busy busy busy....I look at the next two months and I see weeks full of a busy schedule, and it will only get much busier when I find out my assignment in ther preparation for Russia. Thursday we have a team meeting in which we will delegate all the things that need to happen and then we get cracking on it: with about two months to do all the prep. God is so faithful though and I am so glad that He is and that He is in charge, because without it, we would fail certainly. But, by His grace, and by His strength we will be able to do all that He has called us to. And then He gets all the glory for all the miracles! Yay!
We had college retreat this last weekend and the theme was holiness. The last message was amazing and such a challenge! We looked at holiness in a practical way and it has been really neat to see God bring to mind so many thoughts and attitudes this week that are unholy! Whew! I am pretty much an unholy person. Not that I didn't doubt that before. Pride is so quick to creep into my heart and I have been lazy in fighting against it! oh that I would want to be humble and want to be holy! yep, my heart is full of wants and desires and I have to fight for holiness. being holy is not easy. Yet, it cannot be in my strength that I can be holy! Yet, I have to be diligent to fight sin and to replace sinful thoughts with scripture.
Funny story (totally unrelated, but we celebrated Shaun's birthday today and this is one story that my dad told me): I was seven or eight when my dad shot a deer (if you are weak at the sight/talk of blood, you might want to skip this...) So, I go over to him and say, "Dad, I want to see it's lungs." No joke. So, he proceeds to give me a tour of this deer's insides (an autopsy as he put it)-liver, heart, lungs, valves, etc. etc. So, he says by the time we were done, I guess I had blood past my elbows. I am sure my mom was thrilled! Makes me laugh, I don't remember it at all, but apparently tis true. So, now you understand how I can talk about anything and everything while eating (I know, I know, I try not to, but hey, with this background, at least now you have a little insight into the insanities of my brain!)
Ok, sorry for the rabbit trail! I would love your prayers for me and my team as we prepare for Russia: we are running everything but the food for a ten day camp with 35 kids and three interpreters. I am teaching until the day before we leave and so would love prayer that in the midst of business and prepping and teaching and working, that my heart would rest in God's grace and that I would pursue holiness.
