Big stuff is happening in India. Right now the 2nd part of our team, the building team, is in the Southern part of Tamil Nadu building homes for people who are in desperate need of them.
Click here to see what they're up to http://gccindiaoctober2006.blogspot.com/. Please pray for them as they finish up their mission, say goodbye to their new friends, and start the long journey home.
To see pictures of my trip to India in August, click here: http://lanetteonmission.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_lanetteonmission_archive.html
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
GCC's India October Team
Sunday, October 29, 2006
I just got back from school in Chicago over the weekend and it was:
Life changing
Awesome
Insightful
Painful
Enlightening
Motivating
Hard
Out of my comfort zone
Amazing
A Huge Gift
Meant to be . . .
Something big is coming - I can feel it!!!!!
Something big is coming - I can feel it!!!!!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Random Thoughts . . .
There's lots of stuff going on here - it seems like I get up in the a.m. and hit the ground running. I'm really busy, but the difference in my life now is that I am making a lot of time for friends, relationships, and self care that I have not done before. I am learning that BALANCE is good!
Speaking of BALANCE - I go to school all weekend in Chicago for Life Coaching and we will be studying on how to help our clients find BALANCE. I'm really excited - I LOVE school - and can't wait to learn how to help people with this HUGE issue in life!
I took the summer completely off to rest and recuperate from the pace I had been running, so I took off school too. Now I have to pay for it - I'm still going to finish on time, but I have to go 3 times in less than 6 weeks - YIKES! It's all good though, because I'll be done with school the weekend of 12/10. Then after the new year I will start my licensing process - YEA!!!
As of right now, I am planning on starting my practice at the first of the year, and I CAN"T WAIT!!! I am learning so many cool ways to help people and I can't wait to share it all. I'm looking for 5 clients at an extremely reduced rate to "practice" on during licensing, so if you're interested, let me know!
God has really been teaching me some awesome things that are really helping me and making my life so much better and easier. I will share them with you soon!
Cody made high honor roll at school for the first semester of 7th grade, so we're really proud of him. Dad pays him for good grades (we can do that since we only have one kid), and with money he's been saving and his report card money, he has enough to go buy his X Box 360 (or whatever it's called) today - he is so excited he can hardly stand it! I told him he's not allowed to turn into a video game geek!
Trent is happy - he has all 3 of his rental houses at the business rented out and he really likes all of the people that are living there. The house on the East side of his business was a complete nightmare when the people moved out, so he has spend the last 2 months gutting it and remodeling - so it's a big relief to have renters in there again.
Trent and I are leaving next week to go to Vegas and California and we can't wait! The first 4 days in Vegas are for business and our nephew Shaun is going with us for the first time (he's going for the show, not to gamble!). Then the last 3 days we are driving a convertible Mustang to San Diego and staying in a great resort on the bay. The last day we will drive up the coast, visit Venice Beach (Trent wants to see Muscle Beach) and do some other "touristy" things that you have to do when you're in LA - then we fly out of LAX and head home. Trent has never been to CA before, so we're really looking forward to a romantic little get away!
While we're in San Diego we're going to go over the border to Tijuana and do some shopping, have a taco and a real Mexican margarita - CAN'T WAIT!
Do you have a "Things I Want To Do Before I Die" list? I do - and I'm so excited because next week when we're in CA, weather and God permitting, I just might be able to achieve one of those things on my list. Can you guess what it is? SURFING!!! Yes - I have ALWAYS wanted to be a California surfer girl, but that just isn't what God has planned for me (I was born in Indiana) - but right next to our hotel is a surf school with private lessons and I AM THERE! I'll even withstand the cold to get to do it at least once in my life! It'll be a miracle if I get up, but I'm going to give it a shot. I'll listen to some Beach Boys before I go to get me in the mood!
That's about it for now - over and out!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Save me from my religious friend!
This is an article I saw in the South Bend Tribune on 9/24/06 and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it - take a look and give me some feedback on your thoughts:
Save me from my religious friend
I've been friends with "Jenny" for 10 years. We met in our early 20's when we were both newly married. Jenny and her husband moved an hour away five years ago and we don’t see them often, but Jenny and I talk on the phone.
The problem is that Jenny has found Jesus. She goes to church twice a week, listens to religious music and studies the Bible constantly. She hasn’t joined a cult or anything; it’s a mainstream religion. I’m glad she's happy in her faith. But she'll often invite me to bible studies or religious rock concerts. Every time we talk, she'll go on about a lesson from the bible she's studying.
When "The Passion of the Christ" came out, she invited me because her church had told members to "bring an unsaved friend". I resented her thinking of me in those terms.
But I'm more annoyed by her casual approaches to convert me. When she invites me places, she says something like "I've got and extra ticket and thought you might want to come" or "We’re studying Revelation and I thought you might be interested". I’m not interested, but I don"t know how to tell her without hurting her feelings or making her think even more that I'm headed for hell. Plus, I wonder if she thinks of me as a friend anymore or just a soul that needs saving.
Is there any way to get her to stop bugging me without hurting her feelings or ruining our friendship?
Hell of a Friend
Friends, this is someone here in the Michiana area, not in another town. Are they one of my friends, or one of your friends? Is it you? The part that strikes me the most is the part that says she resented being referred to as an "unsaved friend" - I can understand that - I wouldn't like that either.
This article is making me think . . . alot. Hmmmmm . . .
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Grissom 7th Grade Football
Tuesday was the last football game of the season, and it's been a GREAT season. Cody has never played a sport before and this is his first time ever playing football or being on a team. It's been fun watching him transform from a skater punk into a jock who goes out jogging when he's frustrated.
By the 2nd game he started playing first string - offensive and defensive tackle - and midway through the season he was playing A team and B team. Now he's talking about playing football at Notre Dame, which is a great dream to have! (We better start saving our money, because he's got the grades to actually do it).
The team had an awesome season - they were undefeated until last week when they lost by only 2 points. This was the playoff for 3rd place and the won 30 - 18!
He did such a great job and Trent and I had such a good time going to all the games - I had a blast being a football Mom and wasn't even scared of him getting hurt! We're so proud of you Cody and can't wait until 8th grade football next year!
I think I'll practice my karate moves while I'm waiting on the side lines - maybe that will impress the coaches
The Prison Break - Teddy's Mug Shot
So we had an exciting weekend - we went to Silver Lake (gorgeous weather), visited friends in Fremont, MI and then went to the Colt's game.
Teddy can't ride in the car anymore because he's lactose intolerant, so he doesn't get to travel with us anymore. He's happy staying home and sleeping in his little bed, hunting chipmunks, and eating as much food as he wants because we keep the bag open for him.
So we get home and usually he comes when I call him, but no Teddy - which isn't unusual - he spends a lot of times in the woods hunting. I come inside and listen to the messages and there's a message from the vet that says "good news, we found Teddy" - I didn't even know he was missing yet!
Last Spring when Teddy got fixed, I had a chip put in him, much to Trent's objection (he's not a big fan of cats). Thank God I did because somehow he got picked up by the Humane Society and they were able to let us know where he was at. It was sad leaving him there all day on Sunday - I had to wait until they were open on Monday to go bail him out.
I arrived bright and early at the Humane Society with the bail money ($55 - yikes!) and after going through all the cat rooms and not seeing him, we finally found him - I was getting nervous!
So Teddy is back home for now and hopefully he won't get picked up again any time soon.
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