Leah and I took you to Athens, GA with us! Here we are driving back to Charlotte tonight after our Confident Heart conference today. (I apologize for video whiplash when I try to show you the blog comments I’m reading- but after that I stay steady.)
If you’re reading this via email, just click on the title of the post “A Silly Saturday Video Message” and it’ll take you to my website where you can see my silly message. Also, if you don’t know who Leah is, she’s my dear friend and my amazing servant-hearted ministry assistant!
So, what is one of your “must haves” on a road-trip and…have you ever cut your own hair?
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Renee, I love your messages and I love the way you are really listening to those of us participating in this study. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you are taking this study slow, staying connected with us in little ways throughout the week. This is just awesome! Thank you!
Ah, Rene, how very special it is to have your wonderfully real self sharing with us in this video! Seriously made this whole study more “real” for me to have you sharing you in your day-to-day.
Long story short: I’m living in Ecuador and am trying to stay on course with this Confident Heart study. (I was part of the earlier study with Melissa Taylor). I started the online Bible study to make connections but actually it has made me feel more alone, it’s hard to explain. There are no “familiar touchpoints” in our new (of 8 months) culture and home. Seeing you with Starbucks and talking about where you’d eaten really connected with me (although I don’t actually miss those things, it’s just a point of commonality).
When we have electricity (and it is regularly inconsistent) I’m able to connect with my beloved family and friends via Skype, etc., but it’s not like physically being with and “doing life” with my them. I seriously miss my sisterchicks; and right now I’m really really really missing that type of connection. Yup, I know “this, too, shall pass”and most days I’m “fine,” but thanks so very much for offering this space for me to left down that guard, write in my native language, and share what’s on my heart without fear of recrimination! Now I can press the “post comment” button, take a deep breath, and go forth!
God bless you, dear woman of God! Thanks again for sooooo much!
Jenn:
I know just how you feel as I too spent some time living in a foreign country. It was the hardest thing I have ever been through. (And it was in the days before Skype!)
Praying for you.
Thanks so much for sharing with us. It means a lot. Yes, I have cut my hair. As a busy mom with a tight budget it is hard a lot of times to get to the salon so I can understand your dilemma. I am so enjoying the study and working on becoming more confident. Thank you for taking your time to lead us on this journey
For sure have cut my own hair…not sure how good it looked to others but sure saved on the budget! 🙂
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Stay ın hıs love!
Thanks for being so funny and human. It’s especially fun when you do something with a good friend. You wouldn’t believe how many pit stops I have to take when I travel. Also, I can’t afford to go get my hair cut professionally so I cut my hair and my husband’s. Don’t know how people would judge the looks of the cuts but you have to do what you have to do. Have a great week.
First of all-thank you so much for writing this book! I need it, and it is impacting me so much. I loved this video! I am currently living in England, working with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) on a project for the London Olympics. I am from Tennessee, and I miss home! It was just fun to see y’all driving on the interstate, with your Starbucks cups & botlles of water and to hear those beautiful accents! 🙂
That is a wonderful video Renee!!! Love to see you both. I always cut my bangs too, especially when I am away from home being away from my only trusted hairdresser. Have a safe trip and may our Lord bless you more.
awesome how “real” you are even down to the roots and cut your own bangs….lol i laughed…hubby in military so spent many a long journey on road trips with lots of tunes and now my laptop or nook go everywhere i go,,,,,,water is a MUST and of course start out with whatever coffee drivethru i can find….man i miss seattle they are on every corner !!!!!
thank you for this ministry and how it has anchored deep into my soul what He is trying to get thru to us….being real and accepting who we are as HIS and not as the lies that we believe……if we can just learn that we are the person as He sees us and not the one we see in the mirror….oh how i yearn for me to accept that what i look like and was does not determine who i am who i am was determined before i was formed and he knew every hair on my head, and he created me to be HIS a child of the living God…created to LOVE and be LOVED and be just as HE envsioned…he knew the paths we would have to walk but he also said I will never leave or forsake you, he knew we would get tired, he says I will give you rest all who are heavy burdoned, he knew we would get lonely but he said I will always comfort you.
When it gets tough he says He will give us strength,,,,,and when you are down remember the JOY of the LORD is your strength……sounds like i am convincing myself again…what a mighty work he is doing in me remembering HIs promises and His word will never come back void. Thank you for being on part of my journey……..
Hi Renee,
Thanks for taking us on your road trip with Leah. For road trips I must have some Mike and Ike’s and Cheetos along with pop and water. Have cut my hair many of times some great cuts and a few OOPS here and there with those I just always say “it will grow back”.
I am enjoying the study of the Confident heart…this was a great thing to do….knowing that God meets us at the place we need Him to.
Safe Travel.
Blessings,
Millicent
Thank you Renee and the rest of you ladies for being my online friends, it means a lot to me. I am also feeling the prayers this week. The Confident Heart Book/Bible study is building my faith and my trust in God the Father. Life has been a hard trial for a long (3 yrs) time, without much let up. So I am glad/blessed for the boost of Faith. Thank you for not being afraid to be real. Love all you girls out there. Becky
On a road trip my dad and I always stop at a Sheets for gas and a sandwich. When I was little my dad would always hide M&Ms in the car for my sisters and me.
Yes, I’ve cut my own hair. Usually it would only be my bangs but I have cut my hair shorter. Sometimes it was because I was upset and angry about something and did it to release that emotion. I usually had a neighbor cut my hair but sometimes it ended up crooked. Thankfully the apartment building I live in now has its own beauty parlor and the beautician comes twice a week.
after the day I have been having, your silly video made me smile. My constant flip flop world in where my husband does not know what he wants, and is not willing to be a husband that I need or a father to his sons that they need, your video just put a smile to my face. Thank you Renee
I loved your Silly Saturday video…it was so fun & made me smile! Thankyou for sharing your road trip & a bit of the “real” you with us! Yummy snacks & good tunes are definately road trip musts! I am really enjoying this study, learning so much about myself & my relationship with God & others…look forward to what He has to show us next week!
I love road trips with my besties! We always have a fun time! We can never go on one of our trips with out finding a Krispy Creme doughnut shop! We love spending quality time together just us girls! I don’t think I have ever cut my own hair… Lol!!
I am so enjoying the bible study Confident Heart! Reading and re reading each week plus spending time with God and allowing Him to show me just how much I’m loved has really Blessed me this week! Keep it coming because I am “Known” by the Almighy, the One and only True God! Thank you Renee for spending time with all of us on this study! I love it!!
I loved the “silly video”. My must haves in traveling are music (got to have that!), my Diet Pepsi, and salty snack such as a bag of Combos–anything that is salty! I love sweets, but if I eat those while traveling, it will make me sick. Anyway, I love how you are so real. So many other made the same comment and I completely agree. Thanks for being such a blessing.
Thank you so much for sharing. Your thoughts and words very encouraging and fun to watch and listen. So enjoying the book and chapter 2. God created us and knowing that He has known us forever and will never leave or forsake no matter what blesses me indeed. Praying your trip is safe. Hugs
So, so fun!!! 🙂 I loved this. It was like getting to ride along with you. So glad the conference this weekend went well. I know hearts were BLESSED! Cannot wait to dig into Chapter 3!
thank you so much for a silly video. I giggled a bit tonight and that felt good after a financial stress-er earlier today. Thank you also for praying for me. I have had a medicine change and am sleeping at night. My BP is getting better and I’m having less headaches. Also able to teach my children much easier this past week without the stress of not feeling well. I still am not completely healthy, but getting there. I appreciate getting to know other people that are struggling with confidence and insecurity also. I’ve read Beth Moore’s book So Long Insecurity and it was very good. I need a constant journey and am so glad this one came along so I can continue the road to heart health and physical health. I will try to comment on other’s posts tomorrow as in order to get well I need a consistent bed time. So good night and thanks again for a silly video.
I am sad. I wrote a comment and it said that it was a duplicate and would not post it.
Carol: I think that your comment did post. (About letting your husband cut your hair?)
Either that or it’s from another Carol!