Christ is Risen...

He is risen indeed!

Hope you and yours had a very blessed day.  What a priviledge to enjoy this day in the company of our church family.  Spending each day this past week, during Holy Week with all ouf our local churches, united as one Body - the sense of community was both powerful and overwhelming.

I truly had forgotten what a joy it is to be involved in a small town.  It has it's own dynamics of course, but I absolutely LOVE when the churches get together to do celebrations.  What a way to celebrate Christ, as a community.  I've missed that a lot.

May the peace of Christ fill your hearts.

As you can see from my latest "theme", I am desparately ready for spring and spring flowers here.  But today, the wind is cold and chilly, there are still snow flurries in the air.  But despite this, a few brave, hardy little tulips are pushing their way up into this cold, cold world.

I love this time of year, because it comes on so gradually, and when things do end up blooming, it just takes me by suprise.  I think I've said a while back, that a group of lilies are beautiful, but they become vibrant in a field of snow. 

If anything, they remind me that life doesn't stop happening because the current season's thrown a curve at them.  Whether the sunshine is poured on them, or snowflakes cling, the tulips grow and bloom when it's time to do so.  That's it.  They don't ask when. Don't check to see if its a good date on their calendars.  They don't create a rain-date just in case the weather's bad.  They just do what God designed for them to do.  Period.

Sometimes I wish I had the mindset of a tulip.  Just do what God tells me to do, when He tells me to do it.  Stop looking around me for the "perfect time"; because there isn't going to be one.  Ever. 

Ah well...I'm waxing poetic at the moment.

If you will, remember me in your prayers for both work and personal life, I'd really appreciate it.  With work, I'm working through some techincal documentation that honestly, I just don't understand.  I mean, I sorta understand some of it?  But I'm going to have a meeting on Thursday, where it's my job to explain said documentation AND bring forth questions out of it to a consultant & my boss.  Basically, it's like trying to read theology in French fluently, when I've only had one semester of French lessons in High School.  I have to both comprehend the language of the technical document and then try to understand the mastery of the actual subject.  It's harrrd. 

And in personal life - exciting news...It's getting closer to time for me to speak at a women's conference in April!  Yay!  And I've got a lot of the process of the speaking parts done in my head.  Yay!  It's not on paper.  Boo!

Maybe I should try and write it in a foriegn language.   Like I'm not already challenged enough. 

Just pray for God to just help me take all the scattered thoughts of this subject that I've had on my heart for four years and make it be the one He wants His daughters to hear....ALL his daughters (including me!).  I've been keeping a saying on my desktop that I found not too long ago.  It says this...

Speakers are like a turtle on a fence post - God has to put them up there.  ~ Kathy Collard Miller

You said it, Kathy! 

And thank you for not saying it in French.  

Bon soir!!

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