God’s had me spending a good portion of the last few days having down-time. I have to tell you that it is VERY hard for me to do that when I have tasks looming overhead that need to be done!  LOL 🙂  But what I’m learning is that in the new life God’s walked me into is that there is ALWAYS something else that “has” to get done. So somehow I have to get past the sensation of “pressure” that something is waiting.  Finally today I started to actually enjoy it a little and not feel too guilty that I had things waiting to be done.  And what I realized tonight as I finished reading Unshaken (Francine River’s book about Ruth, and having read Unashamed yesterday – her story about Rahab – my favorite… each is about a 3 hr read) was that I suddenly was no longer feeling that pressure and needless urgency I was earlier in the week.  I found a place of rest – hallelujah!

On Thursday, I spoke with the man I’ve been partnering with on the under-the-radar outreach/ground-staking stuff (I’ll refer to him as JI). He apologized for rushing things and pushing me.  He’s young and passionate and God is using us both to grow and challenge one another – so your prayers for wisdom and grace over that situation is appreciated!

I feel like God’s trying to help me find this place where I’m in His rest even when it’s busy.  I’m not “there” yet, but definitely have made progress! Your prayers are a huge part of that.

Continued prayers for Allen (my hubby) are also appreciated 🙂

Thank you all as always for your continued prayer support – it is so needed and appreciated! I seriously cannot begin to tell you what a difference it makes.  For example, today when I released the new patchwork throws,  it was INCREDIBLY hard for me because the original ones were made for my spiritual daughter Andrea, who is now walking in habitual sin and God has called me to break fellowship per 1 Corinthians 5.  Well, today was her birthday – 2 years ago today is when she was given her “quilt” as a token of being grafted into my heart and family having been rejected by her own.  This morning the Lord put me on the heart of one of you – and she texted me to tell me she’d been praying and saw a mound of tissues – that perfectly describes my heart over the last nearly a year since she walked away from the Lord – tears, tears, and more tears.  But today, because of her intercession – YOUR intercession – I was able to find a place of peace and fellowship with the Lord.  Truly I cannot express my thanks enough… you all are a blessing.