excellent

wanna hear something excellent?
I FIXED MY COMPUTER!! whoo who!! all by myself! :) now i can check my email and blog on MY computer and not have to use alli or rachel's. to celebrate i'm adding some extra pictures to the few i have from the rest of the weekend at gospel choir.
this first picture is from last spring. that's me, whitney, kristi and rachel trying to all jump at the same time. whitney looks amazing!!
this is my very FAVORITE picture from spring break. it's my momma... roller skating. you go mom! :)
and then these are from the concert saturday night... i didn't get any taken "of" the choir so hopefully someone will email me or facebook me some good ones of the choir. i'll of course share them with you laters. the concert was amazing by the way.
i've really been struggling with my attitude towards the choir and haven't been able to really worship with them in a while. in my devotions that morning God showed me these verses in a passage where Jesus was talking about the pharisees...
"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. They have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men."
and i stopped and thought about my attitude. i don't want my worship to be in vain, and if i'm just singing with my mouth and lips because it's tradition, and not getting my heart involved then my worship is in vain. i shared this passage with the choir during our prayer time before the concert encouraging them not to let their worship be in vain... and you know what? it WASN'T in vain!! God really moved in my heart and it was one of THE best worship experiences i've ever had!! sunday night then too! :)
my good buddy sarah johnson came to the concert. she's studying "abroad" in chicago this semester. and boy oh boy does i misseth her!!

linzers and i after we sung our hearts out!

this is emily foxworthy. she's awesome. and it's really kewl... her grandma and my grandma were and are best friends. crazy, huh?

this is my incredible r.a. chelsey mckay!! i can't wait to get to know her better this summer! she's in the olivetians traveling group. :)

and here we have the choir sunday night at kankakee first church of the nazarene. amy slonecker and i stood in the back row, to the left... behind courtney on the end in green.
and thus ends my blog for this morning. see you on the flip flop! :)