Saturday morning...

Howdy folks,

Lee writing here. Saturday morning and such around here. I'm usually not a real wordy one I guess except when talking person to person so here is a short blog just so see things from my point of view. I study on the roof of the school with my teacher Edna and the other day I was studying the difference between using the spanish prepositions por and para. Edna could sense that I was reaching the point of near frustration trying to understand and put the concept to use. Thankfully breaktime was the next thing to do and before heading down stairs for coffee and bread I had time to just slow down and pray for a sec. It just hit me that if I never really get good at spanish I can still be a ministerial success by just the fact that Holy Spirit is really the one doing the ministry. This is in no way any form of excuse for running right along and not learning the language. I truly believe that the Lord wants to and will have us as good as we can possibly get before school is over for us. I guess what I am saying is something we have already blogged before...We need Jesus more than we need spanish. Like at the end of Mathew 6, we read something like "seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you". Free time, learning spanish, beautiful vistas (views), even ministry itself cannot become the most important objects in our lives...it would be an idol and God would not bless it. How wonderful that the pressure can be taken off, all I have to do is trust and keep walking. Put the Lord first and then the things that seem so big will seem to fall into place...according to how God wants them to look. It was so comforting to think in that moment on the roof that I had somehow placed spanish as the most important thing for the time being instead of God...then to put things into their proper perpective....The Sovereign Lord above all else. How good to remember this at a time when I was wondering how to learn certain concepts...and also wondering how life would look when we don't have a ministry to do for 6 months or so.....or do we have a ministry? Absolutely....God never calls you to a place....He always calls you to a people....He has called us to Antigua to prepare for Villa Nueva...but also to be faithful to Him while in Antigua. You wouldn't believe how this town is such a tourist hub and stopping point for travelers from all over the world. Canadians, Koreans, Chinese, Germans, Swedish, and many others including folks from all over the US as well...Florida, California, Washington, and the northeast. There are people here that we would never have seen at any other place in time....what a chance to share the gospel with the nations. Life is not on hold, it never is, God always has a purpose. Right now we learn spanish, but also we have a chance while in this place to pour out and to be poured into. Follow Him....follow Him hard....it is always interesting....and always a reward....and always Glory for the One Who deserves.

For the Name,

Lee and Staci