Beginning of many updates.

My last post was in October 2007! Yikes!! Sorry to my friends and family who read this blog.

Many wonderful things have been happening in our family. It will take more than one post to touch on the "new news".

Today, I will share my own thoughts and what has been happening with me individually.

I have started to serve in a local Ministry and for those who know how much I really really dislike speaking in front of groups of people or having any attention brought to me, will agree that it is only through God's power working in me that I am able to do what I'm doing. It is a small step, but I know I am following what God is leading me to do and I know He is using this beginning experience to prepare me for other plans later in life.

I am leading at the Christian Storehouse one day a week and it has been such a blessing to me and a challenge too. I lead a devotional and speak a little and offer an invitation to come to Jesus Christ. Then I take prayer requests and pray over those who assemble there. I also do other tasks involving keeping things running smoothly and leading a group of volunteers. The Christian Storehouse is a Ministry that reaches out to the poorest of the poor in the Riverton area. We serve the homeless, the addicted, those who are mentally ill etc... I am so grateful to the Lord for placing me there to serve. The first few times I was there, I would come home and just weep and pray for what I saw.

People are hurting. People are lost and we as believers need to break out of our comfortable Christian life where we only associate with those who are like us. Break out of serving God only on Sundays in our comfortable churches. Break out of this "sleep" that has brought so many followers of Christ to become too busy to help "the least of these". We need to remember who Jesus hung around with and served while he walked the earth. I personally need to be reminded and it is easy to do.....just open up the New Testament and read about what Jesus Christ did. Who He ranted and raved against, who He reached out to, what He told his disciples, how He communed with God the Father, and the example that He set for us. That example is still relevant today.

Wake up everyone! And to myself, I say......"Wake up even more Michelle!"

Lets get out there and serve "the least of these" in honor and praise of He who gave everything for us.

Ok...stepping off my soapbox. Don't think for a minute that I think I have things together. I have been one of the worst sinners there is. His grace is HUGE....it was big enough for me. He offers me His grace every single day.....He does the same thing for you.