Bags Are Packed!

I'm ready to head to the airport and fly out to Phoenix today. I'll be there for a week, but the "main" event will be going to Women of Faith next weekend. I'll be going with my sister, sister in law, and niece. I'm very anxious to see all the family and spend some time together! I will be back for not even a week before Cary and I will fly to North Carolina for a conference. Well, Cary will be in the conference, I am planning on reading a book and taking in FALL for the FIRST time in all my years. That is my plan, and I do hope that it is God's too! Maybe by the time we settle down in Florida it will have cooled off here too!

Simply Believing

Last weekend we went to Miami with some of our students to hear Hillsong. We had a wonderful time, those trips are always fun because you get to know people so much better. I was expecting to worship, but I don't think I was expecting conviction. I've never been one to sing words without thinking about what I'm singing. One of the songs had this line "I don't have to see it to believe it". I started thinking about what that meant, and I questioned myself. Are you believing you will see it, or are you SIMPLY believing? Just believing that God will answer and not necessarily allow me to see, nor even to need me to be a part of the picture. Just HIM, being God. I know what my mom's biggest burden was, for the last 35 years of her life. I know what she prayed for, what she hoped she would see. But I also know that when she died, she had not seen it. Did she die thinking that God did not hear her? I don't think so. She died believing Him. Trusting. God did answer her prayer, but He didn't allow her to see it. Does that mean He let her down? I don't think so. Was it any less of an answer to her prayer because she didn't witness it? I don't think so. Was God obligated to answer her within her lifetime, on her schedule? I don't think so. God is just God, all the time, and He doesn't need me, but sometimes He chooses to use me, to allow me to be a part of the whole picture, and maybe to see His work. So, I'm trying to simply believe God, with nothing added, just letting Him be Who He is!