Hey Everyone!!
This month has simply flown by, it has been busy, but with so many good things. I have done more preparing for the return to Spain. I have also had the privilege of traveling to visit many family members and friends. I truly feel incredibly thankful to have been able to spent some time with friends and family, some of whom I haven’t seen in a very long time.
As I was traveling back home through Virginia I saw the first evidence that fall really has begun, I saw among the trees bright splashes of color beginning to mix with the green all around me. I love this time of year, it is a beautiful sight to see all the leaves bursting into so many vibrant colors. This is such a great reminder for me how God makes all things beautiful, every situation is worked for the good of those who love Him. There is beauty in every season, just as leaves are most radiant at the end of that season of their lives, God wants to use every season of our lives to display His glory. He takes hard situations that are over and have past and somehow makes them radiant. He doesn’t waste any season, any time of our lives, no matter how hard or ugly it may have been He desires to bring beauty from those ashes, not just ignore them.
God brought this to my mind today after I finished a conversation with the Principle of my old elementary school. She called because she wanted me to come and speak in their chapel and help with their Spanish classes one day next week. Now if any of you know me well you will know that elementary school through High School was not my thing, I wasn’t bad at it, school just was not something I enjoyed.
So needless to say I was surprised at the call, and also honored that I could have this opportunity. After getting off the phone I was once again reminded of God’s desire to use all of me, to make everything in life even the past be for His glory. Now I can honestly say I am so excited to be able to go to school and speak to kids that may be feeling the same things I did sitting in the same spot that they are in right now. I can’t wait to share with them how passionate God is about them, His children, and about His heart for Spain and for all of the lost throughout the world. So I ask that all of you please be in prayer for this time at the school on October 2nd, for the kids to be receptive, and for me to speak what God has to say to them.
Jesus says to us even today, "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." -Isaiah 61:1-3
