You know that feeling when yesterday was last week or even last year. I have been doing some reflecting and moving through out the days. A lot has happened since I last blogged.
Some answers to those nagging question people always ask.
Are you getting along with your roommate?
but my roommate graduated and is getting married while I am incredibly excited for her. I also get to be in her wedding in less than two weeks. I miss having that friendly loving presence around. Positive outlook they are not moving out of country, state, or city any time soon.
So I am getting used to a whole new roommate. I have been lucky up to this point in having friends that put up with my wild behavior when I have been in all day and they come in and I scare them.
Have you been going to church?
Yes I have. I have been attending Capitol Hill Church of Christ in the south side of Oklahoma City. I love it there. I have also been volunteering by teaching 11 & 12 year old girls that worked with this summer. I love them but they are girls who are on the brink of adolescence and because that can be a test of patience.
Another reason I love Capitol Hill is all the kids. The church has a ton of kids that you watch grow up and who thirst for more knowledge.
There are also a large group of adults who all come and help that all love the kids. We all get along because we share a passion for the kids and the church.
How is it on the boy front?
Well there is no one in the picture and I haven't been in the dating scene.
However, I have been focus on me and God, waiting for his time....
You could say Jesus is my boyfriend in the strangest of terms like a nun says.
My favorite thing about Oklahoma City?
I love how God is moving in the city. To me at least the Devon Tower is a candle in the light sky saying "God we are here. Your children are in need of your presence."
From where the city has been to where it is moving to makes me so happy but I know his work is not done and I want to be part of God's mission not my mission but God's
School is good.
I really enjoy most of my class and I really enjoy spending times in the bible building and being surrounded by other Mission and bible majors. There is a really cool group.
Here is my catch up Blog post I will try to get back on soon to write some more but here are some thoughts.
Scrapes on my face are a BLESSING.....INDEED and a new lesson about myself.
It all started on Friday morning. Before 11:00 am I was just a regular girl in less an hour I would become a girl with scrapes on her face. I went to babysit as usual, went to chapel with Jessica and after this MJ asked us to go to lunch with her but disappeared. We went down the stairs of Scot's Chapel and stopped in the forum to wait and watch the chapel rush disappear. Giving up we walked up the stairs closed to the caf and walked past the doors and that's when I tripped. I don't remember what happened for sure but I remembered that right before it happened I was watching my Children Ministry Majors walk in to the student center.
Jessica got me and help walk a dazed me into the student center straight into the bathroom where I put some cleaned up the freshly skinned forehead and nose. We stopped at the grill for a water bottle and Jessica's food. I had decided I wanted sonic. On the way to my car we found MJ and she came with us. To speed up I got my Sonic and sat while I ate in my spot in the bible building.
I posted this picture on Facebook.
There were a lot of comments and a lot of questions. I went to class that day. My mind was all there but the pain was sharing the its presence. Some people were shocked that I went to class that day. My only explanation is that I really is that I need to be around people.
The story was that I got in a fight with MJ at least that what was going around the corner.
Later that day, I checked my Facebook and I saw these comments by family members. Ryan's comments is very much like what my Dad told me any time I got hurt on something. My Dad would pull me on his lap and tell the spot I fell over or "hit shame on it" for let me getting hurt. It was a blessing and a nice blast from the past
When I got back to my apartment. I end up passing out on my couch because I am tired emotionally
and physically.
Fast forward to the next couple days, scrapes on my face are hard to miss people have been asking me what happened.
On Saturday was a family reunion that I did not know about till that morning... "The Watson Family Reunion" MY dad's mom's side. I went and I am glad I went. I spent have the time laughing the time at Bob Bob.
I went to church on Sunday and answered the questions. My favorite response in CHill to my face was, "Whose this boyfriend that I need to talk to?" which I responded to "I don't have one and the concert"
Sunday was also the start of the lectureship. My face end up being a conversation starter with people. I was sitting and walking back forth from the Wishing Well OC booth. In one of my journeys back to my car and my apartment I stopped by the EEM Table because I really love the work that they are doing there. I spoke with him about Ukraine and he asked me about my face. Another thing that stood out to me is, "I saw you before and wondered."
I told him what had happened about how I face planted. I shared a story with him that I once face planted after crossing the road in Gorlovka, Ukraine. However that curb was much larger than the one I tripped over in this case. He told me, "No more face plants." Which I replied to, "I'll try not."
These marks on my face have been giving me a chance to talk to people. It has been a conversation starter in itself. When I was sitting at the Wishing Well booth and people are walking around the booths they may stop look at the merchandise on the table then up at me. The marks on my face were sudden and surprising to the people then they would stop and ask what happened then I would try to turn back to something on the table.
One of the nights I do not remember which night I had unbelievable pain
in my knee from the bruise that is on my knee from the fall.
This is the blessing side of it. The reflections will be below after I finish the narrative.
Monday, I woke up with the sniffles and went to babysat for Body and Soul and the Lectureship. I was getting to babysit from 8/9 to 12 pm longer than I done on a Monday morning. I really enjoyed it. I got to see a baby/toddler that I really enjoy however he was slightly fussy.
I went to the caf got my box of food and ate in the bible building. I enjoyed my time with my friends The bible building is my favorite place to be cuddling with my peeps. I am safe. When class time came I went and then enjoyed time outside in the bible corner and got a doughnut. After that I went back to my room curled up on my bed and watched Reign (the CW show). I stopped to watch Breakfast at Tiffany's for the quiz in History of Motion Pictures. Great movie.
I went to the lectureship that night at 7 pm to listen to Doug Peter speak and the Panel. After that I chatted and took down the Wishing Well booth. I also helped carry things for a friend and traveled back to my apartment. I slept on my couch that night but stayed up watching Reign (addictive).
The next day, Tuesday, I woke up with sniffles again and started my homework but I was exhausted. Trying to move my body off the couch was a long process. I ended up falling back to sleep skipped my first class and I was going to go to my second class.
When the time came around for my second class. I could not get up and moving around my body had it. My body told me, "you have worked us to the core you like to go go go. We can not take anymore" I finally started moving about but slowly when I gave myself time to rest and I went in small little burst. I had to take down the booth because of the end of the conference, pick up a package, and do laundry.
I was walking back from getting my package and I saw the EEM guy again but he was packed up in his car. He drove up to me and rolled down his window and said, "No more face plants." I smiled and replied, "I'll try not to,"then wished him goodbye.
At Wishing Well later that night I got a chair from one of the graduate classrooms. The comfy grey ones that roll so I could move it around in the front of the room. There are parts of the meeting that I were on my feet and I was running into things and almost falling over again. Jessica would say "please don't fall" or "oh your poor knees." I think we accomplished something at the meeting though. I am thankful for them.
Just before Wishing Well, I wrote notes to people in my life telling them things that had been pressed on heart. Even early in that day I was surprised in some of things I wrote as the Holy Spirit took control and worked in my life as she has all week in all these instances of this week and my life as a whole.
The chair that I had taken from one of the graduate classrooms was not taken back by me. I was taken back in it. Philip pushed me in the chair at a running pace back to the classroom to the chair, rightful spot. I got up from the chair and moved to the comfy couch cushion outside the door and waited till the rest came out. I stole Philip's phone and ended up disabling it trying to unlocking it. It was funny watching him freaking out over trying to figure out where he placed it.
And today on Wednesday, a child said my scrape on my face looked like a, "fish."
Reflection Time.... Please listen to this song as you read this section of the blog on repeat if you may.
A few weeks before I face planted into the concrent. I been feeling very alone and dragged down by the devil and his demons. I also felt a little bit forgotten about but that was mostly my fault because I was in my apartment and I never texted any body to do anything. Invitation unfilled or never gotten back to me. In the same time I have had the Noah Soundtrack in my car playing. This is my favorite song on the album. It is a reminder that my pillow is not just soft as cloud but his arms and his chest as my Father who created me.
Ever since my little trip I have been embraced everywhere I have been with people asking me how I am doing or commenting that my face is doing better. The scrapes on my face gave me an a point to stand out when I feeling very unnoticed. What I am saying is God pushed me over for my face to get scraped and my knees to be bruised. For me to learn a few important lessons.
God tends to do this to me when I have been rushing around do to many things at a time and I am thank for that. He makes that I have to physically slow down with some physical injury. Tuesday was my personal day of slowing down and praying for strength to get through the healing process. I am learning that I cannot expect myself to everything all day after a tramua of tripping over something. Body needs to heal. So I am becoming more stationary and using my mind less than my leg. You could say I am lazy person but I have been hurting this last week with physical pain. God can heel my Physical and Emotional pain for he is my rock. I love my community.
Please pray for me to heal and regain strength and I don't wear myself thin.
To end my long blog here is a passage from Psalm 62:7-9 (NRSV): "7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.
8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.Selah
9 Those of low estate are but a breath, those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath."
T-shirtThe link beside takes you to a booster for raising money for my internship this summer. The design is amazing. You can see them on the right and the left. Designed by Hailey Keele.(My best friend from elementary and beyond till heaven may we party.)
I love my job
Right now I am only training but I have a pretty cool job. I am getting paid to build relationships with the other interns and our bosses. While we also learning about the environment we are going to be working with.
The people I work with are godly christians young ladies and "men" (I am just joking) along with Melia, Amanda, and Matt (the best bosses). I will tell stories a little further down however I need follow the title of the blog.
My Goals for the Summer
Connect with the kids
Learn to Trust God
Let him have control
Face my Fears
Talking in front of people
Being in charge
Driving a ton of people
Being alone and teaching
Losing Weight
I have done yoga two nights in a row (ow! I may feel that in the morning)
Make lasting relationships with Brothers and Sisters
Fear Conquering Stories
Over the last few days we have been doing drive training for the 15 passenger vans. The insurance has a policy of being 21 to drive the vans. This was something told me in the interview and I was less than thrilled.
So when Matt asked me to drive, yesterday, the bus full of the rest of the interns. Before I stepped into the driver seat I prayed and asked for strength and you know what (???) driving was not so bad. I had a great navigator thou.
Today we were driving on the highway. It was all well and good. Part of me drove slower than the speed limit because of nerves and because sometimes I can have a lead foot (it may in the genes (just kidding)). Two moments while I was on the highway Matt changed the location of where we're driving (slightly frustrating but more practice). When we finally got to our destination it was Sonic so that was a fun bonding experience.
Tomorrow, I have to give a short devo for the group before our training. I am a little nervous but I think I am going to let God teach me as I talk. For my voice is his.
Good night guys,
Evynn P. S. Another Tshirt link below. The booster ends June 2nd and shirts are $20 with a $5 shipping fee. Don't make any excuses three have been bought already! Buy one for your family if it is getting shipped to the same place for only 5. God is Good, He will provide. Love you all. You know you love God's Mission! Please by a shirt! Love Evynn
+++++++++ Moving on to some thoughts ++++++++++++++
I started my summer Job well we are in training at the moment. This is a very fun experience at the moment getting to know everyone that I am going to be working with this summer. I am an intern at Capitol Hill Church of Christ along with some other cool cats. Yesterday, I had a moment when things just clicked together. You know that minute when things you are learning in your personal time with God meets you and just clicks. From the book I am reading, morning devotional, to small group that night. I got to work early yesterday, not much early but enough to start working on reflective questions in Chapter 1 of Helping Hurts and the Initial Thoughts of Chapter 2. I did not completely finish before we circled up for devotion. Amanda was doing it and she gave us time to reflect on the Glory of God. I sat back down at my couch and worked on the questions again and when I was finished I read Exodus 21-22. These verses I highlighted because they jumped out at me. "But if the servant declares, ;I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,' then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. " Exodus 21:5-6 I have always sang the song:
"Pierce my ear, O Lord my God.
Take me to your door this day.
For I will serve no other God.
Lord I'm here to stay.
For you have paid the price for me;
With Your blood you ransomed me.
Now I will serve you eternally.
Lord I'm here to stay."
It caught me by suprise to be sitting and reading then finding the verse that is the rule for Israelites. If they decide, choose to stay the master would pierce his ear. What else can say Glory to God.
There is so much about the amazingness of the Glory of OUR God. IT is for US to decide if we want to get closer to see the Glory of God as the Holy Spirit reveals it to us. This is what I believe. God speaks to us through the Holy Spirit just as he spoke to the others.
April 16, 2014 I went to see Noah today....alone. I took off after Greek class headed to the AMC theater in Qual Spring Mall . I got there at 2:45 for a 3:05 showing. I bought my ticket and headed to the theater. When I got in there I was the only one there, I found my spot, sat, and grabbed my bible. I read the story of Noah while I was waiting. Right before the movie game I prayed to see God's work through this movie. I prayed for inspiration to get the story he wanted us to read. Here is things I noticed that was highlighted in the movie.
"3When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 6When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. 9When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.12When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. 15When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. 18When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
21When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
25When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 28When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.” 32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth." (Genesis 5:3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21-24, 25, 28-29, 32) (NIV) Then I read the story of the flood and saw something I never saw before. 5TheLordsaw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.6TheLordregretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.7So theLordsaid, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of theLord." Genesis 6:4-8 (NIV) In the beginning of Noah my heart ached because the destruction of earth do to man. God sends a dream to Noah that he going to flood the earth. Noah is the only one he speaks to but in short dreams. Noah is from the line of Seth. The movie plays with this feeling rivarly between Cain and his youngest brother Seth. Seth line took care of the earth and the animals that God gave Adam and Eve as thier job in watching and protecting the earth and the animals.
"4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. To me Noah was a story of mercy and a call to believers in protecting the poor and innocent. I am going to try to write more later but I am uber busy. Love, Evynn
