Just Amazed
Written by Jason Raitz on 8:02 AMI am at my favorite Friday morning spot...Panera Bread. Friday mornings are wonderful.
M-TH mornings are pretty full and active in our house. Getting 4 kids up, breakfast, driving Tracie, Zach and Madie to church (Tracie works at the daycare at church and we need to leave the house by 715 to get her there on time...so, as you can imagine...getting 6 of us out the door by then is an adventure) make lunches, backpacks, snow gear, bus stop and then I get ready to head to church. Try to tackle the ever growing monster of email and spend a few quiet moments before I walk out the door.
Then I get Friday mornings. They are a gift. I get up early...well, I get up early every morning, but early enough to head to Panera Bread to read, pray, journal, write and then I induldge...I read the USA Today. I love the USA Today. Then I spend a few minutes saying hi to some other Willow folks who use Panera as their offsite spot and then I head into the office.
This morning I am using my time to finish preparing for a weekend of teaching at Camp Timber Lee in East Troy, WI. It's no secret...but I love Timber Lee. I love their staff, their volunteers, the way do camp and I love being there. Our family looks forward to a week there every summer.
But, as I sit here this morning...I still have a such a huge feeling of amazement. I am just amazed.
Amazed at how...
Good God is. How much He loves me and my family. How He provides. How His plan seems to work perfectly and at such incredible timing. How each day His word seems to pierce my heart with exactly what I needed to hear. God has put incredible people in my life. My friends pray and care for me. Wonderful my wife is. Spoiled I am to have her. Beautiful my kids are. Blessed I am to have the parents that I do. Humbled I am by people's generosity. People we don't even know have blessed us. People we do know have poured their own time & resources into my family. We have a house full of furniture. That the kids have closets full of clothes. Robbed I feel by the fire. Easy it is cry thinking about the week after the fire. Emotionally drained Tracie and I are. I am pretty Sad. I wish my kids didn't have to experience Jan. 09. Tired I am. In the midst of my weakness, God is strong. God never leaves our side and He walks with us. A Church body came around us and provided in ways that boggle my mind
The bottom line is...I am just amazed. A friend took our kids last night for a few hours and Tracie and I went to dinner alone. Truly Awesome. I can literally count the times we have gone on a date with my hands the last couple of years. But, we were alone. It was so good. We went to dinner and just talked. We talked about how amazed we are and how thankful.
One last thing...this verse in Psalms 36:5-6 (message) has really meant a lot lately.
God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdict oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.
Wow.
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