Movement
I'm on the road, but not for too much longer. My family and I left Georgia on Monday to drive to South Carolina where we spent the evening with a very dear couple who we've been good friends with for a long time. They had a lovely home, and Lindsay and I sat outside on their front porch watching the stars and talking (while the adults were inside having "grown-up talk" *smile*). While we sat there, Lins and I saw the most amazing shooting star. It wasn't one of those very small ones that you miss if you blink; it actually left a glowing trail across the black blanket of night. It was beautiful.
Yesterday we left and drove to North Carolina to visit another family that have been our dear friends for many, many years. It has been wonderful to see them and to spend some time with them. Sometime today, we will get back in the car and drive back to South Carolina, spend the night, wake up the next morning to drive to Atlanta, and then fly out to Texas. It will be so good to be home. Those of you who have travelled know what I'm talking about: it's so wonderful to stop going places constantly, always living out of suitcases. It's so nice to be in one place that is your place, and to know you'll be there for a while. No more travelling, no more digging through suitcases every day. It's a blessed feeling. I am convinced that one of my favorite things about Heaven will be that I never have to move anywhere again. So that's what I'm looking forward to about being home in Texas and getting our family set up in the house my parents will be living in until they go back overseas in January. Granted, I think we'll only be there a week before going to Dallas to visit with family for about another week...but still.
As tired as I am of travelling, I really can't feel very sorry for myself. It is just too petty to be concerned about living out of suitcases when people all over the world are struggling just to live. I suppose many of you have heard about the earthquake, tsunami, and the second earthquake that hit Java, Indonesia. The 7.7 earthquake that hit just a few days ago created a tsunami that devastated more than 120 miles of the Java coastline. 525 people have been reported dead, with 273 people still missing. 383 people were left injured by the waves that also displaced more than 35,000 people. On top of that, another earthquake (6.2) has just occurred in the same area.
Indonesia is such a special place to me, so of course my heart breaks over the recent developments. But I know that so much else is going on all over the world, such as the horrible Middle East conflict that is raging right now. In the midst of the horrors and griefs facing the people of Indonesia, the Middle East, and countless other countries all over the world, my biggest prayer is that God would be moving. As earthquakes and tsunamis move across countries, I pray that God would move and shake people out of their complacency into His arms. As wars move across nations, I pray that God would move and show those people what it means to have His peace. And as I pray for God to move, I know that He already is moving, moving way before my prayers in ways I could never imagine. Really, in the midst of how God is moving all over the world, my moving between a couple of countries and a few states doesn't seem so important. And yet God is infinitely interested in both. It's humbling to me that as God works all over the world, He is still involved in every detail of my life. And it's humbling that as God works all over the world, He invites me to be involved in what He's doing. He is doing amazing things, and all we have to do is be ready and willing to serve in whatever way He asks us to.
God is moving. Are we ready to go with Him?
Yesterday we left and drove to North Carolina to visit another family that have been our dear friends for many, many years. It has been wonderful to see them and to spend some time with them. Sometime today, we will get back in the car and drive back to South Carolina, spend the night, wake up the next morning to drive to Atlanta, and then fly out to Texas. It will be so good to be home. Those of you who have travelled know what I'm talking about: it's so wonderful to stop going places constantly, always living out of suitcases. It's so nice to be in one place that is your place, and to know you'll be there for a while. No more travelling, no more digging through suitcases every day. It's a blessed feeling. I am convinced that one of my favorite things about Heaven will be that I never have to move anywhere again. So that's what I'm looking forward to about being home in Texas and getting our family set up in the house my parents will be living in until they go back overseas in January. Granted, I think we'll only be there a week before going to Dallas to visit with family for about another week...but still.
As tired as I am of travelling, I really can't feel very sorry for myself. It is just too petty to be concerned about living out of suitcases when people all over the world are struggling just to live. I suppose many of you have heard about the earthquake, tsunami, and the second earthquake that hit Java, Indonesia. The 7.7 earthquake that hit just a few days ago created a tsunami that devastated more than 120 miles of the Java coastline. 525 people have been reported dead, with 273 people still missing. 383 people were left injured by the waves that also displaced more than 35,000 people. On top of that, another earthquake (6.2) has just occurred in the same area.
Indonesia is such a special place to me, so of course my heart breaks over the recent developments. But I know that so much else is going on all over the world, such as the horrible Middle East conflict that is raging right now. In the midst of the horrors and griefs facing the people of Indonesia, the Middle East, and countless other countries all over the world, my biggest prayer is that God would be moving. As earthquakes and tsunamis move across countries, I pray that God would move and shake people out of their complacency into His arms. As wars move across nations, I pray that God would move and show those people what it means to have His peace. And as I pray for God to move, I know that He already is moving, moving way before my prayers in ways I could never imagine. Really, in the midst of how God is moving all over the world, my moving between a couple of countries and a few states doesn't seem so important. And yet God is infinitely interested in both. It's humbling to me that as God works all over the world, He is still involved in every detail of my life. And it's humbling that as God works all over the world, He invites me to be involved in what He's doing. He is doing amazing things, and all we have to do is be ready and willing to serve in whatever way He asks us to.
God is moving. Are we ready to go with Him?
posted by Katy @ 12:24 PM
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