April 1, 2013

• Little Confirmations

  Three of us wanted to move to Guatemala. One of us didn’t. This “one” has a hero: Bear Grylls. If you don’t know who that is, he has a survival tv show. He gets dropped off in deserts and jungles and rain forests and has to survive on what the land around him can offer. The second day we were in Guatemala I was trying to decide what to do with the abundance of decor in our furnished condo. Waaayyy too much decor for me. I found a cute little basket upstairs that I loved and decided to take downstairs. When I picked it up, a little piece of paper blew out of it and landed on the floor. I picked it up and there, written in pencil scrawled writing were two words: “Bear Grylls”. I hollered for Camden to come see and told him I believed it was a sign from the Lord that he was in the exact country, city, and house that God had picked out for him. I asked the renters before us if they knew anything about this scrap of paper and they said, “No, we never even touched that basket.” I wonder how long that piece of paper has been there waiting on us….

  

  Almost four years ago, we were on the move to Brownsville. The kids and I in a packed mini van, and Blake ahead of us in a UHAUL with his car being pulled behind. My phone rang and Blake said simply, “Turn on the radio,” and hung up. I listened with him in two different vehicles as Chris Tomlin sang, “Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to come in this city….” Our burden for the city of Brownsville grew as we listened and allowed God to move deeper in our hearts for this new place to which He had called us. Blake put that song in his worship list many times the first few months we were there.
  And then last week, our first Sunday here in Guatemala, sung in beautiful Spanish in a small room, crowded and hot, the worship leader lead us in the same song, “You’re the God of this City…Greater things are still to come…”
  Just as God loves each person individually and has a specific plan and destiny for their life, God also loves every city individually and has a specific plan and destiny for that region. I am honored to live here and you are honored to live where God has placed you.

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