God's Lesson Plans

The time is drawing near...we've got a u-haul truck paid for and sent Drew's car to Lafayette with his parents this morning. Our plan is to move April 11th after my last Dr. visit here. Drew's going to be driving the u-haul and I'm driving our other car. I don't really enjoy driving for long periods of time and so I have never driven for longer than 3 or 4 hours at a time. But I will have to make the 10-11 hour trip following Drew with just me and Jed in the car. Yuck! Not only will I have to drive so much, but on long trips, usually one of us spends a good bit of time entertaining Jed while the other is driving. We will have to take frequent breaks!

Drew's last day of working for the Grove is March 31st. My last day at Morton Salt is the 30th. Then we join the ranks of the unemployed. I feel so much like Harrison Ford in that Indiana Jones movie - when he has to take the step out from the lion's mouth onto seemingly nothing. I keep saying "I trust you, God. I trust you." But I think that I may be trusting more in the 'rock bridge' that we're expecting Him to provide rather than trusting in the One who has told us to take this step. And I can't exactly explain the difference clearly because I'm finding it real easy to confuse the two. But I know that there is a difference. I feel it. And I'm running scared because of it.

So I can't help but ask that you pray for God's provision...but I also ask that you pray for me. That I would trust God's heart. That I would seek Him for Him and not for what He can give me. And that I wouldn't be afraid of the lessons he might have in store for me.

"Gratitude" by Nichole Nordeman

Send some rain, would you send some rain?

Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink again

And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade.

Would you send a cloud, thunder long and loud

Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down

Surely you can see that we are thirsty and afraid.

But maybe not, not today. Maybe you'll provide in other ways

And if that's the case...

We'll give thanks to you

With gratitude, for lessons learned in how to thirst for you

How to bless the very sun that warms our face

If you never send us rain.

Daily bread, give us daily bread

Bless our bodies, keep our children fed

Fill our cups, and then fill them up again tonight

Oh wrap us up and warm us through

Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs

Let us slumber safe from danger's view this time.

But maybe not, not today. Maybe you'll provide in other ways

And if that's the case...

We'll give thanks to you

With gratitude

For lessons learned to hunger after you

And that a starry sky holds a better view if no roof is overhead

And if we never taste that bread

Oh the differences that often are between

Everything we want and what we really need.

So grant us peace, Jesus grant us peace

Move our hearts to hear a single beat

Between alibis and enemies tonight

But maybe not, not today. Peace might be another world away

And if that's the case...

We'll give thanks to you

With gratitude

For lessons learned in how to trust in you

That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream

In abundance or in need

If you never grant us peace

But Jesus, would you please...