A great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God's delays. Thus, much of our trouble in life comes out of our restless, sometimes reckless haste. We cannot wait for fruit to ripen, but insist upon picking it when it is green. We cannot wait for the answers to our prayers, although the things we ask for may require long years in their preparation. We are exhorted to walk with God, but sometimes God walks more slowly than we desire.

On the other hand, God sometimes also waits for us! We fail many times to receive the blessing He has ready for us, because we do not go forward with him. There are many divine promises that are conditioned upon the beginning of some action on our part. When we begin to obey, God will begin to bless.

Great things were promised to Abraham, but not one of them could have been obtained by waiting in Chaldea. He must leave home, friends, and country, and go out into an unknown country with unfaltering obedience in order to receive the promises. The same is often true with us...*

Are we rushing ahead of God....blindly, recklessly, impatiently?? Or is God ahead of us....trying to get us out of our comfortable recliners and out of our daily routines and moving toward the land of promise?? Some serious thoughts worth thinking over... :-)

This last week has been a busy one for all four of us roommates. Sunny just got back from attending the South East Youth Conference at Southern with Tim and Adrian. They've been busy working on editing all those programs for Audio Verse. Suzy is packing and preparing for her 3 week mission trip to Cambodia! (I'm envious!) Valerie has just started her new job in a GI lab in Highland (about 15 minutes away). And I've been busy planning programs for CCBN, as well as filming with Jen and editing with Dave! I spent most of this afternoon starting to edit our most recent "True Love" episode....and got all of 2 minutes finished by this evening. Wow - you just can't imagine how much time these things take to put together just right! (But I'm on the roll now, so things should go much much quicker!!)

This weekend we all were pooped though. So Sabbath afternoon, Val and I convinced TJ and MaryAnn to help us get away from Loma Linda for a breather. (Actually, they didn't need much convincing!!) They took us up to the mountains which were just covered in another 2+ feet of snow this last week. It was beautiful!! (Thank goodness they had 4-wheel drive!!) It was a real adventure. We ended up at Lake Arrowhead village and after sundown worship, went looking for a place to eat. But a las, our favorite "Belgian Waffle" restaurant was closed. Incidentally, while we were up there walking around....the electricity went out in the whole village. Thankfully I had brought my flash light along at the last minute.....thinking that just in case we got stuck in the snow and had to walk, it'd be a good thing to have!

We had fun spinning around in the snow a bit, and then headed back down the mountain to a warm restaurant closer to home. After a large cup of hot chocolate....the evening was complete!

The contrast in California continues to amaze me. Here, right outside my window, the grass and trees are green....the flowers are blooming, and it almost seems like spring. But up in the mountains, it is the dead of winter....and everything is ice and snow. I guess maybe that's why sooo many people like it here. You can have either the beach or the mountains in a very short amount of driving!

I look forward to heaven when we'll have the same beautiful contrast....minus the bitter temperatures, fires, floods and storms....and minus all the traffic to get there. Well, maybe I shouldn't be selfish, but hope that there will be LOTS OF TRAFFIC to get there. But then, there we will fly....so we wont have to sit in line on little narrow winding mountain roads....

Hooo hummmm.....enough musings for now! Time to get back to work! (Or maybe it is time to get ready for bed....)

*Thanks to "Streams in the Desert - Jan 26th" for more inspiration!