Monday night I had the opportunity to speak at Evergreen
Baptist Church in Tulsa, OK. It was such a sweet time of fellowship as I was
able to meet with some of the ladies that make gifts for our trips, go, pray,
and support our missionaries on the field. Also I was able to make some new
acquaintances and had several women step-up that are prayerfully considering
traveling with us this fall or in the spring of next year.
This brings me to this bit of information. The slots are
starting to fill up for the teams to Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Greece. Please
contact me at vickie@purejoyinternational.org
soon if you are interested in going and/or know someone who might be. I will be
glad to come to your church location if you would like for me to share with
your women how they can be involved in going or just being a part of a trip
without leaving the country.
The above part of the blog was the ‘what a joy’ part. But
this is the ‘good laugh’ part....
Monday as I was coming into Tulsa, Deb, our
logistics person was at the hospital with her husband and mother-in-law who was
having shoulder replacement surgery. I headed that direction because we were
going to ride together to my speaking time since I was staying the night with
them. Well, as life would have it, I was busy thinking about my thoughts as I
was driving along and I ended up in the wrong lane to go forward at a busy
intersection. So I honked at the guy to the left of me to see if he might let
me pull in front of him when the light changed which would put me in the
correct lane. He gave me a hand signal like “show me the money and I will”,
which off course ticked me off because I wasn’t in the mood for stupidness;
didn’t he know I had a church function I was going to speak at. In the meantime
while I was dealing with Mr. Show Me the Money, the car behind me was laying on
their horn because of course I was blocking the lane that would allow them to
go ahead and turn right on red. Where is the compassion; didn’t they have
enough sense to know I made a mistake and it was obvious? And yes, I was in
Oklahoma with my Arkansas license plate showing. Well, the light changed and
Mr. Show Me the Money let me go in front of him at which time the girl in the
car behind me swooshed by on the right close enough for me to be able to tell
what color eye shadow she had on as she gave me the proverbial hand sign. Now
at that second I lifted my hands up as to say, “sorry” - after all I was on my
way to a church speaking engagement, but while my hands were lifted up in the
pose of “sorry” my ‘flesh hands’ and body were secretly out the window and
fastened tightly around her little neck shouting “What is wrong with you? Do
you really think I wanted to be stuck in the wrong lane with Mr. Show Me The
Money and you leaning on your horn while I know I’m stopping up your passage
way!” And again I reminded myself “you are speaking at a church tonight; gather
your flesh and put it under the control of the Holy Spirit and for Pete’s Sake,
pay attention to what lane you are supposed to be in from now on.”
Just a little true story to remind us all that apart from
Him we are one big mess!!!
Love you All…
His,
Vickie
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