As some of you know we are expecting 2 new babies this month. One of the mom's is overdue. Only by 4 days but to her and those waiting it seems like a lifetime. She has tried everything. She drank a whole bottle of caster oil. Thanks to one of my ingenious staff members! It only gave her diarrhea and made her want to die. She has run on the treadmill at midnight trying to get her contractions to deepen and strengthen. (Listen to me I almost sound like I have done this before!) At one point her contractions were 6 min apart for a good hour and then just like that they went away. To all our disappointment. Especially hers!
This whole waiting thing made me start wondering what the Bible really says about how we are to be waiting for Christ's return. I know that when Simeon and Anna were waiting for Jesus to be born they were very much like expectent parents. They knew what they had been promised and were expecting it to come and come soon. I wonder how many new parents they approached wondering if that might be the messiah?
I have to be honest and say I don't expect Christ's return like Anna and Simeon looked for that 1st arrival. The thing is that I'm really not sure that God expects us too. The verses that I found were Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ. and II Peter 3:12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God...... I think that sound more like waiting for something that's a long way off. Something like my trip to Italy for my 40th birthday. I plan for it and save for it but at this point it feels more like a dream than a reality. I know that it will happen but at this point I have more pressing issues. Maybe my logic is messed up? I know God is coming and He could come today and I'm ready for Him to come, but until I get the word I'm planning to go to the Great Wolf Lodge this weekend with my family. I sure hope that baby comes before Friday night!!!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Thank God I'm and idiot!
Well what a week or should I say month it has been! For the last month New Hope has been struggling just to pay our employees every week! Every week we pray and pray that God will supply enough so that we can make payroll and He has come through for us every time. Although I must admit I thought I was going to have a heart attack before it was all over.
This month has been especially hard with Christmas and New Years we have only received payment from one court from last month. I had a stack of bills on my desk piling up that were all late. Every day I would tell God how much we needed Him to provide! Well last night we were all at our end, we hadn't received a check since last week which had paid our employees.
The troubling thing was that our bank balance showed a much greater number in the positive than I showed in my checkbook! I had gone over it time and time again and the only thing I could figure out was that our employment taxes had not been processed yet. Last night in my deep depression I pulled out the hated check book yet again! I started back at the beginning and worked my way forward. What a terrible headache I had by the end. About a hour and a half later I had found enough money in my stupid mistakes to make payroll! Thank God I'm an idiot! He provides yet again!!!
This month has been especially hard with Christmas and New Years we have only received payment from one court from last month. I had a stack of bills on my desk piling up that were all late. Every day I would tell God how much we needed Him to provide! Well last night we were all at our end, we hadn't received a check since last week which had paid our employees.
The troubling thing was that our bank balance showed a much greater number in the positive than I showed in my checkbook! I had gone over it time and time again and the only thing I could figure out was that our employment taxes had not been processed yet. Last night in my deep depression I pulled out the hated check book yet again! I started back at the beginning and worked my way forward. What a terrible headache I had by the end. About a hour and a half later I had found enough money in my stupid mistakes to make payroll! Thank God I'm an idiot! He provides yet again!!!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
HELLO!!!!!
Well here it is 2008 and I have begun a blog. I'm always just a little behind everyone else. My life right now is really busy but also very rewarding. In July 2007 I began working at New Hope Youth and Family Services which is a juvenile girls home in Mt Pleasant MI. My brother Jay and his wife Amy starting this home in 2005. God opened the doors and Jay and Amy ran through! But about a year and half later they had not even received the state license. God has really used this situation to teach all of us to truly trust him!
Right now we have 11 girls, we can house 15. Tomorrow we will be receiving number 12. Two of the girls are pregnant and will be giving birth at any time. It is very exciting to watch them. Check out our web site at www.1newhope.org
So many emotions go into dealing with youth in need. Most of you know that I worked at a home for boys in Evart, MI about 10 years ago. It is such an emotional job I was determined that I would never do it again. But here I am. I have never felt like I belonged in place like I do at New Hope.
My plan is at some time soon, I hope, I will quit working at the hospital and go to work at New Hope full time. I am very excited for what is ahead.
In March we are having a benefit concert with Selah! We are very excited and hope to sell out of tickets. Money is extremely tight. Some weeks I wonder if I will be able to pay my staff? This is one of those weeks! But God has always provided. This is His business and He will provide yet again.
If you think about it please pray for me and for New Hope. Most of these girls have terrible life stories. But God has brought them to us to show His love for them.
I am asking God to provide 100 people to pray daily for New Hope that we would be the business He wants us to be and that we would have a life changing effect on each of the girls that passes through our door.
Right now we have 11 girls, we can house 15. Tomorrow we will be receiving number 12. Two of the girls are pregnant and will be giving birth at any time. It is very exciting to watch them. Check out our web site at www.1newhope.org
So many emotions go into dealing with youth in need. Most of you know that I worked at a home for boys in Evart, MI about 10 years ago. It is such an emotional job I was determined that I would never do it again. But here I am. I have never felt like I belonged in place like I do at New Hope.
My plan is at some time soon, I hope, I will quit working at the hospital and go to work at New Hope full time. I am very excited for what is ahead.
In March we are having a benefit concert with Selah! We are very excited and hope to sell out of tickets. Money is extremely tight. Some weeks I wonder if I will be able to pay my staff? This is one of those weeks! But God has always provided. This is His business and He will provide yet again.
If you think about it please pray for me and for New Hope. Most of these girls have terrible life stories. But God has brought them to us to show His love for them.
I am asking God to provide 100 people to pray daily for New Hope that we would be the business He wants us to be and that we would have a life changing effect on each of the girls that passes through our door.
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