I sat in Bible Study Monday night, wondering how we were going to go through a long study through book of Jonah.  I was blown away at how much it hit me! As I’m going through the daily Bible study homework I’m realizing how much my life can MEAN for His Kingdom and how so often disobedience gets in the way of that! 

God wants my life to be a story of significance for eternity.  Whatever He has called me to do should be a privilege.  He has called me to be a wife to Brian and mother of 5 boys.  I’m learning that interruptions are really God’s Divine Interventions.  He GIVES us those interruptions for a reason.  Those interruptions aren’t always easy or convenient for us to handle but they are OURS.  God wants to use them in our life.  

We can look back in the Bible at many characters, including Jonah, and see when they yeilded to Christ and what HE WANTED for them …. their life was awesome and that story was awesome and we can learn so much! Its how we handle those interruptions or God’s interventions that He is looking at.  

I can already look back on my life and totally see God’s HAND in things.  How he weaved it for me to meet Brian.  He caused interruptions in my life to make me yield to Him and follow His lead instead of my own.  Once I did that, Brian came walking into speech class.  I can see how Brian and I went through a time getting much closer and transparent with each other after God intervened through a Bible study we both did.  I look back to when Gideon our sweet little boy was going through some scary seizure episodes as a baby and then just last year.  How God totally pulled him and us through that.  I see how we leaned on him all the way since we had no idea what was going on.  As I was going through these things we don’t always see how God is working but as I look back I can totally see it.  

So now, I sit here trying to do DAY three and think of the things that I would consider interruptions.  Some of them little minor things.  Some not so much.  I sit here and wonder how God wants me to handle life’s trials and interruptions so that its something of significance for HIM in my life story.  

I’m a mother to a little boy who had seizures.  Now he’s not talking much.  Dealing with trying to find a dr. and figure out if we should/should not take him off medication.  He’s got a couple cavities.  He’s had to have an EEG.  This little boy is expensive.  I need to trust that God will show us what to do and how to handle each little thing with Gideon.  I can’t worry.  I have to have faith.  I have to pray.  Those things are hard. Its hard to figure out what to do sometimes.

Another sweet boy we have.  Adam.  Where to begin.  This past summer was HARD.  Very hard.  He developed OCD.  It was a trying time for us and him. We went many months with counsel trying to help him.  Then we got some medication for him to help get him over that really tough time.  That’s a struggle for me knowing he’s on that medicine.  I see how God sent some really Godly loving people in my life to tell me it was OK to give him medication.  I see him doing so much better with all of his OCD issues.  Now though,  he’s having behavior issues  and this is once again hard for Brian and I to deal with.  Trying to see this as a DIVINE INTERVENTION can be tough.  Maybe God knew that we could help Adam so that’s why he gave Adam to us.  Maybe He knows we will pray deeply for Adam.  Maybe Adam will grow up to be a pastor and lead many to Christ and God wants us to play a part in bringing him up to know and LOVE God.  I don’t know.  Will be FUN to look back on one day and see how God worked all this out for His GLORY.  When I feel like putting him out to the curb with a “FOR SALE SIGN” attached…. I need to go pray and ask God for wisdom in dealing with the issues that seem to come our way so often these days with Adam.  

Then there are just daily “interuptions” .  Things that can consume my time.  Time wasters.  I’ve been convicted lately to look at my time and use it for His glory.  That can be tough sometimes.  Then of course there are those just daily duties that seem to get in the way of my sweet boys (interruptions).  They aren’t the interruption though… they are God’s Intervention.  He’d rather me go play in the sand box, or build train tracks instead of put that last load of laundry in.  I just have to weigh it all out and do what he’s leading me and not ignore that still small voice …..

MY PLAN is not always HIS PLAN and so when He calls me to make a change, allows a trial in my life, or sends a whole new plan I need to be ready and willing to be obedient in my response for His Glory.  

God is Awesome and I look forward to seeing how He will work in my life story.