Faith Story

Tonight at our 3rd meeting we shared our faith story. This was very challenging for me. Everyday I would sit and try to wright about what has happened in my life to get me to where I am today. I would wright a paragraph and then delete it, try again and delete. Nothing was coming to me, I guess you could call it a little writers block. I decided to "shoot from the hip" so to speak when it was time to share my story. I had a paragraph started and I decided not to worry about the rest.... it would just come out.... or so I thought~ I don't remember the day I excepted Christ into my life or when I had that "ah ha" moment but I do remember times of being closer to God and the times being farthest from God. It is funny how the times when I was the closest to God is when I felt my life was amazing and the times I was farthest where some of the worst. I have always believed in Jesus and that he died on the cross for ME! but why is it so hard to stay true to my faith and be obedient to his word?? Having children now has made me realize that I need to be able to guide my kids in the right path. I want to set good examples and make sure they know that we are not all perfect, people sin but as long as we ask for forgiveness and are faithful to our Lord's word we will saved and have eternal life ! I am excited to see what God has in store for me, how he is going to use me and to see what lessons I will learn. I cant wait to have these lessons and to be able to teach my kids what I have learned.

I have 7 weeks till I leave for Haiti. 4 weeks till I have to turn in the rest of my financial dues. I still have a few hundred $$ to go so I decided to hold a mini photo shoot. I will be doing 25 min mini photo shoots at a local apple orchard on October 9th. If you are interested please email me and I will send you the info. Chalayne85@gmail.com Blogger is not letting me upload my flyer to here that I made :/

Other than that I am getting use to the life of having a preschooler now. Ally has been so excited about school. She is beyond ready for a new challenge. Kate has been nothing short of amazing! The girl is really finding her personality right now and it amazes me everyday. I am thankful for being able to stay home with my girls and being able to watch them grow. Ally has been curious about my trip as I have shared with her what I will be doing and why I will be gone. We have looked at the Healing Haiti website and some other pictures that people have posted of there trips to Haiti, a few of the first pictures we looked at where of happy and smiling kids so she looked at me with a huge smile and said "are these my new friends?!?!?" I cant wait to share with her about the many new friends we will be making during this journey!

In His name,
Chalayne Palmgren