Surprised by daffodils—unexpected blooms during different seasons
Recently, I was sitting out on our covered deck with a dear old friend reminiscing about our lives as roommates, single missionaries in communist countries over 40 years ago. What adventures. I didn’t know life would be this way! I could never have predicted my story would turn out with so many twists and turns, I didn’t know motherhood would be such a marathon, I didn’t know I would be stretched to my limits. Or that God would over long years give me the strength to keep going forward and living into the story I had been given.
Today, I am quite tired to my bones, but it is a good tired. I never knew God would give me 4 children, or that they would live far, far from home. Or that I would have the privilege to have a ministry amongst kindred spirits all over the world.
Today, in a crunch of time, I am going to relax a bit and share a couple of my own stories—just for fun. Maybe some day I will tell my life story—it is beyond what I could have imagined.
Join me on my podcast today to relax and enter into some of my tales.
I hope it gives a little grace to your story, too.
And some of my favorite verses that helped me to learn to put away fears and worries through the seasons of life.
Bless you this week.