Ok, so some of you are wondering what we are up to! We have been in hiding for a year. And for this year, I (emie) have been refreshed, revived, and renewed. Just a couple weeks ago, I was describing my season of rest and healing to my friend, she stopped me and said, "I think the season is over. It's done. You're healed and refreshed and moving into the next season."
She was exactly right. In the last few weeks, I have had more "ministry," phone calls, visitors, and opportunities than I had in the entire last year. I've started blogging which has brought me back into the world of being connected in my day to day experiences. And I just feel like I jumped back in the race! In fact, I had a dream a few nights ago where I was on my bike and then all of a sudden I found myself in a huge bike race going through a city, streets blocked off, officials everywhere. At first I wondered why I was in the race and then I realized I was supposed to be!! SO, I'm back in the race.
As I have been resting, renewing and being revived, Heath has been preparing, planning and moving forward in what God has asked him to do (writing, training, interviewing, reading, researching, studying, praying like crazy, going crazy, and moving forward!!). It has been a long, laborious process for him in trying to discover what God has next and how to prepare for it. But as I have shared with some of you, my Heath is a motivated, visionary, implementing personality. He can see what I never can, believe what I don't even think about, and pursue what isn't even tangible. . . yet. My favorite story about Heath to illustrate his personality is below:
When we moved into our own house several years ago, the back yard was not landscaped. We didn't have the money to do anything with it (what's new). But Heath was SURE we were going to sod the thing. Really, I laughed. Realist me wondering what the heck he was thinking. Sure enough, he spent hours and hours preparing the dirt for sod. It took weeks and lots of shoveling and wheelbarrows full of moving dirt. I was frustrated with the amount of time he was spending on what seemed to me nothing.
The day he declared the dirt was ready for sod, I said in a sarcastic tone, "Well, let's pray in the sod!!" Within a day, Heath was out in our front yard talking to a friend of a close friend of ours. He was a landscaper and just HAPPENED to be landscaping the new development where we lived!! I'm sure you can guess that Heath asked what he did with all the leftover pieces of sod when he finished a job. And you can guess that the guy said he either gave it away or threw it away. And you can guess again that within a couple weeks, we had our entire back yard sodded for free!!!! Silly me to think that it wouldn't happen!! :-)
I tell you that story because that's just who Heath is in the deepest part of who he is. He can see what could be or can be and decides it WILL be. And he doesn't just sit around and wait for it to fall out of the sky. He gets to work in preparing for when it DOES fall out of the sky so that he'll know exactly what to do when it does. I feel like that is what Heath has been doing for the past year. Yes, he is working a traditional job. . . . for me. But the whole year, he has been researching, praying, reading, writing, interviewing, testing, worrying, planning, preparing for the sod to come. I don't know what it will look like or how it will work (whatever "it" is), but I do know that he is being prepared and being faithful. And because of that alone, I feel confident that when God is ready to drop the sod, Heath will be able to make something beautiful out of what looks like a bunch of dirt out my back window! And I'm learning, slowly, not to sarcastically decide that sod doesn't just land in your lap for free!!!
So that's where we are in a nut shell. If you have questions or want more info on what we are doing or where we are heading, PLEASE ask, email, or whatever. We are open books on a journey that will hopefully inspire others to pursue God wholeheartedly, unreservedly, and unashamedly. We have great anticipation of this next season of life even though all I can see out my back window is dirt!! Someday it will be beautiful sod!
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