Moving Out of My Comfort Zone.

This last week my husband left for a unexpected trip to Kenya.  It was exciting and scary all at the same time.  Exciting in that God moved in a mighty way to provide all that was necessary for this trip.  Scary in that I am in a new environment where I have no family and not many close friends.  I found that it was scary at first not knowing.  The kids and I decided to do a few fun things and we ventured out our familiar area and went to a few places we had never gone to before.  In our walk with God sometimes it is the same way.  He beckons us to leave the boundaries of what is known and venture out to the unknown.  Where we must trust Him to keep us safe and to show us the path to take.  By expanding my boundaries in the natural it is becoming easier for me to let go of the control and knowing about my life and care and surrender those more fully over to God.

The Beginning of My Story.

Today I want to talk about the beginning of my story.  When I was a child I always believed in God.  I don't know how I knew at such a young age.  I have always been a deep person asking hard questions and wanting to know answers to such questions as when I was around 4 or 5 years old, I didn't like going to sleep I wanted to know what happened to me as I was sleeping.  I have had questions like this all of my life.  I have known that I think differently than a lot of others and I had a hard time connecting and fitting in and making friends and getting to know others.  I have always wanted to help others.  To have the answers to there questions and to solve their problems.  I was a positive thinker who always tried to see the best in situations.  I was seeking something out but at the beginning I was not aware until I was a adult that I was seeking out a personal relationship with God. That I was longing to know Him and be loved by Him.

Making Good Use of Our Time.

With the transitions our family has gone through we have fallen behind in our homeschool work.  It is easy to get discouraged and to think we are not going to get done.  As I was praying about it the Lord showed me how to use our time more wisely.  So many situation in our natural life can appear this way as well.  We may face all kinds of challenges that seem to cause us to lose ground but as we allow the Holy Spirit and the Lord to speak to us He will show us how to use our time more wisely and we can recover what appeared to be lost.