An Ocean City Update...

We arrived in Ocean City around 5 p.m. this afternoon. After checking into the hotel and putting our stuff in our room (we carried it all in one trip...unheard of for us! Another unheard of thing for us...we're not at the very end of the hallway*) we changed and headed out to find some dinner. We ended up at a place called JR's Ribs. The food was decent.

After that we went back to the hotel for the evening service. I have to say that it was really good. We had a great time of worship and the speaker, Mark Batterson, was quite funny and had some very profound thoughts to share with us. I think the thing that hit me most was this: "The greatest freedom is having nothing to prove." Wow...I think I need to tape that to my mirror. As someone who has lived her whole life trying to gain acceptance and love through doing and proving, I think I really needed to hear that.

Another thing that really spoke to me tonight is the chorus of one of the worship songs we sang. Here's the chorus:

You are God alone
From before time began
You were on Your throne
You are God alone
And right now
In the good times and bad
You are on Your throne
You are God alone

Wow. I really do believe that God is God alone. I have to believe that God is always in control and he has my best interest in his heart and mind. No matter how I feel, what circumstances surround me and how I interpret them, God is God. And I am me.

That's the lesson for me tonight. Despite the fact that Pastor Mike and Donna couldn't come with us at the last minute. Despite the fact that I don't want my bare feet to touch the carpet in the hotel room...God has a message for me. And I am open to what he wants to tell me.

That's it for tonight folks. Good night...

Note: No free Internet here. I'm ashamed to say that we paid $9.95 so we could have Internet access for the next 24 hours. Just feels so odd not to be connected.

*Every time we go away and stay at a hotel, we are ALWAYS at the very end of the hotel's hallway. Doesn't matter what hotel, what floor, we always laugh because we're always huffing it down an endless hallway with our many, many bags. But today, the tide changed. We are the first door off the elevator!