And it was beautiful...

Last night was the FIRST gathering for The Beautiful Truth....

And it was absolutely beautiful.

All day I was just nervous, waiting...anxiously waiting for the evening that I had waited for..for a very long time...to begin. It was almost like I was in a cloud all day, trying not to think about the things I was afraid of, so that I could just get all that was needed to be done, done.

Funny story, for dinner I wanted to make my Mom's famous meatloaf for dinner, it's one of our favs, and it can be done ahead of time. So, as the timer on my oven was going off, telling me that it had cooked Henry the cow long enough, I went to put in this wonderful, thermometer inside to make SURE it was done...(it was my hubby's, might I add) The temp was not quite there, so I thought I would cook the meat a little bit longer, only about fifteen minutes. Little did I know what was happening behind that closed door. Fifteen minutes later, the beeper went off, and I checked the meat. I noticed I had left the thermometer inside, but thought it should be fine since the other one we have works like this. Oh boy was I wrong...and I knew it quite quickly...for the temp. screen was completely red, and everything was just a tiny bit disfigured...

I guess that's what happens when you leave an instant reading thermometer in the oven, for fifteen minutes...

Let's just say, Jason was just a bit on the "bummed out" side...:)

That's what happens when you have a huge, exciting, dream on your mind I guess!

Anyway, as some friends and I were setting up the Commuter Lounge, we thought, "maybe we should keep the circle of comfy chairs and couches small, because who knows how many will show..." Little did we know, that small circle would need to be stretched! As the girls started showing up, we noticed the circle was getting smaller and smaller, thus the need to add more couches! Talk about a WONDERFUL "problem".

Being that it was the first night, I wanted to just share the story of how The Beautiful Truth came to be, as well as my own personal struggle to find beauty in myself. I was a little nervous, yet I knew I could say what I had prepared in my sleep....being that I basically was for the last few months...But as I started to speak, my mind was jumbled and to be honest, I could not figure out where I was going with my words. The reason was not nerves, I mean I did have them. But the reason was...insead of having five beautiful girls staring at me, I had twenty! TWENTY! (And I thought/heard no one would probably come...) It was incredible! So I actually stopped mid sentence and asked Tina, one of our guest speakers this semester, to pray for me because I was just too excited to focus!

It was incredible.
It was beautiful.
It was humbling.

As the evening came to a close, and we all headed back home, I was overcome with such awe that I get to be the person sitting in that chair, talking about how great God is.
Why me?
Why do I get to tell my story?
Why do I get to be the one making this thing happen?
Isn't there someone else that can do the job better than me?

That's not how God works it seems...
He chose me, inperfections and all...
And I am utterly humbled, and deeply thankful.

Today, I woke up with such joy knowing that God did MORE than I could have ever thought or imagined last night...
And it's only THE FIRST NIGHT?!

What does God have planned?
Who else is going to listen to that tap on their heart to come and hear God's truth about how beautiful they are?

Now I am going to just sit back, sleep at night I hope, and enjoy all that God has planned for us ladies in these next few months....

Isn't it cool to be a part of God's ministry?
I'm in awe...


Keep the prayers coming!

Brit