Women of Grace

In case you were wondering, both Joselyn and baby are doing great :) Both were out of the hospital by Friday afternoon, Joselyn is able to move around without pain (while medicated), and is even laughing with the other kids, and baby Selah is being loved of course; but more about them later. Now I want to tell you about my absolutely awesome weekend.

I had the opportunity to spend this past weekend with an amazing group of women, learning more about Christ and His love for us, in a gorgeous setting.
I never could have dreamed myself into a resort so luxurious and beautiful, but God obviously could. Marjorie and I were taking about how we never dreamed we could be somewhere like this 'while on the mission field in Nicaragua', but here's the catch that we figured out. . . God equips those He calls.
This weekend was a time of equiping. Having the opportunity to fellowship with other Christian (ENGLISH SPEAKING) women, listen to an awesome speaker, Jennifer Mathewson Speer, have amazing praise and worship time with Lyn Westafer, and not to mention: rest. We were all able to learn about how we are Women of Grace. We studied the women in the geneology mentioned in Matthew 1 that leads to the birth of Jesus Christ: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. And wouldn't you know, they aren't perfect. They aren't those angelic women that you would expect to be in the lineage of Christ, nope. They are sinners, they are prostitutes, they are adulterers and so on, but do you know what the most amazing part is, they were still used in God's plan. God had orchestrated their lives in order to serve Him. The message of this weekend, is that we may be broken, and we are obviously sinners, but that does not matter to God, He is in control, and He will, and does use any situation to bring His will to fruition.
So while God knew what part of the messages everyone of us women there needed to hear, He also new that women love to fellowship, and enjoy a little time away to rejuvinate too, so He gave us (a group of I don't know maybe 75 ladies), the chance to get away for the weekend to this beautiful resort.

Here is the building our room was in on the 500 acre property of the resort:

Where we spent our time between sessions:

that little building there is actually in the middle of the pool, and has a little bridge on either side that you can take to get there (unless you just swim or wade to the otherside). there they serve any drinks, or snacks you want, and to make it even better. . .  the resort is all inclusive, so meals are buffet and free!

but in case we got tired of that view, we could just walk ourselves down here:

Sadly I don't think we took any pictures of the 5 of us El Crucero ladies together, but here is Marjorie and I on the beach :)



So needless to say, we spent ample time sunbathing, a good chunk of time sleeping, and most importantly the entire weekend rejuvinating and reequiping for the mission God has for us.