When I decided that I needed to start this blog it was motivated by God’s Holy Spirit nudging me.  I thought it was because God’s work with and in me certainly was not complete because I’d written my book.  The book didn’t end the journey, it simply opened the door for others to know my journey and maybe find help for their own.  The thing I’m finding now is that God is awakening in me a fuller understanding of total surrender of the “all of me”.  There cannot be any areas of  my life I keep for myself.  They are all to be given to God for His purposes.  Before I opened up about my past, what I kept from others was just that–my past.  Now, I find myself needing to stay awake to the areas within a day I want just for me.  God, on the other hand, wants me fully surrendered and totally willing to respond to Him for His Kingdom work.

Later this morning our quartet is getting together to prepare for the time next Sunday when we sing for the juvenile correction center.  I’ve mentioned this repeatedly.  Yesterday the one in the quartet who usually puts our order together met with me.  I am taking the lead this time but struggling with it.  He had some good suggestions.  This morning my Bible reading is in the first two chapters of Acts.  Christ has told the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for His Gift–The Holy Spirit.  They did wait and when the Spirit came upon them they were anointed with passion and The Message to give as they went out.  God was reminding me that He wanted The Holy Spirit to be the one to give the message to these kids at the center.  Waiting upon His Holy Spirit is what He wants me to do and each of us in the quartet to do.  I know we want this, but our own desire to get it planned so we can rehearse it often overrides the “waiting on the Lord and Holy Spirit”.

Later this afternoon I am meeting with a young man who has been released from jail and is trying to find his way back into life.  His mom is a friend but living out of state.  I don’t know this young man, but I want to be God’s servant in this doing what God wants, not what man may want.  I ask for your prayers for the time we meet that God will be fully in charge and His Spirit free to accomplish His purposes.  To God be the Glory great things He has done–and will do as we are fully surrendered to Him.