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So as any of my friends know, my sister and I are concert freaks. We love our music and bands. This was my 5th year to attend a music fest. 4th one with my sister, and our 2nd time at the DelMar SWC fest. This was the first year it was just us 2 in our ‘group’ that made the roadtrip. Our dear friend Janae couldnt make it, as her daughter was graduating high school, and my daughter couldnt make it, as she couldnt get off work. She did paint up our windows for us: TFK rocks the partay! and Kutless Rocks and Honk for SWC.

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For anyone who loves Christian music, I have a full blog on our time there, but wont post it all here. If you’d like to read it, let me know and i’ll post the link.
Here, I will just share that we saw probably 20 bands, enjoyed the shows, the bands, the testimonies, guest speakers and got tons of walking on these legs!

So this Del Mar fest, is the best camping situation we’ve had for our festival experiences. You came right at the horse stalls, which are covered, and there are REAL bathrooms and showers!! So we set up camp, which was super easy this year w/ only 2 of us.

Here, I want to share with you all about my time during MercyMe show. My friend Vicky and I wanted to go get another band’s signatures, and I was supposed to get a tshirt and poster signed for my friend Courtney, so we watched a few songs of Mercyme, then headed to signing, but Falling Up already gone!!!!! I was bummed I didnt come thru for my friend Courtney. Well, Vicky and I raced back over to the seats, and my sister had left! She had come to find us. lol. Unfortunately she missed the best part. I sat down and I got into the worship mood. This was the second time I saw MercyMe, and I tell you that the spirit of the Lord is so powerful when they perform. I will try to explain the feeling, but so hard to express what happened in side me that night. They play ‘Word of God speak’ and I stand and am worshipping and singing along, arms raised to my Savior. They go right into ‘Here I am to worship’ and I tell you it was definitely going on in the stadium that night. I just felt that I wanted to give my all to Jesus. They then went right into ‘I can only imagine’. By this time I am filled with the Lord’s spirit. Tears are pouring down my cheeks and I’m sobbing, and I have my face lifted to the Lord, and I’m trying to sing, but i’m too choked up and in awe of our Lord. As the words were sang by Bart, I was really thinking how powerful a day that will be when we face Christ face to face. What will I do? Well, that night, I caught a glimpse of my reaction to being in His holy presence. Maybe not face to face, but I was just blown away by His majesty and power that night.
I struggle each day with things in my life, and many times I feel so unworthy to be called His child, but that night, I just felt His magnificance and His glory and how mighty and omnipotent He is. He’s so unfathomable in the depths of who He really is, and how our finite brains can not encompass it all. Yet HE LOVES ME! It’s quite incredible. The Creator of all things, loves each one of us and knows us by name!! Thank you Lord, for caring for me, even when I’m so unworthy.
After those 3 songs, i just sat and sobbed more. Vicky’s mom was hugging me and comforting me. The rest of the night, i really didnt want to talk. I just wanted to bask in the glory of our God. It was the perfect end to the event. *Before the event I had prayed to Him, that I wanted my time there to be focused on Him…not just the bands and the music enjoyment and entertainment, but giving Him the glory. That time that night, was just what I needed, and what I needed to give back to Him. Make sense?
OH! funny thing on the road trip home: We are tired. I just wake up from nap and Cheryl’s cranky at this semitruck that is coming up on her right and she says ‘what does that guy think he’s doing? He can’t get anywhere! Well, he pulls almost up to us, and honks!! I look and he’s got thumbs up and like saying YEA!!!! He was ‘honking’ cuz we had that painted on our window! ha!. We laughed hard over that one.

If any of you have an opportunity to go to a music fest in your area, I highly recommend it. There’s always a large variety of bands and musical taste and great speakers.

If any of you have been to fests or concerts that have touched you in special ways, I’d love to hear about your experiences.

Easter. My absolutely favorite holiday. It wasn’t always that way, but since I gave my life to Christ, it has such depth and meaning. It’s not about the candy or eggs or bunnies. It’s about how Christ suffered to save us all. How He died a horrible death. The ppl of the time thought that was the end of Him. Even the disciples hid in fear. Yet, Jesus triumphed! He arose from that grave. He lives!

When I first started going back to church, our small congregation did an annual ‘Maundy Thursday’ Love feast.  It was the first time I felt God’s powerful touch upon me.  It then became an event I looked forward to each year.  What we did was set up a long large table.  We used just candle light, and soft music in the background and have a solemn attitude. We had bread and meat and bowls set up w/ broth, so we could dip, and think about how Judas dipped in the same bowl as Jesus at that Last Supper. We then shared communion and had a footwashing. The men lined up on one side of table and the women on the other, and we went down the line, having our foot washed, then washing the next persons. 

We read the Bible from that supper to when Jesus rose again.  Each person had been given a thing to speak on: The blood,  the body, footwashing, crucifixion, Judas, the disciples, the resurrection.  It was such a beautiful time of reflection on what the Lord went through and the unequaled gift of Him giving His life for ours, and spending time in prayer as the family of God.  It was during prayer that I felt the Lord so powerful my body had jolts run thru me.

That church closed it doors a few years ago. But the memories of those special times will remain in my heart and mind forever. I pray that each of you is touched this year by the precious blood of Jesus.

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Last year, I went to a Maundy Thurs. service at a local Lutheran church. I cried through most of it. They have the solemn lighting. Everyone is quiet. They read about Jesus’ betrayal and how he was beaten and crucified for us. We sing songs that are fitting (I love the one ‘where you there?’) Then we had a time of prayer and meditation on our lifes…we each write our sins on a peice of paper, and file up to the front of the church, and are handed a nail and hammer and we nail it to the tree. I tell you, to do just was so humbling, yet so fulfilling to know Jesus loved me enough to take those sins on His blameless self.
I’ll be headed to that service again this coming Thurs, if anyone wants to join me
Good Friday I am not sure what church I will attend, but there’s several services going on around town.
Sat. my church is having a 5pm service, and I’ll be working in the childcare. Then attending service and helping again on Sunday. I look forward to sharing with the little ones the excitement of our Lord having risen from the grave and preparing our homes in Heaven.

I want to remember and appreciate His gift daily.

Love and hugs to you all,

Praying. An important part of our daily lives as Christians. It’s such a gift and an honor that our Lord and Savior wants us to come to Him with our hearts, thoughts, requests. To connect with Him and build on our relationship. 

Everyone has their struggles in this life, and all have different issues they must deal with and trials to face. One of the best gifts we can give our friends and family is prayer. What I wanted to mention is how important it is for us to pray with sincerity.  I know personally my prayer list is very long. So many people and so many needs that I want to lift before the Lord. Then throw in my own personal struggles.  In the busyness of the day I admit I don’t always spend enough time w/ our Father in prayer, yet I know there are many who I have said I will pray for, and I need to uphold that.

There are many times that people will just share a story and say they need prayer, and others will say ok.  I challenge everyone to take this VERY seriously! Our fellow brothers and sisters and those unsaved that come to us in a hope of our prayers maybe being heard by the Christ they do not know…they are counting on us!

I went through a very rough spot in my life 3 years ago when I was in a deep depression, and I just could not seem to ‘connect’ with the Lord and find any peace and comfort. I would just cry over and over for the Lord to rescue me from the pit of despair. But I felt SO lost. The biggest thing I craved, was for my personal and online friends to PRAY for me. TO just honestly, sincerely, cover me in their prayers to the Lord at the time I could not find it within myself. THAT gave me the most comfort of all. Knowing I had those few that truly remembered me to God and interceded on my behalf before the HOly One.  I finally did come out of that dark place. God didnt answer the prayers as I wanted, but of course He knows best, and He answered in a way I didnt even dream of as a solution.

I highly recommend a prayer list or journal and to make sure we are accountable for those who are truly hurting and ask us specifically for prayer.

So any who really know me, know that music is a passion of mine. So I’d love to hear some of your favorite Christian bands and songs, and why.  I’ll post on different bands that I think are worth a listen. I’ll also try to match up your tastes with other new and up and coming bands to check out.

Currently I really enjoy Thousand Foot Krutch. Their last cd Phenomenon and their newest one ‘the art of breaking’. I’m also excited about Plumb and Kutless new cd’s coming out in March.
Let me know what type you like and i’ll be glad to share w/ you about it! Rock, Worship, Contemporary, even some rap OH! And how about the old fashion Hymns?

Hello everyone, here is my first post on the worthychat blogs. I’m so excited over this new adventure we will all have. Getting to know you each a bit more. I look forward to sharing and helping each other as we walk w/ the Lord in this family of God. Say hi to me if you get a chance. God bless you all. I love this place.