Best. Week. Ever.

This is the week!! Patrick and Katie Reed are coming to visit! We are super excited to have friends coming over and experiencing our life here. Please keep them in your prayers, they will leave the States on Wednesday and arrive in Accra, Ghana Thursday morning. We will head straight to Togo and stop to look at the well and spend the night in Kovie', coming to Kara on Friday and starting work on a well in Lassa Tchou on Monday!

Patrick and Katie have been such encouraging friends for us during all of the transitions that we have gone through in getting here. Patrick works for Alabama Power and Katie is the female youth minister at Vaughn Park and are both on the Missions Committee. We met them when we starting going to Vaughn Park in January 2008, and our friendship has only become stronger. We can clearly see that God has blessed us with this friendship and pray that this will not be their one and only visit! Only 4 more days to go! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

What do I know of Holy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS-bRarAZ2g

Songs have an amazing effect for me. There is nothing else that puts me into a mindset of worship like music. What do I know of Holy by Addison Road sums up every one of my feelings since reading the Bible through with Matt.

I am slightly embarrassed to say that this was the first time in my life I have read the Bible through, and then again, I'm not. Being raised in church I felt like I was living the christian life. I knew the stories and I knew the verses to backup what ever I was trying to prove. I thought I understood it. I thought I knew what Jesus was thinking and why he lived the way he did. God was inside my box and my understanding.

I can't really describe the plethora of feelings that I feel when I think of Almighty, Powerful, Holy God interacting with us, with me. It's absolutely beautiful. The love that is displayed to us through Jesus is so overwhelming and amazing, I want to cry when I think about it. I feel a deep responsibility to love others the way God loves me, and to live a life that is more in tune with Him. His word and example is amazing, powerful, lovely and simply delightful, and I can't wait to read it again.