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Stuck?!

This has been one of the roughest days I've ever had as a believer, and here's why: God moves in my life very providentially. I know this.  So does the evil one. And I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding why things seem to be facing delay after delay after delay.  Case in point:  I bought some furniture a couple of weeks ago.  It was supposed to be at the store today.  But at the store today, they only had one piece delivered from the warehouse and there isn't a way for them to let me just have the one piece without re-ringing my order in their system, which would put me at the bottom of the list for that missing piece instead of next in line. The lawn furniture will have to keep working for now. I'm counting on God for a big something that I thought for sure a month ago would happen two weeks ago.  It didn't happen.  In fact, the opposite happened, but God is good and there's a door open where I thought I shut, nailed, and welded it sh...

What's New?

So, I'm writing again.  I have much to write about. I have really been thinking about the things God is telling me.  In this new season, He's blessed the start of it by giving me a book to really help put things in perspective. I've come to understand that when life isn't making perfect sense to us, it's making perfect sense to God. I asked myself about this new season, and in thinking about it I thought about this.  My favorite verse of Scripture is Joel 2:25, which you should read.  In part it says, "I will restore to you the years the locusts ate."  In the old season, bed bugs came and somehow miraculously only infested my things.  There was seriously one lone bed bug in Wendi's things.  She didn't have to toss anything.  I lost everything. Most of what I lost was used up.  My washer was used up.  My dryer is close.  It still works, so it remains an item God left me which I used in my battle with the bed bugs.  They ...

When your dreams die

I had dreams.  I had plans. Had. A lot of what God used to get me to here was a dream I had; one in which everything came to pass.  Except the outcome I was expecting. I had plans, too.  My plan was to retire to Oregon.  The Who has family there and a couple of weeks ago, I found myself in Klamath Falls to pick up her son for her.  Her parents live on Homedale Road.  It cracks me up that they do.  But it doesn't mean what I thought it did, if it actually meant anything at all. As I pulled into town, I saw two things I'd never seen before:  A street named Ogden Street and a sign for the "Back 40" restaurant, right before turning onto Homedale Road.  And that's when the thought occurred to me that maybe I'm not supposed to leave Ogden. That's not entirely why, but it's enough of a start.  When I was in Newport, it wasn't as neat as I remembered it.  I kinda had the feeling that maybe I really didn't belong there except to vi...

Going deeper in faith

One of the things God decided to bless me with was a book that explains stuff. I really want to buy a few people I know a copy of this book on the agreement that if I do, they'd read it to gain some understanding of the God who would never put me through what I've been through, but did anyway. A few folks I know were convinced that maybe what I was going through wasn't from God and told me that.  I always knew it was and I really believed that I knew that God was going to give me a victory.  I was convinced.  And He did, in a way.  I was blessed to receive a book that explained some stuff, with a foundation in Biblical truth. I was reading about Habakkuk, the prophet from the Old Testament, and the author explained a simple truth:  God used a more wicked nation than Israel to punish the less wicked Israel for their sins. I'm still thinking about that this morning, but with new understanding of just how Just our God really is.    I'm thinking ab...

and then I fell on my face

Today starts a new season for me.  Here's how it started off: I lost.  In spectacular fashion. I mean, I've lost before, but I went down in an ash heap of flames today.  And I think it's embarrassing to have to admit what everybody else knew, but God didn't call me to believe what everybody else knew.  He asked me to trust Him and He led me to a place that I would be OK with whatever outcome HE chose. In the race to get to the crash site, I jumped a few stop signs.  I ran a few yellow lights.  And I'm not sorry I did.  Everything I did, I did because I loved another person more than me, and I loved God enough to allow Him to use this last season in my life to shape and mold me. I finally got OK with whatever outcome a few days ago.  The last time He asked me to let go, it was a real struggle to.  This time, though, He arranged the circumstances enough to know that it's just time.  It's time for a change in seasons from the season...