Wow God Moment!

Ok so every time I think back and reflect on this moment I get all giddy and excited so please bear with my as I attempt to share with all of you just how awesome God is!

As most of you know I am a theater teacher and work steadily in the Chicago theater scene. It has been a major blessing for me to be able to teach at a Christian school and I love every single second of it, but working in theater around the city I am usually the only Christ follower in a cast and production team full of people. It is just not the norm to have believers in the main stream theater circle most of the believers that I know that are working in the arts work for Christian companies.

So when a good friend of mine asked me to come on board his project and stage manage for him I was of course more than happy to help a friend and have another opportunity to shine Gods light and love into and onto a cast and prod. team that I was sure didn't and would not know him.

As all of the actors and production team were getting to know each other with the first week of rehearsals there came the ever so  common find me on facebook. haha. so slowly I had friend requests trickling in on my facebook page. One of those requests came from the actress playing the mother in the show. I accepted and the next day I had a cute little message from her in reference to my religious views -"I love Jesus" she said "you love Jesus,Me too! :) "  I was so excited that there was another believer here to go on this ride with me, another person here to share the love and light of Jesus!

The next day at our rehearsal we were chatting about the Christmas programs at our churches and our producer walked over and said "Are you guys believers?" We were both like yea and then found out that he is as well. My head was spinning, like I said this is not the norm. I was happy to have one more believer but to have three of us I was already in awe, but God was not done yet another one of our actors overheard Les our producer asking us what churches we went to and walked over and burst out and said are you guys Christian? Both she and I answered yes (He and Les go to  the same Church).

There are 4 Christ followers working on this production! None of  us could deny the awesome-ness of this and fact that again it is not normal to have even one believer in a cast or on a production team let alone 4. None of us could deny that God is doing something great and moving in a mighty way and that this small army of believers is no doubt going to be used for HIS GLORY! This is no accident God knew exactly what he was doing when each of us signed on to take part in this project!

I am still in awe and I am humbled and excited to see where he will be taking us over the next 2 1/2 months. God is doing something big and the fact that he is using me to do it just knocks my socks off! I am so thankful for this opportunity that he has given us to be his walking talking billboards! Please Pray for us as we take on what ever God puts before us!

Happy Thanksgiving

This year my thanksgiving plans were not the usual. I did not go home to Michigan this year due to finances, so I spent my turkey day here in Chicago with great friends. I woke up somewhat early and headed downtown to take in the Thanksgiving parade! That was great fun! After the parade I headed up north to spend the day with some great family friends!

Even though I was not able to go home and spend the time with my family I still had a great day. It was so nice to be with friends and fellowship and share. This thanksgiving holiday I had/have so many things to be thankful for.

• My Saviour! God has blessed me and my life well beyond what I deserve! I may not always get to do the things that I want to do and its rough financially but I still have a roof over my head,food in my fridge,clothes on my back and shoes on my feet. warm coats and hats to see me through these winter months. God has given me everything that I need to survive and he has also given me the most precious gift his son! Because of his son my life is secured! God is Good!

• My amazing family! They are so supportive and wonderful my momma is always there to talk me down and give me prospective when I am rambling on about things that frustrate me and annoy me,my grandmothers! they are my most amazing examples of what a good christian woman,mother and wife looks like and they are always there to encourage me! My sister she is my sunshine I love her so much and I am so very proud of her and the young lady she is becoming! LOVE all of you!

• My amazing Church family!! In this past year my church family and small group ladies and young adults group have been a major blessing! praying with me teaching me challenging me and encouraging me to be the person that God has called me to be! I love all of them so much! Because of them I have gone from having no one here in the city to hangout with and feeling so lonely in this great city full of people to having so many wonderful and amazing friends to fellowship with and call on!

This thanksgiving and this Holiday season I have so many wonderful people and things to be thankful for. I thank God for his amazing blessings and his grace and for giving me so much to thank him for! I hope all of your thanksgivings were wonderful and that you all took time to allow your heart to be grateful for what God has done in your lives this past year!

Playing catch up!

Sheesh! Talk about lack of post updates haha.It has been an overwhelming,crazy,busy past couple of months. Of course work as usual and I have started working on a new show so that takes up a lot of time, but one of the most major things that has been going on here is the accidental death of the daughter of a great friend and mentor at church. Her Daughter was standing outside her car talking to a friend when it and her were sideswiped by a vehicle. The man who hit both her and her friend ran and not only that was drunk. So needless to say it has been a rough couple of months.

The man later turned himself in and is on trial. We as a church family have been really trying to support the family in prayer,cooking and  offering services like that but we are also showing our support by attending the court dates. I was not able to attend the first one but I hope to attend the second one coming up in mid December.

We are just trying to stay prayerful for the family and show our support any way we know how! I urge all of you to keep the Rodriguez-Gamez, Cardenas family in prayer too! Thanks!