What a weekend we've had!
I spoke at a women's retreat Friday and Saturday, and they chose my Be Still theme. I love that retreat theme and was so excited to share it, but I also know that anytime I prepare it, I'm going to get some real time opportunities to be reminded of what it means to truly be still.
The last month has had a number of unexpected twists and turns that have kept life interesting, but they have made it hard to be still.
Even getting to the retreat and setting up for the night wasn't a still sort of experience.
* Just a few miles from our destination, there was a really horrible accident. We never heard what happened, but we prayed for everyone involved multiple times...so many emergency vehicles and lifeline helicopter was landing nearby as we drove.
* As we were detouring around the accident, a little dog ran RIGHT out in front of our car. There was absolutely nothing we could do, but praise the LORD, we did not hit him. The whole thing took my breath away for quite a while. I couldn't imagine if it was Miss Lexi!!
* We arrived right at the start of the retreat, got everything set up, and about five minutes before the first session began, my computer locked us out. We were able to get in, but then my Power Point was missing. It had been there earlier in the day, but it was gone at the start of the event. We prayed over that computer AGAIN and were able to find what we needed!
It wasn't a still beginning, but the evening went well after that. And then Ryan and I went to our room and got a WHOLE night of sleep without interruptions. Braeya wasn't there to crawl all over us in our sleep, and we didn't have to get up early to walk Lexi. It was so strange!!!
We are both grateful for the gift of a little time away and the things the Lord taught us about being still and trusting Him when things that are out of our control do not go as planned.
I can't wait to tell you more about the weekend and fun we had, but for now, I'm going to take a little bit of a stillness rest to reflect!
4 comments:
My first thought while reading this was that the devil did not want you to share! Praise the Lord you were able to. Someone at that retreat needed your message. 😊
Yes, wonderful that you prayed and relied on God’s help!
Hope your speaking went well!
praying for anyone in that accident, so scary to see that.
I bet we passed that same accident. Was the helicopter on the train tracks? We were headed to watch Eastern at the band competition being held at Northwestern.
Christina
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