LABOR DAY...

Well...I thought I'd share what's really on my heart today...on the national holiday we call "Labor Day." It's ironic enough that a year ago to this very day...I suffered a miscarriage. Some of you may know this and to some it may be "new" news. It's hard to believe that a year has passed, but at the same time I remember the day all too well. All I knew was something was wrong and I was in ALOT of pain....so much that my doctor later told me it was "labor/ contraction pains." I had no idea at that early in a pregnancy that could happen but it did. As I told Forrest later about the pain, no wonder "I just wanted Jesus to take me now!" Anyway...of course...that experience was painful physically and emotionally...but I know it drew me closer to the Lord and still does to this day. So thanks to all of you who ask about us and what's the latest with this part of our lives. We are still tryin'! :) I believe the next step is to...hopefully get a new doctor here soon...and he'll get me on some drugs to help us out. This experience is part of my testimony of course and part of the revelation behind the move that came to me in June. Some of you've heard the story and some have not. God's word came alive to me through a Bible study by Priscilla Shirer, He Speaks to Me, and from the gospels...the story of the feeding of the 5,000...when many of us have read the story over and over...there is a line that had never really gotten my attention until this summer, "And Jesus told the crowd to SIT DOWN and then he would feed their hunger"...but not until they sat down would he bless them. It hit me that wait a minute...maybe that's what God wants to do with me...bless me...but I've been too busy to sit down and receive the things He wants to give to me.

I found that really speaking to me that all of our time in Waco I was so busy running around and being "busy" and doing everything for others that I didn't get the chance very often just to "sit down." And I think that is one of the reasons God moved us here to Alabama is just for me to "sit down" and be still and listen to Him and be blessed. This month and then some I have had no "real job" and it has been really great just to "sit down" and do things I've put off for so long and just to do things I've wanted and at the pace I want to. You know it's quite peaceful and refreshing to "take your time." You should try it some time. I don't mean to be late to an appt. but just to get up early and have ample time to get here or there and not be rushed. Let me know how your "trial" run of this goes. :) Anyway...enough rambling...just my thoughts and my heart on today. My prayer is that God would bless Forrest & I with a "labor of love" that we can call our own ...in His time. Thanks for letting me share.