Art Gallery

My Church, Orlando North Community Church, held it's first Art Gallery last night and it was truly Amazing. I was simply blown away by the art that was displayed. There were two theme of the night one was Creation and the other was the Parables of Jesus (Parables=Stories/Lessons). I did two creation pieces; first I did photography-seven different pictures that represent something created that day. And the second thing was a globe of the world that I made out of creation. For instance such Continent was made of something different, like South America was made out of sticks, North America was made out of shells, Europe was leaves and you get the idea. I'm trying to get picture up of the things I did and some of the other art but I'm having problems getting the pictures up here. Our church a year and a half old, so we are still working to build up our congregation. We had  120 people walk through our doors last night and that is the highest our numbers have been to date, so that was exciting for us as a church. It was a cool experience and I can not wait to for the next one.

Make Time

Wow I really have lost site with keeping up with this thing. It seems like forever and so much has happened. At the beginning of this month Rob (My pastor) challenged the church to devoted an hour a day for our quiet time (reading the bible and praying) for the month of July. It was really hard to make yourself allot for that time, but once I did it I felt good. That was something that I had been struggling with for the longest time and now I feel that I have a better handle on it. Every morning that is how I start my day, I find that if I don't do it first thing in the morning it tends to slip away from me, because then my day as started and things that 'I have to do' keep popping up. If you don't currently have a time set aside to reading the Bible and praying I encourage you to start one and just see how God works in you life. You don't have to start off doing an hour a day, try doing 30 mins at first. I don't really think that it is the amount of time that matters, but the fact that you are doing it. When it starts to become a habit the time will increase on its own. Make time for God in your life!

Letting Go Of An Old Friend

Today I went to the dealership to get my 'much need' car fix. The check engine light has been on since last September, so wow almost a year. I took in to get it fix in March and after $400+ I walked away with the check engine light still on. They gave me some bull crap story and I left. So here I am 4months later and I'm thinking that my car is going to blow up any minute. God has truly blessed me, in regards to my safety in the car. I get there is morning and the initial quote was $208.90 just to see what the problem was. Well after an hour the guy comes in the waiting room and tells me that there is something wrong with my 3rd cylinder whatever that means, and that it was very serious and needed to be worked on right away. The only problem was they had to take it apart to figure out what was wrong with it and that was going to cost like $450, just to figure out what is wrong with it, not to fix it. It was just adding up and not making any sense, so after talking to my parents we decided that it was just time to let it go. So I went through the longer horrible process and got a new car today. Brand new 2008 Hyundai Elantra, I love it the dash board lights are blue and it looks so cool at night. I was able to get an AWESOME deal but it was very stressful, trying to buy a car for the first time with no family here to help. Jay, was very kind as to fill in the gap when my family was not here and I am so grateful for that.

It was kind of sad though, saying good bye to the Red Beast (at least that is what my dad called it) that was my last piece of New Mexico I had, that car and I had been through so much. That car got me here to Fl, man that car was a trooper, and I sure will miss it.