One year ago today Ty and I flew home from one of the most intense and amazing weeks of my life. It is a week we will never forget. A week where we walked through such pain and such healing and God was so real to us through an amazing group of people and a professor who wasn't afraid to be honest. We flew home via Atlanta and as we spent a couple hours in layover I spent about 40 minutes on the phone with a friend from that week who was driving home. It was an energized conversation-very charged. It was all about details and vision and possibility and questions. At the end, he asked me if I was freaking out yet. In the midst of abrupt life change and God majorly moving in our lives and a whole worldview shift and way of life shift. And I wasn't. I was completely and totally ready to take on the world. Bring it on I thought! Tonight, a year later, I sit literally across the country from where we lived before...but right outside Atlanta. Our home has changed. Our church has changed. Our jobs, our very way of working and livelihood has changed. Our accents and language have changed. Our hearts have changed. Our opinions and attitudes and faith have changed. And I've had my freakout moments-trust me! But tonight as I sit and think back to that oh so charged phone call and that amazing week with the best class we ever could have asked for, I just have to sit quietly and take it all in for a minute. "Wow God!" is all I can say. And today, today God is reshaping our entire worldview and attitudes and opinions and actions all over again. See, the more we see Him clearly the more all of our "knowledge" is reshaped more correctly toward truth. I am bursting with the amazing work of Christ and the Power of the Holy Spirit and cannot wait to share it here, in Judea and in the ends of the earth. What can seem so overwhelmingly scary sometimes is so exciting and I want those moments of fear to come fewer and farther apart as I trust more and hopefully Christ can be displayed more through me. It truly is the One True God who deserves all the praise as we look back over the last year and all that has happened just in a visible cultural sense. When we add in the spiritual growth-it only further shows the Lord God who Reigns on High! I pray we can continue to decrease and press forward toward Him and truth more and more and that we do it without fear but with a charged energy that can only be powered by the Holy Spirit. What a year it was! And we pray God continues to work so next year we again say What a year it was!
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Sandy
1/12/2011 10:41:47 pm
Hey, y'all. What a terrific piece! I am especially appreciative because last night's Bible study turned into a testimony hour evidencing the kind of God you have experienced in the last year. People were on their feet, praising God and shouting. God does move, and God is moving -- in your life and in others'. Praise Him!
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