A slightly overexposed IG pic of the She Tent at the 2017 Seeking His Embrace conference.
The paper flowers were all handmade by volunteers and were A.May.Zing.
The answer to my last post's questioning was repeated...in Friday morning prayer, in the Session Messages, in the sermon by our guest speaker on Sunday following the conference and again in our Pastor's sermon this past Sunday:
Don't let the discouragement that you are experiencing distract you from the purpose God has for you.
I don't think it could have been more plain to me if someone had called me out of the congregation for a prophetic word.
And, I really and truly am on the edge of New Stuff. Not that I need to walk away from anything now, but that I need to buckle down and be ready because I'm about to be stretched.
Item one...the Life Group semester has found me teaching a half a dozen or so folks who want to be able to get into the Bible for themselves. We just had our second class last night and they amazed me...they had all done the homework! And they were finding applications for themselves! After just one week! I was blinking back tears, which kinda surprised me, as I watched the lightbulbs flash on.
I didn't do that. I just opened the door. They walked through and the Holy Spirit made it real.
I had forgotten what it was like to watch that happen.
Item two...we're about to kick off a new ministry in the evenings, twice a month during life group semesters, for women. A chance walk through the fellowship hall during the life group sign up in the spring landed me in the position at the end of the summer to be invited to join the team to make that evening study happen.
And I'm going to have to go out on a limb and build relationships. If you've been around here long, you know I've backed away over and over again from that relationship thing. But this is where I am and that is what is needed and...I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. I've got to push past that gut level retreat into that new place of service.
And I saw a floorplan of the office space in the high school that we're renovating. One whole classroom 'pod' (yeah, the high school dates from that era...lol) is being dedicated to staff offices. I really figured I'd be in a large classroom with 3 - 5 other folks, but I saw my name on an actual office with a door. I won't have to pack my office decor...pictures and stuff...up. I'm going to on be on the hall with the IT crew instead of the Finance ladies, which is going to be a little different.
It made it feel...almost scary close...the move is coming. Instead of being out there on the horizon...it's actually closer than the horizon now. Conversations are starting to not be 'when we get to Butler' but about events that are going to happen after the move. Deep breaths.
Change is coming. And I'm not going to let the enemy throw discouragement and frustration at me. Not at this point.
But I still need a new phone.
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