New Beginnings
Well…this is my first time doing this blog stuff. To my blog friends who keep telling me “you need to do a blog”, I’ve thrown in the white flag!!!!! Sooo…since I am guessing at what to do I might as well just keep writing. Since this blog is about new beginnings, I am in a spot of new beginnings~transitioning from one ministry to another. Sure it has been done before, by many missionaries, and even I have done it to some degree, but this feels much different. I am really leaning on the Lord for this and looking to Him–sure I did that before-we have to if we are going to really truly survive, but this feels as if it is a stronger kind of leaning than before. One day as I was praying the Lord gave me this analogy.
In life there are many gardens. I have been in one garden for a while, cultivating the flowers and taking care of the earth. Now, this garden is done, someone else will come along and maintain this garden to keep it looking beautiful.
~later
In life there are many gardens. I have been in one garden for a while, cultivating the flowers and taking care of the earth. Now, this garden is done, someone else will come along and maintain this garden to keep it looking beautiful.
But there is another garden that needs my attention, one that is bedraggled, has many stones and rocks, bad dirt, icky bugs that eat all the good and beautiful things in a garden etc. This new garden will need all of my attention as I help it to grow and become beautiful. I had a great time in my old garden, and I learned many things about taking care of a garden, but there is no longer anymore work that I can do on it. So now as I look at my new garden, I am filled with anticipation as to what it will become and what new things I will learn from cultivating this garden. Oh, it will be hard work and there will be times that I will get discouraged or want to give up. But I know that the Master caretaker is with me at all times, and He will help me to take care of this garden just as He did the old garden.
So, there you have it-my first musings on my new blog. There will be more musings as they come to me, and as I try and figure out how to do this blog stuff :). All my blogging friends say “oh it is really easy!” We’ll see, I think this will be fun as it might bring some of the creative side of me out-well, I guess I can’t get TOO creative…..
Now that I am done with my first musings, how do I close this? Like a letter? Like a journal? I guess it is up to the individual blogger. Hmmmm…..I guess I’ll just close with a simple
~later 
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