It’s the end of my week here in Montana, and I don’t want to leave.
I’m here in the woods outside of Bigfork with my grandparents, and it’s my favorite place in the whole world.
My week has been spent outdoors, away from a busy pace, besides my grandfather rushing me to be on schedule for the day he has planned. We have spent our days in the garden, picking blueberries, raspberries, corn, peas, green beans, kohlrabi, red currents, tomatoes, and apples. It has been amazing.
I have been on Echo Lake, and Red Meadow in the mountains fishing and the peace there is in sitting on a fishing boat seeing the sunrise and sunset is exactly the rest I needed before heading back home. I feel like I am trying to do a hundred things, but nothing has been accomplished. All the pre-preparing, like getting addresses and phone numbers of friends and family and churches, and businesses, to send support letters. Copying and scanning my picture and passports, making dr.appointments and reading the safety and medical info, looking up international insurance, planning the flights for visiting Raleigh and training camp in Georgia, figuring out what gear I have and what I will need for the year…. i know as soon as things get rolling then they’ll all come together and get finished, but at the moment i feel like I am on a treadmill instead of the open road!
As soon as i get back to Portland on Monday life will be on full force again, with work, friends, and all of the above. So for now I’ll savor time with my grandparents, time under the big Montana sky, time in the word uninterrupted.. i am so thankful for this time:)
Please be praying for me this week as I contact churches in the area, like my parents and grandparents churches, my home church in Raleigh, and in Portland that the boards and congregation will be open to hear direction from God and not let their own doubts and worries about finances take over. I know this is happening a lot, and I don’t blame them, money in the church needs to be stewarded wisely, but I hope that we’ll wait and take the time to see where the holy spirit is leading in quietness, before we panic that there aren’t enough finances. God always provides, I have no doubt about that, I hope this will be the case for others as well.
For now I’m off to walk the shops and along the river in Big Fork with my grandmother, she has been very patiently waiting for me to finish my computer errands…as well as patiently trying to learn how to use email, skype and log onto my blog for the WR so she can keep up with it while I am away. She is a rockstar. More blogging to come this week. For now I will leave you with Psalms 103 because it’s been my encouragement lately. xoxo
Rach
