So if you read my last blog you’ll see that my parents Sunday school class gave me $100, to do something fun with!
And I had finally decided what I was going to do with the money. Yep, I had decided to go trekking and talk to people in tiny villages along the way!
It sounds great right; a good combo if you ask me!
Something active where you get to explore the beautiful Earth the Lord created… and sitting/resting & telling people about who this loving Creator is!
I was so excited! Imagining it in my mind how things were going to go… trek a little, see the beautiful creation, hang out with my team & bond, get some healthy exercise, then stop for some warm meal, have some awesome conversation about God, sleep in comfy beds, then wake up and do it over again!
So that’s how I saw it going…
But the Lord had other plans…
So one day before we were supposed to get on a bus to go to Pokhara where we were going to trek!
Things changed….
I woke up with some pretty bad lower back pain! I was so stiff that almost every move I made hurt me. We tried to stretch it out, but my body was not having it! It rebelled, and I could barely bend. Anytime I tried to bend I started crying…
So I stayed home that day from ministry in hopes that I would let my body rest and feel better!
The good thing is it did feel better by the time my team came back from ministry, but it was only slightly! I was still pretty stiff and not even 75%!
I waited until the last minute that night to make the call, and I decided that my body didn’t need to go trekking the next day!
To say I was disappointed was an understatement!
Lord, didn’t you orchestrate this so I could use that money for this?!?
I’m a little bit confused, I thought you had planned it this way, with so many no’s before for a reason!
Come on, what happened to 3rd time’s a charm?
It really made me question whether or not I was hearing from the Lord & being obedient to what he wants for my life?!?
And then the Lord told me sweetly, the plan changed! Are you going to sit and stew on this… or are you going to accept this and be obedient!
I’m reminded again of the verses in Isaiah 55:8-9:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
So once again, I am humbled, I sit at the feet of the Lord and ask him for clarity on the whole situation and what it is that he wants me to do…
Please pray for me as I continue to seek the Lord and what he will have me do!
(In case you were wondering, my back did start feeling better, unfortunately a few days ago I fell while walking on the dusty sidewalk in Kathmandu and seemed to tweak my back, so now I’m back to trying to stretch it & rest it! So if you will please pray for my lower back pain to go away, for me to do exercises & stretches to strengthen my back, and for the Lord’s will to be done; that would be great!)
Love,
Mallory
