Life is just crazy sometimes...

To prove my point let's begin with the fact I feel the need to explain what a 'Walkman' is before I share the following story.  Walkman: a small portable cassette player used with headphones.   What?   Oh, yes of course.  Cassette: a sealed plastic unit containing a length of audiotape wound on a pair of spools, for insertion into 'walkman player'.　Hopefully, those definitions have built a road backwards for those of you that are iPod, iPad, iPhone, and Droid persons.  Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha

A blonde goes into the beauty and hair parlor with her Walkman on her head.  "I need to take that Walkman off your head," says the beauty specialist as she notices the blonde.  "You can't! I'll die!" retorts the blonde.  "I can't cut your hair with the Walkman on your ears!"  says the beauty specialist getting annoyed.  "I said you can't take it off, or I'll die!"  The beauty specialist, outraged and flustered, grabs the Walkman and throws it off the head of the blonde.  Within seconds, the blonde dies.  When the specialist picks up the Walkman to listen, she hears it repeating "breath in, breath out, breath in".

We laugh over that story but for sure I believe that some of us need to be told to "breath in, breath out"!　I'm confident I have had to tell myself that a few times this past couple of weeks! 

As I listen to many of our missionary families share their hearts I am amazed at how I see God working.  And sometimes what we see as 'crazy' is simply our Father positioning us for His Glory and our refinement.    I encourage you if you are going through some life changes in your marriage, family, ministry, job, etc., remember His promise from .....

Romans 8:28 (ESV)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

If you love God, His promise is that all things work together for your good!!!  Believe it!  Don't rely on your emotions, they will lie to you!  Keep walking until the emotions catch up with the truth!

I just got back from making a trip to Nashua Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.  Seriously, it was such a wonderful group of ladies.  Several of them are already on board for helping us with some things for our Tanzania trip!  God is sooooo Good!    The precious woman I stayed with is the mom of one of our missionary women from China who attended our North East Asia conference last fall.  It was wonderful to see how this missionary woman paid it forward by helping a church to get involved in helping other missionary women in the future.  Kathy, the mom I stayed with, had already made preparations for 3 special treats for the women in Tanzania.

I leave this Thursday for Brunswick, GA to share with the women from Blythe Island Church.  Please pray for safe travel and God’s Best for Pure Joy International as I go to share about how the women there on the east coast can get involved.   Love you all, have a good week, and BREATHE!

His,

Vickie