Showing posts with label kairos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kairos. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

overwhelmed..

For our third-annual Christmas get-together with my girls {babes, sisters...}, we got all dolled up & had a huge, delicious dinner together.

I love dressing up, I love dresses, I love wearing heels, I love putting make-up on, I love curling my hair, I love it. So its always exciting to get all dolled-up for dinner with some of my favorite girls. In years past we've gone out to eat all dressed up, but this year it was kind of sweet just dressing up to go over to Angela's.

After we ate & took pictures {of course}, we put our "cozy clothes" on, ate dessert, & started what turned into an almost four hour period of time of just sharing what God has been doing in our lives since the last time we all met {in this setting, last spring}

It was one of the best experiences I've ever had & will always remember. One by one, we all talked about God, our families, school, work, guys, friends, & everything else in-between, struggles, highs, lows, & weaknesses, but there was so much openness, honesty, & rawness. And there was a lot of tears & tissues, but also a lot of laughs. It was so great!!
Once more & more of us started talking about our lives over the past few months, we started to see a trend or thread throughout each of our stories/updates that all kind of related to each other. It was so encouraging!

It's also just sweet to think back over the last few years that this group of girls have been together. We've all grown & matured SO much, its awesome. It's awesome that we have each other to share about what Gods doing in our lives with!
There was one point when we gathered around Angela & prayed over her. It was so great, she has prayed over us & for us so many times, it was so sweet to be able to come around her & pray over her!

When I left {at 2:30am} I felt so filled, so overwhelmed, and just feeling overly blessed once again by God's greatness in my life.

How did I get so blessed with such a rich sisterhood that I know I'll have around me for years to come!? I wish every girl could experience times like these & have a group of sisters like mine...

It was definitely a sweet early Christmas gift..

Sunday, December 12, 2010

christmasy faves..

I love Christmas! I love autumn time, but I think I love Christmas more.. so here are just some of the things I love about the season!


1. Christmas
cookies.. I think I like baking them more than eating them though, which is good right!?
2. Giving Christmas
gifts, especially if it's something someone really wanted!
3.
Advent Songs by Sojourn.
4.
Santa. I still & always will get gifts from "Santa" on Christmas morning.
5.
It's A Wonderful Life.
6. Christmas
lights.
7. Peppermint Mocha's.
8. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
9. Being with the whole
Fillmore clan.
10.
Snowmen.

+ I love that the last two Christmas' I've had a get-together with all these lovelies...and the tradition continues net week!!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

*i am not, but i know I AM....


*this is exactly what i needed this week, our kairos group just met for the last time for the semester & we finished the book "i am not, but i know I AM" by Louie Giglio. you should grab a copy, its loaded with some really great things! (so the following is from the book, i hope you enjoy it & get as much out of it as i did!)....

i need hope.
I AM.

who could possibly be smart enough to figure this out?
I AM.

what works?
I AM.

what's the latest thing?
I AM.

what's the hippest thing?
I AM.

i need a fresh start.
I AM.

i need a bigger story.
I AM.

my vision is bigger than my resources.
I AM.

nothing is real anymore.
I AM.

who can i trust?
I AM.

i'm not sure who's on my team.
I AM.

nobody's listening to me.
I AM.

i don't have a prayer.
I AM.

my marriage is sinking.
I AM.

my kids deserve more.
I AM.

i'm pouring into others, who's pouring into me?
I AM.

if we fail, who will get the job done?
I AM.

i'm not sure why i'm here
I AM.

i'm tired.
I AM.

i quit!
I AM.

i can't!
I AM.

i need a drink.
I AM.

i need a fix.
I AM.

i need a lover.
I AM.

somebody just hold me.
I AM.

"And what does this great I AM say of Himself? He says to you and to me: 'I am the resurrection and the life. I am Savior. I am Jesus--the solution, the restorer, the builder, the answer, the Wise One, the Coming One, the Mighty One. I am the Lord and there is no other. I am God and there is none besides Me. I am the FIrst and the Last. I am Alpha and Omega. I am the Beginning and the End. I am the Lord, that is My name, and I will not give My glory to another, or any of My praise to idols. I AM THAT I AM, and that is My name--My memorial name to every single generation.'"

--Louie Giglio