Lindsaym.com has undergone its summer renovation. I hope you like it.

20 points if anyone can figure out where the tagline came from.

I have been working a ton lately. I only have one day off in the next 10 days. The money is wonderful, but it is hard work. Ask me about it sometime, I have like 50 stories

I have been really slacking in training for the 1/2 Marathon. I think July is going to be a crunch month. I have only been running 3 times since being back at home. This is not so good. I am really tired after work and I have no motivation. I start working PMs (3-11pm) on Saturday so I will have to force myself to run in the mornings.

Hey, what is everyone in MN doing the weekend of July 14-16th?

Gail and I went fishing this evening. I was using swiss cheese as bait and I wasn’t getting any bites. I was getting frustrated, but I wasn’t too upset because I knew I wanted to read and journal as well as fish. I casted a swiss cheese filled hook out as far as I could and set my pole down between my knees so I could feel a pull if one were to actually occur.
I started journalling..

I journalled for a few minutes about my unfaithfulness and my struggle to stay spiritually strong when…

I FELT A HUGE TUG!

I ended up reeling in a 14 inch catfish from our dinky neighborhood pond. This fish was by far the biggest fish I have ever caught in this pond. I was SO excited! I called my dad to ask him how to get the hook out (I was afraid of the stingy parts), but a nice man came over and helped me. I talked to him and his family for a while, Shelly called, I journalled about the fish, and I finally decided to read my bible.
I had stuck a dollar in this bible one day when I was cleaning up, so my bible naturally opened to where the dollar was. The chapter that the dollar made me open up to was John 21. Just in case you were wondering what John 21 was about, let me tell you:

“Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish”

I pretty much freaked out. God is so sweet.

My birthday was really sweet. Thank you to everyone who participated…whether in person or via phone calls or the mail. I am so blessed to have shared another year with all of you.

Oh yeah… Today I was lighting the grill and flames shot up into my face, singing my bangs, eyebrows, armhair, knuckle hair and my pinky. Good thing I had 2 friends, a sister and a mom there to laugh at me. Pictures of this incident and other events of the weekend to come on Flickr.

I loved the sermon today. I am more and more convinced my joy is not complete until I have shared it with others. I am also fully convinced that God can be experienced in a truly unique, wonderful, and powerful way when we meet with other believers.

After peer pressure, I wrote the Wikipedia entry for a Rattail haircut. I am pretty proud.

This weekend is gonna rock.

It has certainly been a while since I have last posted! I was going to wait until all of the pictures from 2 weekends ago were up on Flickr, but I left my cord at Sheena’s house..so no can do. The few pictures I uploaded onto my computer before the loss of the cord are currently featured on the Flickr site.

My “Vagabond Week” in Minnesota proved to be an excellent one. Thank you to all of you who participated. It was a sobering experience. I realized how dependent I am on having a purpose or a plan. I am not as motivated by spontaneity as I had thought. It was really weird to wake up and have nowhere to be or anything to do. As much as I hate schedules and routines, they really serve me well. Leaving the cities and leaving my friends after such a wonderful week was really hard. My heart had finally felt at home there for the first time in 2 years. Finally having a best friend at school, a ministry, a job, a bearable schedule, wonderful roommates, a car, and a spacious living environment really, really helped make Bethel my new home. I miss my life at school a lot, but I am really thankful to be back here.

I have a job now, which is a huge relief. On my drive from St. Paul to Appleton, I found out that my secure summer job at the Dollar Store was basically non-existant.  I panicked and cried and questioned why I had even left Minnesota in the first place and clung to the hope that MAYBE Condell would hire me as a part time CNA. After 2 interviews this week and a ton of prayer from my prayer warrior posse, I got the job this afternoon. I start on  Monday. Praise God! I have no idea what I would have done this summer had I not gotten this job. I am really excited and nervous to start, but I know the experience I will get will be really awesome.

Speaking of my prayer warrior posse.. I am just blown away at how much support I have. I am so incredibly blessed. Everyday I feel the prayers, support and love of this group and I know that they’re faithfulness in prayer for me has changed my life. So, for those of you who got a call today… i love you so much.. and know that I am on your prayer team too.

“For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”

Eph 1:15-23

Amen.