? If I only would get it, what difference could I make in the lives of those around me. If I truly, truly not just knew but believe God is who He says He is and I am who God says I am, if I truly got that, what would I be doing differently?

What would you being doing, if you got it?

G'night.