Whew… the wind blew… my schedule too… the Lord saw and pushed me through. Yesterday was participation in the CROSSING of the PARTED seas of logistics, even if the rain chased then poured all the way, and I felt soaked in schedules, The Way, meaning  Jesus, saw me through and sees us through life. 

The wind kicked up, I had driven faster than the storms that kicked up last night, Sunday. I got to the fair just in time at closing to pick up my exhibits and I knew when my door shut and my stuff was safe in the car that ONCE AGAIN the Lord did it! Lord-fantastic to my logistics. I give Him credit for safe passage to and from, this way and that… It was a good weekend and good is from God. Good God so much because I feel blessed not burdened, only burden is HOW? How to get it all or not all in.. and the Lord showed me that He was in charge and amazing with getting me (us) where I think I was supposed to be. If a schedule is tight, He loosens the struggle of it by us consulting Him,  STEP BY STEP. We best consult Him in everything, and see silverlinings too of NOT being places, because He moves mountains of our schedules for HIS PLAN. I’m just grateful to be in it. He got me from here to there and a thousand places in between over the course of these past few days. In a COURAGE course of His Logistics, I often state (sometimes just to myself) “Lord-willing and usually He IS!” to my crazy logistics of activities. 

And just because my fair stuff was in the car didn’t mean I was… and off I went, still chugging along with stuff to do, people to see, and endless Lord’s moving to marvel at. Second step was helping my friend load her car and in classic timing, closed that trunk too as the rain poured in. I knew it was coming as I had just driven 5 hours up and back north.  And I drove south through and past the rain that was surely going to hit the fair just at clean up. It did, but we did it.

“Baptism by rain” I said as we got a little soaked, not bad. The stuff was safe. And she gave me a dry towel!!! We were then off to her adult son’s immersion baptism and the skies did open like a deluge. So into the building we SQUISHED (good thing I had crocs and a towel and umbrella and thought nothing of drying my feet in church!).

Most amazing, yet again, amazing to watch the movement of the Lord in these lives of His children (adults and teens), getting adult immersion baptism, seeing faith grown and growing.  What a blessing to hear testimonies and to experience the crowd thirsty for the joy of the Lord realized! And we sang praises. (The immersion tube is behind the stage, interesting viewpoint of construction).

“Baptism by Reign” – that’s a good term for letting the Lord reign in our lives, clearing our agenda, installing His, and us praising Him for that. Lord, rein in our lives, rain into our thirst for You. And show us the path for us when we think the rain turns too dry. Soaked schedules are splendid when for YOU.

Simplicity and JOY, FAITH LIKE A CHILD, DEPENDING on the Lord, they were the themes of the day, as was in my sermon for the morning, published late (for me) but in line with the logistic time of the day. Published then couch collapsed, whew, the day was thru!

And today? Faith like a child again.

Get up and do it again, meaning depend upon Him.

Amen