I'm so excited!!
What began as a dreary, stressing day - which followed a fairly bad depression evening/night last night - has turned completely upside down into a day of rejoicing! I found out my sister is moving back into town to finish her last 2 years of school at A&M! Yea! It's not like she was living in Timbuktu or anything, she was only in San Antonio, but it does a big sister's heart such good to see her in a better living/working situation and one which makes her so happy! I'm working on her to attend our church when she moves back here, she's going through similar theological/self-belief examinations, questioning, etc. that I so well remember from when I was her age and which Westminster, and my dear husband were so skillfully used in the hands of my Lord to instruct, guide and encourage me (and still is using). I would love to have her learning and worshipping in the same building as my immediate family and myself, but would be totally content if she only gets involved with RUF or one of the Bible studies going on as an outreach of the church.
I am SO blessed to have a local body of believers who are so well grounded i sound theology and have such a heart for serving God. I love that I can so wholeheartedly recommend my church to others as I talk with them, listen to their concerns, build relationships with them and talk to them about the things of God. Talking Sun. night with treasured missionary friends headed to Calgary reminds me yet again of what a privilege it is to be in this community of faith, to have such easy access to so MANY people that love God, are serving Him, are striving to learn more of Him and of how to live more in abandonment (is that a word?) of themselves and more in service of their King. Heck, (or "Shucks!", or with whatever exclamatory adjective you are comfortable) that they (I) even are blessed enough to have been (being) made aware of our initial and ever-increasing need of Christ and the Gospel. Does the realization of the magnitude of this blessing ever just reach up out of the blue and give you a a resounding slap on the face? Slap me more often, Lord Jesus!
Okay, I was off on a rabbit trail, a trait of Fiona's about which I so often complain (humility-builder). God also assured me of another another truth. The ever-comforting truth that He is Sovereign. Not only has He arranged affairs and answered prayers - didn't mean to rhyme - for His leading and calling of my extended family, my first family, He will still be doing His work even if it's not in the manner I see as (psst, God, are you listening?...) the most logical and obvious way things could be done. I jest about my way of doing things being the best way while at the same time literally trembling before God at the audacity of doing such a thing. How dare I joke about such a ridiculous idea that I might possibly even scratch the surface in perceiving God's way of working?
That's a topic for another post. How much God's changing even the tongue-in-cheek way I joke about the things of God. He's been showing me ways, lately, in which He's already changed me, and also a few things He's in the process of changing me. Yes, I do know that even the areas in which He's already changed me aren't a final completion, they also are works in progress. One area being the assurance of salvation in the Believer's life, and some Scriptures God has seen fit to allow me to see in a new light. Yet another post coming up.
I would be totally surprised if ANYBODY actually reads this blog. It's mostly written just as an online journal, an easier way to journal than all my hard-back paper tomes from years past sitting on my book shelf, now THOSE (sometimes I have to use caps 'cause I don't know how to make this thing do italics) would make for entertaining blog reading! Especially the ones from my early teens. Oh how I and my sister (the one who is just younger than myself. Did I mention that I'm the oldest child of 8?) used to fight!
