No Shaking

What I had planned today:

9:30 get picked up and go to the bank

9:45 get a receipt for the transfer of money due for our rent

11 meet with the lawyer, sign the lease, get keys

1pm take one load of furniture to Winneba and get back in time for church

What happened today: 

8am read Jesus Calling with the theme God lives outside of time .... Uh oh

10:45 my ride to the bank and lawyer shows up

12:10 arrive at lawyer's office, he's gone to the meeting he had scheduled at noon

12:45 receive a text from someone in Memphis that is praying for me

1:15 meet with the lawyer and then plead with the homeowner to give us house keys. Because tomorrow is the only day I have a truck 

2 homeowner agrees, lawyer prints and signs lease

3:45 get additional letter required for the money transfer typed and signed

4:30 arrive at bank after closing, security guard recognizes bishop, lets us in. See manager, hand over paperwork, transfer will be done. 

Most days here don't go according to plan. Your choices are to not make a plan, which usually results in getting nothing done, or to make a plan with full knowledge that it will change. Most days I am completely fine with adjusting along the way. Some days it is incredibly difficult. Today I was frustrated and fighting back tears from about 10am to 1pm. All I want is keys to the house. I'm ready to make a home for these sweet girls. By Gods grace it is almost done. Tomorrow morning I plan to meet the lawyer at the house. We will inspect the house and he will hand over the keys. We'll see what happens!

On the way home from the bank I was talking to bishop about a project he is working on. He said "life has never been handed to me on a silver platter, I know how to struggle. But in the end God always wins." ...I told him that my silver platters must be in in the luggage lost and found somewhere between here and the USA. 

So I am learning. I am learning what it means to rely on God in the big and the small. I am learning how to fight to get things done. I am learning when to fight and when to trust. I am learning just how powerful it is to have people all over the world praying for you. 

There will be "go slows" along the way. (That's what they call light traffic) but I am learning that in Christ, there's "no shaking". No need to get stressed out, I know who holds the future. Jehovah has the final say!