Now What?

I/we have been going through a mix of emotions lately.  In this place of unknown in ministry/job and just life my husband put it simply in an email he sent to his sister.  It was beautifully said but very "real."

But in the end it was the voice of God that we followed, with His timing.  Now we are in that challenging time of "what exactly next?"  It is uncomfortable, but I am sure God has his shaping purposes at work in us.  That is the nice translation.  The other translation is "some days if feels like a train wreck."  Yet somehow in the middle of it all we cling to the fact that we followed His lead, so we will cling to His promises, even when we do not yet see them.

Sometimes I wish that I was more encouraging to him.  Sometimes I feel the same as he does and the frustrations make it hard to encourage.  You know those times in marriage when your both down so you can't lift each other up.  I highly dislike those times.  This morning he woke up looking like that "train wreck."  He usually goes to a men's prayer group on Friday's with some other pastors in the area but was thinking about not going today.  It was my chance to encourage him to go.  I don't think the enemy wanted him there.  Lord bless him this morning!!!!!  I should interject here that we have been dealing with a serious water issue in our basement which is causing more stress.  It is an added challenge that I wish we didn't have.

So we cling to the promises of Jesus.
2 Cor. 4:8-9 "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."