Last week, I got a taste of trusting God. How hard is it when the rubber meets the road..er…or when the trees start falling around your house hours before you are supposed to leave for a week?
I usually love thunderstorms, but this was frightening. It was the second such wind/thunder/lightening storm within a seven day period. Several folks are still without power even today.
As I sat on my porch watching the storm come in, suddenly the wind swooshed through and it didn’t stop for the next half hour or so. Long enough to drop trees. I heard the first crack and ran around the porch to see the tree on the ground in my yard. Seconds later, a couple cracks and two trees went over across the street. The power there was out all night. So was the street light. But I had lights. I was grateful. It was a small taste of the terror that people must feel in a tornado.
That short time, I kept reminding myself that God knows what He’s about. Even if the tree had fallen on my house, God would still be about His business. My plans may have changed, but I would survive. It’s been a cleanup week. And I have to figure out what to do with my tree. He will provide.
On the other hand, I did leave the next morning for Portland Oregon to attend the Oregon Christian Writers Conference. So it was back to the Columbia River for me. And I even saw the Queen of the West there again. What fun.
It was an intense week of learning, meeting people, networking, and I have come away with projects in mind and maybe some scary (for me) steps ahead. What if I fail? What if I just can’t do this? Would Father God call me to a place of failure? No. Of course not.
We sang a song at one of the devotionals that talked about going deep to places where we do not have the strength on our own to do. Places where only God can come through for us. The messages were about doing the calling He has given us to do and not to worry about the striving on our own. We strive, we fail. We trust, He comes through.
Strangely enough, we sang that same song at church this morning. I wonder if Father is trying to tell me something?
“Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” Luke 5:4.
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