Blah, Blah, Blah!!!: I've Arrived!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

I've Arrived!

Right now I am in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bill and I left the house this morning at 4 am to make it to the airport on time. Needless to say,I am VERY tired and I am now ready to call it a day. Here are a few of my highlights:

I was amazed at how busy the airport is at 5 am! The security line was long and slow.

I had every intention of checking by bags. When I found out the charges, I decided not to check anything...DUMB idea!! As I stood in line, I realized my hairspray would not pass inspection, so I had to throw it away. Next, I had to rummage through my suitcase to find my liquids and prove that they were in a ziplock bag. The clincher came when I overheard the inspector stop my bag, intently squint at his x-ray screen,, and ask (LOUDLY!!) who it belonged to...oh, GREAT!!! One of his buddies took me to the end of the table and asked me if I had a scissors (!!!!)in my luggage. Guilty as charged. Why, you ask? Well, it seemed like a good idea when I was packing. I didn't want to buy a short-sleeved white shirt, but I wasn't quite ready to slice off the sleeves at home, so I tucked my scissors in my bag. Not just any scissors, mind you. There were top quality scissors that my mom gave me, that I only took out to use on sewing projects. To see them in the hands of a security guard at 5 am was not fun or funny. They were discarding a part of my inheritance from my mother!! But now, alas, I like to think that my scissors and hairspray are together, "in a better place", as they say.

I picked up my rental car and it is the exact color and model that my sister drives.

Tomorrow I drive to Concord, about 30 minutes from here. This is where the convention will be held and I'm really anticipating all God is ready to teach me! Hope I can sleep ok without my scissors! More later...HUGS!

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
--Alan Redpath

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell . . . . and when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only prescription: make a pearl . . . . And it takes faith and love to do it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a difference it makes when a trial comes, to see in it not the hand of an avenger, but the loving discipline of a father and the gentle admonition of a mother! God would not have us feel even the shadow of His anger. Judgment hardens the spirit and God never wants to break the spirit of His obedient child, but to win us by His love and transform us by the gentleness. Beloved, let us ever look upon our trials in the tender light of the Father’s love. It is not the token of His displeasure, but the very pledge of His jealous love, a love so inexorable that it will not let us miss His holiest and best.
--A. B. Simpson

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