OH GLORY!

Ok so I have had a blog account for about two weeks now and I am finally writing on it! Woohoo!

I want to tell you about my experiences in Colorado. The Father has blown my mind with His presence in this season of my life. For anyone who doesn't know, I am guiding backpacking trips in Colorado this summer and next, with RMR Backcountry. I recently had the opportunity of going to

Colorado for the weekend on two separate occasions for training and OH GLORY, is all I can say about it.

The first trip has literally changed my life! The training was called "heart of a guide" and focused on us as new guides and the community that we will get to be a part of. The themes of the weekend were those of posture, honor, royalty, and brideship. Gimme some a that!

Posture: we must have a posture of receiving! In my own experience I have had a posture of wanting but not receiving. I have wanted to know the fullness of His Love but never actually allowed Him in to show me. For me it is a physical posture like this:

try it out! it totally puts you in that mind set of receiving Him!

Honor: I am still learning so much about this. About how that looks in my life, towards others, and for Him. The way we honor Him is worship.....oh worship. This was definitely the highlight of my weekend. When we worshiped, there was no holding back. Total FREEDOM! In this community there was everything from dancing to sitting in a corner and receiving. No holding back. Glory. On the second night of the training, after our devotional Joey (director of RMR) said that he felt that there were people in the room that wanted a "new name" that wanted to know what Christ thought of them. I literally felt the Father pulling on my chest saying "Yeah thats what you want!" so Joey and I started praying.

It didn't happen right away. I was kind of hoping for a kind of download process you....pray and BAM! identity process complete. That's not what happened and I'm so glad it happened this way. Papa made me wait, and here is why. So many times my relationship with Papa has been experience to experience and there was not much sincerity. By waiting, I realized that I REALLY wanted this. So "the courage of Caleb and compassionate" kept repeating in my head. I asked Joey what that meant and he asked if I knew the story of Caleb. No was my answer and so he told me the story of Caleb in the book of Numbers 30. Read it! It fires me up! Papa sees me as the same endurance of faith as Caleb. Caleb is the man dude, I cannot believe that this is what The Father thinks of me! OH GLORY!

there is so much more for me to tell and I would love to finish it but I am in class and getting mean stares. I will talk more about it later! hopefully not in two weeks though!