She Speaks…

I am going to be attending the “She Speaks” conference this year! Thanks to Lisa @ SimplyHis & Proverbs 31 Ministries, my conference fee is paid, and Lisa has graciously offered to pay for the hotel and pick me up from/drive me to the airport. So that basically only leaves my airfare.

She wrote me an email saying the following:
I seriously thought last year that you should have been there — more so than me. I never thought He’d use me to help get you to this one So cool!

He definitely used her in ways she cannot even begin to comprehend. It has always been my dream to write a book and give conferences, but never really knew where to start. This is the perfect opportunity for me to jump in and really soak up the information, and it is a chance for me to put my testimony to work in ways I never dreamed possible.

I honestly cannot tell you how excited yet overwhelmed I am. Since my cancer diagnosis, the Lord has really impressed upon my heart that this journey, in many ways, is not for me or about me. He will use my life story for His glory, and that is my hearts cry, to be fully used by Him. Which brings me full circle to my life verse:

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Pressing on Toward the Goal. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 3:12-14

So, thank you Lisa and thank you Proverbs 31 Ministries for this awesome gift. I am eternally grateful.

Really.

So who else is going?!