I'm Learning...

Where does the time go? Why is there not enough time in the day to do all I want to do? Maybe I should start getting up at the wee hours of the morning like my husband does. If I do that, I will most certainly be ready for bed by 8pm with the kids! We’ll see. Maybe I’ll try it. So for now, instead of doing a million other things I need to do.. I feel like writing soo.. On with the blog!
As you can tell it’s been a while. I last wrote when Rebekah was five weeks old. She is now five months old! I was just reading back through old posts and realize I should do this more often. I actually started a journal type document on my computer of all the things the kids are up to and the cute things they say.. but that is more for me (and them one day). Today I feel like writing about my life.. not theirs.. but mine. That is a rarity.
God is doing some amazing things. I was about to write the word “lately”.. ha! Isn’t He always doing amazing things? Perhaps right now I am more keenly aware of them. Anyways, it is an exciting time of trusting Him. Back in January of this year I really felt like God say this was our year to be debt free. One of the ways Brandon and I knew to accomplish that was to sell our house. It has taken us eight months to just put the sign in the yard BUT it is now there! I told him last weekend, there would always be something else that needs to be done before we feel like the house is ready to sell.. so let’s just do it! I love this house. I love the memories made here. But it’s just a house. God’s provision for this house was evident and I know he’ll always take care of us. It is a scary but exciting thing; to only know what you are supposed to do one step at a time. It causes you to really talk to God. I want to be sure I hear His voice when He talks back.
There’s this thing I am learning to do. Step out of my comfort zone… and see what He wants to do through me. It’s not a new concept. I have just been reminded that there are things inside of me that God has put there for reasons that I don’t always know. Gifts that He has given me that He wants me to use; so I can love and serve others and ultimately so they can find and know Jesus. A couple of weeks ago Brandon and I were out to eat celebrating our 7th anniversary. We had a great waitress who was so friendly and personable. Come to find out she is in college and wants to open her own restaurant one day. She also made the comment in passing that if marriage was as easy as waiting tables that she would probably be married for seven years too! Immediately something in me stirred. It is that acutely aware feeling that I get when I know I am supposed to pray or do something for someone and If I don’t I will have missed an opportunity that God is presenting to me. It’s like I have butterflies in my stomach and I start to get hot. I decided to be bold. I prayed. In a restaurant. For someone I didn’t know. Crazy huh? It really shouldn’t be something out of the norm but it is. I asked her if it’d be ok and she sat in our booth for literally a minute and I prayed for her. It might not have been profound but I trust God was glorified. I am learning that God created me for great things and wants to display His splendor through my life. I pray that I’m picture of it everyday… a beautiful one.