Trusting

  I want to begin by thanking each of you who prayed for me this last week, about my throat sickness stuff.  I'm doing much better, and it's pretty much over now.  The glands in my throat are still a little swelled, but are continuing to get better.  I was downing Echinacea and Vitamin C really heavy, and that combined with all of you praying for me did the trick.  I so appreciate all of you and your heart for prayer.  It's such a comfort and strength knowing that I have that support and a team of people that are lifting me up to the Father's heart.  When I really started feeling better though, was actually when I started taking these each night...

Hahaha, chocolate is good for whatever ails you.  Really!!    Atleast it made my day anyway :)
  In other news, one of the interns, Anna, who was here for three months, left last week, and we all miss her.  El Salvador isn't quite the same without her, but I will be able to see her again soon, Lord willing, as she is going to Ellerslie, a Christian Mission Training school in Windsor, CO.  We plan to get together sometime when I get back.  She's pretty cool, and I'm blessed to have gotten to know her.

  Everyday continues to be a learning experience.  I learn a few more Spanish words everyday.  Some stick, and some don't. ;)  I wish they  all did.  I'm continuing to love it here... the people, learning the culture, the fruit ( oh yaeh!!), and all that I'm getting to experience.  Although I must say, this country girl is beginning to miss her outdoors and all that goes with it.  I miss going on long walks down a dirt road that stretches out for ever ahead of me when it looks like a thunderstorm is approaching, and then getting rained on before I get home.  I miss checking cows and driving where I see no one at all on the road.  All part of being a self proclaimed hick living in the city ;)  But I am also enjoying every single minute here, because I know it will be over before I know it.  The challenge is before me that is always before me.  To do as one of my favorite quotes by Jim Elliot says... "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."  That was my motto before I came to El Salvador.  Funny it still is when I'm here.  To not worry, or be living in tomorrow... next week... next month... even the next moment.  I always used to wish God would give me a clue as to what He was thinking about my future.  To just lay it all out for me where I knew what He had coming.  I don't know what will happen when I get home.  What He will have me to do. Sometimes it would be nice if I knew.  But then what would I have to trust Him for?  What would I have to depend on Him for?  He continues to let me know that He is the one leading, I am the one following, and all I need is one step at a time.  All I have to do is take that one step as He lays it out.  It's called trusting.  Sounds so simple, but is probably one of the hardest lessons I am learning.  Because I like to be in control.  But it's when I give the control over, hand over reigns to Him, that trust really begins to take ahold.  Pray that I will continue to trust Him, and also for direction when I do get home.  For the courage to wait for the next step, and then take it when it comes.

  

 

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event."

Matthew Henry

                         All you can eat meat at Intercontinental Restaurant. Yaeh Baby!!! ;)