My journey completed itself yesterday amazing me how thorough God is and how thoughtful His thoroughness is.  His Holy Spirit does complete His work with one message and it is beautiful to watch it work itself out when I don’t interfere with the process.  The meeting early yesterday morning ended itself with everything that needs to happen taking place without even suggesting the steps.  God had already orchestrated the steps without me saying anything.  The meeting for the troubled teen ended the same way.  I do know that many times outcomes are not so crystal clear, but I am learning that outcomes are always clear to God.  Running ahead of Him adds so much drama and anxiety.  I do want to be a good student and learn from this reality.

Kathy is gone to the hills with friends for a 3 day get away.  She enjoys this and I always use the time to to simply enjoy home and what goes on here.  However, I do find myself vulnerable to temptations at this time.  This morning in my scripture reading it seemed the message of every Psalms I read was about the result of honest worship with God.  Worshiping God, asking God to heal the areas of hurt and need in our lives, and obeying what He directs us to do through His Holy Spirit are steps He made clear.  These are the steps I always want to take.  In so doing I need to remember the words of the Serenity Prayer–“taking one day at a time, one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.”  I use to tell myself at times like this that I’d need to be strong for this amount of time while I was alone.  It often didn’t happen either.  However, God is reminding me to keep my eyes on what He tells.  One day at a time and one moment at a time is always doable with Him.  Panic and fear are tools of Satan.  Confident assurance taking the steps God outlines are His tools.  I will choose His.