Trekking with Me

Good Day Ya'll! I hope it is a good day for you - whoever may be reading. Hint: I still love comments.... oh, well, even if none come, this blog is fun for me. But it would be MORE fun if I had more comments. (yeah, I am begging again! ;-) ) So, it's been a while since I actually wrote anything. I hope you enjoyed the song I posted last week. I have probably listened to that song a hundred times now. It simply affirms to me what God has been showing me this summer: He longs for a relationship with me, a close deep, intimate relationship - he is WITH ME , even when I have felt He was not. That is the most beautiful reality He has shown me: even in my deep mess - myself being that mess - He is with me!! For so long, I have wrestled with myself, trying to work out the things I was most ashamed and thought imperfect in myself, imagining God over in the corner, waiting for me to work out my "stuff"... me feeling resentment towards HIM. (how is that for brutal ho...

From this..... ...to this and... ....this!! What do you think!? I am thrilled.... 

This was a special moment for a few reasons: first, last year all I wanted was to experience peach ice cream at the famous Peach festival, and I drove all alone to the festival only to find I arrived too late and it was more like a ghost town and NO peach ice cream could be found!! Second, This year, we arrived EARLY, I had a FRIEND to enjoy it with and we got peach ice cream in a waffle cone! This is my sweet friend Heather! :-) Sasha enjoyed the Peach Festival as well! Yeah, Free Blueberries... the Lord blesses me so much!! The blueberry bushes were LOADED! We wanted to experience EVERY part of the Peach Festival... how about these tractors! Do we look like rednecks!? We headed out to River Falls to go Contra Dancing Saturday night. It was a first for me, and I had a FATABULOUS time!! On our way to Contra Dancing, I was needing an energy boost.... we stopped in Greenville, in the coolest coffee house stop ever!! :-) The coffee was delicious too - Coco-Nuts (Coconut & Hazelnut...