half-tied ribbons

hope

• Posted by Kristy on December 11th, 2007 filed in faith walking

i’ve been doing a lot of thinking along with my knitting! reflections of the last year have been rolling around in my mind over the past week or two. it’s that time of year. man, who would have thought a year ago ours lives would change so drastically. our circumstances are so different now than one year ago. mike was sneaking around to surprise me with us buying a home… we had a plan to say the least. then our plan was interrupted and this whole move to alaska happened. that’s the short of it.

my conscience was pricked when i went on the journey church website (our church back home) and saw that i’m linked up as “alaska mission”. wow! uh, maybe i should share my faith and what’s going on with the mission to the frozen north was my initial thought. BUT, i’m feeling really inhibited about sharing my deep thoughts of faith on my blog so bear with me as i try to get it all into words.

i’ve been studying the psalms of ascent and one of the questions asked last week was what scares or excites you the most about your next adventure with God. it would take me days to write my true answer to that. all i can conclude is that it’s with Him. i kept coming back to that simple phrase as i mulled all of this over. our adventure here. circumstances not what we expected, circumstances better than we expected, some disappointments, better things than we could imagine, some heart ache, homesickness, not knowing what’s next, fear, excitement, joy… but we’re abiding in Him like never before. it’s with Him! success and failure by human standard is not so important anymore. He is the goal, not changed circumstances- changed lives, lives more in love with Him. we have goals like most normal people but we honestly don’t know what’s in store for us even tomorrow!

yes, i have weak moments, trust me if you haven’t recieved one of my phone calls :) moments that our focus is on the budget gone awry, or me feeling like we’re not “doing something important” or homesickness and longing for familiarity, or times that i don’t even know what to do next, much less what to pray next. thankfully i usually get a swift kick in the tail to HOPE. hope in Him. like the message here. we want to share that hope with others. how? man, it’s more simple and more complicated than we think…

if we’re on your prayer list, we appreciate it so much. we are bound to so many in Christ and are thankful for that. there’s nothing like it. please continue to pray for our focus to remain on Christ. also pray with us for a man mike met at work. he has a dream of a ministry much like a dream of ours but it’s not totally off the ground yet. we are praying about how to help and even if to help…

hope in Him this season, it’s the only true hope.