Just watch this inspirational movie with the boys and it was great for how what I have been currently going through!
Faith Like Potatoes is an inspiring true story of a rugged South African farmer, Angus Buchan, and is set in the turbulent hills of the KZN Midlands. Angus’ manic quest for material success is slowly transformed into a wild love for God and people, as he wrestles with faith, hope, natural disasters and tragic personal loss. To give you a preview. I love movies that give inspiration and has spiritual dept and this is one worth watching.
Just laying here recapping on my full weekend of blessings! Daniel’s cousin and his boys spent the weekend over while they helped one of their cousin move. We love when family visits to spend time especially the nephews. It is my greatest joys to spend time with family. This weekend I got to spend family time. I drove to Fremont with the boys to be at my niece’s 2nd bday yesterday. Lord gave me the strength because wooh that is a drive! Sometimes I forget how far I am.. 2nd time going in the past month pretty proud of myself given I barely trust myself behind the wheel. What I do without faith. My last drive out was San Jose. I learned to value the long drive because it’s a great time to think and reflect and God knows I’m a thinker, day dreamer and he has been giving me really big aspirations. He has been really stirring up something in my soul. As far as leadership and what he is calling me in this life to serve and He has already given me some great opportunities. I won’t lie it could be scary and I naturally freeze up at the thought but I’ve been throwing myself out there and claiming in faith and God has shown me so much in doing this. This really has been my theme motto for my life because I don’t know how else I could be here with out His purpose operating in my life in the choices I make and everything I do. I never looked at it this way but for that past couple weeks my Pastor has been teaching on a series about Heaven. If you would like to listen to these teaching sermons it is so great visit: http://www.marshillfamily.com/sermons/ ( I also recommend listening to the other teaching series as well.)
Heaven, I have had my own close encounters with death and it was the scariest feeling. When I had first became sick I had an uncertainty that kept me up at night. This is truly when God ministered to my heart. As much as I went to church and felt like a saved Christian there was still an uncertainty if I was really going to make it into heaven’s gates. As I plead with God to give me a second chance so I had an opportunity to correct anything I did wrong I felt like I needed more time not only that more time to minister to my family. Than I thought my sphere of influence? Friends? I couldn’t help but have this overwhelming feeling of what my purpose was. The sad thing is that this was not the first time I pleaded with God to save me and he reminded me. So this commitment had to be different and I had to start acting in faith. Specifically I knew God was showing me how to put this in action because words/knowledge were there but now that He gave me the strength it was time to start allowing His spirit to move into my life and show me how to put this in action. Fast forward four years later I can see how God truly worked circumstance to teach me, prune me and develop me. I knew I was making progress but sometimes it’s hard to tell when it comes to yourself. The Pastor taught using story about the Wheat and Weeds and the Story of the Mustard Seed and Yeast, Matthew 13: 18-43. This illustration about sowing seeds in what looks like in the natural hard weedy condition and expecting in faith for God to take care of those weeds if we were to uproot the weeds ourselves we would pull out the good plants with it. This illustrates so many different situations for me but the one thing that strikes me in Jesus’ parables is how he uses the simplest of examples to show the virtue of patience and time. I know that is one thing I have developed since I became disabled or as I call it enabled. It is a work in progress but I’m learning how important it is to rest easy on the idea of how waiting patiently and serving each day like there’s no tomorrow. I know He planted the seed and has provided just the right amount of circumstance and condition to develope it and I know he kept His eye on the seed within me and looked past all my weeds knowing in time he was plucking each the bad weed at it’s proper time.. Little by little I continued to be delivered from years of weeds just build around me like a tough exterior. But in time this seed planted in me is breaking through the weeds and I’m believing. Living with full purpose, kingdom driven and with continued anticipation and aspirations to move forward and expect favor. I am just blessed by this today and than to end the nigth watching Faith like Potatoes, couldn’t be more relevant.
Anyhow, Be blessed and have a fantastic week time to sleep! Insomnia is not good but I’m practicing on freely writing as the spirit leads~ Blessings! This week is staff appriciation week and tomorrow’s national teacher’s appriciation. Let’s all praise God for the mentors, teachers, staff that minister to our childrens heart with their time and energy. God bless all our teachers and staff!
