t.h.u.r.s.d.a.y.

thursday, my love, my favorite day of the week

I have always loved a Thursday.  It really means the week is on the way to being over.  Tomorrow really is Friday, the weekend just a day after that.  And ever since I started college, it always meant the potential for a long weekend.  Just one more day of the week to get through before that blessed break we call the weekend.

My weekly schedule is currently opposite of the standard: my weekend is the middle of the week these days!  I am taking clinical courses about an hour from my apartment in the city, near where family and friends live, so I spend the middle of the week away from the city and with my family and friends.  It is strange, especially because I don't want to be spending my weekends studying all day, but at some point I have to study!

So, off we go, then.

My wonderful, Heavenly Father,

Thank you so much for this week in clinical.  It has been a wonderful experience of watching babies come into the world.  I do wish I was able to do more, but I know those opportunities will come in time.  I am so happy to be helping babies be born.  I am so glad You brought me to this place.

I am praying for my church community again this morning.  St Timothy is such a wonderful place.  I love that we spent our 20-somethings group talking about how much we love shift and the people that make it up.  I could not be more blessed to have found such an amazing community of people to live life with.  It sure is going to be hard to stay connected to them, and feeling connected to them, while I live in New Orleans and they aren't here and I'm not there (isn't spontaneity the spice of friendships?), but I pray our friendships persevere.  I pray the closesness doesn't fade.  I also pray for each of these wonderful people, and I pray we continue to be friends for a very long time.

Thank you so much for STUMC and Shift, God.  Thank you for being so awesome as to bring these things into my life.  I know this summer would have been so much more awful without being a part of this group of people.  Thank you, God.

I love you so much.  Thank you for everything.

In Your name I pray, amen.


[xoxo]

it's thursday.

hey y'all!

Today's a Thursday: which means I'm gonna pray for my church community.  I actually became an official member this week!

I'd like to pray for the Shift community specifically today.  It's a small percentage of the church membership, but it's one that's passionately interested in community and what that means in today's world.  I don't know if I could love it more.


my Heavenly Father,

Thank you for giving me another day to pray to You.  Thank You for the opportunity to live in New Orleans and still attend the church that I love on the Northshore, St. Timothy.  I'm lifting up the Shift group there, God, small though it may be.  It's a passionate one, and I love to be a part of it and want to be a part of it more.  I lift up the hearts of everyone who attends both the service on Sunday mornings and the small groups during the week.  I pray for all of them and their wants and needs.  I pray that You are ever-present in this group, God.  I pray that You continue guiding and leading them, showing them how to be Your hands and feet in the greater New Orleans area.

God, I thank you so much for each and every attendee's passion to love others.  There are so many opportunities to serve through Shift and I know it's because we all just want to love other people.  It's all we crave.  Church isn't just a Sunday morning thing for us, God, and that is super cool.

For all these hearts and all of these people, I thank You.  Keep us safe, keep us loving You and others above all else, keep us coming back to You.  Year after year.  Day after day.  Hour after hour.

I, and I know the Shift community, love(s) you.

love you -
K

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