What a Ride

What a Ride!

This is the 4 story toboggan run at Cedarwood. I have yet to experience the actual ride but it sure looks like a thrill. It is a good 100 yards of breath taking hold on tight and close your eyes.

But first you have to climb up the 40 plus steps to get to the top while carrying your large inflated inner tube. I am still trying to figure out which part of this thrill ride is most like my families life right now as we seek to raise the funds to become missionaries in Canada.

Sometimes it sure feels like a long up hill climb but then there are days you just have to hold on tight because you feel like your speeding down a hill.

John Coutney who is the executive director of YFC Winnipeg gave me a great word the other day. He shared some insight from a devotional he had from Luke 10:38 --- . It's about two sisters; Martha & Mary. Mary spent her time at the feet of Jesus while Martha spent her time working and serving. We can all relate to Martha's frustration with her sister just sitting around while she did all the work. But what does Jesus say? Some would think Martha was choosing the better by working but Jesus tells Martha "you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed and Mary has chosen that good part which will not be taken away from her."

The devotional does a major paraphrase of the text but gives great wisdom and worth a little time to think about so here it is:

CARING WITHOUT WORRYING - "Rivers that have a gentle, steady current can move great barges that are loaded with goods. It is possible to get lost in the details. Take it one step at a time. Make steady deliberate progress without getting excited. Trust God's providence, but cooperate with Him. Be like a little child who holds his father's hand while picking strawberries or blackberries in the hedgerows. If you must deal with the world’s commerce with one hand, keep the other one with God. Look up to him now and then to see if he approves of what you are doing. Never think that you will be able to gather more if you use both hands. He is your success. Let go of him and you are in peril.

Please pray for my family and I that we would remember to keep hold of our Heavenly Father's hand as we go about sharing what God has called us to do. It is to easy to let go of our Father's hand and start trying to do things on our own. We to often think we can do things better and faster until we try and fail.

God's ways are not always our ways but His ways are always the best way.

The McGraths