So...I have been home in Ontario for almost 9 weeks....and I have three more weeks until I go. The time has been very special, very precious and very different! I am realizing that being a bridge sometimes hurts....and rightly so. Bridges get walked on, things get transported over bridges, there is pressure, there is wear and tear...but bridges are build to last. They are built to withstand floods, they are build to bear the burden of those heavy loads, until they cross over to the other side. Bridges are build to connect, to increase communication, to increase traffic and accessibility to all sorts of things. Thank God for bridges and really thank God for the strength He gives bridges to exist. Another revelation and some of you might laugh who have heard me say this....I realize that to be a bridge is to be transition!!! Ha ha ha! Bridges are transition - they are the point in between that connects to fixed points!! So all this time, when I have said, "transition is my middle name"...actually my middle name is renee, which means reborn!!, it is pretty true from a heavenly perspective!
It has been unique to be back at home and almost "slide" right in to a role and perception of the dear friends and family here and see God do mighty things in such a short time. (obviously I understand He was working all the time, I just get to jump in and celebrate the victories God brings while I am present!!!) Lives brought back into right relationship with God. People receiving greater healing in their hearts and lives. Others being conformed into Jesus' image through discipleship and simply through loving, meaningful relationships. People identifying their dreams and visions from the heart of God and then going after it! AHHHHH!!! I love the body of Christ and I love loving God's people - what an honour it is to be in His family!!!
Time is so valuable. Time with people with open hearts to love and hear and give and receive is valuable. Action and words that show our faith-filled belief in others is what Jesus loves!!! And it causes people to thrive and flourish in their God give gifts and talents! And it allows us to enter into greater love and freedom in Christ as we freely give away the love, faith and care that Jesus so freely gives to us!
What an exciting time it has been. And also a trying time. A time to fight in the unseen to attain and maintain the peace of God as various things have come against me pursuing obedience to God's word to me.
As I feel the winds of the Spirit of God stir me up to get ready to go away on assignment again, all the emotions and experience of a continued transition come along with it! Yet, in the midst of the pressure, of the temptation to compare and desire a life that God didn't make for me that I see others living with the grace and joy God has given them to live it with, I have a brooding excitement and renewed longing for the new adventures God has planned. I feel the awe of walking with Jesus into new places and into new and deeper relationships with people of other cultures, nations and lands starting to ignite my soul.
I was made for this. For adventure with God and others. For the glory of Jesus to be seen and seeded throughout the nations of the earth! And how awesome and wonderful is it that in this life God has given us, He can actually do that....through normal means like teaching English, prayer and intercession, worship and praise, declaring His word.....simple obedience! Only God is that good and He loves us so much that He brings us along for the ride!! And He builds us into what He designed, in my case and one of His purposes for me...a bridge builder and then the bridge itself!
Jesus is the greatest and most powerful bridge of all times...so I guess I have been grafted into His pre-existant bridge...What an amazing engineer our Father is!
