The call to GO
Tossing and turning.
I open my eyes and it's pitch black.
I close them quickly again.
I'm running through the woods. My feet are bare and cut up from the brush. It's so hot the sweat has soaked my clothing. "MOM".....I hear her voice from the distance. I cannot find Her and so I keep running. My hearts pounding through my chest. She calls out to me again, "MOM".....I'm now more panicked.
"Katie, where are you?"......there's no response.....I keep running.
My heart is pumping so fast that it's hurting.
I've let the fear of not knowing where she is take over every fiber of my body. The fear is paralyzing. I hear her call me again. This time, her voice is closer. Through the brush, I see her. The sun is shining on her. Her hair is glowing it's golden blonde color. She gives me a big smile and says "mom"......my favorite word.
We walk out of the woods, hand in hand and into a field full of flowers. She's not 17 though, but 6 or 7. She's running through the flowers and she lets go of my hand. As she's running ahead in her summer red dress, she turns and says, "Don't worry mom, I am not alone. The God that spoke the heavens & earth into existence holds me in his hands!"
It's a dream I've been having for the past few months. I can't find Katie, but she finds me and she tells me she's fine.
She's doing what she's been called to do, GO!
I know My heart is still being prepared for Katie to go on a 10 day mission trip to Guatemala in July. So, What does this journey mean to me as a believer? It's amazing. This is what we are supposed to do. Take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Everyone should hear the gospel. It's so heartbreaking to me that people die everyday and spend eternity in hell because they have yet to hear and accept the story of salvation. It's our job. It's our calling as believers, to GO!
What does this mean to me as a mom?
It's hard. I've always been very transparent in everything and I'm not stopping now. Every believing parent wishes they could write their Child's testimony. (testimony: a public recounting of a religious conversion or experience) , As parents, we'd place them married, with children and living down the street from us. But we, as believers, are not meant to sit.
Please, Do not get me wrong, God has not called everyone to GO. People are called to be missionaries in other ways. BUT, no matter how you have been personally called by God, we are still supposed to share the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ. Our saving salvation!
To GO, That's what God has chosen for my child.
As a parent, her mama, I've realized that her following Jesus may come with a heavy price. but, as her mama, to hear her say that she is taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, I could not be more proud and more satisfied that God has chosen her to GO!~ by that, we are blessed
"Train up a child in the he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
I open my eyes and it's pitch black.
I close them quickly again.
I'm running through the woods. My feet are bare and cut up from the brush. It's so hot the sweat has soaked my clothing. "MOM".....I hear her voice from the distance. I cannot find Her and so I keep running. My hearts pounding through my chest. She calls out to me again, "MOM".....I'm now more panicked.
"Katie, where are you?"......there's no response.....I keep running.
My heart is pumping so fast that it's hurting.
We walk out of the woods, hand in hand and into a field full of flowers. She's not 17 though, but 6 or 7. She's running through the flowers and she lets go of my hand. As she's running ahead in her summer red dress, she turns and says, "Don't worry mom, I am not alone. The God that spoke the heavens & earth into existence holds me in his hands!"
It's a dream I've been having for the past few months. I can't find Katie, but she finds me and she tells me she's fine.
She's doing what she's been called to do, GO!
I know My heart is still being prepared for Katie to go on a 10 day mission trip to Guatemala in July. So, What does this journey mean to me as a believer? It's amazing. This is what we are supposed to do. Take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Everyone should hear the gospel. It's so heartbreaking to me that people die everyday and spend eternity in hell because they have yet to hear and accept the story of salvation. It's our job. It's our calling as believers, to GO!
What does this mean to me as a mom?
It's hard. I've always been very transparent in everything and I'm not stopping now. Every believing parent wishes they could write their Child's testimony. (testimony: a public recounting of a religious conversion or experience) , As parents, we'd place them married, with children and living down the street from us. But we, as believers, are not meant to sit.
Please, Do not get me wrong, God has not called everyone to GO. People are called to be missionaries in other ways. BUT, no matter how you have been personally called by God, we are still supposed to share the gospel. The good news of Jesus Christ. Our saving salvation!
To GO, That's what God has chosen for my child.
As a parent, her mama, I've realized that her following Jesus may come with a heavy price. but, as her mama, to hear her say that she is taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, I could not be more proud and more satisfied that God has chosen her to GO!~ by that, we are blessed
"Train up a child in the he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
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