So good!

I'm having a glorious day! I'm happy and full of joy. I'm thankful for where God has put me in this world and so thankful that He hasn't given up on me, but is still working in me to make me the woman that He made me to be!

I'm so thankful for good friends that care and listen and share and laugh and are so very different. I had lunch with Mary Teresa yesterday and that was so good. We laughed and giggled and made fun and acted like high schoolers. So fun. And I had coffee with Kristen last night, which was fabulous. She was incredibly encouraging and uplifting and was the epitimy of a real friend. She asked me hard questions and was holding me accountable and just showed that she really cared about me. I'm thankful for her. I'm thankful for all of you.

What a day at work. I'm finally finishing the acceptance packets for The Laborer's Institute for Youth and Young Adults for all of 2006! What a long process! I'm now working on the student notebooks. I've decided to change them and make them a little more schnazzy. How fun! Using skills I don't have! We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck!

Thanks for your frienships! I hope you're having as good a day as I'm having!

I'm not sick anymore! Praise the Lord for healing me!

Finally coming to an end

I have been coughing continuously since Friday. How annoying! I havne't had a cough like this since high school or maybe it was even middle school. I don't know. But it's been forever. I'm sick of it. I can't go to the gym because I can't quit coughing, thus can't breathe. I can't sleep because I cough all through the night. AAAaaggggghhh!!!!!

But thankfully, I called a friend who's a doctor and she called me in some prescription cough medicine. Codine baby. Yeah! I was busy getting my hair done last night:) so a good friend went and picked it up for me. Thank God for good friends! And yes, I slept last night. I slept good. I took more of that stuff this morning, which I don't think was that wise to do. But I had nothing else. I am now about to fall asleep at my desk. I must push through until 11:00 when it wears off.

Don't do what I did and try and tough it out. You can tough out pain, but you can't tough out a cold/sinus/cough thing that you have. Trust me. I can tough out anything and I couldn't tough this out:)

Lessons learned by kathryn. Have a great day!

Food and good friends!

Well...what a busy week. I've been sick. Yuck. I thought I was on the upswing or downslope, whatever you want to call it. But no. Things are just changing and I get new ailments everyday. Yuck. I refuse to take medicine though. I'm toughing this one out. I think I'm doing pretty well. I think. If you've seen me lately and you don't think so, please tell me and I'll try and do something about it:)

Well...this weekend is filled with food. Yes, that's right, good food. Tonight I'm going over to the Drees' house for dinner. Yummy! And tomorrow night I'm making a big southern dinner featuring:

Roast with potatoes and carrots and grave
Macaroni and Cheese
Green Beans
Fried Okra (are you jealous Amy?)
Corn Bread
Sweet Tea
Benne Wafers
Banana Pudding
Pecan Pie

Oh course, all of this is homemade! I hope it's as much a treat for the ladies coming as it will be for me to cook it for them! I love to cook for people and I never get the chance. But I do tomorrow! Yea for good times with good friends!

And...I have a surprise, but I can't tell anyone. You'll have to wait for it! You'll never guess.

A journey...

Okay, I have finally processed through what it was that God was trying to tell me and what exactly I heard Him tell me!

Humility. This would be enough to describe everything, but I'll give the details anyway. God has been teaching me humility like NEVER before! It has been the most painful few days of my life. I have felt ashamed, embarassed, saddened, and useless.

God taught me two major things: that I am arrogant, prideful, and full of myself and that I have a heart of anger not love.

At this conference I went to they asked some questions as examples of things and one of them was "Why am I angry?". I was writing it down and I asked myself that question and realized at the same moment that I am angry. I am angry at everyone and everything about SOMETHING. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it except that it was always THEIR fault and never mine. I was/am angry, but why? I have no idea why. I have not a clue in the world why I am angry all the time and everyone about everything. This brought to light a major problem, as you can imagine.

I chose to look deeper and discovered that because of my anger, I am choosing not to love. And because I am not loving I am hindering so much in this spiritual life of mine and others. Sad:(
I can't go into everything, but I am set out to figure this out.

The other major thing was my pride. I have been walking aroung thinking that I know all of the answers and that I am some spiritual giant. I AM NOT! I judged people on how "unspiritual" they were and smiled at myself for how "spiritual" I was. Disgusting. I am ashamed and embarassed.

Since I can't apologize individually to each of you: I'm sorry for judging you and for thinking myself better than you.

But...God in His faithfulness has rescued me. I think I should feel horrible about myself. I don't. I mean, I did, but not anymore. God has held me and showered the much needed love and encouragement that I needed to be able to see the hope that He has given me. He opened my eyes and ears to hear Him speaking love to me and telling me that this race is not over. He has not given up on me. He sees what I WILL be and knows that I can be that.

Right now I do not know what the next step is towards "fixing" all of this, but I do not that I am already being healed and I trust that God will show me the path to righteousness, which is gift.

The Anderson alumni crew. So fun!!!!!!!

I personally like the Miller Lite Time sign at the top!

Now pictures of the fam!

Why do I think I need to be in every picture? I don't. I need to stop that:)

To the left here is me and two childhood friends, Julia and Alex. I saw them while in Charleston and we went and saw "Flightplan". [Better than I had expected.]








Here's me and mom and Jenn in Charleston off my Pop-Pop's back porch. Sooooo good to see them all!

Lucas was not happy in the new bear-hooded towel I gave him. Maybe the giant bear head scared him. I mean it does envelope him doesn't it? He'll grow into it I'm sure.

Here's me and Sara and her precious new little boy, Lucas! Isn't he so cute? And don't Sara and I look good matching in out pink?:)

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!

So...I'm back in Colorado! I'm really glad to be back. I loved South Carolina and I loved seeing people, but there's no place like home. And being as Colorado has now become my home, there's no place like here:)

I know that some of you have asked what it feels like to live here and how do I feel about it and so forth and I've responded that I wasn't sure because it still felt like it did every other summer that I was here and I thought it would finally hit me when I was here during a holiday. Well, I didn't have to wait for the holiday. Yesterday, October 10th, Denver got it's first snowfall of the season. It snowed somewhere between 3 and 6 inches and it snowed ALL day! [I had the day off from work!!!] Well...now it's hit me. I sat at the conference table this morning during prayer and thought to myself, "Now it feels like a live here." It does, it finally feels way different and this place truly does feel like home and I'm grateful.

Now, as far as my trip to SC....WOW....it was great! I spent a lot of time with one of my dear friends, Sara, her husband, Matt and their new little baby boy, Lucas. I saw dear, dear friends from college and I got to see my sister, whom I had an absolute ball with, and my mom and Pop-Pop, Aunt Teresa, Aunt Kristie, Aunt Becky and cousins. It was great. I saw two friends from growing up in Charleston! I had two alumni gatherings, which was a first and I thought, very successful! I got to see a lot of my supporters and I hope I was encouraging! I went to Catalyst, a leadership conference in Atlanta. AMAZING! I learned so much in those two days and God's still teaching me even afterwards! I am so blessed and continually humbled!

I'll have to write more tomorrow. Oh, and I've got lots of pics!!!!!!!!!!!!