but who's counting... not me..

It's a beautiful morning to worship our God
THis is the day
This is the day

Its a wonderful mrning to worship our God
This is the day
THis is the day

I have had this song running through my head all morning and afternoon ... well because the sun is finally out. After 8 straight days of rain and floods... the rain stopped... the sun came out and boy is the sky blue.

People are actually walking around Manhattan smiling and enjoying life in the city... its a beautiful sight...

Its also been good cause... for now Alabama is beating Ole Miss... ROLL TIDE... I spent way too much money that i don't have on clothes i don't need... I got a free diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper and i got to see one of my most favorite people and got to hear how he, his family and their new church plant is going. Its a good day. Tonight i get to go see the producers with another favorite person of mine. I think today is just what is needed after a week of rain... I used to like rain...

All this rain brings two images to my head... and each time that happens i laugh... so i hope those of you tired of being wet will laugh too...



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photo from kimkmcil

Anyone want to go puddle jumping. God knows there is enough out there. I need to get some aggression out... since i am not a boy and can't hit walls... i'll just go jump in the water. ANy takers ;)

Hey seriously. i hope all of you are doing well. THose in the NYC area. Stay dry...

I am not sure what day of rain this is but i know its been close to a week if not more of straight rain and we are expecting a few more days... till sunday I believe. New York CIty in the rain is FUN... we get to walk through puddles of who knows what... subways shut down... You get your eyes poked out by umbrellas... Oh so much fun...



photo from kimkmcil



photo from kimkmcil



photo from kimkmcil



photo from kimkmcil

I wish I could edit text right now cause I would scream (in a good way) all over this page. TOday we had 440 people in church. We almost trippled in one week. We went to two services this week and started Purpose Driven Life. I just "knew" going into this series that Purpose Driven Life (PDL) was getting old... I was tired of it... and when gregg said to expect 400 I laughed at him. God is so good... and so faithful... and so much bigger then my brain can imagine. 440 people. Most of which were new... I am in complete awe of him right now.

For those concerned about my mental state this morning with 440 people and two services. I think I did a good job and I was dancing... during the service... I even smiled MANY MANY times. And guess what... the service still went well... that was sarcasm if you didn't catch that...

Ok need a nap before Chris Tomlin... i love him.

I am tired, soaking wet, over stimulated, grumpy and ready to poor myself into my bed and its only 5pm on Saturday...I still have to get through a concert tonight and 2 services tomorrow (I am going to hate 6AM)

BUT....BIG BUT... I had one of the best weeks and weekends I've had in a long time. God continues to amaze me.

First after a good week of hanging out with friends, seeing lots of shows (I’m now a huge David Gray fan), and working hard to get a huge project done I left for a weekend with 40 women from Mosaic... We went to a Beth Moore conference in Jersey (I drove a 15-passenger van and paralleled parked it by myself...) Anyway. This weekend was like the bow on a beautiful Gift god gave me. He's really been so faithful to reveal himself to me over the last 4 weeks. He brought me out of a 2 year old self-inflicted drought to a place where I am getting to know my God over again. I missed him...

THEREFORE, this weekend... was just the clincher to it all. I would put all of the take always from this weekend in this blog but I won't bore you... just know that God reaffirmed many things to me this weekend that he's been teaching me over the last 4 weeks. I am finally seeing how the puzzles of my life over the last two years (hec, the last 10 years) are fitting together to make this picture. All the good, bad and ugly relationships that I have been a part of... (personal and professional)... how my sin and my attitude affected so many people... and most of all how it over time left me missing and craving a God who never really went anywhere. I am just in such awe over who he is.

I am so excited about where he's going to continue to take me... I am excited about what His Word has to show me... I am bubbling with joy right now...even though I would love not to be around one person right now...

The rain will not get me down!!!!

You are Ephesians.


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Can I just say that I love my life group (for those none mosaic people, thats like our mid week bible study). I am so incredibly challenged every week by these men and women. We are very different people with different backgrounds. But God is using all of them to help me see things from a different perspective. Honesty and realness are so alive in this group. THe last two months have been the hardest yet most life changing two months of my 2 years in New York. GOd is so amazing and so ... i don't know... GOD... it brings tears to my eyes just recalling what he's done in my life in the last two months and how much I've grown... I am just in awe right now... sorry to spew that on all of you... some of you strangers... but wow... I love this group and I love the rough roads GOd has had me on cause boy i see the purpse behind them now!!! DOn't get me wrong... I can totally see that GOD IS NOT THROUGH with me yet but it makes me so excited about the next steps.

Tonight was Movie Night at 236 West 72nd. I haven't had one of those since the part time new yorkers left this summer. IT was a joy to have my apartment full of people. MY friend Sid kept fussing at me for not hanging out with them (sound familiar) so we were going to go to his place in Queens. Well most of you know me on Sunday... going to queens was going to be a stretch so I called him and told him I wouldn't make it so he invited people over here. We ordered GOOD new york pizza. Sid made fabulous from scratch cookies and I made from the box banana nut bread. SUCH A GOOD night. MAde me think of my friends from the summer... but I am truly enjoying my new friends. No replacement... but still nice.

Oh and 23 days till I will be basking in the Sun in the Virgin Islands. CAn't wait.

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I may be the last Alias fan on this planet but maybe there is one person out there feeling my pain.

They did it... They killed of the man who will one day be my husband. THey killed off Vaughn, the soon to be dad of little Isabelle Bristow Vaughn. Ok so I don't think he's really dead... but if he is... then I will seriously be heart broken... of course that does free up Micheal Vartan to move to NYC and meet me.

Is it possible for a head to literally explode? Can we say overwhelmed? I went from CRAZY busy to nothing for 3 weeks. I complained those 3 weeks about being so dang bored... yeah well... never again will I complain about nothing to do. I am so overwhelmed right now with everything...i can barely breath. ITs not really about not having time, but about organizing the lives and activities of hundreds of people... yes i said hundreds...and in most incidents its not groups of people but individuals. I can't even organize my single life... how the h*** can i organize everyone elses... and if i hear one more excuse I might scream... sorry to vent but like Laura... i had to for me...not so much for you... i am just literally about to explode... of course the constant headaches don't help.

WHere is Calgon? DO they even still exist cause I need them to take me away.

Not all girls are like me but I am that girl... the one who gets giddy when she gets flowers. It doesn't even have to be from a boy... I get just as excited when my girlfriends bring me flowers.

THis mornign was a perfect example. This weekend was a tad stressful. This morning was to be one of the hardest services for me to get through... add on that we had a vision service last night so I lost a good bit planning time... I was just a little stressed...;) Anyway, my friend, Brooke, brought me a daisy this morning because she knew how hard today was going to be... I think it was a Gurber diasy I am not sure its real name but it was beautiful. YOu would have thought she just gave me a million dollars. It totally made me smile. Everytime I turned around this morning I saw that yellowsh daisy sitting right there smiling back at me. Looking at it in my apt right now still brings a smile to my face. I love flowers...

SO If you are like me and you like getting flowers... I hope someone brings you one this week... IF you aren't like me and something else makes you smile... My prayer is that osmeone showers you with whatever that is.

God is so good.

PS - This morning went amazingly well... See stressing does have its bonuses.

YOu ever have one of those days where you seriously wonder if you are in some alternate universe.

First - I was on the subway this morning and the train was coming to a fast stop so I was holding onto the bars... that are put there to keep us standing... and this man literally picked my hand off the bar so he could get clsoser to the door. I had my laptop on my shoulder which added to the gravity of the train stopping. I came really close to flying.

Second- THis man fussed at me on the elevator because the elevator stopped to pick me up... apparently he thought it should go straight down... no stops.

Third- THe cleaning lady in our new offices fussed at me for reading Harry Potter because THat is for the devil and we shouldn't be involved with the devil's work... Seriously... her words.

I can laugh at the situations above because they were really out of my control... but at the time I was thinking... is this really happening... especially the subway guy. He literally moved my hand off the bar...

But all in all it was a good day. I love being in my new office. I stayed late... which means I am busy... which I LOVE... then i got some Rice Bowl...and then got a call from my accountability partner. SHe is awesome. God is so good...

I hope you are having a good day.

I read the best quote the other day... and yes it came from Harry Potter... i know ... i am a nerd... but this is such a true statement i am learning lately...

"you see Dumbledore?" said Phineas Nigellus slyly. "Never try to understand the students. They hate it. THey would rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own---"

God is for us far more, at times, than we would prefer. He is committed to removing all vestigages of sin from our soul when we wish He'd be satisfied with a clean new outfit. His interest in us far exceeds our concerns. Our perspective is usually limited to achieving a better life, and His desire for us is radical conformity to His Son's perfect character. No wonder He seems like an enemy when His discipline begins to grind off our arrogance in order to perfect his Beauty.
Dan B. Allender

Hosea 14:8-9
O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you
I am like a luxuriant cypress;
From Me comes your fruit.
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them
For the ways of the LORD are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.

How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ. Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth.

Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[a] for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago. God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
Ephesians 1:3-14

I got to play mom and aunt this weekend. Just thinking about it makes me smile. I got to get my neice and nephew ready for school on Friday as well as put them on the bus. I also got to take them off the bus. I got to put a T-Rex together out of legos with my nephew. I know I get to see them once a month... but I still can't get enough of them. I can't imagine what I will be like if i am ever a parent because there is nothing i wouldn't do for those two. It was nice to fix them lunch and put them on the bus... I loved asking them how their day was... I loved watching my neice beem over her homework... which funny enough was to play... I loved going to soccer practice with my nephew and being the proud aunt on the side taking pictures...Makes me smile all over again.



photo from kimkmcil



photo from kimkmcil

Luke 13:34- O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

My take away: If God has all of this love to show and give us but our selfish, week hearts can’t allow him to … then can you imagine the power behind the love once we let it in??? His love is evident even when we ignore it… what would it look and feel like if we allowed it in our lives. What would it look like if we trusted him… if we gave our sacrifices to him and not to things of the world… I just can’t imagine

Today was moving day for us at Mosaic. We finally after 7 long months moved into offices. I am so happy. Today was long and I have some bruises and cuts to prove it but I am just happy we have offices.

Just wanted to brag a little. I was nominated to drive the 14 foot truck back to the dealer tonight... I've done it before but that's in the gridded area... this was in Lower manhattan where streets don't make sense. Luckily Sid and KEvin tagged along and made it fun. THey were great passengers. At one point when i was about to run a red light Sid said "hey kim the lights red" in the most calm subtle voice but still got my attention... where most people would have screamed in some way or fashion.. THen I almost ran over two pedestrians in Union Square. I laughed so hard that I honked (not the car horn but a luagh) and the guys I almost hit laughed at me cause I honked and they heard it.

It was fun. THen the guys and I went to Utopia where I had coffee and french toast at 10pm... I haven't been there since the summer crew left. It was nice to walk in and the waiter just brought me coffee without asking. I love being a regular. Makes me happy.

Well enjoy the pics. I want you guys to see Lane in his truest form.



photo from kimkmcil



photo from kimkmcil