Winter Break and the New Year

The most exciting thing I had over winter break was SALT.
SALT was intense. God is totally moving in this world. God also wants to pour out His Spirit.
At SALT I experienced God in a new way. It felt so different yet very peaceful. I experience Christ without the hyped up emotional feeling type of stuff that many expect when seeking God. It's a season where I'm growing in trust that is deeper than I understand. I guess God is making himself more real to me but digging deeper than just being on a feeling emotional level. It's like I am having real conversations during my quiet times where I'm having to be patient in listening too. I got refreshed and challenged in my walk with Christ.
I guess a new year means a new season for me especially with my relationship with God.

So this week has been interesting and extremely challenging at work. Changes are never easy and I'm seeing that in black and white as I've gone to work this week after the Christmas break. I'm also learning how difficult it is to communicate with multiple people and try to stay on the same page, who are all trying to help figure out one person to help the person learn things and become independent. It's quite frustrating and I'm just trying to stay positive and do as I'm told yet there's always clashing in attitudes, perceptions, and understanding. I don't like it but I'm suppose to be the light in this dark place. I also feel alone but I feel alone a lot. Getting to know people and open up.

At SALT I went to a session called "When to speak up, when to shut up" and I think that phrase is really coming in handy at work for me. Even though the session was focused on witnessing, it's also helping me control my talkative self and falling into conversations that really don't matter.

The new year brings new things. Learning something every day I guess. Growing up a little every day too.

Getting into gear with planning my wedding. It's 9 months away and that seriously overwhelms me. This morning I was speaking with my mom about it and she asked me how many weeks away is my wedding and I said I don't know. I told her how many days since theknot.com counts down for me. It's like 261 or something like that. Then my mom actually calculated how many weeks. I told her to stop cause its overwhelming and scary too. Even though it is exciting and fun too. Stress hopefully won't happen too bad when all the planning really picks up.

Life is busy busy busy...and now all the snow!