Wow… I just cannot believe how fast this fall is approaching! Another month and a half, and I’ll be leaving Canada for 9 months! I’m beyond excited and while I can’t wait for Sept. 12 (my official departure date) I also want to just enjoy the time I have left right now with my family and friends here at home. One of my biggest struggles is being content in the moment instead of always looking ahead, and so this summer has been a perfect opportunity to learn that! I’m just working right now in a drug store and also doing maintenance on the park/garden in my town. While it’s not super exciting I’m very glad this was the job I chose to take this summer since God has taught me alot about just resting in Him and trusting in His sufficiency. Each day is a new opportunity to be a light for God in what may seem unlikely circumstances for Him to do great things, but it is the place God has put me in for the time being, and so all I have to do is serve Him. Easier said than done, but it’s a journey and God is so patient and forgiving!
I read this little passage in a book the other day and it really struck me: “It is through accepting the circumstances that come to us in life that self is crucified. There is no other way. No reckoning of ourselves as dead to sin can avail anything unless we reckon, or accept the fact, than we have to right to resent anything which is done to us, but that our right is to react to everything in a creative way by using it to express and manifest love in some way.”
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Kingdom of Love – Hannah Hurnard) This is really what it’s all about, hey? Letting God work through us in every circumstance, without thought of self. That struck me as just such a simplistic and powerful way of stating it, and it’s stayed with me and encouraged me in my faith.
Support raising is going ever so slowly, but since I have a major problem with patience, God likes to teach me to wait on Him, and so I’m just trusting Him that He’s going to provide! And I know He will… He already has in so many ways!
So yeah, not too much excitement happening in my daily life, but I’m sure once I’m in Africa, my blogs will be filled with much more activity and interesting occurences!
“Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you… because your love is better than life…I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied…Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.” – Psalm 63:1,3,4,5,7
