Wow. What a weekend. I was able to get down to Norman Park and spend much needed quality time with my Pop, his new wife, and my awesome cousins. It was raining cats and dogs but we enjoyed the weather and staying inside.
My sister-like cousin brought over family videos and the first night I was down we watched them and they brought me to tears. It was a video from when I was two months old, around the time of Father's Day, and we were down at a beach house with my father's side of the family. My heart skipped a beat when I heard a little voice screaming about something or another and I recognized that it was the voice of my brother. It was surreal to see him on screen and practically feel like he was in the room with us. Next on the video, we saw my father get down on the ground and lay in front of me as a baby and talk to me saying, "Are you my baby girl? Are you my little baby girl?" in such a sweet voice. He then picked me up and cradled me in his arms and started singing, "I'll like you forever, I'll love you for always. As long as I'm living my baby you'll be." At that point I basically became unraveled. I missed my father so much and seeing him sing to me was beautiful. It made me so unbelievably happy to have found that video.
However, we were delivered a huge blow as a family. One of my cousins who recently recovered from kidney cancer, has been told by the doctors that she is also suffering from pancreatic cancer. Since kidney doesn't normally jump to the pancreas, we are fearful of bone cancer as well. It is a hard moment for my family and we are hoping for the best but at the same time we recognize that there is a large chance this may be fatal.
After meeting up with the family to talk, we ended up laughing the night away and giving thanks for the life that she has lived so far. Later in the weekend, we were stuck inside yet again by the rain and played the Game of Life. Being that I hadn't played it in years, I'm pretty sure we were just making up rules as we went along to try and get the game over. Robbie kept claiming innocence yet she completely showed us up with raking in about two million dollars...too bad it wasn't real money because we said we all knew who to come to when we needed loans for college.
All in all I'd say it was a completely successful weekend with the family.
My internship is going along and is still completely different than what I ever could have imagined. After too little sleep on Saturday night and getting up early on Sunday morning, I fel like I was completely dragging. NOISE began and I was thankfully seated in the back running the technological side of things and making sure lyrics and pictures came up at the appropriate times. It gave me a chance to sit back and see kids genuinely worship. They didn't know I was watching them and basically in awe of how lovely and mighty there worship spoke to me. Sometimes learning more about the business side of ministry can get to me, but it's little moments like this past Sunday morning that help me realize and continue to persue my calling. I know I'm supposed to do Children's MInistry.
Live Today.
My sister-like cousin brought over family videos and the first night I was down we watched them and they brought me to tears. It was a video from when I was two months old, around the time of Father's Day, and we were down at a beach house with my father's side of the family. My heart skipped a beat when I heard a little voice screaming about something or another and I recognized that it was the voice of my brother. It was surreal to see him on screen and practically feel like he was in the room with us. Next on the video, we saw my father get down on the ground and lay in front of me as a baby and talk to me saying, "Are you my baby girl? Are you my little baby girl?" in such a sweet voice. He then picked me up and cradled me in his arms and started singing, "I'll like you forever, I'll love you for always. As long as I'm living my baby you'll be." At that point I basically became unraveled. I missed my father so much and seeing him sing to me was beautiful. It made me so unbelievably happy to have found that video.
However, we were delivered a huge blow as a family. One of my cousins who recently recovered from kidney cancer, has been told by the doctors that she is also suffering from pancreatic cancer. Since kidney doesn't normally jump to the pancreas, we are fearful of bone cancer as well. It is a hard moment for my family and we are hoping for the best but at the same time we recognize that there is a large chance this may be fatal.
After meeting up with the family to talk, we ended up laughing the night away and giving thanks for the life that she has lived so far. Later in the weekend, we were stuck inside yet again by the rain and played the Game of Life. Being that I hadn't played it in years, I'm pretty sure we were just making up rules as we went along to try and get the game over. Robbie kept claiming innocence yet she completely showed us up with raking in about two million dollars...too bad it wasn't real money because we said we all knew who to come to when we needed loans for college.
All in all I'd say it was a completely successful weekend with the family.
My internship is going along and is still completely different than what I ever could have imagined. After too little sleep on Saturday night and getting up early on Sunday morning, I fel like I was completely dragging. NOISE began and I was thankfully seated in the back running the technological side of things and making sure lyrics and pictures came up at the appropriate times. It gave me a chance to sit back and see kids genuinely worship. They didn't know I was watching them and basically in awe of how lovely and mighty there worship spoke to me. Sometimes learning more about the business side of ministry can get to me, but it's little moments like this past Sunday morning that help me realize and continue to persue my calling. I know I'm supposed to do Children's MInistry.
Live Today.
