C3 Bound

I’m heading out to the C3 conference this week and I couldn’t be more excited about it!  I’m going to miss my family as always but, honestly, I’ve been running on fumes lately and  I need something like this to recharge me.

Early last week I didn’t think I was going.  It just wasn’t in the budget so I told God that if He wanted me to go He would have to provide a way.  Well, within two days, everything was taken care of.  First, Greg Rohlinger, pastor of Palm Valley Church, contacted me and offered me a free ticket and a free hotel room!  Then, the very next day Pat Gillen called and said that his church had decided to send me some money to “go to whatever conference I wanted to attend.”  Neither of these guys knew anything about what the other was doing but the end result is that everything for this trip has been paid for.  I’m so thankful to the both of them, and their respective churches, for their generosity.  Ultimately, I give thanks to God for making this happen.

I’m really looking forward to hearing the speakers at the conference.  I’m also really excited about having a chance to reconnect with Greg and all my twitter buddies that are going to be there.

Please pray for me to find a balance with my time while I’m away.  I feel like God wants me to connect with a bunch of folks but, at the same time, I know that I want to spend a good chunk of time alone just seeking Him on some stuff too.  I’m weird when I get to a conference.  If God starts speaking to me I just want to go back to the hotel room and spend time unpacking what I’ve heard.  It’s just the way I’m wired.

Anyway, the whole thing is such a God thing that I can’t wait to see what develops.