Mountain top experience..

I have really debated about doing this post . If you read my previous post then you know what I am talking about . As I have said before I am a christian and I am not the type to force my beliefs on anyone but there are some things in my life that I don't talk about on here because I don't want anyone to back away from me because they are afraid I am going to "start on them about God" . You can call me a bible thumper , Jesus freak or anything of that nature and I will have to tell you that yes I am! I hope that I don't offend anyone by doing this post but several people were really curious about the experience I had this weekend that I mentioned in my previous post so I am going to post about it on here. Here goes...

I left Wednesday night after church headed towards a cabin in the mountains that the youth in our church rented for our fall retreat . We were scheduled to have nine adults , all of which had children there , to teach , cook , clean or what ever was needed . Wednesday night was just for the workers and their children so that we could get everything unpacked and settled before the rest of the kids arrived the next day. I have never been on one of these retreats much less worked one . We had 20 kids in all ranging between the ages of 10 months old to 16 years old . The whole time we were there all of the kids were very well behaved and we had a wonderful time . All of the lessons were really good and on Thursday night we had an 18 year old preacher up to preach a message to the kids . On Friday night we took them to the Passion Play then on Saturday they went to Tuchaleechee Caverns and then we had another preacher up that night . On Friday after one of the lessons was taught there were three children who got saved and then on Saturday after another lesson there were two more kids saved.

I really loved being there and getting to know everyone better outside of church . It was hard work preparing three meals and three snacks a day for 20 kids but we had a huge kitchen and it was all well worth it to me . I didn't mind any of the cleaning that we had to do or anything else. I knew that I had been blessed while there at the cabin but I didn't realize how much until we came back in time for service on Sunday morning . Before I get into this let me explain something . I sit in church and I get so excited that I can only cry and it has begun to feel like a dam that is backing up lately so I asked my pastor to pray for God to make me shout or something because I had to get this out of me and I didn't know how . That was on Wednesday night when I asked the first time and then I asked again on Thursday when the pastor and his wife came up to the cabin for a visit . I am a very emotional person anyway and I cry whether I am happy , sad or sometimes just because I feel I need to but when I cry in church it is a completely different kind of happy .

I woke up Sunday morning in a grumpy kind of mood . I snapped at my husband two times before we were completely loaded and ready to head down off the mountain and then later I apologized . I was shaky and a bit jumpy because I felt something different in me and I didn't know what it was and I couldn't begin to start guessing . By the time we pulled in the church parking lot I was already happy and crying with the weird feeling still with me . All of the kids and adults who worked the retreat were supposed to get up in the choir box and sing a couple of songs and then one by one we had to tell what we had got out of the retreat. I was the 27th person to speak and when they handed the microphone to me I looked out at the crowd and said "first of all I want to thank God for saving me " , after saying that I couldn't say anything for crying . All the while I can feel something building in me and finally I look up and say " I am sorry but my cup runneth over" that is the last thing that I remember saying until I heard someone shout and it took about two seconds for me to realize that it was me shouting . By the time I figured out that it was me, another shout tore out of my throat . I can't explain that feeling . It was like I was watching from outside my body but at the same time I was feeling it . I have never felt anything that felt so spirirtually fulfilling . I am still floating around on cloud nine . I can't believe that God chose to shout little ole me ! Even though I had been praying for it and I had asked my Pastor to pray for it , I was still surprised and overwhelmed about it all . I am craving that feeling again and I hope that I shout again soon . I wished that each and every person I come in contact with could know that feeling that I had while shouting and then afterwards . It was like in that moment I had an intimate moment with God . That is the only way I can explain it . If any of you have ever experience anything like this please let me know . I would love to hear about it . Since Sunday morning , I have noticed that my thoughts are different , I am watching what I say and how I say it , I am more positive than before and I have been in my bible searching for more inspirational scripture than before . I am calling this my mountain top experience because something happened to me on that mountain that has completely changed me and I am loving it . Btw.. the theme of our retreat was " I Go To The Rock" !

I hope I didn't offend any of you for posting this but if I did I can't apologize for it. The only thing that I can apologize for is that you have never had an experience that made you feel like I am feeling right now . I sit here with tears running down my face just telling you all about it . I have chill bumps all over my body and I feel spiritually satisfied for the first time . WOW! I hope you all have a good night and a good day ! Happy HNT to those of you who are posting and thank you so much for reading this . I have wanted to tell everybody that I know whether I know them in person or online . Thank you again ! :)