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Our fabulous theme for the conference!
Sigh...Who's crazy tired? Oo! Oo! Pick me! Pick me!
Haha, yeah. I am definitely really feeling the exhaustion today...I mean, reeeeally.
Also, remember how I did that thing where I graduated from college and so I no longer make daily two mile treks across the world...multiple times within in that "daily?" Is it weird to say that I've kind of missed it?? Random thought?? Not exactly, let me explain:
HT is being held on the campus of Vanderbilt...and everything is rather spread out. Aggies, it hardly compares to hauling it from Zachary to Wehner...hardly, but it's still fun to be wandering around one of the prettiest campuses I've ever been on - it's like walking through a forest wherever you go!! Heavenly much?? For this hippie it's pretty awesome.
So, yes, today we checked-in to the conference and our dorm - it's pretty nice, other than being community bath style, but that's whatevs, been there, done that. The only thing I was really kinda bummed about was that there aren't even sinks in the rooms - even the corps dorms had sinks!! Ah well, I'll survive :)
The opening service today was super legit - I love the occasional high church experience. The imagery is something that no other worship service can touch. I especially love how pretty much everything is chanted/sung. Singing to my Divine Daddy is one of my absolute favorite ways to interact with Him and give Him the glory due His Almighty Name. We also got to share in the gifts of the Lord's Supper - what a beautiful way to start out our time of fellowshipping, growing, and digging deep into the Word! Oh, and Pastor Cwirla (Svwirlaaaaah!) lead us in a fabulous sermon talking about our Giver God and how He wants to receive His gifts without question; "If you don't want the gift, you can go to hell." Yup, that pretty much sums it up - gotta love Cwirla's boldness in preaching the truth.
Awful picture...but here's our Cwirla welcoming us all right
before plenary - it's ok, you can be jealous ;)
Our first plenary session was led by Pastor Kind - it was pretty good. I think it was maybe a little too academic for the kids, but he touched on some different ideas about why we go to church, other than, "my parents make me." :)
After plenary it was dinner time, followed by evening prayers - one of my favorite services.
So, this is our line, which continued for another 30min or so once we
got through those doors...at this point we had already been in
line for 30-40min...fuuuuun...
From evening prayers we went to Breakaway Session A. I really enjoyed mine: How Martin Luther Rediscovered the Gospel. Wow - I learned so much! Like, did you know that Martin Luther's last name was originally Luder?! He changed it to Luther after learning, somewhat simultaneously, that he was free from sin and guilt in Christ, and that Greek work for "freedom" is "eletheria." So, as a sort of personal emancipation from the works righteous of the Roman Catholic Church he changed his last name, swapping the "d" for the "th" (one letter in Greek) of his new found freedom. Isn't that cool?!
The kids went to a few other breakaway sessions and we all got to talk about them during our group devo pow-wow. I think I'm going to ask them to each write a little snippet about their favorite breakaway, come the end of the week, and if they agree I'll post them for you here so you can read about some of the things that spoke to the kids.
My time with the girls was pretty short and sweet tonight. But, oh so sweet :) Can't wait 'til we get to come together again tomorrow!
And with that, my dear readers, I am going to close - I'm fading fast. Oh, that reminds me: I am going to formally apologize ahead of time for the ridiculous amounts of typos that these posts are going to have (and already do....hehe). I'm tired y'all, that's my only excuse :)
Shalom!
~MW
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