Hello family and friends!
Sorry blogging has taken me so long. I am in the midst of finals- my last finals week EVER! 🙂 (hopefully)- and it has been crazy, as I am sure many of you understand!
There are so many things I want to share with you guys. My heart is overflowing with God's faithfulness. There are so many things on my heart. I will try to stay on just one topic, however. 🙂
Everyone has big moments in life. These are the moments that change you. The moments that shape you. The ones that change the course of your life. The moments when it is clear that God is powerfully at work in your circumstances. The big decisions you make. Or maybe its the difficult moments that are the big moments. The phone call you never wanted to receive. The news you never wanted to hear. These big moments…they change us.
We live for these moments…the big moments.
As Christians, we often live for the big "God moments"-
because…It is easy to see God in the grandoise, supernatural, miraculous moments of life.
It is easy to see Him when things in life are taking off, when the thing you have been waiting for FINALLY happens.
It is easy to see His faithfulness when something or someone you have been praying for a long time is transformed.
It is easy to see Him move in a powerful worship service.
It is easy to see Him when something BIG is happening.
But what happens when….nothing is happening?
What happens when we go to school, go to work, eat, breathe, sleep, spend time with friends, go to church, take care of our business…wake up, and do it all over again?
Am I just in waiting for the next big moment? Am I biding my time??
Or worse…
Am I doing something wrong?! Is this why BIG things aren't happening??
Let me be the first to say…I am guilty of this mindset. I spend so much time waiting around, conciously or unconciously, waiting for God to do something in my life that will grab my attention.
Truth: God is ALWAYS moving. He ALWAYS has something to teach me. He ALWAYS has a way for me to show love to someone. He ALWAYS has a new way to lavish His love on me. He is ALWAYS trying to grab my attention. He is ALWAYS demonstrating His faithfulness to me in some way.
But I miss it…all the time. I take the little moments for granted. I don't see the beauty of them. I don't understand the value in them.
As I am beginning the journey of the World Race, its been easy for me to get caught up in waiting for the big things to happen. The World Race, in itself, is a BIG, life-changing kind of thing. Hence, I am in full expectation of big things even as I begin preparing to leave in July 🙂 Which is wonderful and exciting! But I get caught up in my idea of a "big" moment… and forget God is working all around me. He has things for me in the quiet moments. The seemingly insignificant moments. The routine moments. The everyday moments.
Maybe the little moments aren't so ordinary, after all.
I don't want to miss out on ONE MOMENT that He has for me in this journey leading to the World Race… not one. I don't want to live only for the big moments. Or rather, my own definition of a big moment. And I know the big moments will happen…and we should very much expect BIG things of God 🙂 I am NOT saying we should keep Him in a box. We should ask for & expect the impossible…because He is after all, the God of the impossible 🙂
However…I am reevaluating the moments of life that I often simply toss aside. The moments I struggle to find any meaning in. The moments I so easily tire of. I am doing a spiritual inventory. I can't tell you how much this has changed my perspective. How much more of life I am able to celebrate and rejoice in…how much more of life I engage in, how much more of life I see God moving in. It's humbling, really. How could I have missed it?! He NEVER stops pouring out on us.
Slow down. Take off your headphones. Say "hello" to someone you would normally breeze past. Pay attention to what is going on around you. Don't brush off ideas God gives you as your 'overactive' imagination. Speak a kind word to a stranger. Make the most of every opportunity. Who knows what these things could turn into? Who knows how God could be using those moments in someone else's life…even if I can't see it?
The little moments.. may not be so little after all.
– Courtney 🙂
"…Make the best use of the time, because the days are evil" -Ephesians 5:16 ESV
Also, on the support raising front, I want to share with you guys a cool opportunity I hope you will participate in! I am selling THREADS OF HOPE to raise support for going on the World Race and for at-risk families in the Phillippines! These bracelets are handmade by struggling men, women, and children in the Phillippines to provide a source of income. There are tons of colors and patterns, and they are only $2!! GREAT stocking stuffers!! Let me know if you want some and I will get them to you and let you pick out the ones you want! 🙂
