40 days...

I never realized how significant 40 days was in the Bible until I started the 40 days to a Purpose Driven Life on Monday, October first, with my church, Baan Athitaan, here in Chiang Rai. All of us signed a commitment to do the devotionals and set aside specific time to really, and I mean REALLY lean into the purpose for which God created us. Funny how this started this week and the past two weeks have probably been my hardest here as I started reading Cure for the Common Life (CFTCL), which is based on the same criteria - finding your "bag" that God gave you and what's in it. As I was reading CFTCL, I began to get more stressed about my "calling" or purpose and what it is and what I should be doing...on and on until I realized I had been thinking a whole lot about "I" and not a whole lot about "GOD"!! So in a few days of starting this Purpose Driven Life, that has changed. It really has nothing to do with me, but all to do with a divine God who created me for a purpose and sent me to Thailand for a reason and He will accomplish great things in me if I stay out of the way and flow with Him.

So you can be praying that I do that...instead of being a rock in the middle of the river, that I would be a pebble floating along in the purposes of God and in the peace of God and in all the LOVE and goodness of my Sweet Abba who created me for something surely unique - I mean, it's me we're talking about...nothing normal here!!

Also - keep praying for Burma as Thailand is on the verge of closing their borders in case of major civil upheaval...pray that God's presence would be known!!