Yesterday, I started my day by attending my school’s graduation. As faculty we have to walk and lead the procession. I always get emotional at graduations because its such a great thing to see other people achieve their dream, their goal. It reminds me of the times I did and of course, of the graduation to come for me when I finally become Dr. Liz Rios. A girl from the projects of the Lower East Side, raised by a single mom. Only God.

We went to Cheesecake Factory (for Mother’s Day) but when I went home to prepare for Sunday, wow…what a spirit of depression. We’d heard a few folks weren’t coming and things this week have just been totally crazy personally and otherwise. My question to God was "how do we speak to others when our own life is so hard?" I cried alot last night. My friend Marcy called just at the right time, and prayed for me. I cried some more. I could not sleep but in my mind the scripture "be anxious for nothing…" kept flashing like a neon sign.  I have to remember that almost everything comes from nothing.  I need to remember that its by God’s spirit not my spirit or anyone else’s. I think we need to revamp, our move while we all agreed has not worked to our favor, now everyone is not "feelin’ 1 pm service". We love the building and we truly do feel God was all over that but in Florida people want to be "in and out" early. The latest service people are willing to go to is 12 noon.  Sooooo, this is being evaluated.

On another note, I’ve been reading The Missional Leader. Very interesting book. Very. I love the idea of a church not revolving around the pastors i.e. the pastor has to be at every meeting to validate its importance, I love the idea of releasing people into multiple ministries in the church (we’ve actually been talking about this), and the idea that we as leaders in this new culture are to be cultivators of imagination and creativity. I pray God put us on the path of those imaginative/creative souls who want to step it up for Jesus.

Finally, I saw this post and said wow.