David Crowder Concert

Last Thursday, I took Jake, Isaiah, & Benjamin to the David Crowder Concert at Spring Arbor University. It was so much fun! We went with our friends, the Dysarts, and Shelby Wiborn.

(Yevette Dysart & myself)

I think what I loved about it the most, was watching my children "worship" without thought and concern of what others around them were doing - and it was WORSHIP - not singing for singing sake, but singing to the Lord!

(Jake, Harrison D., and David)

The opener band was Glorious Unseen, although most of the night I thought it was Robbie Seay Band - they were hard to understand so that explains my confusion. David Crowder is awesome at engaging the audience and the words to all the songs were displayed behind him, so everyone could sing along, whether they knew the songs or not!
He wore bright yellow tennis shoes and a bright yellow watch and he played on a Guitar Hero guitar for "Neverending" and on a key-guitar for another song! My favorite was probably "You are My Joy" because it just built and built! We had an awesome view because we stood the whole time, right by the rope and in front of the speakers!

I think I appreciate more and more when you see/listen to a Christian artist and there is no doubt that Christ is the most important message they have to share because of everything they say and do. Maybe this is such a focus for me as my boys begin to branch out in the style of music that they enjoy and we encounter artists who are played on Christian radio stations or talked about among their peers as Christian Rock groups, yet when I listen to them I cannot hear mention of God in their songs or when I read their cd inserts He is missing completely too. It has become a challenge for myself and my boys - To live each day and have Christ be what others see when they see us. It reminds me of a verse that has been my daily prayer for so long - "He must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30

Eating Away

I have a t-shirt that I just love. It is brown with a pink flower on it and it says "b-dffrnt". I love it because as much as my differences, my personality, sometimes becomes this hated thing that prevents me from socially belonging, at other times I can see that it is how God created me - that He designed me the way I am and it is "dffrnt" from most others I know. To Him it is good, pleasing and perfect. So every time I wear it, I'm reminded to take joy in my uniqueness. Well, yesterday I was picking up clothes in my room and picked up this t-shirt only to find with horror that our 1 year old puppy, Maggie, must've found it to be a good chew blanket because she chewed a hole in the shoulder! I was soo angry with her and with myself for not putting away my clothes and angry that one of the few shirts I love to wear is ruined! This morning, during my quiet time with God, my thoughts strayed to my "holy" t-shirt and the Holy Spirit spoke into that situation. He whispered, "Charli, can you see how your relationship with me is like that t-shirt? You love it, you find joy in it, you desire to be wrapped up in it, yet sometimes you don't care for it like you should. How many times have you left our relationship wadded up on the floor for the enemy to come and chew holes into it? You've wasted so much emotion on a hole-ridden t-shirt, but how do you react when the enemy has whispered lies into our relationship and created holes between us?" This morning I am overwhelmed with the desire to never carelessly leave my relationship with my Father on the "floor" of my life, to never give the enemy an opportunity to destroy that which is more precious to me than breath.

What Does My Life HAVE to Say

I feel as if I have writer's block - now that I've decided to record our lives on a blog.