The Holidays

You know I am a huge fan of Christmas just everything about it is happy to me, I love the carols, the shopping, the people, the family, church. I just feel that nothing can usually get me down about christmas. It is the time that we celebrate Christ's birth so how can you be sad, joy really just fills me during this season.

Sadly though this year it hardly seemed like christmas. This might have been because i was sick and in school and working all right

up until christmas. oh well I still celebrated the Lords birth by attending a excellent Christmas Eve service at Southview Alliance Church. Pastor Cliff spoke a powerful salvation message that really ministered to my heart remind how

incredibly blessed I am that I know the Lord as my Saviour.

Also over the holidays I got to spend t

ime with some very awesome people. Starting at my good friend Lindsay's open house. It was a good time, here is a picture of us there...

Then it was on to christmas at my aunts which strangely no picture were taken. One year I should really have a working camera and take pictures of my very strange but loving family.

After several well spent days with my family in Black Diamond I came to hang out with my long lost friends...

This is us on New Years watching the fireworks in Canmore. I have to admit this was one of the best New Years i can remember.

Now I know this was the cheasest post ever but I am trying to get in the hang of blogging so that when I go away this summer I can be a faithful poster of everything that is happening there.

Night

New Adventures

Well the against my own common sense and the advise and wishes of many I feel the Lord calling me away this summer. This is something that I have lost countless hours of sleep over because frankly the last time I served overseas during the summer was a very trying time. I was exhausted and never seemed to find rest, but I don't regret the time I spent in India because the Lord used it to teach me many things. I know that this time wherever I end up serving will again be a time that the Lord uses to teach me.

This summer I will be serving somewhere in the world as a high school leader with Adventures in Missions as of right now I not sure where I will be leading but leadership there and myself praying that He would make it clear where I should be.

So I ask any of you that read this to also be in prayer, that God would make it clear where it is he wants me to serve this summer. Also that you would pray that God prepares me for the coming months as I prepare to serve my team, the locals and the Lord on this great new adventure He is sending me on.

I would also love if you would pray for deliverance of the anxiety that I am feeling about the coming months. I know that this anxiety is not from the Lord but from the enemy trying to scare me away from the Lords plans.

I will work on updating this blog regularly in the coming months about my life and about the coming adventure the Lord is sending me on.

Ashley