We can do more than we think we are capable of.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Only God knows our story and has written it for His Glory. After hearing Beth Gukenberger share some of her amazing stories of how God has been involved in her Back2Back ministry and life (her book Reckless Faith – is a must read!). I came away with a nugget – Will you let the BUR in your saddle become numb and go on with your easy life or will you AGAPE (love to action) and Do what God has before you. I don’t want to be numb and go on. I would like to live fully and in action where God is leading me in pain or in joy. So, I must be reading His word so I can hear him, I must rest and not strive, BE STILL and know He is God. : ) I don’t want to forget to fly when I think I have to inch along because that is all I see around me. I need to look up to God and do what lies before me. I will remember that He has prepared me for every good work I am to do. It has been 10 years this month since the loss of our daughter Grace. And in this last month God has pressed us emotionally (adoption journey), encouraged us (a women – stranger -shared with me, “God says he loves you, not to worry but what you are waiting for is gonna happen”), given us little whispers of his love (a stone carved bench for Grace’s 10th Birthday by a man who has done one at Cheekwood – a special place to me and created the very bench we described to him as what we would like for Grace’s bench!), and pressed some more. I am wanting to feel deeply still and get back up again and continue the journey. Like a rollercoaster – never boring – ups and downs – I choose this for my life not only comfort and pleasure. Heavenly Father, although our lives are full of the unexpected you are solid and sure. Help me to make my way through mud puddles and skip on mountain tops taking things as they come. Bless me as the battle rages or the blue bird sings. Amen (from Extravagant Grace – Barbara – women of faith)
As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work.We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul - not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory strength that God gives. It is a strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enought to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us. Paul (Colossians 1: 9-12 MSG)