these are the ladies who hold me up each week here...and thankfully many of you reading this blog. we have grown to be very open in a short amount of time and i am blessed to have them call me a friend! from left to right...Edith, Jewel, Julie, and myself...we just went out to eat last night because Jewel will be going back to the states for 6 months...that means we say good-bye for a time. and Julie will be leaving us for good in Sept. because she will go into the tribe. all of our kids are great friends but i am realizing that everything here is just temporary...we have temporary friends, temporary happiness, temporary sadness, temporary homes...and my good good friend Chrissy reminded me today of Psalm 66...we have temporary pain in life to refine us and make us more like the one we are living for...and so i am just writing this little bit to say that i am so thankful that He has preserved our lives and kept our feet from slipping...He has provided so much and continues to come near the instant i need him and for this i have much to give thanks.
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In some Muslim cultures, they are afraid to "love" their children too much for fear of God's jealous anger who will then take them away (read: death).
It is good to know, though, that while God may take people in and out of our lives, He is not doing it out of anger but to put us into a place of More Trust, more complete faith. And He does it while giving us firm footing on flat paths, loose gravel roads, cliff paths, and stormy beaches.
I write this not as an admonishment but as one who has and is in Temporary Land!
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