So how does God speak to you?
I love having these kinds of conversations with girlfriends and with
last week being LOVE week – my birthday - Valentine’s Day – and Bible
Studying/Prayer time with a circle of awesome ladies – it was the perfect time
to focus on God’s whispers!
It's been almost 2 months since my fingertips have played here; but I’ve thought about writing a blog post since I was away with my
hubs for my birthday. Yet, somehow, my personal writing time has been interrupted often with
one set of 2 year old hands.
Do you ever wish there was more time in your day?
Honestly, just as the season here is beginning to change, I feel
God is preparing me for a season of change.
He whispered recently and I thought I would share…with intentions and
hopes that maybe by you reading this blog, it will tune your ears to His own
whisper for you and your path.
With the recent move our friends made about 2 hours away; my
hubs thought it would be a great birthday gift to wisp me away to visit
them. He reserved a room for us at a
historic hotel located in the town square. The hotel was named after a nearby
river, the Hassayampa River…say that 10-times fast-ha!
Here is an amusing photo my hubby took of me in 4 different places in the lobby…it
was beautiful inside, with both a touch of old and a touch of new!
Hassayampa is an Apache Indian word that means “the river that
loses itself.” The river apparently is
100 miles long but at a point it disappears beneath the surface only to
reappear down the way.
As I sat in the lobby reading about the history and the fact
that the hotel itself opened in 1927, but then for a time closed down and the
rooms served a different purposes for a while…a boarding house, a radio station
and an interim campus for the College
A burning sensation filled my heart as I read this…
Then I remembered
1- A Prayer
2- A Memory
3- A Quote
4- A Word
In addition, to remembering that I had been praying and asking God to direct my efforts and my time these days
and to show me where to focus my energy; a flash of memories from these past few years came before me:
1-A circle of women God brought before me to pray with and for
me
2-A fresh new gift from God to write for the purpose of
encouraging not only my heart, but other women’s hearts.
3-Our moving to a new home/new community/new church, now almost
2 years ago.
4-The surprise-special birth of our third son and the current
two-year old training that is consuming my heart at this present time.
I then remembered a quote
from John Maxwell that I know was at the heart of what a dear friend shared
with me recently: Learn to say no to the good, so
you can say yes to the best.
And last but certainly not the least, I remembered God’s Words in Isaiah 43:18-19 that
seemed to be whispering over my heart as it pertained to my personal writing.
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive
it?
I am making a way in the desert and
streams in the wasteland.”
With that, sweet bloggy-Princess Path girlfriends I believe God
is nudging me to flow onward for a time…focusing on some other things before
me…maybe soon to re-appear like the Hassayampa River further down the
path.
Until we meet again here…keep seeking – keep going – keep
walking down that Princess Path that God has for you!
Even though you may not see me in this cyber realm, you can
trust that I will still be walking; hand in hand with the One who whispers so
beautifully and I seek continually- but not perfectly to guide my heart. And who
knows what God has in store…like the Hassayampa River my writing may reappear.
