as another friend put it... kinda like what paul said.. that in our weaknesses or hardships.. or times of not knowing, that is when it is the best. that is when we stop looking at our own ability to pull through, or what we can do for someone or something. we look to our maker. the one who shines a beacon of whispers.. and when we quiet our own thoughts and words long enough.....
we hear the soft unspoken voice of peace... peace that we don't have it all together. peace that shows we don't need to have it all together either...
may the prayers of your heart, the ones that you may be afraid to pray due to doubt that they are either worthy enough or can even be answered, may those be the ones you pray today. right now. and may we be challenged beyond what we can understand. that our hearts have to come out of the controlled places we put it... but would come more and more to life, to love wildly and to trust deeper than what our senses may want to believe.
i say all of this because i am thankful for all of you who read this and pray for kathy and i.
and i believe that a deeper... (due to a lack of words to explain the expressions of the heart, please fill in the blank...) will show us that we can and should trust Him.
so.. now to the update...
the weather is beginning to bite. my fingertips this morning at work reminded me of the pain while waiting for christoph to climb the frozen ice runoff at the north face of harney peak. always having to remove one glove and stick my hand in my coat while the other held the rope that flowed through the belay device and up to christoph as he places the next screw in the ice.
i am filled with such memories as in the moment here all i do is work and sleep. ok, maybe it is not completely true... i like eating too. :)
i am still praying and trusting God for friends here in south germany as well as more opportunities to get outside and climb things.
i have noticed a lot about germany since i have been here over the last months now... almost 3, and though i won't list them now, i am encouraged and reminded that God loves this place... even when it is super hard for me. what a blessing, when one really decides to think on it this way, to be here, to trust God yet again for such simple things. thank You God.
as for ministry or opportunities, God has been giving us more time to get more interactive with the church.. for example, saturday i get to speak about things i have lived with God. oh man.. that is an invitation for conversation! i hope and know that more is yet to come.
my job ends sometime in the next month due to cold weather and snow... (landscape gardeners don't have work in the winter months), and that is going to be neat to see what is next.
and.... i got my visa. it is good for one year and before i can lengthen it or get one without a time limit, i have to take and finish a D1-german course as well as 45 hours of an integrations course. it frustrated us at first but with open months in the winter, it should work out somehow.
i am praying about next year and what work will look like too.
the loans are being paid.. but i really have until next month and jan before the interest starts hitting hard. ugh.. Lord, please help.
so. read the first part of the blog again and i wish you all many blessings and thank you for your prayers and reading this... again and again and yet continue to...
please pray for sam who needs his visa to get married in jan. pretty neat... way to go sam and beth!
and... please pray that my mom gets a job.. one that she likes and is good for her.
much love, israel
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