Who Are You? What Are You Doing Here?

No, I'm not trying to be rude.
My father brought up this topic the other night after listening to a sermon someone loaned him. These are questions we should be asking ourselves each day, why were we created, what is our purpose in life, in each day that we spend here on earth how are we using the time wisely and for God's glory.
We were not put here as humanists say to "enjoy and consume until we die."
Rather as it says in Scripture we were created to give glory to God. It is our highest calling, and one that when thinking of own personal life goals we often seem to ignore.
So what is your purpose in life? Are you living for own gain or to serve the King of kings?

Christian Heritage Chorale

Here's a picture from last nights performance, we had 4 rehearsals each an hour long in which to put everything together. The songs were: O Sacred Head Now Wounded, Hallelujah from Beethoven's Mount of Olives, Keep Your Lamps, and O God Our Help. See if you can find Jillian and I.

Well,we've really enjoyed day one of the conference, hearing Voddie Baucham being one of the highlights of it all, so far we've listened to him three times and look forward to several mos re tomorrow. Jillian and I have very much enjoyed being in the chorale and having about 150 people to sing with rather than our choir of 10-15 back home. It's amazing having like 50 guys to sing with.

The car ride out here was pretty good, when we weren't watching movies I curled up with my headphones and was pretty much in my own world, maybe not the best family dynamic, but we get along a little better that way.

We also had the chance to meet up with some old friends this afternoon as they took Abba to the airport.

l to r: Colin Pedersen, Jordan Pedersen, Jillian, Kelsey Pedersen, Myself, Caitlin and Hayley.

It's been about 9 years since we last saw them, so it was great to be able to visit a little.

Hope your all doing well, I'll try do more tomorrow but the pictures take a long time to load so we'll see how long my patience lasts.

TTYL

So today starts our crazy weekend, I know it's only (Wednesday, but I'm all for long weekends;-))
Basically we have to do our usual town trip, plus a Costco trip, plus packing.
In other words I have a lot to do and not much time to do it in. So I'll see all yal's later!

Homeschool Highschool Banquet

Last night my father took Jillian and I to the High school Banquet, along with Megan and her father, and Hannah and her father. Beforehand Megan, Jillian and I went and got our hair and make-up done together, not something we would normally but for this one special night it was very fun. so here's a few pictures.

Hannah, Megan and Jillian.

The fathers.

The graduating girls.

Me and Jillian.

Me and Rebecca Sullens.

Out on the balcony.

My Father

I've always been rather proud of the fact that we call our father 'Abba' rather than the usual "daddy" or "dad". Mostly just because it was different from what everybody else did, it was our special name for him, anybody could have a daddy but we had our Abba.

Now the name is not what is special so much it is who my father is that I have come to love, respect, admire, cherish, and esteem. He has truly been a wonderful priest, prophet, provider and protector. One of the things I love and respect the most about him is his pursuit of godliness and desire to lead his family in a way that honors our heavenly Father. His diligence in studying the word and seeking to live it out, his love for the church and desire to retake it for Christ. His love for his wife, in how he honors and cherishes her, his example to us of not only what our husbands should be but of our heavenly Father. His constant joy in the Lord, and love of serving others.

When we first moved to Montana going on 8 years ago, he lost his job within a few months of moving here, we had a house we were renting and our house down in California hadn't sold yet. But he trusted the Lord to provide and was my anchor in that time of uncertainty. Since then he has worked many different kinds of jobs in order to provide for his family, at one time doing pizza delivery in the evening and working at a hardware store during the day. He now back to doing what he really enjoys and was trained for, computer tech. And has had the privilege of once again being able to teach occasionally in the church and discuss things with other godly men, something that for the past few years has been extremely difficult to find. Partially because of his bluntness in speaking the truth even when it hurts(him and others).

I love you, Abba!

Life in General

Okay, I know it's been quite a while since I've posted, my thing is, if you don't have anything to say, don't say it. I know a lot of people who have extremely long conversations and yet still manage to say nothing at all.
So what's been going on in my life as of late? Not much, my entire family has had colds for the past week, myself and Hayley having been hit the worst. Unfortunately, with me colds usually come with very painful headaches, making it pretty much impossible to read, and not being able to read is one of my worst nightmares. So things have been pretty dull for me, since I haven't been able to escape into the wonderful world of books, I tried movies, but those didn't quite cut it, and I got very bored with them, despite the fact that they were either favorites of mine or ones I'd never seen before.
Hopefully I'll have some worth saying here soon, like how it will be to go to work tomorrow with a bad head cold and a raging headache, won't that be lovely.