Amanda's Roller-Coaster

   Some of my (Amanda's) thoughts lately...

     It seems that the days are just moving along.  Each day is such a sweet blessing!  Mitch and I are here, in a season of equipping.  The reality of this often hits me and leaves me feeling blessed.  God is SO good!

With our fellowship Group...a wonderful group of people!  

     I also find myself, naturally, in a new place.  Next week I enter my 3rd trimester in carrying our little one.  I am in the midst of schooling and training, but along with all of that I am in the process of preparing to be a mother.  I have been in 'crazy' nesting mode, as Mitch has been telling me often, lately.  In the midst of classes, homework and local ministry I feel the strong urge to prepare.  We are so blessed and have been able to equip the baby's room with most of what it needs for free!  I have been reminded of how amazingly God provided for us when we were in Bible School and were getting married with very little income, and I am in awe of how God is yet again providing for us.
   
     God has been teaching me so much on dependance on Him.  We have just about reached the halfway point in our training!  We came in faith as to how we would pay our bills and tuition, and God has provided so much.  As I look to the remaining half of our time here, I do not understand or know how we are going to cover the costs...just like I didn't know before we came.  I LOVE seeing God move and work!  While I have to admit I have moments of weakness and fear, I am very excited to see how God is going to continue to work in our life and provide for our family.  Our desire is to serve Him, and He has brought us this far...I will continue to trust Him with the things I cannot see.

A couple of belly shots

     I am also been looking to Him daily for physical and emotional strength.  I titled this post 'Amanda's Roller-Coaster' because I feel as if that is what I have been on lately.  Each day comes and with it a flood of emotions.  I have been struggling with lots of physical pain as our baby grows and my belly gets bigger.  I have been greatly restricted in what I can do in a day's time, and that has been quite the challenge for me.  Sleep isn't coming easily either, and that can do funny things to someone who is already feeling at the edge of her emotional stability.  I have been growing in my understanding in what it means to trust Him daily.  I am weak.  I just cant do it...But HE can.  2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says

 "...My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with ... difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong."  

     So as each day comes, I look to Him.  With each burst of unpredictable emotions, I seek Him.  With each fearful thought, I trust Him.  And with each twinge of pain, I rest in His strength.