Jenni on Skype: jclayville 
Today started out being just a bit… off.
I’m still processing what happened this morning to get me so rattled. I can’t put my finger on it necessarily, but Sunday mornings have always just been THAT morning. The morning that’s more challenging than the rest. It often feels like everything is against me.
Here’s our typical Sunday:
Get awaken by kids
Change kids’ diapers
Make breakfast for kids
Coax kids into eating breakfast
Threaten bodily harm if they don’t eat their breakfast
Dress kids
Dress them again after they’ve undressed themselves
Load guitars, drum kits, a laptop, chord charts, a diaper bag in the car
Load kids in the car (rather… WRESTLE them)
Get IN the car
Get out of the car to grab things we’ve forgotten to do unnecessary wrestling
Get in the car… again
Breathe
By the time we start the car, Brian and I want to just call it a day. At this point, we haven’t even started to help set up church yet. These are the confessions of a Worship Pastor of a church plant who has two kids under school age and does “church-in-a-box” every week at a local middle school.
Today… I was just tired.
But you know what’s amazing? By the time 10:30am hit and service began… everything was smooth like BUTTA, and I again remembered why I love doing what I do.
Our Sunday Setlist at Church at Bethany this morning was:
- You’ll Come – Brooke Fraser
- All We Need – Charlie Hall
- O Praise Him – David Crowder
- Lead Me To The Cross – Brooke Fraser
- Grace Like Rain – Todd Agnew
- From the Inside Out – Joel Houston
- Hosanna – Brooke Fraser
Highlights: Having my old high school friend, Sarah Jean, and her daughter, Mikaelyn, visiting from Seattle. It’s really awesome to see where 13 years takes all of us in our life stories… and how greatly different we both are after all this time, in a really amazing ways. Also, every time I get to play with Aaron Soule is a good day. That guy is funny.
Lowlights: Everything I mentioned above.
How was YOUR worship experience?
you did so many of my favorites today!
can i just say, i am so glad my kids arent that young anymore.
i can? ok thx.
love you, grumpy.
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these are the most challenging times because these are the times that God is gonna use you in the lives of others — the most. the enemy knows it. praying for you — stay prayed up.
my sunday was cool. i don’t usually go to church on Sundays, but on Saturdays. i didn’t go last night cause of my photoshoot–so i am pretty much not planning to go to church at all this weekend. but this morning my friend Jasmin (same one who put on the vigil and tried my church for the first time last week), texted me and asked if i wanted to go with her and her husband. i said yes. it was so cool. cause immediately following service our pastors had their quarterly, “meet the pastors” class and Jasmin and her husband wanted to go. i went with, and it was just so cool to see them engaging in the church and wanting to be involved.
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dang…
that was a loooooooong comment.
lol.
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We did one of the same songs, so you can’t be too far behind the times
(and Crystal now knows that her comment wasn’t long when compared to the one I fwded to her)
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