Think with me for a moment. Do you live a life of blessings or complaint? It is so easy to grumble. It is so easy to find fault. It is so easy to be discontent. It is so easy to find things that are less than you want them to be. It is so easy to be irritated and impatient. It is so easy to groan and moan about the difficulties of life. It is so easy to be dissatisfied.
At street level, it is tempting to live a God-forgetful me-istic existence. If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about. Paul Tripp
Moving or huge change brings out of me all the things the quote talks about. I know I am not alone in this, I don't like my nest being messed with.
For the past 41/2 years our nest has been sharing a house with our son and family. We had our own living room, bedroom, bathroom, only shared a kitchen. It was a great set up and having the grandkids around was special, loud but special. They bought a small house that at this time will not accomadate us living with them. So with much prayer we believe its time for us to move to Minnesota where our daughters lives. There is a cabin on their property which they want to fix up for us to live in, a permanent place when we need it. We will live in our rv for the summer as they get it ready. We can continue our ministry in any region of the country.
This process has been going on for over a month and in that month I have had a couple of meltdowns that shows my wanting to have things my way. I tell you , God is so gracious to me. Despite my bad attitudes at times He has brought blessing after blessing into this stirring of the nest.
A few days after we helped move our son stuff, Ace woke about 2 am one morning struggling with his heart. It got bad enough he called the ambulance and they took him off to nearest hospital thinking he could be having a heart attack. They left me at home alone to wait this out. He already has one bypass, five stints and a difibulator in him to help his damaged heart. After a angiogram and several other test, they rules out another heart attack, no more new blockage. The doctor adjusted his difibulator and put him on a stronger med for the racing of his heart and told him to go live. HUGE PRAISE
We were in the middle of looking for newer vehicle too since our old Buick, 2005, 2 hundred thousand miles was going to cost more then it was worth to fix for travel.
Because of a huge gift toward another vehicle we purchase a 2017 Toyota Highlander SUV, capable of pulling a lightweight RV for our ministry. HUGE PRAISE.
Because our kids are worried about their Dad driving to Mn. God has provided someone to go with us and help with the driving. PRAISE THE LORD.
I think the buying the SUV was the most nerve racking. We have not bought a car from a dealer since the 70's or been in debt for one since then. My husband likes for me to go with him to look, but after looking for days and a number of truck then SUV's I was not a happy wife. My, just get it done now, personality wanted to quit looking after the third one. Thank God Ace loves to look and as a result he found a great vehicle, good price with very low mileage.
I think the buying the SUV was the most nerve racking. We have not bought a car from a dealer since the 70's or been in debt for one since then. My husband likes for me to go with him to look, but after looking for days and a number of truck then SUV's I was not a happy wife. My, just get it done now, personality wanted to quit looking after the third one. Thank God Ace loves to look and as a result he found a great vehicle, good price with very low mileage.
Today is the day we start loading the Uhaul Box...it's about 93 degrees outside.
Ok, lets get to the nitty gritty. We see God all over this move, all over the heart issue, all over the car issue, all over not enough help, all over it all. Yet...even with Him all over it, we have had our tense moments. It frustrating and humbling to have so much good happening in such stressful time and I so want to act grateful and humble. To get bent out of shape over some "stuff" not going to fit in the Uhaul box sounds so petty in light of all we have been blessed with. And on top of that, we have moved over 30 times, wouldn't you think we would have it nailed down and all would be easy as butter? Since I started this blog we have moved five times, this will be the 6th.
Here is the bottom line...WE ALL ARE STILL DYING TO SELF. And it is painful to be made aware of the frailities in our charecter. That the ME-ISTIC is alive and well in me. Here is the best part, God still loves me and so does my family and Ace and I are not getting a divorce.
We will get moved and soon I will be writing most of my blogs from Minnesota or on the road. I would like to end this post with another quote from Paul Tripp. It's my prayer for this quote to be active in my life.
If you have quit being defensive and are now willingly and humbly approachable, you know that transforming grace has visited you. Paul Tripp
We will get moved and soon I will be writing most of my blogs from Minnesota or on the road. I would like to end this post with another quote from Paul Tripp. It's my prayer for this quote to be active in my life.
If you have quit being defensive and are now willingly and humbly approachable, you know that transforming grace has visited you. Paul Tripp