Today, I went to church. I went to the early service so I could hear the sermon and then help teach Kids Bible Time. So, I innocently sat down with my cup o' coffee and Bible. We sang our songs; shared our prayers and praises; then our pastor started speaking. The topic...miracles. Miracles, oh my. It was about how Jesus' mom walked up to him and said 'we're out' and then walked away. How Jesus used miracles to take natural human processes and gave them short cuts to fruition. What should have taken months to make more wine, Jesus did within minutes. He told them to go fill up the jugs and then how God didn't have some fancy process or ritual or procedure or wording or need to touch anything or say the magic work or some other goofy 'thing'. He just did it.
I've been saying for the last couple weeks.... "it'd take a miracle to travel before Chinese New Year". And, then I went to church today. And, it was about miracles. Then, I taught Kids Bible Time which was from Matthew 5:14-16...about letting our light shine. About holding your light up high so the light shines brighter instead of keeping it tight to the ground in fear. So I drove home from church kind of feeling like God just picked the scab off of my not quite healed set of expectations.
You see... the last flight for a trip to pick up kiddos before the Chinese New Year leaves January 29th. And, then if you're not on the plane that day- you wait until March 4th. Most sane rational people would say we don't have a chance or a way or a possibility. Even if there is a possibility, God may have a bigger, better, more perfect plan. To make this happen, quite honestly we'd need a 3-part miracle of craziness. Sometimes He makes crazy work. Sometimes, He trains us to be steadfast and teaches us resolve. Either way, He doesn't make mistakes. Nope. No mistakes- ever!
Today after the first service at church... I was convicted that I haven't held the lamp high to see what God plans might reveal. I've been hiding it under a bushel of vulnerability without checking to see if He has a miracle on the horizon.
Perhaps, we'll spend February planning an early birthday party for Kaleb and a fun free family stay-cation for Presidents Day Weekend and praying for our little Elsie whom is waiting for us. Maybe there is another plan in the works.
What we need is for our travel plans to be upheld in prayer this week. Pray for efficient work time for all those processing our paperwork. For potential obstacles to be removed before they're even known. And, in the end- we know that we have done all that we can. That we've turned it over to God. And, He ALWAYS has the plan perfectly crafted. Pray that Elsie gets good care. That she is warm and stays healthy. So, come Friday if we know we've missed it by a matter of days...we know that God knows best. When we brought home Kaleb, I'll never forget the week at the end when our paperwork got sent to South Africa instead of Ethiopia :( At the time, I couldn't see God's plan in it. In hindsight, there were many reasons it worked out wonderfully for that little delay of a week.
I've been saying for the last couple weeks.... "it'd take a miracle to travel before Chinese New Year". And, then I went to church today. And, it was about miracles. Then, I taught Kids Bible Time which was from Matthew 5:14-16...about letting our light shine. About holding your light up high so the light shines brighter instead of keeping it tight to the ground in fear. So I drove home from church kind of feeling like God just picked the scab off of my not quite healed set of expectations.
You see... the last flight for a trip to pick up kiddos before the Chinese New Year leaves January 29th. And, then if you're not on the plane that day- you wait until March 4th. Most sane rational people would say we don't have a chance or a way or a possibility. Even if there is a possibility, God may have a bigger, better, more perfect plan. To make this happen, quite honestly we'd need a 3-part miracle of craziness. Sometimes He makes crazy work. Sometimes, He trains us to be steadfast and teaches us resolve. Either way, He doesn't make mistakes. Nope. No mistakes- ever!
Today after the first service at church... I was convicted that I haven't held the lamp high to see what God plans might reveal. I've been hiding it under a bushel of vulnerability without checking to see if He has a miracle on the horizon.
So, I'm sayin' God... the last trip before CNY leaves on January 29th.
The next option is March 4th.
God has that all planned out already.
What we need is for our travel plans to be upheld in prayer this week. Pray for efficient work time for all those processing our paperwork. For potential obstacles to be removed before they're even known. And, in the end- we know that we have done all that we can. That we've turned it over to God. And, He ALWAYS has the plan perfectly crafted. Pray that Elsie gets good care. That she is warm and stays healthy. So, come Friday if we know we've missed it by a matter of days...we know that God knows best. When we brought home Kaleb, I'll never forget the week at the end when our paperwork got sent to South Africa instead of Ethiopia :( At the time, I couldn't see God's plan in it. In hindsight, there were many reasons it worked out wonderfully for that little delay of a week.
God knows and we can't wait to find out His answer.
We'll let Him figure it out.
In the meantime, we've literally got nothing better to do than...
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