Under Construction

Your prayers are requested, and needed as I begin pursuing new things, and not just talking about them.  ”What are these things?” I’m glad you asked.

• Going to Germany for a month, two, six…however long He wants me to for mission work
• This will require the first step of calling friends who moved there recently, and getting their input, and asking them 1000 questions, like “Do you want some company for a month?  I”ll help take care of your four small children? I’ll cook, I’ll clean…please?” 
• If doors on the other side are open for me to come, then I will need a lot of money from people like you   to get me there, and keep me there for as long as He wills. 
• I’ll need/want the support of my church, and as of right now I have no answer to what anyone supporting me would want to know, “What will you be doing over there?”  Scrubbing toilets, baby-sitting, manual labor, teaching, starting ministries, helping exisiting ones, counseling, evangelizing…
• What happens with my job? 

I need to trust that as I pursue this God is not playing hide-and-seek with His will.  That is often how it seems.  Regardless of whatever fruit would come from my going to Germany, I know this personally is a matter of pure faith, and obedience.  When an older lady friend asked me at lunch today, “What’s stopping you?” I had no good answer. 

• Moving out
• Requires at least one, if not twelve roomates to be able to afford the cost of living in The Sunshine State
• Requires a safe place, in a decently convenient location
• Requires incidental things like furniture, pots, and pans, garbage cans, cleaning supplies, preferrably no faulty wiring, nor a cracked or sinking foundation, and somewhere not prone to flooding, thanks again to The Sunshine State’s weather patterns
• Requires permission for my cat to live there as well

I’ve got a friend in mind that’s been wanting to move out for some time now, so I’m thinking of approaching her with this soon…she leaves for Nicaragua on Wed.  Better to do it before or after?  Now, even though she clearly has other things on her mind. Okay, maybe after.

So, those are the two big things in the hopefully near future that will at least slightly alter my life.  I’m not sure how the expense of moving out, and going on mission trip line up…but that’s why God is God, and I am certainly not.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?  “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” Matthew 6:25-30