God at the Beach

My friend Kacey and I totally had a "God Moment" at the beach today. We went after church with the intention of staying until right at 5, then taking off so that I had time to shower, eat, and be at life group by 6. I knew it was cutting it close, but figured I'd be okay with time.

We had just about everything packed up ready to go right at 5 when the ice cream man pulled his truck up next to us to let people by ice cream (and K & I were sad that we had no monies for icecream). K said, let's wait until he drives away before we go, we don't wanna look rude, all "you pulled up, we're leaving." So we sat there for a couple minutes, drooling over the ice cream, when I saw the cutest little girl (by herself). I thought to myself, 'I hope she's not lost.'

Next thing I know, she's standing next to me, and says, tearfully, "Can you help me find my Daddy?"

Well, K and I immediately jump up and begin asking her what her dad looks like, if she knew if she was by the buildings...you know all the questions you'd ask. All she told us was she was there with only her Daddy and that he was wearing blue swim trunks (Or 'blue swimming suit shorts that are long').

She told us that she had just looked to the right, so we started walking to the left. Poor sweet pea was terrified. Thankfully we had K's mom's dog, so K let her hold the leash (which my red flag-- if her dad sees us walking with her with the dog --came on--like the whole stranger with candy). Long story short, we walked all the way to the next Lifeguard stand where K & I told the Life Guard she couldn't find her Daddy--just as there was a call coming in from the next stand over saying that they had a father looking for his 6 year old little girl, Bella. 5-10 minutes later, Sweet Bella was reunited with her dad (and her two brothers and sister--even though it was 'only her and her daddy'). :-)

I am SO thankful that K and I decided to wait for the ice cream man to leave before we left. Had we left right then, Bella wouldn't have asked us to help her...she may have asked someone else. Someone who isn't a Children's Director and a Young Life leader. Someone who could've snatched her away or done harm to her.

I thank and praise God for giving me the gift that I have with kids. The gift that when kids see me, they tend to be at ease. I truly, 100%, believe that's the reason Bella came up to me. There were so many other people around. I just get the chills thinking about what may have happened had we not been there.

Thank you so much God, for allowing K and I to be there.

I'm a horrible blogger...

...it's been since mid April since I've last blogged. Internets, I is sorry. I can haz forgives?

Wow, since April. So, to try to recap & not bore you all:

Final Exams/Papers--went okay, I still dislike writing greatly.

Grades: 5As, 2 Bs. I'm happy. :-D <---- See? That's a big happy face! (Minus the teeth, little creepy)

Since school let out, I've spent the summer working on Kids Camp stuff and working in the library at school. I love working in there. Mrs. Celelli and I moved about 13,000 books from the old library to a classroom while the new library was being built. Tomorrow we move them from the classroom to the new library. I'm excited. The library looks fantastic! Thanks to the Texas Baptist Men for making it look oh-so-awesome.

Kids Camp was SOOO much fun--definitely the BEST kids camp I've been to so far! I have a video that I'll try to post. :-)

Other than that, I've been house sitting since the beginning of June for different people and will be house sitting (or at camp) for another 3-4 weeks... :-)

I'll try to be better, internets, at blogging, but, as you know, I is not goods at the blogs. :-(