Don't Look Back..

I'm sorry folks that it has been a while, I was on "blog strike" until my husband wrote (because we take turns), but the Lord had other plans. Many times I feel lonely and miss my family and my friends that I left to come to California and marry this wonderful man.

I felt like Ruth leaving everything, to follow God into a new season of my life and I realized that the Lord cannot water the plants of the future when you are still tending to the ones of the past. I have been placed among a wonderful family here and a new church and new friends and a completely different mission field.

For a while I think I was scared to really offer my heart, I was sad and broken from leaving my dearest treasures. And yet this New Year the Lord showed me that He could not show me the miracles He had for today if I clung to the ones of "Yesterday". But it is not the Lord's will for you to simply survive in His will He wants us to rejoice and seize the day and all the beauty of it.

This all ironically took place when I was visiting my family, and I wept when I said good-bye because my heart knew I had to allow other people to come in and enter those secret places of friendship. Jesus has the most precious people He wants to bring into our paths and allow real, vulnerable love to heal and touch their souls.

Jesus was so amazing at keeping His heart open and vulnerable to the people His father placed in Hid path.. Like the Samaritan woman, the leper, the demon possessed man, the centurion and even His dear "friend" Judas who betrayed Him. I am humbled at His open fully embracing heart.

I want to be open and love like Jesus and where He has placed each of us is just the place He wants us to reach and adore for Him. Nothing is a mistake, nothing is a fault, you are where you are because there are people all around you who need real friends and real love from a secret place of your heart.

my love to you all. your Rae.