Dear Company Girls!
Yay! Les said we could leave for Arkansas a little after 9:30 a.m. so we can get in a quick coffee this morning. I simply couldn’t bear to not see you all! Has your week been wonderful? Did you get even one load of laundry done? You did more than I did then!! 🙂 I was in Brentwood again all week working in the Hopes, Goals, & Dreams internet Television Studio. This week I had the most exciting week, Write to Publish Author of the Year Karen Rabbitt and I spent three entire days together working with her book: Trading Fathers: Embracing God, Forgiving Dad. I wish you could have been there! I was there to witness her very first teaching tape in the studio. I witnessed how God simply took a mechanical studio and suddenly made it a God tool for healing. The teaching God has inspired Karen to share has such power for women who have difficult relationships with their father, or truly any person in their life who has hurt them! Karen and I have our own God story of how we met and I’m going to share it with you next week!
Hunter, my nine year old friend from Arkansas, was still with me this week. He was such a good boy as we had to work several hours at a time in the studio and he simply sat and read a book or played his game. I was so thankful that he was able to do so!
I was with Mrs. Fussypants, herself, Allison Worthington as we she taped her very first live internet television program and we made a tape together. Mrs. Fussypants Presents: Blogging Basics! Who knew that I would EVER be on an internet television teaching? What a fun experience!
On the home front, Madison and Chaser are still in Arkansas, next week they come home! Tonight we are traveling to see Madison in a rodeo in Callion, AR. We will simply drive 7.5 hours down and back after spending the night, then repeat the process next weekend. I am so ready to see both of them, so I am excited about going today! Its been five weeks since they went on visitation, and will return for two more later in the summer, but this mama is ready to see the babes!
My college boy announced to us that he would like to commute from home next year. I am all about that. We have an excellent school here in Alabama that has his same program and I think it would be an excellent choice. (not to mention he takes out the trash without being asked!)
It did this stepmom’s heart good to hear him say “I’d like to stay here next year” and know he meant it! Who wouldn’t want your child to come home!Yay!!
Les and I have been learning to run the tricaster equipment that makes internet television possible. It is so fun to learn this new medium for teaching. I was so blessed to use the equipment to tape Ruthie Jacobsen in the studio in Nashville, she is the author of God Wants to Hear You Sing, the #1 on Amazon story of how God has used the song by the same name to touch people’s lives. Its an amazing book and Miss Ruthie and her husband are precious! I am so excited to get to see them again next week in Nashville!
Sissy came and worked with me yesterday on ministry things. We had the second B2G Meeting (Becoming God’s Girl) which is a program for tween aged girls to learn about how God sees them. Sissy even brought Raspberry baked goodies….she’s MY kind of friend, shows up with goodies! Thanks Sissy! Of course, she has the second best husband in the world…Brandon….(of COURSE, he hasn’t had the time to get as wonderful as Les, so we’ll let him be happy with second place for now..lol)
God is still God and I have no idea where this ministry is going to go. but we’re loving the journey. Les and I have a dream called A Joyful Place Called Home….restoring families one heart at a time. We thought at first it was about step and blended families only, but God has enlarged the vision to serve ALL families. We didn’t know and don’t know how it is all to come together, but so far, God has sent amazing women to be a part of a team of twelve ministries that will all have specialty areas to help restore the family emotionally, financially, physically, spiritually, and in every other way God has sent. God’s then sent the methods and specialist in t.v., radio, print communications, and internet television and they are all saying “how can we help?” How exciting is this??? Who knew that God would choose some silly former school teacher to teach the ministries how to reach the families in a new way through Social Media? I am so excited to be allowed to be apart of God’s plan!
It is the best diet I’ve ever been on! Nothing like working your weight off! I’m down a total of 72 lbs now since January 2009. I can hardly believe it! This week I was so tickled to realize that though I am not thin, I am so much more able to run and play with my pups without being breathless!
Tell me of your world, and those of you with babies and toddlers, pass them here, I just love them! I think the best times in the world involve being with children! God is God and He loves YOU!
xoxo,
Let me know next time your in Brentwood, maybe we could meet in person. I’d love to meet another Company Girl in person.
Wow! What a week! I am so excited about your ministry opportunities! You will probably never know how many lives you bless! Have a great weekend and safe travels!
What an exciting week! don’t worry about the laundry – it’ll be just fine without you. 🙂
May God bless your ministry and reward your willingness to follow wherever this path leads your family.
It’s been fun catching up and seeing what you’ve been up to….I’ve felt a little out of it the last couple of weeks.
Can’t wait to hear more about your taping and all that’s happened on the HG&D network!! Too cool!
I wanted to touch base with you after my twitter account got hacked last week. Twitter has not fixed so I opened up a new account as “forthegirls”. My updates are protected right now because I’m a little gun shy!
Have a safe trip!
Glad you had time for coffee before you left. 🙂 I always enjoy catching up with you and hearing how you are doing.
And now I must go and attend to one of my children that has skinned his knee.
Blessings to you and yours,
Melissa