Thanks girls for letting me be a part of your retreat!!!

Have you ever asked God, “What’s next.”  I think I do every time I get up in the morning.  I especially ask the question after a conference, speaking engagement or retreat.  There’s this feeling of “Where we going now.” 

But what I’m trying to let God know when I ask that (as if He didn’t already know)is that He know ,I’m His and I just want to stay green and bear that fruit He gives in every one of these seasons…Wow, y’all…some of those seasons are just plain hot, some are wearing, some are outstanding, some are confusing and some are painful…but all are filled with opportunity.  I’m praying that He water the times that have already passed, that they’ll continue to be growing and getting greener and bloomin’.  It’s fun to watch God.

Then  there are the What’s Next…that can throw me for a loop.  The ones that I project about…what ifs. Y’all probably know those a little too well for comfort.  I’ve decided (every other minute) to let God be in charge of the what ifs.  It hurts too bad, or I get to anxious, or I get ahead of God if I’m dwelling on something too long.

Well, a lot of my What’s next…have been with you along the way.  Thank you for letting me share with y’all and be with you at some of the “events” of life.  God is good.  He’s never through with us and I just have to believe, even though some of the best has already been, there is more of the best to come. 

Ok y’all. I blogged.  I’m blogging off for now.  God bless ya real good.

So, join me when I pray….God be in and with us in all the “what’s next.”  We trust You and know that you will use each of us to be somebody’s blessing if we let you.  Be blessed y’all…

Hi. I’m Kandi Anderson. I’m a firm believer that the only way we can have  joy in this journey called life is to live out and live in the scriptures,  abiding in Him as we walk through the everyday stuff… “For me to live is
Christ…that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the  fellowship of His sufferings….for in Him we live and move and have our  being.”

I have a big mouth. I asked the Lord as a young girl if He wanted to use  this mouth for His glory, I was willing to go. Kind of the whole “Here am I, send me.” He did and He has. Yet, the practical part of living has not always been easy. There have been lot’s of humorous, same ol’ same ol’,  terribly sad, scary, joyful, emotion packed days that scream, “That’ll  preach.”

The scripture, “For me to live is Christ” is wonderful, but then comes the  part about fellowshipping in His sufferings and then those “Gethsemane  Moments” of not my will, but Yours. Each declaring that the hiding and  abiding under the Shadow of His wing and the cross is the only way to  breathe in and out this side of glory.

There were the years of diapers, teenagers, wife, church, work….life. Each experience yelled, “I need you Lord.” God has allowed me to walk through  the ordinary, the extraordinary “Jesus filled” days and say,
“Nevertheless” I will trust you and I will go tell after we get through  this chapter together.  Raw testimony is the way God works out the “go tell” part.
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I married Lowry Anderson at the ripe ol’ age of 18 and moved from South Texas to Mississippi. We started a family on a shoestring, climbed a  corporate ladder, and climbed higher to accept God’s call into the  ministry during middle-age.

During that time I was invited to speak to different groups, churches,  students, civic groups, seniors, ladies, men’s groups and suddenly I found  myself with a radio program called Morning Lite. From there I became a  manager of WAOY, American Family Radio. I continued to speak, traveling to  places like Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana,  North Carolina, Mississippi, and then a decade ago I began writing a  weekly column for the “Sun Herald” the newspaper for MS Gulf Coast.
(sunherald.com   Search “kandi anderson)

It’s been a journey. I quit the radio to be a fulltime “Pastor’s wife”  helping with counseling, hospital visits, just loving and supporting my  husband and the precious group of people that passed through our lives. I’m
so glad I listened to the Lord and did just that.

This last year has been the most difficult as my vigorous, life-filled,  funny, faithful husband got sick and within three short weeks went home to  be with the One he loved, prayed to, lived for and preached about. Life is  hard, but God is good.

I’m back on the air,  (tues-wed, 3pm 91.7fm WAOY) still writing and I’m wanting more than ever to share
the “That’ll Preach” moments when and to wherever God leads. It has to be  Him or y’all we won’t get a thing but words…He’s the one that does the  calling, the leading, the healing and the teaching. As Paul said, …. I was  with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my  preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in  demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in  the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”  I don’t presume to be a Paul.  I’m more like the donkey, a donkey that’s wanting to be used.

This has been a long introduction just to say, “Love the Lord, Have  message, Have a big mouth, Will travel.”

I pray that..if you have prayed and God leads you to have me come  share….God will do the rest. God bless you and have a Jesus filled day.
kandi

A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A DREAM

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

This is an article I wrote trying to get myself psyched up into preparing for 2009

Well, there are days and then there are days. There are twenty-four hour periods when nothing much is accomplished.  Not much of an inspired day. No plan.  Minutes run into hours and then the day is done.  Worn out from doing zilch.  Not a good day.

Other days hold minutes greased with motivation, driving what looked to be an unproductive day into one that speaks, “Measured out the day.  Worked the plan.  Ran out of hours.  Saw progress.  Worn out with a good tired.  Now that…that was a good day.

We can probably all agree, investing in and using the minutes of a day is better than bankrupting and losing the minutes of the same.  So, 2009 watch out.  I’m getting busy. I’m pretty sure that y’all have said that, too.

The year begins goal oriented to the max. Visions of great goals dance in my head.  Problem is I always seem to be trying to make a goal, but there’s a big, bad goalie blocking my shot.  I was contemplating this very thing as I was driving away from a blocked goal.  The goal?  A balanced budget.  The big ol’ goalie?  A clearance sale. It was a “no go” on the goal. Shot down again.

That’s when I spotted it.  “It” was like I had an epiphany.  You could almost see the clouds break open, the sun bursting through shining on “it.”  If you cupped your ear, I’m positive you could hear the angelic voices heralding the message “it” bore.  “It” was a sign in front of the dry cleaners.

It spoke to me.  It flat whacked me up the side of the head and said, “Hey, this is inspiration speaking. Here’s your sign.”  What did it say?  Simply, “A goal without a plan is just a dream.”  Flashing before me was the book I’d hoped to have written in 2008. The book was dream.  Didn’t have a plan to meet the goal. Man,  I’ve got to get a plan.

I know this plan thing works.  My son Zach and his wife Tiff wanted to get healthy.  They’ve been on a 90-day get fit program that borders on insanity.  They work-out, eat right and generally follow the plan.  The before and after photos tell the tale.  The whole thing is…they worked the plan and the plan took them to their goal.  No dream.

I’m not going for the insane plan.  I want God’s plan. It’s a necessity. Scripture addresses the “no plan” thing.  It pretty much mimics my inspiration sign.  “He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.”

Remember a goal without a plan is just a dream.  It’s like chasing a fantasy.  It won’t pay the bills.  Working the plan will bring about the goal.  So, I’m laying my plan down for planning my goals.  It’s nothing original.  It’s simply ask the Lord for the plans He has for us.  Pray hard.  Set it out on paper.  Check it out with the Bible.  Work it.  I’ll let you know.  I’ll pray for you.  Please pray for me, it’s a New Year out there.

In the words of the Psalmist, “May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.”  There’s no blocking that, y’all…It’s a goal.

Thought it might be good to post a calendar.  I will attempt to keep it up-to-date.  If you have any pictures of events that we’ve shared in I would sure appreciate it if you would send them to me so that I could post them on the website!

JANUARY 2009

January 12

St. Monica Guild, Pass Christian, MS

January 22

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Pastor’s Wives, New Orleans, LA

FEBRUARY 2009

February 9, Valentine Banquet, Crane Creek Baptist, Perkinston, MS

February 15, Banquet, First Baptist Long Beach, MS

February 28, Tablescapes Banquet, Cedar Lake Christian Assembly, Biloxi, MS

MARCH 2009

March 4 BSU, Jeff Davis Campus

March 7  9am  Heritage UMC Prayer Breakfast, Biloxi, MS

5pm  Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Tablescapes, Saucier, MS

March 13,14, Daphne, AL Girlfriends Connect, New Life Family

GRANDBABY JACKSON LEE HERE MARCH 29

APRIL 2009

April 2, MC Promiss Sav-a-Life Banquet, Jackson County, MS

April 12, University of Southern MS Gulf Coast Library Book Signing

April 22, First UMC  the OAKS, Long Beach, MS

April 24, North Woolmarket Middle School, Woolmarket, MS

April 25, Friendship Seminar, Michael Memorial Baptist, Gulfport, MS

MAY 2009

May 1, First Biloxi Senior Banquet

May 2, Mother’s Day Banquet, Lemoyne Baptist Church, Biloxi, MS

May 16, 5:30am  Devotion Relay for Life, Sports Plex, Gulfport, MS

May 19, Grace Memorial Baptist J. O. Y. Group

May 30, Ladies Tea, East Moss Point Baptist Church

JUNE 2009

June 1, Taping for Show with Bob McHuston in Tupelo

June 13-Girl’s Retreat, Kenwood Baptist

June 14-Agricola Baptist Church

June 18-Cedar Lake Methodist

June 19-20 Anderson Reunion

June 26-27, Prayer Retreat, First Biloxi,  Camp Garroway, Jackson, MS

JULY 2009

July 11, Ladies Birthday Bash

AUGUST 2009

August 15, Gulf Coast Baptist Association, Steel Magnolias Keynote Speaker

SEPTEMBER 2009

September 12, Ladies Event, Shoreline Baptist Church, Waveland, MS

September 26, Pearl River Baptist Association Retreat, Pearl River, MS

OCTOBER 2009

date change

NOVEMBER 2009

DECEMBER 2009

Kandi  •  November 15, 2008 @6:50 pm