I love sunsets.
Sometimes I take pictures of sunsets.
Here are my top 5 sunset shots from this last year-ish, in no particular order:
Northbound on 85, Saratoga.
Seascape Resort, Aptos.
Westbound on the 8, San Diego.
Taking apart the baptismal after church on our 1-year anniversary at Garden City Church.
Westbound on El Camino Real, Santa Clara.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
- Psalm 19:1
Date Your Wife is a great read, both theologically and practically, even as a single woman with no prospects of becoming a wife in the near future. :)
I couldn’t put this book down for three reasons:
I am giving copies of this book to friends who are single, married, Christian, non-Christian, for the same three reasons:
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
A year ago from yesterday, I showed up to Garden City Church for the first time at a pre-launch core team meeting.
I had put my two weeks’ notice in at my job earlier that week, and all week could not understand how I had taken the risk of leaving a financially secure, stable job in Silicon Valley with no plan.
Clearly, though, God had one.
The meeting I showed up to was the one where Justin Buzzard, and his team of about 25 people, thought through “the list” of things they thought would need to be in place before their official launch in September; however, Justin was the only staff member, and thus had the job description: Do everything.
After the meeting, I invited myself to dinner with the Buzzard family, got really excited about what God was going to do through Garden City Church, and proceeded to send the following email* to Justin on Monday, May 23, 2011:
Hi,
I am thrilled to see how God is going to use Garden City Church. Let me share a bit of my excitement!
So I know I briefly told you about how I’d been thinking about leaving my job for a while and then finally put in notice for one of my jobs a week ago. In light of that, I started really thinking and praying about what that meant for me in terms of vocation.
Yesterday, I saw needs at Garden City that I truly feel like God has been equipping me to fulfill… and I would LOVE to be able to chat with you about it.
Anyway, what I got so excited about was this: I won’t have a job, but I’m financially able to request being a volunteer staff member for Garden City. I have an extensive background in admin/communications/office management, and I would be able to commit to being a part of Garden City’s first year (at least!) to create sustainable, repeatable administrative processes and help establish the logistics side of things.
I also love Jesus.
Please let me know if you would be interested to talk more about this.
Until then, I will be praying for you and your family, and for Garden City Church.
Karen
Immediately after sending the email, I second-guessed myself, thinking I could have ended up just freaking him out–he’d only met me a day ago.
But Justin ended up emailing me back, and after a series of meetings with Taylor (his wife) and him, I was given a sweet part-time position to serve at Garden City Church!
God gave me two great opportunities that week to take risks and trust him. Had I known the exact order of events and every detail of that story, it would have been far less exciting; there would be no story to tell.
*Parts of this email were edited/removed.
ALERT!
Have you heard?
It’s everywhere.
There’s a new trend sweeping the entire universe.
It’s blowin’ up your tweets, creepin’ into your Facebook feed, infiltrating your e-mails, and it’s mos DEF all up in your text messages.
You can’t stop it. At this point, either give in and join the trend, or stand idly as the whole world passes you by.
If you haven’t guessed already, we’re talking about…
ABBREVS!
Oh, yes. Abbrevs are the sweet new way to eliminate unnecessary letters and facilitate quick and easy communication. Everyone knows that every time you say something like “obviously” instead of “obvi,” you waste half a second of your life.
Trick is, do most people know what you mean? Usually one who has become comfortable speaking in abbrevs will gain the skill to infer what another means by a word, even if they haven’t heard it before.
Here are my personal favs:
Feel free to mix ‘n match and use multiple abbrevs in a single sentence. For example:
“Wasn’t Matt Chandler totes brill in that sermon on Sunday?”
“Mos def! I was sups convicted.”
How do you feel about abbrevs? Love ‘em? Hate ‘em? Which do you use most frequently?
Rhinestones make everything look better.
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