Alyssa's ramblings...

Conversations and callings.

Phone “Conversation”

Me – {Company Name}, Alyssa speaking.
Her – Can I speak to the business owner?

[When someone asks for the business owner, I immediately know they want to sell us something. And they obviously haven’t done any research at all, because we’re an association, and are financially supported by our members, so we don’t actually have an owner. I humour them anyway…]

Me – He’s not available at the moment, can I get him to call you back?
Her – No. {hang up}

Fascinating, yes? What a great way to sell things. You know, she probably should have told me (or anyone who would listen) about the “great deals”, so I could “pass them onto my boss”. I am pretty sure I know the company she was calling from, as all of the people there have the same accent (I think they outsource), they all call through on a certain line (which is different to our normal phone number), and they all ask for the business owner. Oh, and they call about once a week, even though our “business owner” is conveniently “unavailable” every single time. :o) I am also sure that they just called again about five minutes ago, even though no-one talked, and they just hung up after about 20 seconds. I recognised the background noise.

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Our friend Caleb desperately wants someone from church (anyone at all) to call their child Josiah, since that’s his middle name. Yesterday he said to us “When you have a kid, you’re going to name him Josiah, aren’t you?” He was kind of kidding, not expecting us to say yes, but we did. We were like “Yes, Josiah’s going to be our first boy!” He was a bit shocked, and said “Are you serious?!” It was funny, it was like his little ploy of trying to convince someone to use that name actually worked. Except not, because we’d already decided long ago. But Shane seemed a bit keen on that name too, so hopefully he and Alexia don’t have a boy before my husband and I do. :o)

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I had such an awesome weekend! God is working in my life so wonderfully. I feel like I’m really progressing in my calling. On Saturday night at Youth, I started ‘Awesome God’ by myself (without any music, even!), and then sang by myself for a bit in the middle, then started it when we did it again. I think I may have ended it by myself one of those times too, but I don’t remember. God’s presence rained down so much that night, it was awesome. Then on Sunday morning at Church, I started ‘With All I Am’ by myself, and Georga & Dolly came in with harmonies on the chorus. I love it. I really feel like I’m moving forward. God is giving my opportunity after opportunity to serve Him in my singing, and I’m really grateful.

Dolly also started a song on Saturday night! She is becoming so much more confident, it’s fabulous. I’m so proud of her!

My brother, Grant, started two songs on Sunday morning! He’s also one of the lead vocals (with Shane) for our rendition of Boyz II Men’s ‘A Song For Mama’, that we’re doing for the Mother’s Day service (I’m on backing vocals). He’s moving forward so much, too. I’m proud of my bro! And I’m positive that Mum will come to church that day, because two of her kids are in the Mother’s Day item! I love it when she comes to church. :o)

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I’ve mentioned countless times that my calling in God is to be a mother and a worship-leader, haven’t I? Well, it is. I got a bit discouraged the other day, because I thought “Those things are so attainable. I’m married, so the baby thing is definitely going to happen, no doubt about it. And I’m becoming closer and closer to the worship-leader goal. What happens then? Those two things could happen within a year. Then what do I do? I’d have achieved my goals, and there’ll be nothing left for me to attain…” My husband reminded me that those things are ongoing. Motherhood lasts a lifetime. I could worship-lead for years and years. But even when the kids have moved out, and I’m not singing on stage as much as I used to, God won’t leave me without anything to accomplish. He won’t say “Okay, you’ve done all you were put on this earth for. Now you can just sit back and do whatever you want. Relax. I don’t need you anymore.” I’m sure that, over the years, He’ll give me more opportunities to do things. They may be things that aren’t necessarily within my area of calling as I see it today. God may have called me for these things for a time, and will open up other things later. Know what I mean? Cool.

I’m going to have lunch with my husband now. Yay! :o)

posted by Alyssa @ 11:57 AM