Off to the Hill Tribes

Tomorrow morning we leave for the hill tribe country of Thailand. I am almost 60 years old and never dreamed I would be feeling like Indiana Jones at this point of my life. What an incredible privilege we have to share the Word of God with these precious gentle people. They have no idea of the crazy, materialistic life we live in our beautiful country and they have very little hope and comfort that we get constantly from out wonderful Lord because they know so very little about Him and what He has taught us. It is so good to think about the rudiments of our faith and again realize what an incredible God we serve. He has been so intentional about the whole history of man and yet we still don't trust Him about such small problems of our life. It has been very encouraging for me to think through all this. I am just pray that their ears, hearts and minds will be able to comprehend what the Lord wants them to. If you are reading this and understand what I am saying--please pray for us--we desperately need God's Holy Spirit to be controlling all of us.

If my children are reading this--I love you all so so much. Remember what I always ask you to promise??You are loved and prayed for constantly.
Mommaglo

having your soul fixed

Have you ever been incredibly relieved to have your soul back? Tonight I am a free woman--after doing something so horrible and insensitive--something that I hate someone else doing to me. It took my sweet friend and daughter to help me even see what was happening.
I feel like my shoulders are not heavy, that I have been thru a wonderful shower of sweet smelling gardinias. God is so wonderful to forgive us every day of our lives--at least He has to do that for me, because i alway seem to need it.
I am about to mount up on wings like eagles so I better take some of that energy and keep packing for Thailand. If you read this--please pray for us.!!

no one knows i am here

Monday, November 07, 2005

noone knows i'm here!!
One of my most important needs is to have a time where no one knows where I am or is telling me what to do. I realize that this is a great display of my independent nature--but I really do need that time and this will be the perfect place to get it--because noone knows I'm here on line :-). Having privacy is one of the reasons we bought this house 16 1/2 years ago. It had a totally fenced in backyard with a pool . The pool we had prayed for for about 20 years and the fence to breathe behind was very appreciated. The fence is now gone--it had been made from someone's barn wood--was very worn out even though we had painted and stained it MANY times. In it's place is a new fence that my dear children helped my husband to put up. It's one of the reasons I don't want to sell this house. I want my grandchildren to play safely behind this fence--away from the pool if they cannot swim yet.I can think of many reasons I do want to sell this house, but after seeing where my dear sister is living, I vowed I would never complain about my house again--then on the planeride back from the Carribbean Cruise, I added a whole addition to the back of the house!!! Sorry, Lord!

Only four more days and we are going to the other side of the world to teach the wonderful Word of God to people who cannot read or write but are hungry to hear about the Savior they are thankful for. I feel that many of these people live in the "uttermost parts of the world"!! It is extremely primitive. We are so priviledged to have this opportunity to love them in many ways--but it is so frightening to me to feel that I have this great mission but am so so inadequate for the job. Joan and I are going to have to teach thru 2 interpretors--English to Thai to Acka. We need the dear Holy Spirit of God to take the words we say and make them understandable to these young believers.

We are also teaching 70 children at night--I have found some great stories and I think we may only need one interpretor for them because they learn to speak Thai in their schools. We have all kinds of fun presents we are bringing them, but they need so much--at least according to our living standards they need so much more.
We will be in Bankok, Chaingmai and Chaingrai Thailand for 10 days. Besides the teaching, we will be able to visit 2 orphanages with some gifts and see if any of these children are adoptable. If you are reading this and I doubt that many can or will because "no one knows I am here"??---please pray for us.