Opportunity :)

So, I'm sitting here at a Wired Monk waiting for a semi 'appointment' at 5:30pm. My mind has been reeling around a certain topic for a solid year now, and although I don't know if I'm entirely ready to 'jump in' yet, I believe that God has given me a small opportunity this week, possibly a small nudge, in the direction I feel he might want me to go :)

It's kind of funny. I trust that God is good. I KNOW that he is good and that he wants the best for me....I've seen his hand in small (but GOOD) ways, working out the details in my life.....yet fear and worry just seem to settle in at times.

While I was away this summer, I had a chance to visit a church in Kampala, Uganda. I cannot describe the feeling that struck me as I walked into this church. The church is called Calvary Chapel, and I felt like I'd come home the moment I walked in the doors :)

I appreciated what the pastor had to share at one point during the sermon. He was preaching from Matthew 6, and because I can't possibly describe the scriptures the way he was able, I will just share the verses here :)

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Matthew 6:25-34

So here I am, worrying away, but needing to understand that.......
God is at work in this.
God's hand is at work in me.
I do not need to fear.
I do not need to worry.

So here's to the 'opportunity' that has frightened and worried me so!
.....and a picture of a flower, dressed in such splendor :)