up really early, 4:30...all packed and ready.. birthday table set up for my now 21 year old daughter... sick with a cold.. but looking forward to spending some time in Franklin Tennessee again.. I just love it there...catching up with 3 of my wonderful friends down there and just drinking in the Southern hospitality will be amazing..
never knew much of Tennessee until actually about 18 months ago when I came back from the Michael W Smith and friends Cruise in July 2010... I remember figuring out that "everyone" ( all the artists on the cruise) were living there.. checking it all out online I started to think how cool it would be to live there one day... in the mean time I have been there twice already, made some great friends there ...
the Adoption Agency / Pregnancy Care Center in Nashville is called "Miriam's promise" when I first googled that and saw the name I cried... mind you, I cried a lot back then..
anyways.. with my life so up in the air I wondered if this was where I would end up maybe...
I love the Word, I am so amazed that He would communicate with us like this...
Proverbs 3: 5+6 says this:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
I remember the times last year when I didn't know where I belonged anymore, my security and all I had known had come to an end.. it was a very unsettled place to be in.. but God had a plan, and I trusted Him..
He showed me where my place was right there and then and that's all I needed to know..
This week, I learned another important thing in this regard..
waiting on the Lord and trusting Him for His provision and care, Him being Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides.. when He will bring this man He has for me into my life, I am to go where he will go... like Ruth told Naomi in the book of Ruth 1:16 :
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
wow... so, the plans He has for me are that detailed.. when this little train called Miriam was thrown up in the air , even though it came as a surprise for me, He knew it all along and considered it to be something good for me.. when I was wondering where I would end up He had already decided that I was going to be staying here for the time being... for my future He already knows where I need to be one day.. so waiting on Him means to not lean on my own understanding but to trust Him with all my heart, submit to Him and He will make my path straight...isn't that what He has always done?
I am thankful for the way He continues to reveal things to me... HE ROCKS, that's all I can say...
getting on this plane today I will just enjoy what He has for me right now... and leave the planning up to Him..
