So long GPS (well at least for the most part...)

I have finally weened myself off the GPS to get around my near surroundings. Never thought in a million years that this would happen but it finally has. It is still needed when we travel to new places, so it will keep its place of prominence hidden in my glove box/compartment thing. (Its called a glove box/compartment because years ago driving with gloves was the proper thing to do. Kept hands clean. Also, most cars did not have a hard top and they  prevented the driver's hands from getting numb due to the fast moving air.) So my GPS will continue to be housed here b/c we are not using gloves any time soon!

We spent this last week in the mountains on our island, and had I been driving, the GPS would have been needed. I was surrounded by men who have been in the harvest field for a long time. Just being able to sit and listen to stories of God working through them for His glory was a blessing. As we were there, I remembered  our church meetings on Wednesday night as we prayed for them on their birthday and during Christmas with Lottie Moon. It is great to serve alongside with these brothers & sisters on this side of the world. What a joy it is to be the hands and feet! 

This was the view from the place that we stayed. Below is part of the island that we live on and the mainland in the distance.

 ^"And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness." Genesis 1:3-4

"God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day." Genesis 1:5

We watched a thunderstorm come in from the water. What a display! As we watched this, I was reminded of a passage in Job. God asks, “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you? Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?" Job 38:34-35. I cannot do these things, but thanks be to God that He can! 

This is the 13.5km bridge that I will run across and then back during a marathon in November. Already praying and I will start training soon!

^35 36 This quote hit me at my core, and I am thankful that the Almighty has no need for a GPS to track me as I go from place to place. "With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand." G.K. Chesterson.