Steph was here for the weekend and we had a great time together. It is such a nice thing to have the chance to spend quality time with someone who understands you so well. There isn't a whole lot of explaining necessary and you are able to call each other on stuff, all the while knowing that they love you regardless.
Many adventures were had (ranch visiting, horse show attending, Happy Hour seeking, fun eatery discovering, river floating, sunburn soothing, our pizza being taken by a homeless man...ing) :), but peace and quiet were also in abundance.
It is such a gift to be with someone so familiar, which would normally leave me feeling a little homesick, but to have such a peace in my heart. Life isn't perfect, and there are still days when I feel so incomplete, with so many unfulfilled longings, but I have found the tranquility of resting in the Lord for all that lays in the present and the beyond.
In the midst of change and busyness, I have a solid Rock on which I stand and take my strength.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Time just keeps tickin', tickin', tickin'...
Goodness, time can sure get away from you quickly. It doesn’t seem to register that it is July already – where did the past 4 months go? Have I really lived in Oregon for that long now?
It has been interesting watching this season unfold. It’s hard to describe briefly all that God has done since March, but I will just say this, His hand is definitely in it all. From the jobs, to the home, to the church, new friends, and even the trials, I can see my faith being built and my life and the plan the Lord has for it come to be one day at a time. Granted I don’t always trust that plan every step of the way and I feebly try to uphold what I see as vital all by myself, but overall, I can see growth. Which is always an exciting thing to see, since it rarely unveils itself until much farther down the road.
***
Summer is definitely upon us. The ranch is a little bee’s nest, buzzing with activity everywhere. So much so, that it is hard for me to keep up. Kim is booked with travel and speaking engagements until 2007 and new children keep coming. Which makes for chaos at times, but there are those that are being touched left and right, so I know that God has placed me here for such a time as this.
This week will be a much needed break in the middle of the endurance race. A group of inter-city teens from New York had to cancel their trip out to the ranch (which I was quite disappointed in, I was really looking forward to having fun times with them), but because of that, Kim & Troy are taking the ranch staff on a little vacation to the coast. And they are going to teach us how to surf!
I miss the ocean so much, it will be wonderful to spend many days just breathing in the salty air and feeling the sensation of sand between my toes. And it will be good to spend some down time with the rest of the staff. We can get to full-throttle forward while at the ranch, I feel as though I don’t really know those who I am surrounded by.
Hopefully I won’t come back in a full-body cast from being thrown about in the surf!
It has been interesting watching this season unfold. It’s hard to describe briefly all that God has done since March, but I will just say this, His hand is definitely in it all. From the jobs, to the home, to the church, new friends, and even the trials, I can see my faith being built and my life and the plan the Lord has for it come to be one day at a time. Granted I don’t always trust that plan every step of the way and I feebly try to uphold what I see as vital all by myself, but overall, I can see growth. Which is always an exciting thing to see, since it rarely unveils itself until much farther down the road.
***
Summer is definitely upon us. The ranch is a little bee’s nest, buzzing with activity everywhere. So much so, that it is hard for me to keep up. Kim is booked with travel and speaking engagements until 2007 and new children keep coming. Which makes for chaos at times, but there are those that are being touched left and right, so I know that God has placed me here for such a time as this.
This week will be a much needed break in the middle of the endurance race. A group of inter-city teens from New York had to cancel their trip out to the ranch (which I was quite disappointed in, I was really looking forward to having fun times with them), but because of that, Kim & Troy are taking the ranch staff on a little vacation to the coast. And they are going to teach us how to surf!
I miss the ocean so much, it will be wonderful to spend many days just breathing in the salty air and feeling the sensation of sand between my toes. And it will be good to spend some down time with the rest of the staff. We can get to full-throttle forward while at the ranch, I feel as though I don’t really know those who I am surrounded by.
Hopefully I won’t come back in a full-body cast from being thrown about in the surf!
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