I met with another great group of women today. The Christian Women Business Owners. It’s been a great place to connect and network with other women and share what is going on in our lives both professionally and personally. And wow! Today was an amazing day of women being vulnerable and beginning to trust each other enough to open up and share their hurts and struggles. Always the beginning of great healing and drawing people together. Though I didn’t share the most, I definitely cried the most. To see these women and their tenderness and honesty and to hear their stories was a powerful thing.
On the way home, I was riding with my friend and we had an amazing time of sharing, taking our relationship to a whole new level. We had a good cry together and shared what God is working on in our lives, the good, the bad and the ugly. Another indication of God doing a work among the women of Parker. He is creating this insatiable desire to reach out to women and see them come to Jesus within so many of us. And in that process there is work that He is doing in us. And it hurts and it tears and it burns a little as He molds and shapes and changes us from the inside out. But it is a good pain, a necessary pain that indicates growth and readiness for something amazing. Exciting and totally scary.
Tonight I had worship team rehearsal. It was a very good thing. After a big emotional day it was good to just praise Jesus for a couple of hours with my friends who love Him, too. To sing out to Him with all my heart, right through the lump in my throat, and declare to Him that I trust Him and look to Him for all that lies ahead. Yeah, a very good thing.
Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
And so I will trust….
