It was a breakthrough for me, in more ways than one.
After a long season of silence, this was like a clarion call in the darkness, it’s echo resounding resonantly to chase out the engulfing loneliness. After a long season of bewildering isolation, this provided words for nameless feelings, release for pent-up wonderings, and life to withering hopes. After months of not knowing where or how to start or end conversations, this gave us a breath of relief to finally say out in the open, as if we were running through an open field with the wind in our hair, “Yea, we’re young and crazy!”
And maybe that’s okay.
Maybe it’s puzzling and not understandable and altogether foolish, but maybe we have a reason that doesn’t warrant the approval of men but only simple, humble obedience to heed a Call from above. I have to keep reminding myself of that.
Somehow through the entire interview, as one question after another was asked, a strange sense of relief washed over me. I didn’t know how the article would turn out, whether it would be accurate or sensationalistic or if it would only serve to confirm how foolish we were, but God’s peace came over us. We knew that whatever happened, we were just vessels, which didn’t need be laden with worries which belonged to the Potter alone.
Thank you all for your support, love, encouragement and prayer. It is much needed in this season of our lives as we undergo numerous transitions, challenges and emotions. Some days we are overwhelmed by what we need to say goodbye to and the uncertainty of what we are entering into (we still have not yet found a house in Uganda that would fit into a budget we do not yet have). As we fix our eyes on the only immovable Constant, we continually trust that He will provide for our every need.
Bless you.
The Full Article from The Sunday New Paper 13 April 2014 online: We’re Young, Crazy & Adventurous
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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
– Matthew 6: 25-34