One week was emotional for me and stressful of everything I needed to get done. Then this past week was better because of prayer, encouragement from others, and just keeping my focus on God and what He is doing in my life right now. So last weekend I packed up my place and said good-bye to friends and my life in Tyler to move home to my parents in DFW for a month. It will be a good time catching up on reading, my scrapbook, and with friends & family before I leave for Africa in 35 days. I made one of those paper chains from elementary school days to help me with the count down!
This passage encouraged me during my "roller coaster" month: 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 & 16-18
"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you."
"Therefore do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
1 comment:
Although you don't know me, I can relate to how you are feeling! I have 5 shifts left before I leave my "dream" job, and only a couple of months before I get to the ship :) Hope your transition is a good one (and good idea for the countdown!)
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