Beth Moore and Blogger Weekend - Part Two

So Saturday was conference day. Aishlea, Tiffany (Aishlea's cousin), and I set off for Atlanta at 6:30am in the morning. So nice because we really got to chat and spend time with each other on the drive there and way back. We arrived quite a bit early and it was a good thing we did because the parking lot was a mad house.

So we got our seats and the blogger fest was in full force. Met sooo many bloggers before the conference started and while we had a break for lunch.

That was just the icing on the cake but Beth brought the message and she brought it good. She spoke on her book "So Long Insecurity." Ya'll it was ordained before the foundations of the earth that I be at this thing. Her message blessed my socks off. She spoke mainly out of Ephesians Chapter 4. There was not one person who had to have left that building not feeling more secure. I learned that security is it's own form of pride and is self-idolatry. It keeps our minds on ourself. Hello, Bethie, speaking to me much?????? We need to esteem who God has made us and security helps us think less of ourselves. We cannot wait till we're secure to start believing. We make up our minds to be secure.

Granted not all the problems of the world were solved for each woman as we walked out of that building, but doggonit we sure as heck were more secure, and if someone wasn't I would have to ask, sure we were at the same conference? Ha!

There were 300,000 women who took part in this simulcast and 9,000 of us were in Atlanta and hearing 9,000 women praising God with Travis Cottrell leading us in worship, that's a little slice of heaven right there. It was amazing!!!

So without further delay, here's the rest of the weekend in pictures:

I met:
Kelly from Kelly's Korner (As I said before)


Aishlea and I (Well, technically I met her the day before, ha)


Aishlea and I with Laurie and Hillary (BFF's of Kelly and I read their blogs too).


Caroline and Jenna


Betsy Maddox

Aishlea and Tiffany


Jennifer Francis (Another AR girl, they are ALL so sweet)


Faith @ Walk with me by Faith


Megan @ Tales of the Trees


Amanda Ledford

Becca

Trina


Erin @ Blue-Eyed Bride


Jenna @ Jenna's Journey


Aishlea, Tiffany, and I


Meeting ALL these bloggers that I read about and being able to see them face to face and hug their necks, it was all a little surreal and such an awesome experience. It really was just a huge party in the overflow.

We were all in the overflow room. It was almost 100 times better than being in the main sanctuary because Beth and her daughter Melissa came into the overflow room to do a Q & A with us. It was so awesome and I got to get some pictures of Beth and her daughter. It was so personal and fun, and Beth is just flat out funny!!









After the conference was over Aishlea, Tiffany, and I met up for dinner with another blogger named Staci who lives in the Atlanta area. It was so great to meet her and she is so so sweet!



So that pretty much captures the whole Beth Moore and blogger experience. Sunday morning it was time to make the trip back to Florida, but have another funny story. Got to meet another blog friend along the way who was also making the trip back to Florida but never had the chance to meet while at the conference. Natalie and I have talked for quite sometime in the blog world and turns out we were right beside each other on the road and so we both stopped for gas and we met each other for the first time at the gas station. Crazy, right? Gotta love the blog world, haha!!

What a wonderful girls weekend!! Was so sad to see it end. Can't wait for next time!!