Thirsty Thursday...

As part of the New Year & trying to live a more healthy lifestyle (also during my fast). I tried out making a juice drink this morning.. I am a HUGE texture person so I was really nervous about how it would turn out...

It actually turned out pretty good! I finished it :)

Here's what I made (it's a combo of a few different pinterest ideas) :

2 cups of water (Yay that helps my H2O intake too)

Few handfuls of Kale (iron, I need that!)

Few handfuls of spinach

1 pear

1 apple

2-3 stalks of celery

1 banana 

1/2 of a lemon squeezed

& then I added 1 big spoonful of natural peanut butter but that's because I am obsessed with pb ;)

I am also trying to make better choices when it comes to sweets... Which for me includes coffee since I tend to put wayyyy to much sugar & creamer in my coffees. 

So my new coffee routine includes:

Coconut milk instead of creamer

Like a 1/4th of the raw sugar cane sugar as usual

Cinnamon & Nutmeg on top

DELISH!!

Anyone have any good dairy free juices/smoothies I should try out?! Or coffee tricks of your own?! Share them I would love to know :)

Sunday Musings

Today we got to have the first worship experience of 2013 at LifeChurch.tv Broken Arrow... What an incredible day it was!!! We had over 800 kids come into LifeKIDS at our campus over 6 services and 50 kids check into LifeKIDS for their very first time! Man, that just never gets old!! Getting to see new faces, the excitement on kids faces coming in for their first time or leaving after their first experience & hearing them say "When can we come back?!?!" It is truly an incredible thing to get to see God do! 

...And still some Sundays I catch myself thinking "it's just another Sunday..." or "two down, four more to go..." UGH. I hate that my mind can even go there. It's not a countdown.. It's a privilege!! But, I always love the little tiny ways that God takes those moments to remind me, not just that what He is doing is amazing, but that HE is amazing!

It may feel like just another Sunday to me, but not to the Mom who came back to a second service today after she already attended one just to bring her 21 year old son & his friend back!! Or the 6th grade girl who has been BEGGING her parents to bring her to church because her friends keep inviting her & her parents "FINALLY" agreed to come check it out & left today with tears in their eyes & "What's Next Kits" in their hands! Or even to the family who has been seeing it all over their facebook about LifeChurch.tv Broken Arrow so they brought their whole family to check it out!

So when I feel like I'm getting tired & my feet are hurting, because I am too stubborn to not wear 4 inch heels when I'm going to be on my feet for 13 hours... Or it feels like "another Sunday" the Holy Spirit so sweetly reminds me that it's not about me, not even for one second, but that it's about the incredible stories that He is writing in so many more lives than I can fathom. And in that moment I am reminded of my thankfulness for His grace and mercy in my life each and every day :)

and that... it's never "just another Sunday"!