19 January -- Vision and Darkness

We got it done! Oh, it is so exciting. We are about half of the water short for our 72 hour kits and we needs some eating utensils, but we packed away 5 bags for the family and one for the dogs. Woohoo! And Jim created a menu for the next month and we shopped to that! Wow, I feel so relieved. Only 332 more days to go ;-)

So the concept today is one of waiting. If you read the Genesis 16 reference, do you see yourself? How many times have we received some kind of revelation from the Lord only to then impose the world's reasoning on the time frame. We are so puny and small sometimes. Worse still, when things don't go our way (after we changed the rules to begin with), we want to take our ball and go home. We want to stop playing the game.

We ulitmately have so much control over our lives. There is nothing that we "have to" do because we have a choice in every action. Will we wait for the Lord's time frame, even in the deepest darkness, or will we try to make our own artificial light? Either way, the Lord will not interfere, but allows us to make our own choices. How cool is that? (Okay, it's not so cool when we make the wrong choice.)