BEING ON THE CUSP

Hi there everyone! I have had several of you ask about Alaska updates. I'm going to direct you to Pastor Neal's blog www.pbcvoice.blogspot.com to follow his thoughts and reflections of the mission. Since Neal was there and I was not I figure it best to let him tell the story than me try to recant what I've only heard and not experienced. Please check it out over the next few days/week or just daily!

I have to say that I'm a bit at the edge of it all. Sarah is right there at the brink of having the baby and yet she's not having the baby. We are so ready for Chloe to arrive. I have had EXTREME nesting. Everything that can or needed to be done at our house over the last 8 months has been done in the last two. I'm worn out from thinking and doing to be honest. I need Chloe to come so my brain can relax for a second. In times like these I get very task driven and it DRIVES me insane...just ask Sarah.

Of course, I can't imagine how Sarah's feeling right now. She makes me miserable to see her try to turn over in the bed or even walk. Her poor little feet are puffing up like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man. She looks like she just wants to pop yet she keeps a very positive attitude through it all. On my facebook page we're taking guesses as to when we think she will arrive. My guess is Sunday 5/3. Some go up through 5/13...don't tell Sarah!

So we are on pins and needles waiting for Sarah...or Chloe really. I'm also on the edge as I sense the Lord wanting to do something big in my life on the spiritual level but I don't know exactly what. Perhaps I do know and I'm afraid to embrace it or maybe I just think I know? Okay...you're right...I don't know!

Do you ever just feel like you're right there on the cusp of something and you know that something is about to happen. I feel that way. Even with all of the excitement and life-altering thoughts about the baby coming, I believe it to be beyond that.

Our church is growing quickly. Some of the people within the church are also "growing quickly" on the spiritual side and are really plugging in and looking for ways to serve. It's funny - they aren't waiting for me or Neal to CREATE ways to serve; they look for ways to serve HIM. When we have a love relationship with the King of all Kings we will serve and worship Him out of that relationship. I am excited to see what will happen with this body of believers as they grow and engage themselves with not the pastors but with the Savior! I believe our church is on the CUSP of the next level...whatever that means.

BEING ON THE CUSP is hard. It means you have two choices in how you respond to your position of standing at the cusp. 1) You can choose to stand there look out past the cusp and say, "I don't know if I'm able to move beyond this place that I stand. I am afraid. I don't know if I have the abilities to do this." or 2) You say, "I'm here at the cusp Lord. I lean totally on your ways and acknowledge your leading in my life. Give me the courage and the faith to walk in your ways and move forward. Guide me through the unknowns of the next steps with your Light."

How do you handle the cusp moments? Do you wilt like an impatient flower on a hot day in the sun and heat or do you blossom and thrive as your faith trusts in the Almighty?