As usual, winter has a way of making me feel unsettled. Call it cabin fever...if you will. Life really just feels routine and it seems that all I do is work at "motivating the masses". Such is the life of a mother. So many days I wish that I could just stay home and take of business there but that is just not possible. Pretty much our whole married life has required me to work at something to make ends meet and so, husband has endeavored on a master's degree. Our hope is that will land him on a more stable job with a better financial outlook. Working in the ministry has always been a year-by-year thing....never knowing if the "job" will be there. This is tiresome!
In my devotional reading, Elisabeth Elliot has been writing on the Supremacy of God. She commented on things that she had worked so hard on "in ministry" are no longer evident. Was it all in vain? No, she said....because those times were a fire of purification in her life. Those testings were an opportunity to lay down her life for the Lord. Hmmm, good stuff. It has help me look at life as a seasons of opportunity for God to purify me.
