Three G's! GA bound, Gutters & God and your Bod!

I've already e-mailed several of you about Ashley's exciting news but for those who haven't heard, Ashley is going to be a Georgia Bulldog in the fall! Ashley will graduate with HONORS with her Associates Degree in Math Education June 14th.

We are hoping to get signed up for the June 20th orientation at UGA. She is so-o-o-o excited.

Rob purchased a home and is working on getting it fixed up to move in. In the mean time he asked if he could move back home for a couple of months while he gets it fixed up. He's also been helping us get some much needed work done on our home while he is here. He and Wayne pulled off some rotten gutters the other day. He certainly has youth and strength that Wayne and I are now lacking! He has been, as always, a godsend.

He's also helped straighten the garage, get all of the pine straw off the roof of the pool house and clean those gutters. He is pretty amazing...he works full time, works out at the gym at least 3 times a week, has his own business buying and fixing up houses, works on those houses on the weekends AND somehow finds time to help us, spend time with the family and his sweet girlfriend. They have both been attending church with us and we have really enjoyed them being there.

We've had some awesome series of messages at church lately. Our last series was amazing. Joe talked about the many questions we have about God and about life for God. He made it clear that no matter how long we have been believers we will probably always have questions and it's okay! It was clear that though we have questions we can still walk in a wonderful relationship with christ. I love how Joe can make his messages so relevant to our everyday life.

Our latest series started today and it is called, "God and your bod".

This first message of the series focused on extremes. Joe asked the question,

"Are you a worshipper or a neglector?"

A worshipper could be someone who is obsessed with going to the gym and a healthfood fanatic where a neglector is an issue is someone who never exercises and eats with no regard to what is healthy. A worshipper can also be someone who worships clothes and is obsessed on how they look. Both of these extremes are issues of self-centeredness and affect the relationships in our lives. It is better to be balanced or more accurately perspective, GOD'S PERSPECTIVE. We learned that the bible talks a LOT about our body. We talked some about fitness and how we are instructed to treat our body as a temple and take care of it but he also talked about how our life is not our own. The creation (us) is owned by the creator (God) and since we are all created by God, we are His. It sounds like a great series and I can't wait until next week to see what else God has to say through Joe.

I'm going to set my goals this week for our 6 week challenge to get closer to God's perspective and will share that next time.

Hugs ~ Kim