Well, the reunion is over and I had a blast! I haven’t seen most of my 14 classmates since the day we graduated from Epworth Christian School. It was a lot of fun getting to talk to many of them on the phone and to have them fill out information sheets that gave me a small look into their lives, then and now. It’s funny how much different some of us are and how much we have changed physically. Some of us are larger, some with less hair, all of us with wrinkles and gray hair. I decided that although I was “fluffy” I didn’t have to be gray too, so I colored my hair before going! It didn’t really matter though, we were friends again and we laughed and caught up on one anothers lives and decided that we couldn’t wait another 20 years to meet again, but that trying to gather every other year was a much better plan. So we set a date and made a plan so that all that has to be done is send out a reminder/invitation.
I was able to reconnect with so many people during this process and with a couple of my classmates, it was a God connection. I don’t know exactly how it is supposed to go or work out or even what we are supposed to be to one another but it was not by accident and we all 3 knew it. Maybe it was so that I could be praying for one guy in particular, in his business, or so that one guy could hold the other accountable in his walk with the Lord. It could be a number of things but for whatever reason we were nit back together and I am excited to see what God is going to do in the lives of each of these families.
On the home front, I am experiencing a new place with Jesus. As I walk through the stuff that is happening at our church, which has been really hard, I am learning just what my husband preached this morning. I am learning how to “be in Christ” and to not respond to the “bad things” in life with the “old me”, but with the Jesus that resides within me. We are having to trust the Lord to provide for our family financially as John has not been paid in 4 1/2 weeks, but the Lord has met the needs. My bills are paid, someone put new tires on my car, someone gave me money to buy school clothes for my boys, someone took my daughter shopping in their closet, and then someone else took her to buy the things that weren’t in the closet. Not everyday is easy, but most days I find that I have no problem maintaining my joy. I seem to have a once a month “meltdown” which is just me feeling sorry for myself and feeling that my “friends” are deserting me without cause, but I usually vent to someone close and then choose to count it all as loss and then reclaim my joy. I can’t explain what is happening, I can’t make it stop, I don’t know what to do except pray, and I know that in it all, God is in control and I am to have peace and trust Him. Sucks that it is happening, sucks that I can’t make it stop, but brings me joy in the knowing that on the other side of this I will understand, to some degree, and that I will be able to testify to God’s mighty plan for my life and His provision! Thank you Jesus!
Glad y’all had fun at the reunion.
We both know that God IS provision in ALL things. We have seen the evidence too many times to believe anything else. I realize that some of the things that are happening must be very confusing, sad, disappointing, enraging, painful. I hate that you are going through what you are. We both know that on the other side, you will see how the Lord has used it all and caused you to grow and become more the woman He wants you to be. In the meantime, you CHOOSE to hang in there and trust in His sovereignty and PRAY. You cry when you need to, vent when you need to. And you have HOPE in the THE ONE who has it all figured out. It is all good.
LOVE YOU girl.