No time for chit chat. I am in the nights of transitioning my child from my bed to the crib. I am sitting on the floor beside his crib in a dark nursery trying to remember the keyboard finger position my fifth grade computer lab teacher taught me. I don’t know who is going to have a harder time with this separation, but forward we move and here in the midst I have a few quick words that need to get out.
This summer has been the beginning of a whole new era for me… ministry with kids. I don’t mean ministering to kids; I mean doing ministry while a baby with my fat cheeks and my husband’s blue eyes is screaming his head off in the team room. I have been running off of stages across the great state of Louisiana to feed my child and if I didn’t stop to talk to you on the way I am so sorry. I am still figuring all of this out. And in the figuring this is what I realize: life in Christ… it works. It works because God told someone to give us a free mini-van. It works because the sweetest lady ever offered to hold my baby while I gave a talk. It works because it’s God’s economy and everything is giving. Everything is gift. Everything is generosity.
The idea in my head is this: everything I thought was victory and everything I thought was defeat was really all the generosity of God. Every time I had a broken heart, God in His generosity was preparing me for more. This is a season of seeing the “more”. In a prayer time during worship at one of the conferences this summer I thought, “Thank you God for loving me enough to take away what I thought I wanted in order to give me what I really wanted.”
Waiting on the Lord is where it’s at, yall (said in a Paula Deen voice). Don’t be discouraged. If it didn’t work out like you thought it would, remember His generosity and that it’s not always packaged the way you expect it to be. I would rather be on the floor, by the crib, in the dark than anywhere else in this whole universe and I am only here because He is generous!! Generosity is cool… spread the word. ~KPL