Rainey Days

Over the past few months, at my previous job, there was a person that particularly offended me.  She treated the staff that worked for me terribly; I didn’t respect the way she treated her own family members, and almost every problem that I had at the Harford County location was due to this one person.  As I was preparing to leave my employment there, things become particularly awful.  I had this tremendous temptation to tell her EXACTLY what I thought of her on my last day there.  As I drove back and forth over the miles on I-95 and the beltway, I would imagine how great it would feel to tell her once and for all how mean, deceitful, and all around foul I found her to be.  Of course I also spent miles reminding myself that I could NOT actually tell her those things.   And here’s the reason why: “the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”  I memorized that verse from James when I was a young teenager on a Bible Quiz team, never ...

In my closet I have my clothes arranged by type--dresses, skirts, blouses, and pants.   I know which clothes are for work, which are for casual events, and which are for really dressy occasions, like weddings.    I also have one unique article of clothing: a cotton-candy pink polo shirt, with "A Blooming Basket" embroidered on it.  It's the shirt I wear when I help out the flower shop where my sister works.  Over the past four years, I've worked holidays, like Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, as well as random Saturdays when everyone else is scheduled off for important things, like Army Reserve duty.   I like my pink uniform shirt; it shows people that I am a part of the team at that flower shop.  When you walk in the door to that shop, you can easily see who belongs there, based on those shirts. I've spent a lot of my life in fancy clothes for work: suits and high heels, pearls and button-down blouses.  It's nice to be able to have a comfortab...

It's been WAYYYY too long since I updated this thing, and I'm finally finding myself with things that I want to share. For one thing, the most exciting news by far in my life is that I am returning to the work I love doing overseas!   In fact, I quit my job at the Y so that I could travel full-time raising support and speaking about the great projects that God has in store for the next few years of my life.  I am currently booking services with churches and sending out mailings to help raise awareness, prayer support, and finances needed to run the evangelical ministry I'll be doing. How did I get here?  Well, it started in March of 2011, about the time I wrote that last (rather depressing) post.  The closure of the Severn River Church was particularly hard on me, and I felt myself floundering under the pressure of that long after I should have come back up for air.  I went away in March of 2011 to try to pray through my frustration and figure out what God h...