This Time

There is a verse in the Bible that I completely love today.....mostly because I need it today....alot! It is found in Esther 4:14...I know you have heard it a thousand times...but today I needed to remember it and thankfully I did! The scripture makes this statement: who knows that you were not put here for such a time as this? WOW-- I keep thinking about my life and the whining and complaining that I do in my Missie world...and then this scripture comes to mind....what am I doing with MY TIME...with THIS TIME? It seems so easy to get into a rut with life--- it seems so easy to want to complain or fuss about this or that but what if we didn't...what if for just this time-- we thought about the purpose of us being here..right now? I was in my office this morning when I had been dwelling on this scripture when the phone rang.....it was a mom who has an great amazing wonderful new freshman coming to FHU in about a month....she was talking about sheets..yes, sheets (length, style, width) and all of the sudden she got really quiet and I realized she was crying....okay...honestly, I wasn't mean to her or anything....and we were just talking sheets...but yep, she was crying! And I ......well, I completely related! :) Because there are defintely days that the thought of what size sheets Blake and Drake will need on their college beds makes me cry too... anyway, I said are you okay...and she just poured it all out there....I mean lots...she told me how she was so worried about her daughter being so far away and how she wanted to know that she was going to be in good hands and in good care..where someone would look after her......well, we chatted for awhile...this is my love, my reason for being here....FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. Now, I am no Esther but what a gift...to be able to be there for others...God blesses me over and over again with this. So for this day--- this time....I am thankful for such a time as this. I hope this day brings to you the meaning of your time.

Gifts

Well, my thoughts are racing and I am not sure what to do .....this week has been quite busy already for me and now I have added something to my small mind to think on.....and so I thought I might share it with you and see what your thoughts are..... my week has been full of regular work and also on teaching at Horizons (a little thing FHU does each year....maybe you have heard of it) Anyway-- my subject that I was assigned was Growing up in Love with myself.. so I have taught for two days so far and one of the things I have asked these young girls is what are your special gifts?? So far NOBODY has said they had any? I mean seriously they have not felt they had any great special gift....wow! That makes me somewhat sad?? that makes me somewhat afraid??? and that makes me feel like somehow we have not being training our girls to realize their gifts. I have told them all they do-- definitely have special gifts.....and I have told them that they may not yet know what they are but to search for them. To know that He has given us all things that are for us!!!! THINGS we can do to make a difference....things that we can do to change lives and make this temporary home better.... Gifts are great-- they can be simple or they can be grand..... but they do inspire us and they are in each of us. Search for your gift.... I told them that one simple one that I have is that I don't mind at all standing in front of a group of young girls and letting them laugh at me or learn from me...it is their choice and I am sure they do both sometimes....but search for that gift...it is there-- use it and share it.