“lay your burdens down and come back home”
This is song lyrics that stuck out Elizabeth Varaso (an american missionary with Adventures). Her blog is http://frankandelizabethvaraso.myadventures.org/?filename=lay-your-burdens-down-and-come-back-home. It has the full story on there.
Let me go back to the beginning. About 2 weeks ago the returning CGA apprentices had the opportunity to do an adventure week (just 3 days). For this week we were just to go where we felt led by the Lord to go to. My team felt led to HITCHHIKE to Texas. I will talk more about that in my next newsletter, which comes out Monday (if you would like to receive it comment with your email). When I got back home from this adventure I was starting feel bad about not having faith to see God provide on the trip. I felt like it was my fault for getting to where we wanted to because I did not have faith.
This started a chain reaction in my mind. I was getting confused about many things mainly about God providing. I had no idea what to do. Some days i would be fine and the next I would not. I was like a lost child roaming through the desert. Each day was getting worse and worse.
Well I am coming up on financial deadline on Monday and because of everything else that was going through my head, it didn’t make it any easier. I was asked to sit out of some things to support raise. Well there is only so much that I can do before i get bored. So I found work to do.
I was given the task of blog stocking the long term missionaries and just encouraging them. Well the first one I came to was Elizabeth’s blog. Through reading her blog I just felt so convicted that I was holding on to so much worry and stress that it was bottle necking in my soul and was effecting everything else. I also got the Jesus was our Father first and even though we may not see Him in something and when we are getting stressed out and worried, He is still our Father. We just need to lay down our burdens and come back home. For that is going to be where He is just waiting to love and care for us.
