| Yes...the shocking news is I am updating!  God is good!  Going on vacation Sunday  God is good! Going to Indy for Nationals when we get back from vacation  God is good! I found an AMAZING deal for Hilton Head that I can't pass up, so it looks like I am going to get to go to the beach this year!!!!!!!  God is good! Oh.....and did I mention that God is good! Love you all....miss you all....give me a holler sometime!!!! ~Shelly~  P.S. I just have to brag on someone who is very special to me....Leah Teets, you did an amazing job preaching on Wednesday to the youth! Here is the poem Leah read....let it sink into your heart! WAITING~ Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried:
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said, "Child, you must wait".
"Wait? You say, wait!" my indignant reply
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By Faith, I have asked, and am claiming your Word.
My future and all to which I can relate
hangs in the balance... and YOU tell me to WAIT?!!
I'm needing a 'yes', a go-head sign,
or even a 'no' to which I can resign.
And Lord, You promised that if we believe
we need but to ask, and we shall receive.
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, "You must wait."
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut
and grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting ... for what?"
He seemed, then to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine,
And he tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.
All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want ~~ But, you wouldn't know Me.
You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint;
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint;
You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there;
You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
When darkness and silence were all you could see.
You'd never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;
You'd know that I give and I save...(for a start)
But you'd not know the depth, or the beat of my heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the night,
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinte God, who makes what you have LAST.
You'd never know should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that "My grace in sufficient for Thee."
Yes, your dreams for you loved one overnight would come true,
But Oh, the Loss! If I lost what I'm doing in you!
So, be silent, My Child, and in time you will see
That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft' may My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still, "WAIT".
~Author Unknown~ |
It's COLD OUT! I do believe winter has arrived! Snow and freezing cold....YUCK!!!
~Shelly~