our weekend

6:00 pm on Sunday night...where has our weekend gone.  Well let's see....Friday night we chilled out, as we always do on Friday night.  Watched some what not to wear which always makes me want to start dressing horribly, have my friends "turn me in"...just so that I can get $5,000 in free clothes, a new hairstyle, makeup, etc.  Seriously, so many people who are choosen to be made over are such sticks in the mud.  One lady even refused to have her hair touched.  Are you kidding me?  Get over your mismatched self!  Anyways... Saturday I worked on some baby annoucements and went to our neighbors for a get together with her family.  Now, our sweet neighbor Sherry is a Katrina evacuee.  Her home was ruined in the hurricane so she moved to Houston to start fresh with her daughter.  She works as a banquet coordiantor for a very nice hotel in the city.  Anyways, she hosted a birthday party for her nieces and invited us to join in on the birthday celebration.  Well let me tell you....she has a BIG family.  There must have been 40 people there and she said there were a lot of people who didn't come.  Brian and I enjoyed visiting with some of her family, who were hilarious, while eating crawfish, gumbo, red beans and rice...etc.  It was a bit of a lesson in African American culture for me.  I was very interested in some of the things they were saying about New Orleans and some of the people who are still there (some of the guests were still residents of N.O.)  How they are so sick and tired of hearing the Katrina excuse.  They survived it, recovered and are working in New Orleans and are about sick and tired of the whining and complaining from other residents.  Anyways....today has been a bit rough for me.  Let's just say that God threw a curve ball at me, that I should have seen coming, but I've been so caught up in what I want that I wasn't paying much attention to how God was leading.  You know, when you know deep down that your heart isn't in quite the right place, but you figure that God will begin working in your way.  You've convinced yourself of something, so it shouldn't be hard to convince God of it right!  HA!  I'm alright, I just had one of the moments when I realized that my plans were not what God wanted for me....even though I had convinced myself that God and I were on the same page.  Off to make dinner.  It's a new recipe...if it's good I'll post the recipe later. 

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[Helen]

That is what our worship leader did his sermon on yesterday.. learning to let God break our plans! Really praying for His will in our lives and to release our grip on the things WE want/desire because what He has for us is so very much better.