confession's is moving!

We are helping with a church plant in Kentucky, and we need some support!

God has put in on Justin’s heart for many years to plant a church. He recently had the opportunity to attend a conference full of church planters and organizations that help people do so. It rocked his world and he was ready to do it in an instant. The biggest hurdle he had to conquer was God changing Heather’s heart and making her open to the idea, which she was not in any way! Then came our visit to Louisville and our meetings with friends of a long time who were planting a church there. It felt like home, we loved their vision for church, and their passion for winning lost people to GOD! In that moment we knew that this is where God meant for us to be. Heather was even excited about the idea, which truly showed us that God was working in our lives and this is where what he wanted for us.

As the church we are moving to start is only in the forming stages and probably will not be able to pay us for a while we had also been applying for jobs and sending out resume’s and praying for everything to fall in place in God’s timing. We KNOW that God had huge plans for us, as he says in Jer 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” We KNOW that this is what God has in store for us, so he will provide a way for us to get there and the money to survive until we get jobs! We have started an online donation fund to help, just like with missionaries we are going to need the love, support, and prayers of our family and friends to get us through this little challenge in our lives. If you can help support our call financially thank you so much, if you cant we totally understand and just ask for prayers and some extra love as we go through this! Thank you so much for everything that you do, the love you pour on us, and the prayers we know you constantly cover us with. We would not be the people we are today without people like you in our lives.

If you can help financially in any way please visit http://www.plumfund.com/pf/thecarners. All of the money we receive will be going to our relocating costs, with anything that is left over going directly to our new church home HopeCulture.tv. I encourage you to check out the church website, watch the videos, sign up for the email list. Its such an exciting yet scary time for the Carners!

Is there such a thing as a mid-career crisis?

I don't know if this would be considered a mid-career crisis, or maybe just PMS, but either way its something...

For years and years I have done hair. Legally and educated for about six, but I started doing up-dos my junior year of high school and highlighting whoever would let me even earlier than that. Hairstyling was always a hobby for me, nothing I really considered a career until it seems as though I had exhausted every other option. I believe I have tried on almost every career, seriously though. Here is a list of every job I have had (I will start at the beginning and try to go chronologically): babysitter, home remodel-er, Sunday school teacher, Subway sandwich artist, vacation sales person, magazine customer service, pizza maker, chiropractic assistant, pizza place assistant manager, nanny, accounting assistant, telemarketer, cashier, dish network sales person... and then came hair.

I decided to finally attempt to do something I liked after I had done everything that I didn't like. I love doing hair, it lets me be creative and work with people. I get to make people feel good about themselves and hopefully make some sort of impact in their lives. Lately though I feel like its all I do.

I feel like I have lost myself in this world of career driven days and sleepy nights. Doing hair was my hobby, and now that its my career I have no hobbies outside of the salon. I sleep and I facebook. When my brain is full or I have done something Downtown that is blog worthy I write. Other than that there isn't too much. The sad part is that I don't even know what I WANT to do. I have no idea what I would enjoy doing or what would bring me joy outside of my job. I feel like a single faceted woman who has nothing interesting about her outside of what she can do to people's hair.

I think for most people they feel that if their hobby could become their career it would be nothing but a win-win situation. You don't realize that when that happens your work life and your recreational life combine and there is no get away from work. (Not to mention that just like an electrician or a mechanic people are always asking you to work outside of work) Its almost as though you loose a part of yourself.

So whats the remedy to all of this? I need to find things I enjoy doing outside of work and home. Something that gets me away from the craziness of life, if even just for an hour a week. Maybe I will go on a hobby try out period, or maybe I'll get lost in the blogger world and share my opinions about everything with everyone all the time. You are all interesting in the neurotics of my brain right?