Lessons Learned

 

With every new job, there are always lessons learned.  For this one, I have quite a few:

• There is no such thing as a quick burn.
• You feel less self-conscious about eating out looking like a coal miner if you are not the only one.

• If there is more than one input spout on the UTV, sniff it to be sure you are putting the right thing in the right spout.  I may have loaded water into the drip torch tank on our last burn...
• We are above the law! Ha ha...

• Poison oak really does look like a mini oak and should never be near your woodland potty location...
• And sometimes the mosquito infested areas are the prettiest.

Sit in His Promise

After five weeks here at the new job, new place, new people... I knew that I needed a break.  It's not that I don't like where I am, there is just a lot of stuff going now.  Many long shifts, many grad school assignments, many times where I just miss the calm, the rest, the friends of before, the alone time with God.

This weekend, I got to a bit of all of those.  I spent a night alone at an AirBnB, then got to visit one of those friends from before.  We went to the Aquarium in Atlanta and I got to visit her church, a house church through the 320 Network that my squad coaches from the World Race started.  It was a time that honestly was so edifying that I didn't want to come back at all.

Talking with my old coach and finally getting to speak so much that had been on my heart was great.  And I was able to vocalize how it is easier to give God our youth but not our whole life.  These days I have been a little more worried, because I know that God is calling me in the near future to crazy things, but He hasn't given me the details.  And at this point in life, one is expected to have a plan, not just follow the "whims of the spirit".  Months ago, God and I spoke about this though, and He knows that I will give Him my all.  Though I sometimes need some time to do it.

Anyway, after all this, I went back to my friend's place and she and another former world racer prayed over me.  And the word that she got for me was, "Sit in His promises".  I don't know what this season will hold, or what I am doing half the time, but I know His promises...there is a book full of them.  I can take comfort in that knowing they are for me and confident in my place in His will.