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| so, I decided it has been way too long and I should post something!! My life has been crazy these last few months. Right after Jeremy and I got engaged, we went to Rhode Island to teach a youth camp and then straight to Canada for two weeks. Both were a blast, and it was so fun being introduced as a "fiance"!! As soon as we got back, I started my new job, which i really enjoy. I am working at Edible Arrangements Corporate office - i take new franchisees from the point where they purchase the franchise to the point where they open their stores. I then found out (thanks to US immigrations) that we had to get married in OCTOBER if Jeremy wanted to stay in the country! So, after a minor freak out, we started planning! In 7 days, I will be Mrs. Jeremy Burden!! I can't wait... so, the last few months of my life have been filled with working full-time (which is not all it was cracked up to be!) and wedding planning... i have had so much fun wedding planning. Jeremy has been amazing. He has been so involved and so amazing. So, at the moment, I am working on packing up my stuff to move it into our new apartment before we leave for TN on Wednesday!! I cannot believe I am getting married in a week.... there is still little details to tie up, and that is a bit stressful, but at the moment, I am just really excited!!! I am going to get back to packing and then we have a wedding shower later today!! yay.... | | |
| I'm ENGAGED!!!
I can't thank Jesus enough for the man He has given me to spend the rest of my life with. I am one BLESSED BLESSED woman. | | |
| Ok, I am posting! Between my mother and my best friend - it seems to be the consensus that I don't post enough :) I think my mom was just jealous cause my last post was about my Dad! ;) just kidding - i love you, Mom. My life is wonderful, but has been busy as always. My trip down South went great, it was really good to see everyone - I cant believe its already been a month. The internship I am in is over for the summer, and I am really debating whether or not to do the internship in the fall or not... I think it could be wisest to get a full time job and just work. At least I dont have to decide that now. My next month is packed pretty full with alot of different travel plans. Jeremy (the very attractive man to the left with his arm around me :)) and I leave Friday to go back South to spend some time with my family and a few days with my parents at the beach. Then, we have a couple of different things we are taking some of the youth kids on, as well as a conference we are teaching at. [Its so exciting and fun, in the last few months, some doors have started opening up for Jeremy and I - both seperate and together - to teach at different things. Its really fun, and I especially love tag team teaching with him. This Thursday we are teaching at a four week "school" on Healing.] Then, hopefully right after the conference we are teaching, we will leave for a couple of weeks in Vancouver, Canada. Those plans are still up in the air, but I really hope they work out. After all that, I will decide about the internship or a full-time job and then head into the rest of my year! So, that's the scoop on Rachel for the moment. and mostly that is what has been going through my head - just making plans and preparing for different ministry things. I cannot wait to see my family and spend some time with my parents. Oh, one more exciting thing is that the kids from youth are really doing well. There is a group of guys -with 1 or 2 girls - that are really going after the Lord. Its exciting to be apart of a time that I know is transforming their lives. I am so excited to see what God does this summer in all of them. | | |
| I got to see my Daddy today! and we went to a yummy sea food restaurant on the beach. I love living near the beach, I absolutely cannot wait until its warm enough to lay out and swim in the ocean!! In two more days I get to see my Mama and then go to TFC! I am really so excited...
I heard something today that I have thought alot about before, but I heard it explained in a new way:
When you are in love with someone, there are times that you talk about your day, talk about troubles, ask advice, talk about any thing and everything - but there are also times that you just sit in the company of each other in silence. The comfortable silence just enjoying one anothers presence - then put it into relationship with the Lord - how often do we just come and sit in His presence -just to enjoy Him and allow Him to enjoy us? But then how often do we come with the worries of our day, questions for tomorrow, and talking about anything and everything. I definitely think the latter out weighes the former in my life. I do just spend time "soaking" in His presence - but even then, half of the time, its cause I am waiting to hear what He has to say about something. He loves it when I ramble to Him, but He also loves it when I just come to sit with Him. I want to just sit and soak in His presence more often. It really is enjoyable and makes me feel loved. | | |
| busy busy busy... I am one busy woman these last few days before I leave. I feel like I have five hundred million things to do before I leave. But, I AM SO EXCITED! I get to see my Daddy before I leave, then eat dinner with my Mama on my way down- then spend 5 days with all my beautiful friends in Toccoa - then two more whole days with my parents. I am so pumped. I am loving the last few weeks of the internship, but I am also really looking forward to being able to work full time for the summer and feel like a real adult. I think its just more that I am really loving Jesus - not a new thing :) - but I am just really loving all He is doing in my life right now, the good and the bad - and I can really see the beginnings of the fruit of some things - which is always a ginormous blessing! The youth are doing so well, its still hard ground, but we are really starting to see change in their lives. and that is fulfilling! I decided once I get back from TFC, Im going to do a "what I learned since graduating post" it will be good for me to process through some things. so, alot more people read my xanga than i thought, because apparently Lynds has been bombarded with curious questions :) I guess some things dont change - even if you live over 700 miles away :) Traci's CD comes out the end of May.... it sounds amazing, Im so excited! | | |
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