Hello Y'all,
So being in Seminary has really changed me.... My favorite thing that has happened is that I am able to look at worshipping the Lord in a completely different way. One of the other things that I have liked about going to Seminary is the ability to look at my life and recognize the strong women that have influenced me.
When I started at FBCLS, my boss was all about pushing the leaders to mentor students and at first I was like... Mentor I have no idea what that even looks like. I read the book Be-with Factor about mentoring and how it is an important part of ministry. I began to realize that I have been mentored my whole life by incredible women. Let me just say that there have been two very different women that have been in my life since the beginning. My Mom and Mema are two different women with two vastly different personalities but when it comes to examples umm... I just pray that I can influence someone as much as they have me.
A few other women that have had a huge impact on how I view a Godly women are: Ms. Martha who not only understood the importance of ministry, but showing me how a women could be used by God as a women. Mandy, my youth ministry wife that really just spent time with me and invested in my life and still to this day things she told me during Saved by the Bell episodes stick with me.
One thing my mom has taught me is to surround yourself with women who build you up and support you. My mother has an awesome group of friends that have all live differently and have showed me different aspects of being a wife and a mother. So... to Mrs. Goss, Byrum, Painter, Lyles, Knipple and many others Thank you for teaching me how to live a life that is of God and what He desires for our life. (Yes, like a good southern girl I still call them by their last name).
Last, Mrs. Suzanne Wiley who has served here in Lee's Summit as my friend and mentor. She has seen me in some scary situations and talked with me until very late at night about everything. My prayer for my future is that I am able to be an influence for Christ the way that these women have for me. Praise the Lord that He gives us people in our lives to help and love on us!
Joy,
Kris
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Goin' to Church
There are few things that I like more than going to church... I am not sure what it is about church that I love so much? One thing that my WHOLE family loves is church music. My family is obsessed with good choir music. In the Helsley home, there is nothing we like more than listening to a CD by my home church and driving down the road. (especially if a dip cone is involved). We as a family, just love us a good worship song.
An example of this involves my dad. Some background on him: He has zero music talent/ability. This is something that he would tell anyone, he just can't sing/ dance/ clap on beat/ nothing. Don't worry he has many other talents that are awesome. We were driving back from Branson one day and true to form in my family my mom, sister, and brother fell asleep in the car.
Another little point of background: When my dad drives with my whole family in the car, he is crazy happy. I used to think it was weird that he loved it so much, but now that I am older, I find that it is something I love. It is probably when I feel the safest and I tell my youth girls that I know that for me to marry someone I have to be as comfortable in the car as I am with my Daddy when he drives.
Back to the story... I finally fall asleep and I always sit behind the driver in the back, so when I woke up my dad didn't know that I was awake. I realized that my dad was singing a worship song from the CD that we had been listening too. It was so precious to me to hear my daddy sing a worship song in the car while he was driving and it made me think that you don't have to be a awesome singer or a crazy good musician to Praise the Lord.
Take sometime to listen to a song that not only encourages you but lifts up our Savior.
Joy,
Kris
An example of this involves my dad. Some background on him: He has zero music talent/ability. This is something that he would tell anyone, he just can't sing/ dance/ clap on beat/ nothing. Don't worry he has many other talents that are awesome. We were driving back from Branson one day and true to form in my family my mom, sister, and brother fell asleep in the car.
Another little point of background: When my dad drives with my whole family in the car, he is crazy happy. I used to think it was weird that he loved it so much, but now that I am older, I find that it is something I love. It is probably when I feel the safest and I tell my youth girls that I know that for me to marry someone I have to be as comfortable in the car as I am with my Daddy when he drives.
Back to the story... I finally fall asleep and I always sit behind the driver in the back, so when I woke up my dad didn't know that I was awake. I realized that my dad was singing a worship song from the CD that we had been listening too. It was so precious to me to hear my daddy sing a worship song in the car while he was driving and it made me think that you don't have to be a awesome singer or a crazy good musician to Praise the Lord.
Take sometime to listen to a song that not only encourages you but lifts up our Savior.
Joy,
Kris
Monday, April 12, 2010
Early Morning Debate
A couple of mornings ago I woke up early because my Mema and Pops were coming into town and HAD to clean my room. Do you ever have those mornings were it feels like Satan has been waiting for you to wake up just to start planting ideas and lies in your head?
So here I am needing to get up and prepare my apartment for my grandparents and I am thinking of all kinds of thoughts that I know are going to affect my moods and just in general how I am going to be that day. As I lie in bed, so starts the debate....
I won't get into the whole thing about the things that were popping into my head, but they generally consist of the fact that I am not good enough to do a certain thing or receive a certain thing. Come to think of it Satan probably doesn't have to put these lies in my head because of how long I have believed the lies. I was talking about this with one of my girls at church. We have believed what Satan has told us for so long that we don't have to wait for him to show up, we can take care of the character bashing ourselves.
I went back to sleep praying that the Lord would somehow defeat what thoughts that were in my head....So once I finally had to get out of bed, I felt an overwhelming sense of peace, that MY God came and not only won the debate, but was comforting me after the fight was over. Praise the Lord that we not only serve a loving father, but a great debator who goes into battle for His children and wins.
-Kris
So here I am needing to get up and prepare my apartment for my grandparents and I am thinking of all kinds of thoughts that I know are going to affect my moods and just in general how I am going to be that day. As I lie in bed, so starts the debate....
I won't get into the whole thing about the things that were popping into my head, but they generally consist of the fact that I am not good enough to do a certain thing or receive a certain thing. Come to think of it Satan probably doesn't have to put these lies in my head because of how long I have believed the lies. I was talking about this with one of my girls at church. We have believed what Satan has told us for so long that we don't have to wait for him to show up, we can take care of the character bashing ourselves.
I went back to sleep praying that the Lord would somehow defeat what thoughts that were in my head....So once I finally had to get out of bed, I felt an overwhelming sense of peace, that MY God came and not only won the debate, but was comforting me after the fight was over. Praise the Lord that we not only serve a loving father, but a great debator who goes into battle for His children and wins.
-Kris
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Hosea 6:3
Hey Y'all,
I thought that since I read so many different blogs, I would try one on my own. Part of this is because my poor mother has to give reports of my status and although we all know that there is nothing she likes more than talking about her oldest child, I wanted to be able to fill you in for myself. Also I wanted you to be able to share with me what the Lord is doing in your life and to share how great our God is together.
My Blog title comes from probably my favorite passage in the bible. Hosea is a book that gets over looked a lot because: its in the Old Testament, it is about a man who is told to marry a "lady of the night" (that is what my Mema calls them) and because unless you have read "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers you probably have never given it a lot of thought. I never did until I heard a Shane and Shane song about it a couple of years ago.
Tucked away in Chapter 6:1-3, God is talking about His Love for Israel, His Beloved and how He had to discipline the people, but in the end He promises to restore her. Verse 3... says to "Press on to acknowledge Him. The Message Translation says... "Be Eager for God-knowledge. That is my prayer for everyone. That they become eager for God-knowledge. That we seek to find the knowledge that He wants us to know and that we don't get caught up in the politics of being a Christian. That our true source of everything is the one who can provide everything. That is my challenge for us all...seek after God-knowledge.
Also please don't tell anyone in seminary that I used the Message Translation, they actually might kick me out. :-) They also won't all be this heavy... the next post will have a picture of my mom's favorite granddog, Douglas.
Joy,
Kristin
I thought that since I read so many different blogs, I would try one on my own. Part of this is because my poor mother has to give reports of my status and although we all know that there is nothing she likes more than talking about her oldest child, I wanted to be able to fill you in for myself. Also I wanted you to be able to share with me what the Lord is doing in your life and to share how great our God is together.
My Blog title comes from probably my favorite passage in the bible. Hosea is a book that gets over looked a lot because: its in the Old Testament, it is about a man who is told to marry a "lady of the night" (that is what my Mema calls them) and because unless you have read "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers you probably have never given it a lot of thought. I never did until I heard a Shane and Shane song about it a couple of years ago.
Tucked away in Chapter 6:1-3, God is talking about His Love for Israel, His Beloved and how He had to discipline the people, but in the end He promises to restore her. Verse 3... says to "Press on to acknowledge Him. The Message Translation says... "Be Eager for God-knowledge. That is my prayer for everyone. That they become eager for God-knowledge. That we seek to find the knowledge that He wants us to know and that we don't get caught up in the politics of being a Christian. That our true source of everything is the one who can provide everything. That is my challenge for us all...seek after God-knowledge.
Also please don't tell anyone in seminary that I used the Message Translation, they actually might kick me out. :-) They also won't all be this heavy... the next post will have a picture of my mom's favorite granddog, Douglas.
Joy,
Kristin
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