Fabulous Weekend

Ahh, back to the daily grind of my life. But befoire I get to that, I had a fabulous weekend. I attended the Women of Faith Conference here in Houston at the Toyota Center. I went to the pre-conference on Friday from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM. I had to leave my house by 7:15. We (ladies from church) carpooled over there. The morning was filled with wonderful music and our speakers were Sheila Walsh and Dr. Henry Cloud. Wow! They were great! I had read Sheila's book "God Has A Dream For Your Life" over the summer with my church bookclub. It was a great book. Dr. Henry Cloud was someone who I had not heard of and I was thrilled to have gotten the chance to hear him speak. I can not wait to be able to get some of his books and read those. After the preconference we had until 7:00 PM to hang out. There were fuve of us. We challenged each other to heed Dr. Cloud's words and share some secrets about ourselves that we were afraid to share with others. I did not share my struggle with depression but was able to share some other things in my life. It was nice to get to know these ladies better and just to have that time to relax. We ate dinner at a nearby hotel together and then headed back to the conference.
We had a surprise performance by a great Christian singer, Mark Shultz. Wow! It was a superb performance. What a great guy her is. We also got to seee Anita Renfroe, a wonderfully funny lady, perform some of her great comedy songs. And we sang some more great music and listened to some other great speakers. We heard Patsy Clairmont, MArilyn Meberg, Thelma Wells, Sandi Patty (who sang for us), and a singing performance by Nicole Nordeman. The conference wound up Friday about 10:00 PM and we arrived back home close to 11:00. Then we met again at 7:15 AM on Saturday morning and headed back to the conference. More of the same bu t lengthier segments. All wonderful and funny.
Definitely worth going to. I hope to be able to go again. From what I understand there was about 12,000 attendees.