GCR Women

I've spent the past few days in Dallas with my husband and several good friends at the Linger Conference at Watermark Church.  The conference is designed to give you the opportunity to get out of your regular routine and linger in the presence of God.  It's been excellent - wonderful praise and preaching.  It's been good to get away. I've enjoyed the time spent with my friends.  I see these friends almost weekly in our Wednesday night class. What makes this weekend different is that we actually stopped to spend time together, to linger with each other. Weekly, in class, we're focused on that week's lesson and little else.  We come in, get ready for class, have class, put things away and go home.  We visit some but not for long - no time!  This weekend, we shared meals with each, sat next to each other, worshiped with each other, took breaks with each other, discussed the messages with each other - we took time for each other. Time away.  Time well spent.

We traveled to Austin last week to witness our grandson's baptism into Christ.  It was a wonderful day and treasured time with the family. When we're driving like that, my husband and I talk about where we are in life and where we want to be.  We make lists and set goals and talk about plans to accomplish what we've talked about.  It's funny how much we repeat ourselves and how many times we set the same goals and plans.  If you look at a list from ten years ago, it would probably look much like the one we made last week.  I guess that's because we plan to head in generally the same direction today as back then.  I wish we'd get more checked off our list, but there are some basic things that I hope we never finish. I hope we always enjoy being together.  The other day we were at an appointment and the client asked me how it was working together, with my husband day in and day out.  I told her truthfully it was wonderful.  I've been working for John for