~Rachel and Family~: May 16, 2010

Sunday, May 16, 2010

On The Move

We have received our Marching Orders and will be moving to San Francisco in about 6 weeks. We will be training to become Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) Administrators. (I think our official title is "Trainees"). Wow. Didn't really see that one coming. Although, when I look at the seeds that God has been growing in mine and Paul's hearts over the last couple years, it makes perfect sense. I am most excited in the intimate way that the Lord has been working in my faith and knowledge of Him. It almost scares me (actually it does!).

While we are very much looking forward to this new chapter in our lives, I can't help but have some hesitation when I pull back from trusting God. When I am fearful for my children because of the depravity they will most definately encounter, I am reminded that God loves them so much more than I do and His plan is to prosper them not harm them. Perhaps this will be the time in their life that God will arouse their compassion for those who are perishing.

The Dalles has been a spiritually cushy appointment. It has been exhausting and challenging at times, but overall is such a nice, friendly, Christian-like community. I have enjoyed my 6 years of being spiritually built up. We have so loooved our people, even when they drive us nuts, or, more often, when we drive them nuts. We will miss them so very much. We will miss our friends very much. I will even miss this crusty old house that I have grown to love because of all our memories.

I also feel hopeful-

hopeful for a flat driveway and nicer kitchen,
many learning opportunities from all that San Francisco has to offer,
being close to my family, childhood friends, and old stompin' grounds

I am praying-

for the Lord's Way to be in and around our lives and for the courage to stand firm in Him
for a fruitful ministry,
for like-minded friends,
for my brain to take in all of the new stuff I need to learn,
that admist all the stress and responsibility that I will be the Mother I need to be for my children,
and I am praying hard for my husband and the new stresses he will have

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Love the LORD Your God. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Deuteronomy 6
-Jehovah God