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So we keep moving right along. As much as I would love to sit in the confusion and the injury of my husband, the kids keep us going like it or not.
My 5 year old started kindergarten today. It was so cute to see him walk up to the line this morning with his huge backpack weighing him down. Last night he giggled himself to sleep, he was so excited for school today.
I am currently watching him sit at the counter and sharpen his pencils. I bought him a pack of 8 pencils and his own pencil sharpener. He is sitting like a little man getting ready to “do his homework”. But really only sharpening over and over again ALL the pencils until they are all little tiny nubs. (He has 2 more to go). It’s all such an ironic sight at the moment. Coming off such a dramatic vacation that God was speaking so clearly to both Jeff and I. I feel as if God is “sharpening” me and yet I am twisted down to a “nub” as well.
I know God is going to take all the shavings and make something a-whole-lot-better. Its kinda painful. And I am noticing it requires more action from me than I think I have the energy for.
Just think of all the great things that God can do with that “well sharpened pencil”. It’s mind blowing to think of all the beautiful works of art, symphony music, and life-changing words that have come from the tip of a pencil because of God’s divine influence.
You will find strength and endurance to withstand the sharpening because God is already there with you.
I too am going through a time of sharpening. My husband just resigned after 5 years of ministry at a church – we’ve been in the ministry for 20 years now. We leave with no bad feelings or scandal or anything like that. It is just God’s time for something else. Somehow the sharpening hurts just the same but, I anxiously await what will come next from the tip of God’s pencil.
I am praying for you.
With you in your sharpening process, friend…