She Speaks Conference

For the past year, every morning when I wake up and get around to checking my email there’s always a little gift there for me. I receive a morning devotion from Proverbs 31 Ministries called ‘Encouragement for Today’. I encourage you today, to go to their site and subscribe to it. It has blessed me so many mornings. I have even thanked one of their devotional writers Micca Campbell for her timely ‘apples of gold in settings of silver’ devotions that I knew surely she had written just for me.

While perusing the blogosphere I came accross Lysa TerKeurst’s blog, another one of the gals from the Proverbs 31 Ministries. She is giving away a scholorship for the ‘She Speaks’ conference. This is a conference that encourages women in ministry to use their God given talents and gifts to speak and to write for God’s glory. Just like every time I see the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes commercial and hear Ed McMahon’s voice, I started to get excited that maybe my name would be drawn! Maybe this time it would be me!

My mind went into overdrive, “Is it my time Lord? You know I love to write Father. I would just have to bring my teenage daughter Meghan along if I won. Oh, she would LOVE it! When would we ever have an opportunity to go to North Carolina again?” On and on my mind raced…then I saw it….the very long and talented list of bloggers who had already thrown their hat in the ring. “Forget it.” I said out loud. I had forgotten my husband Paul was sitting in his office while I perused. He asked me, “Forget what?” I explained to him the giveaway and that I wasn’t about to add my name to that gifted list of godly women. He said, “Joanne, don’t underestimate what God can do.” I thought to myself, “He’s right. Our God is a God of impossibilities.”

I am leaving this wholly up to Him.

So…I am not going to bore you by going on and on about why you should choose me. I am not going to try and convince you of my close walk with the Lord, or every reason why it should be me you pick from that list of godly gals. I am only going to say that my God is the God of impossibilities and if it is meant for me to go, then He will make it happen.