Is Your World Spinning?

Do you ever feel like you're on the teacups at Disney and can't get off? Our life has been somewhat like that these last few weeks, as have those of some of our friends. One friends father passed away, one has a mother that two months ago was fine....today she is racked with pain..unable to move because of cancer. Another friend is herself fighting her own war on cancer. One is pregnant with her 4th child and not feeling well. Another faces a list of circumstances of which the outcome is uncertain. We're making many changes in our own lives and our children's that will certainly effect the future. The list goes on....It's stressful.
Last Saturday morning my own perspective was also changed a bit. I was heating water in our microwave, went to get it out and the bowl dissentigrated in my hands. Boiling water poured out over both of my hands. After a giant "yelp!" because I didn't want to scare the girls...I found myself with some pretty serious burns...and pain. (the great doctor was not at home). I've experienced "little" burns before from a curling iron, or iron....but this was different and the level of pain was certainly different. Air hurt. Water hurt. Scott was encouraged that I felt pain (like 100's of stabbing needles.....no other way to describe it) but Lordy Be.....it hurt. It also affected my ability to use my hands normally which needless to say, had a huge impact on daily life this past week. It gave me a new regard for those with some type of handicap in which their normal mobility is affected. I'm moving towards fine now (skin is growing back...ewww!).....glad to use the inconvenience as a chance to learn...another opportunity to be grateful that it wasn't worse...and learn to honor God through trial.

Scripture says our lives will be marked by trials and tribulations of all kinds. I've been reading the story of Moses to the girls and how God continually provided....not all at once...but with "manna for the day' as the grumbling, complaining Israelites wandered in the desert. People mumbled, grumbled about their conditions...yet God still provided. Little by little they made it to the promised land, in Gods way, in God's time. Little did they know they were fulfilling a miraculous plan of redemption that would be preserved in scripture..... that we would be reading thousands of years later! Today, as I read this, I am held in holy fear at how serious God took their unbelief and groanings. Do we trust Him as Lord over our lives or not?! When illness, circumstances press in, causing us to complain and be moved to fear...what's our response?

I pray that this blesses you, in whatever circumstances you find yourself. This served me this week in my attempts to prayerfully give all to God.
"But indeed, through it all God does make known to us wonderful resources of His Mercy. He does help us, beyond all that we can ask or think, by the kindness and gentleness that He teaches others to show us, and by the Light that changes the look of all things, and by the uplifting power of His Grace, and by showing us our task in life, and by setting us to help and think for others: so in all these ways He bears us on from day to day. And it is just from day to day that we have to hold on: not looking into or puzzling about the further distances of this life, but doing our best each day, with each day's task and each day's duty, trusting God to give us the strength and light which for each day we need.--Frances Paget"

" So we cannot fear for the future, however uncertain the prospect may be, or however apparently unsafe. 'He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing' is a sustaining word in times of faintheartedness. Tomorrow's sea is as uncharted as was yesterday's. It is sufficient that we carry a compass [the Bible]." Amy Carmichael-The Gold Cord

Have a great week! "God's work done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies" Hudson Taylor--