Today was a day where all day I felt like gosh..I have GOt to write this down. Maybe I should keep my lap top and every time something comes to my mind, write it down. I woke up with my mind going 90 mph and by noon it was going 175. I always get these thoughts and think, gee could someone benefit from hearing that? would it make their day?? or geee is that TMI?? HAHA. Dave is home now and it's allowed me to take showers, and, well, do the things I love again. lol. I feel like when he was gone, I was stripped of that, but believing Romans 8:28 I knew not to worry. God has been working so much in my life though, that what I used to love is not exactly the same as what I do now. Anyways, turns out it was a pretty awesome time to just be forced to slow down and stay home a WEE bit more. God reveals so much to us, we only need to be STILL!We still missed the head honcho terribly, but a lot was accomplished spiritually in his absence. On both of our ends! So praise God. Now he's home and already has my shoes all lined up in a row. (not kidding) We do not operate well when we are without each other. We just miss each other so much, we are functioning at 50%. I don't mean to sound cheesy, but just stating the facts. We both are committed to our marriage, children and what God has called our family to do, so it gets us through the rough times where I am stressed and have to eat chickfila every day and gain 10 lbs a week. HAHA. I am always good at writing about and sharing what God is doing in Dave's life or sometimes my kids.. but if I talk about myself then that's like bragging. Braggers get on my nerves. But when I brag... I am bragging on what God is doing because trust me, it is NOT me!!! I can take no credit. Just a little disclaimer for the future haha. It's kind of a long story but I think I will put it into words because it's pretty cool how God answers prayers. Even sometimes YEARS later. Here are a couple things from this month =))
Prayer #1:
I am begging Dave for more kids.
Answer to the prayer--Dave thinks we should buy Kyndall a gerbil. Lesson-- keep praying.. Dave will change his mind. =) or maybe God will decide that a gerbil is just what our family needs... last I checked it does not say anywhere in Psalms 127, "Behold, gerbils are a heritage of the Lord"
prayer #2: have prayed that God would use Katie's heart for His glory. (she is my little evangelist). If you do not want your child to be asked if they know Jesus, do not let them hang out with her. LOL. She blows me away with her courage to just blatantly ask her friends if they know Christ. answered prayer---She's informed me that she has witnessed to 3 girls on the gymnastics team and they have all asked Christ into their hearts. I know they are young, but that seed has been planted. Apparently she gave them a pretty good spill on His awesomeness =))) Praise God for this and I pray that she will always remain humble in her evangelistic measures. =)) Humility is a character trait that is a requirement of our family. If you don't have it, you are in deep doo doo. Obviously, we all fall short, but we will die trying to teach them that.
Answered prayer #3: This is a lengthy one. I will try and give the cliff notes version. While in pharmacy school, God really began to shape my heart for missions. There were times that I thought I should apply to medical school and become a physician. I just began praying my first year in pharmacy school about this. What kept me from doing it, was a few things. Dave was playing in the Major Leagues and I wanted to have kids and have a house full. I knew that even if I only planned on going to medical school to become a medical missionary it wouldn't fit so great into our lives. How would I be a mom, how would I homeschool my kids?? Medical school would have taken me 8 more years. I mean, Dave was seriously living out his dream and he needed me there alongside him. If I had kids, they would need me there AND they would need to see their Dad too. So I couldn't really be in two places at once! (Although I often try that and fail miserably.) God soon revealed to me that He could still use me and He knew the desires of my heart! Being a pharmacist is the ultimate "mom job" if you love medicine and serving people (of allllllllllll walks of life!) and want to work a little or a lot. I never dreamed anyone would put up with me to only work in the off season, but it has always worked out beautifully. I am not saying that physicians can't be GREAT moms too, because I am blessed to know a few! But, just with our life and situation I knew that wasn't a possibility. So, fast forward a few years.. 3 kids later, I tell Dave that my life isn't complete and that I HAVE to help people that have no access to medicine. It's just eating at me. If he doesn't help make this possible I may be forced to fly to a third world country with our 3 children =) He's always been so apprehensive about me leaving the country without him, but I tell him it's too expensive for him to join me! haha. True Story. It just is. Well, this winter I finally have a chance to go to Haiti for medical missions AND have something brewing in my own backyard. HOW cool is that. SO.. planning on Haiti in December. If the children of Haiti have a special place in your heart, and you feel led to give to this mission. Just say the word. I hope to be there for a week, and God willing.. I really would love to bring Dave with me. I am thinking he would be pretty good at just loving on those kids...playing baseball and being my wingman.
My lesson--always know that God knows the desires of your heart....be careful what you ask God for, because in His time He will show up big time.
OK, I feel like I need a drum roll before I tell you the exciting news thats happening in our town..................so just imagine those periods are a drum roll. A family has donated a 3 story brick medical building to our church. We are BEYOND excited about this. I am on the organizational team for this project and if I get on your nerves bragging about what God is doing, sorry in advance! But please make no mistake, this is all to further God's kingdom here on Earth and has nothing to do with me. I am just a warm body with a pulse, being led by the Holy Spirit. I want to make that clear. I am not doing anything fancy, just what God asks. This is going to provide FREE health care to those who meet the certain income requirements, are residents of Douglas County and are working and have no insurance or are underinsured. You will show up at this clinic and you can bet on being shown the love of Christ and receiving wonderful health care. I joined the team kind of late but when I did, I had to be willing to help fundraise for it. I am going to be honest, at the beginning it made me queezy just to think about having to ask. I was worried that people would just wonder why I didn't pay for it myself HAHA. Which is totally not possible. I really just trusted that God would intercede for me and help me to spread the word and that others would be equally as excited as me. It also dawned on me that if I didn't ask anyone or spread the word, just think of all of the people that would miss out on God's blessings. In our community there is a GREAT need for this clinic. This will help keep people with no insurance out of the emergency room as well. Wellstar has donated $600,000 in equipment already, and we have a building with no mortgage. how awesome is that!
SO... long story short..... I am living my dream right now being a part of this. If you see me you will notice that I am GLOWING. I have to pinch myself that God seriously just placed in my life a project that I had hoped to be a part of. God is allowing me to somehow juggle homeschooling the girls, working some, and being a wife to Dave (full time job alone LOL). My house is messy and I may appear a tad more scattered than normal, but being able to do God's work has is SO much better than a clean house and appearing as if I have it all together. which I am pretty sure that I have never appeared to have it all together! LOL.
I am spending the next two days out just meeting with people about The Care Place. If you would like to be a part of this, please contact me. There is a great need for local businesses to sponsor this project. There are several levels of giving and each donor will have their families name or business name on a special wall listed under founders. I would like to go to everyone I know personally and invite them, but I waited to do this until Dave was home =( I didn't think that most would enjoy my 3 year old climbing on top of their desk and eating out of their candy bowls while I shared! (Can you tell this has happened already? So now my mission begins.. We are having a fundraising dinner at our church (Church at Chapel Hill) on Thursday, November 15th. If you would like to host a table, filled with people who love to serve that would be awesome. You will be responsible for inviting 3-4 other couples to come along with you that you think would love to be a part of this ministry.. If you want to come to this dinner, but are not able to host a table that is great too. I have to have all RSVPs by next Wednesday, October 31st. You can email me directly at chelleyw@mac.com or call me!
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms." 1Peter 4:10
No comments:
Post a Comment