Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It's a bit strange to be in a country where Thanksgiving Day is just another work day. But on Sunday we will have a big Thanksgiving meal at our house with about 20 people. It'll be very traditional and my French friends love experiencing an American Thanksgiving.
It's hard to believe that a week ago I was in Columbia, Missouri having just spent a weekend in Cape Girardeau as well. It all was so much fun and so amazing to see how God loves each and every person and continues to meet each one right where they are. What a sweet love story we each are living, some of just don't realize it yet!
After speaking to a group of women last Thursday morning, I sat in on one of their small group discussions. They are working through the book, "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg. Great book by the way. I made a comment to them that if I were writing a book right now it would be, "If You Fall Out of the Boat, You Might as Well Walk on the Water". I was kidding, of course....or at least I thought so.
As I thought about that later I thought about how many of us end up walking through situations and circumstances that we never would have agreed to walk through. I know for my life, the things that people notice most about what I live are things that I NEVER would have agreed to. Sometimes I feel more like I'm going down into the water rather than walking. But what seems to amaze everyone the most is that I'm standing and experiencing God's amazing peace and grace through it all. I never saw myself as a missionary, a speaker, or a candidate to mother a handicapped child. I never in a million years would have gotten out of the boat and walked on water through those things. But God nudged me (OK, PUSHED me) out of the boat of safety, the familiar, and what I was willing to do. The greatest part of all is that HE is carrying me and sustaining me as I continue to learn to walk, with His grace and peace, on the water!
I pray that you too will know His peace and grace through whatever water you find yourself walking on...whether you bravely got out of the boat of comfort and safety or fell out or was pushed out. His grace is sufficient and you will find Him to be faithful with every step and even when you feel the water rising dangerously high!
Bisous!
Angela
It's hard to believe that a week ago I was in Columbia, Missouri having just spent a weekend in Cape Girardeau as well. It all was so much fun and so amazing to see how God loves each and every person and continues to meet each one right where they are. What a sweet love story we each are living, some of just don't realize it yet!
After speaking to a group of women last Thursday morning, I sat in on one of their small group discussions. They are working through the book, "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg. Great book by the way. I made a comment to them that if I were writing a book right now it would be, "If You Fall Out of the Boat, You Might as Well Walk on the Water". I was kidding, of course....or at least I thought so.
As I thought about that later I thought about how many of us end up walking through situations and circumstances that we never would have agreed to walk through. I know for my life, the things that people notice most about what I live are things that I NEVER would have agreed to. Sometimes I feel more like I'm going down into the water rather than walking. But what seems to amaze everyone the most is that I'm standing and experiencing God's amazing peace and grace through it all. I never saw myself as a missionary, a speaker, or a candidate to mother a handicapped child. I never in a million years would have gotten out of the boat and walked on water through those things. But God nudged me (OK, PUSHED me) out of the boat of safety, the familiar, and what I was willing to do. The greatest part of all is that HE is carrying me and sustaining me as I continue to learn to walk, with His grace and peace, on the water!
I pray that you too will know His peace and grace through whatever water you find yourself walking on...whether you bravely got out of the boat of comfort and safety or fell out or was pushed out. His grace is sufficient and you will find Him to be faithful with every step and even when you feel the water rising dangerously high!
Bisous!
Angela
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