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June 11, 2008
I keep telling myself that there’s a big picture that God has drawn out for us. He will take care of all our needs. If I look back, I have stones of remembrance of times when God miraculously supplied our needs…a mystery wad of cash, a check in the mail, a friend who offered to and did pay for Paul’s tuition to get his teacher’s certification, a boss who gave us an advance chunk of money to buy our first home and let us work overtime for a year to pay him back…but still I’m scared and ashamed to be scared. Paul’s last day of school was Monday. We’re in uncharted territory…wilderness…I’m thinking of those silly Israelites wh0 would not trust God either. God gave them a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of clouds by day and they just got used to it. They also got used to the manna that fell out of the sky every day and the quail running around their feet just waiting to be eaten—the easiest wild bird to catch by hand. OK, Lord, it’s all in your hands. We’ll beat on the doors, make the phone calls and follow, trust and pray every minute…and hold on tightly to the stones.
This is from my friend Karen:
Life isn’t about waiting for life’s storms to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.