if you really know me, you know that's amazing! so when i walked into the ballroom of the convention center, no, prince charming was not there to hand me over my glass slipper and dance the night away. this ballroom was for shopping. the way i love and think all ballrooms should be really! well, me and kris walk in and saw another girl from church standing in a long line (only she's half way and jumping literally with joy) and then i looked down to the beginning of the line and there was my most favorite author Karen Kingsbury! i wanted to yell! i've never met anyone famous before! i honestly didn't know what to do. for a moment i almost thought about snapping a picture from where i was, but then i was like,"hello britt! where's your mind?! you can meet her tonight,and that's ok!" so i gave up a concert with michael w. smith, and went and grabbed a book i've been waiting on for a year, got in line with my friend tab, and met some fabulous ladies along with Karen Kingsbury, her mom, daughter, son, and daughter's boyfriend who will be on the cover her book Unlocked coming out this fall. i was on cloud nine!!!!!!!! when i get a copy of my picture (i've posted one on fb and just realized it's terribly fuzzy) i'll share it.
heres a picture of Unlocked
so then i realized while in line waiting, how amazing it is to meet new people and talk to them like they are your church family.
sunday came to soon. we had to all go together and have our stuff loaded up on the bus at 730 a.m. yep! it's an early to late kinda weekend! so we did, and once we got in and found enough seats for everyone, i went to find me some breakfast. on my way, i ran into one of the ladies i had met the night before. and it was like i had known her a million years. then, it hit me ...
one day, and probably not to far off, i will get a million years to get to know her. i looked around, and slowed my walk down and saw ladies of all ages,sizes,and such talking and laughing. smiling at strangers, telling them "there's a faster moving bathroom line over there ...". yes. it hit me, one day i'll be in Heaven with these ladies. we'll be walking on streets of gold then. im not sure about shopping. but then again why would we need to shop when there will be streets of pure gold, gates of pearl and such?
there were over 9,000 ladies there this weekend. women of joy have a "motto" i guess you could say --- 3 days 2 nights 1 purpose. as i was walking down that hallway i thought, "this is a glimpse of eternity isn't it Father?" and i felt Him say,"yes,daughter, look ... here's a glimpse of the only hell you'll ever know and yet a glimpse to your future home with me, the Creator of all things."
i was crying as i reached the counter to order my breakfast. i was crying because i was happy,and yet homesick. i was crying because it hit me how many people i know,yet don't know if they'll be with me there. i was crying because i didn't know what else to do,and was overwhelmed.
on a much lighter note, let me add another glimpse of Heaven that made me laugh.
all, and i mean ALL bathrooms were for women, always clean,and very nice. i thought,"yep,God, there will be no bathroom lines either! Thank you!"
because later, after i enjoy my day that is really a day off with the nephews, i may post about the way home. which may or may not some hilarious stories about a potty break on the way home!
Thinking of Heaven,
Britt
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