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I hope that all is well with you, and that you are experiencing daily God’s peace and love. I am so thankful that the Lord allowed me to get this issue done before the end of the millennium! It seems that as I get older, my life seems to get more and more hectic, and I get frustrated and confused about priorities. The Lord has been teaching me one thing in particular lately, and that is the matter “Holy Leisure.” Taking the time to be quiet and absorb the glory of the Lord. You have heard the expression, “take time to smell the roses” how about “take time to behold the beauty of our God.” How often are my quiet times with Him rushed? How often do I cut them short because I think I need more sleep’ or I have to get somewhere? Much too often. My time with Him should be my utmost priority. How can 1 tell others about someone that I think I know,’ but I don’t know as well as I should. As I truly know Him, showing His love to others will become second nature, because they will see that I am talking about my best friend. How often do I take time just to sit and think about God? How often do I truly ponder His glory and grace, and behold in Awe the fact that He loves me? Far to seldom. I have often wondered why it seems that the Lord has not revealed to me what He wants me to do with my life. I think He has showed me why. This time of waiting, is a time for me to seek His face continually, to fall in love with Him. I trust that He will show me, in His time, or maybe He is even now slowly revealing it to me, as I learn to listen to Him. As I look over my letters, it seems that they all sound a lot a like, it seems that it has taken this whole year of working on Christiana, for me to begin to learn what God has to show me. This year has been a good one! It is hard to believe that this issue marks a one year birthday for Christiana! Christiana has definitely had it’s ups and downs! But the Lord has truly blessed me through this endeavor, and I trust that He has blessed you as well. My family has a been through a lot of adjustments this year, I finished school towards the end of last year, and Staci is in her final year in school. For the past year I have answered a hundred and one zillion questions, as to why I am not in college. To our society, the thought of a young person choosing not to go to college, is very foreign, and to most people sounds like a stupid decision. It has not been an easy question to answer, as I have been still seeking the Lord’s will for my life. But of one thing I am certain, His will for my life does not include a career, at least as most people see a career. Ever since I was little, I have always thought that God wanted me to be a wife and mother, and to serve God wherever He put me. This still sounds really strange to most people, and that is OK. If I have not learned already, that sometimes it is necessary to be different from the norm. Right now, obviously I am not married, and not a mother, so what am I supposed to be doing? Waiting on God, serving Him, and learning to be all that He wants me to be. There are many things that I am very interested in learning, (too many things, it seems!) So I am trying to focus on a few of those things that I think the Lord might have me use for Him, such as writing, photography and illustrating. I am looking into taking a couple courses this next semester focusing on those things. Of course, those are just my plans, I am still waiting on the Lord to show me His plans, I will keep my ears tuned to Him, so that I will be ready to jump when I hear His gentle whisper. Many of you I know, are going through the same kind of thing that I am going through. A time of waiting, a time where your whole life seems to be full of uncertainties, and you wish you could just blink and bypass this stage. But that is not what God wants for us. He wants us to treasure this time, as a time to truly develop a relationship with Him, a time to seek His face. So that when He does move us on to the next stage of life, we will be fit to face what lies ahead. Please pray for me as I learn more and more what it means to seek the Lord. And I will pray for you as well. May your and my desire be to become all that God wants you to become. A woman of God, with a gentle and quiet spirit, a living testimony for Him. Have a wonderful, spectacular, marvelous, incredible Christmas! Clinging unto Him,
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