Today ends the week with my daughter and family here in Oklahoma City.  Yes, we had a wonderful time, got the work done she wanted and had a great time with the family.  God has taught me some things about Himself while being here too.  His work is all about Him and not any one of us.  Yes, we can and should be about His work which He leads us to do, but the results of any should always point to Him, otherwise it isn’t about Him nearly as much as it is about our ego.  I sure want my work to point others to my Heavenly Father.

God is so patient waiting for man to come to full realization about Him.  I can quickly jump to a conclusion that He is not interested in something or is being complacent about it.  This morning He was thorough in pointing out that what He looks for in completing His work is often not seen by man–at least at this stage.  The other thing is that we look for physical evidence while He is always working on spiritual one/s.  He does physical work, but His greatest work is in changing hearts to see Him.  I’m going to need much more time to ever get to this full awareness and then I will not make it–I’m human too.

There is much starting when Kathy and I get home.  This next week kicks off the new Celebrate Recovery year, kicks off the Conquer series our church is starting, a dinner tomorrow night at our house for the men who just completed the step study, and our quartet bringing the worship for our kickoff.  In all of this I am most anxious about our quartet doing worship.  Why, I don’t like admitting.  Something within me knows it is all about Celebrate Recovery brings to the open all my past.  I’ve always used my singing to keep others from seeing my past.  Somehow, these two will meet next Wednesday night.  I’ve always wanted our quartet to help with our worship, but this one item has held me back all 8 years thus far.  Now it is time.  My stomach is in knots writing this.  God will bring His work forth in this I know–I hope and pray.

Now for a morning at the Oklahoma fair with the grandkids and then to fly home.