Mission: Urban

I must say that if you have to spend some time in limbo, it sure is nice to do it in a warm summery place with lots of friends and family where your kids get to swim and pick berries and chase lightning bugs.  I feel really blessed…you know, at the same time as I feel a little fidgety.  But this post isn’t about restlessness.  It’s about reassurance.  Here is some that I’ve been getting lately:

Isaiah 46: 4:  Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.  I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

We’re coming off of a month and half of crazy traveling, and I’m relieved to say that we are still in good shape.  That more than anything shows me how much we’ve recovered in this last year.  It’s comforting to know that we can go through stressful times without reverting to our former stressed out state.

Isaiah 42:16:  I will lead the blind by ways they have not known , along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darnkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever felt more blind than I do right now…

Isaiah 41:17-20:  The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst.  But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.  I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys.  I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.  I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.  I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Somehow in spite of all the uncertainty right now, I can’t stop seeing the poor and needy in La Plata searching without hope for water in a place where there is none.  And though my faith has taken some rough blows in the last couple of years, when I’m looking at Isaiah 41, for those few moments I don’t have a single doubt that God is preparing a miracle.