#United2012 (my best friend is a superstar)

One of the down sides of graduating high school is that you will never have a REAL summer again.  When I say a real summer I mean that they will be filled with work, work, school and work and school again.  Lucky for me I can only speak for the work part (I will never have to take summer school, SCORE), but the days of sleeping until 3 and staying out crazy late are brought to a minimum.  I have had 2 REAL days of summer this year, it's almost August…  Along with getting my summer taken away I've been mourning the 'death' of mission trip and camp.  My two favorite weeks of the year, never to happen again.  When I say mourning, I mean tears and lots of laying face down on the floor.

Lucky for me, this year my church decided to do a community mission trip.  They worked within our county, rather than traveling to a different state.  Such a fantastic thought.  Of course, I was working so I couldn't help out as much as I would have liked to, but I got to attend worship and the message all week which was a sweet sweet treat for many reason.  

Reason number 1:  I love my church so so so so much, any time I get to spend with those people is a special time. 

Reason number 2: Time travel.  Sitting in that pew listening to Johnny Brower, the great, speak truth, brought me right back to those precious times of Breakaway and mission trips before.  If someone were to walk up to me and tell me I was a Sophomore in high school, I would have believed them.   

Reason number 3:  Seeing my brother worship and lead in prayer.  Swoon.

My favorite reason:  Watching my very best friend lead worship every night.  She was leading in songs we had been singing along to for years.  She was the one on stage and it was so pure and clean and beautiful- so Shelby.  It was just the most special to hear her sing Come Change Our Hearts- Josh Tullis.  One of Shelby and I's favorite songs is Weightless by Natasha Bedingfield, these are some of the lyrics, "Surround yourself with friends who only call you a Superstar."  Well Shelby, I'm not just saying it anymore, you really are a SUPERSTAR.