April 7, 2018

Greetings My Friend,

God is keeping me flexible when I would rather give into being into a rigid life of routines. I feel safe when I am doing my weekly routines, making time to bake, exercise. I woke up late Tuesday, had very little time to spend in quiet time with God. Brenda came along for the ride, helped Junior drive the truck so he could take Cato to the Vet. Cato was anxious riding in the truck, Junior sat in the back seat comforting this giant dog. We got home in time to take a very short nap before heading to church to fellowship with the Georgia mission team that came to help with a sister church our church sponsors. Trammel church is in disrepair, the membership is dying off, new members are not coming  in so this Georgia team has been coming to help revitalize the church building, reach out to the community. They stay at our church during the week then travel over to Trammel church to work, reach out to the neighborhood. This time our church came to worship with them for 3 nights. I am grateful we went each night, the lessons were awesome, thanking the mission team was a blessing and fellowshipping with members of my own church was encouraging. I had to nap longer the other two days, I was not able to get to all of my housework I try to do done. Friday when the mission team started heading back to Georgia, I enjoyed being at home immersed in my routines. My energy started to return, I had energy to do a few extra things in the evening so my missed work has begun to get caught up. God reminds me my soul is in need of being fed just as my mind and body needs to be challenged. I had to sleep more during the day so I could got have energy to hangout during the evening worship, fellowship time. That too was good, I was able to absorb the lessons that were taught. I was ministered to when I had a panic attack, made a new friend who has started coming to our church, was able to speak encouragement to a dear friend only to be grateful this weeks routines were indeed disrupted. God encouraged me to push past my desire to stay home and be comfortable. We needed Brenda's help since I no longer drive, she loved helping us out, even attended one night of the services with us. I shared with people how far Brenda has come from nine years ago when we first met her and her son. It has been a good week, tiring for sure although the wonderful gifts I have received was worth the push to be there. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet