Visiting Indiana

My flight ascends above Indiana as I head back east after a weekend of ministry. While exhausted from all the travel and expending so much social energy, I sense the Spirit of Peace all around me. God opened the doors for me to make this trip to share at a couple of churches I was connected with during college, and I could feel the leagues of angels my prayer team released to guide and encourage me throughout the weekend. I always wonder and worry about what exactly I should say, how I should say it, am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing, am I assertive enough to get funded, etc.

My worries stem from desire to offer my Lord excellence and obey Him in every way.  At the beginning of the weekend I was talking about this with a dear friend, and she explained to me how lately she had been praying a lot about the Lord’s will for her life but then realized that what really matters is being with Him rather than getting caught up in what He wants her to do. She later encouraged me with this in an email:

Visit to the ER

It was to my surprise to learn that I dislocated an arm at just a few years old. I have no memory of it whatsoever. My mother says that she took me to the doctor, and all I did was flinch a bit when he reset it. No tears.

So when it was all I could do to hold back tears while trying to breathe last Thursday night, Mom figured something was probably not quite right. My usually-high tolerance for pain was being stretched. Each inhale brought a knife-stabbing pain in my chest, and I had to resort to breathing very quick, short breaths. My parents decided it was time for a hospital visit, so we all hopped, skipped, jumped, or gasped (in my case) to the car for the ten-minute ride to the hospital.

Today's God-Story

It's one of those days when I feel like dancing, jumping, preaching, laughing & yelling out, GOD IS GOOD! I will share a couple of neat ways God showed Himself present with me today as I worked. Partnership development for my Albania ministry is now fully underway, and in just a week God has pointed out His guiding hand in several ways... trying to get it into my incredibly slow and dense mind that this is HIS work and not mine, and that I need to quite worrying, for God's sake... and I mean that last phrase quite literally, no irreverence intended!

Can't Sleep

After being in bed for over an hour now, my brain has not ceased thinking about everything I need to do, should do, wish I could do - none of which I can do right now or should think about doing because what I really need to do is SLEEP! I almost decided to blog around 10:30 but decided against it since nearly every single time I blog late at night I fight fatigue the following day. Tomorrow is Saturday and I don't go into work, but since my family are going shopping tomorrow morning I want to ensure that I get my full eight hours. I am one of those unfortunate souls who must have eight to nine hours of sleep for full brain capacity. Yet even then my brain fails me.

A Few Nights Before Christmas

First off, if you are my mom, stop reading right NOW and revisit on December 25th!