Tapestry Women's Conference (Lubbock, Tx)

This weekend I attended the Tapestry Womens Conference 

on Friday and Saturday in Lubbock, TX!

As I always say, I am surrounded by amazing women of faith! I had the privelege of traveling with 8 of them to attend this conference. 

The conference was held at our home church in Lubbock. Church on the Rock and it was so good!

The speaker was a women by the

 name Margaret Fineberg and if you have never heard of her, I would recommend you go over to youtube to have a peek and then over to amazon to purchase some books, I started her book The Organic God and it is nothing like it sounds but, at the same time completely like it sounds - great book! 

The words of encouragement that Margaret shared at the conference were great, some of the questions she has for the Lord are the same as the one I continually find myself asking "Is this all there is, this can't be it- there's got to be more". But the great thing is we are not left with just the question, we are equipped to find the answers - So, if anything I realized I am normal (according to my own standards anyway)  :)

During the conference there were breakout sessions and you could pick from (according to topics) which one you wanted to attend and after looking at the list I knew imeediately where the Lord was sending me and sure enough, it spoke to me right were I am and I will never be the same. I mean the 45 minutes I was in that small room hearing this Word from the Lord CHANGED MY LIFE!!! I will elaborate on that more tomorrow in my blog......

Then, one of the neatest things happened: 

On this trip we took one of the youth girls who is a daughter of one of the women. She wanted to go to a youth breakout but not by herself so, I told her to pick one and I would go with her.

(this is soooo cool- hold onto your seat)

We walk into the room for the break out and guess who was teaching?????

One of the youth we taught when we were in Lubbock!!!! God is soooo amazing! We just looked at each other in surprise and smiled to see eachother. I sat down to listen and it hit me.... I was now sitting in front of her to hear her teach about God... our roles had switched- too cool!

This beautiful young women was in our (scott and I) 7th grade discipleship group in Lubbock. Then this hit me: Wow! I was standing before some fruit of the seeds that I had helped sow! Don't get me wrong, I am not taking credit for God's work... but, I was sitting before a success story.... Now, I'm not a sentimental person (so I tell myself) but, as I sat down in her class for HER to now teach ME I gotta tell you, It took everything for me not to cry as the thought hit me then I remembered when... on her first day at church (and for most of the duration of her being there before we left)..... she was one who I asked the Lord to please keep her. She was having trouble fitting in and being comfortable. You could see discontentment and self doubt all over her. But, as always... God gets the Glory!!! Here before me stood a BEAUTIFULLY (inside and out) GORGEOUS young women in love with God, teaching others how to love God and sharing her story with other young women... Afterwards, I stayed back when the class released. Hugged her tight and said, "I am soooo proud of you! You have always been such a beautiful person - I'm proud of you and so is your Father God." after talking to her I learned that she went to Masters Comission and that she has been working in youth for a few years and that she is waiting on God for what lies ahead, I told her that I loved her and I'm praying for her just as I did on our last day at youth church in Lubbock before we came to Austin......

Then it happened! I walked away and the tears begin to flow -> I was so joyful, I was so touched and so honored and so humbled that God allowed me to see this- that this would happen in this way on this day! I realized that we do things "as unto the Lord" and we may not always see the fruit - heck, we may never see the fruit but, it is there.... as I learned in my breakout (which I will talk about tomorrow in my blog) you never really know the power of  the right yes. You never know the lives that will be touched and changed and saved when you say YES TO GOD!

Anyways, this weekend was amazing! I am in awe of Gods goodness, favor and presence in my life- I will never be the same!

-Missa