Where confidence is placed.

Good morning!  This is not exactly an "update," this is me just dropping a note to tell you about how God is working in me right now. 


This morning I woke up early with my mind and stomach in a curious mixture of nerves.  I am teaching the High Ropes Courses to a group of alumni summer staff for the next two days.  These next four days of training consist of two-day rotations; the returning summer staff has signed up for special training in specific areas such as kayaking, rock climbing, high ropes, rafting, etc.  I was asked a couple weeks ago to help one of the permanent staff members teach the high ropes rotation, and the challenge course rotation.  I said yes, and was excited for the opportunity to teach, as well as being a bit out of my comfort zone--really anything that involves public speaking is--but I was looking forward to it.  Well.  That permanent staff member had to suddenly attend a funeral on the east coast, which left me teaching all by me lonesome.  Thankfully, I was given time to plan, and another staff member was asked to help me.  [The sounds of breakfast are playing in the background, so I must be brief.]  So back to this morning, I awoke, prayed, reviewed my lesson plan and wrote some notes; then I had to break and read the devotional the whole staff is going through.  The verse on the top of the page was James 1:5, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him."  The entire devotional was speaking the truth I so desperately needed to hear, then as we sang and worshiped God together, I felt my confidence growing.  Not that I was going to be this great teacher, but that I am a disciple of the Great Teacher.  I felt like I could move mountains if God asked me.


I wish I had more time to share with you, but I am teaching in 40 minutes and I have gots to go.  


"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in allthings, may have an abundance for every good work."
--II Corinthians 9:8


--faith