So, as most of you have figured out by now, my life in the past 2 months has taken a big turn in direction. I had been hell-bent on coming home to Nova Scotia (after 5 long years...) and dispite the offer given to me by the U of A Navs, I was not interested in sticking around Edmonton for another year :) I managed to play my ignorance card for most of the year and pass off even praying about what the Lord might have me do, for no other reason than that I didn't want to give Him an opportunity to tell me to do anything other than "go home." Well, one Sunday I went out for lunch with Paul Tan (UofA Navs staff guy) and Simon (a visiting England Navs staff), and in typical Navigator fashion Simon was asking some very sincere and throught provoking questions about my future heart for fulltime missions in Africa and what that would "look like." I could answer a lot of his questions cause I had thought about many of them before...but, by the end of lunch I was feeling a great need to go for a "walk and talk" with the Lord! The Holy Spirit was moving in my heart and showing me just how un-ready and lacking in conviction and vision I was--not the best way to head into a life of Kingdom Service! During this walk and talk the Lord was just showing me that I needed to BE in a place where I could be poured into and developed so that I could be that much more effective and useful to Him when He finally unfolds the ministry that He has for me down the road...and even now. As I thought about this I realized that at home in NS, the people available to trian and develop me for ministry were few (well, there are lots of people, but, those people have other focuses-the church, the youth, jobs...)...but here in Edmonton, there were 3 people just waiting for me to say "hey, do y
ou think that I could stay and learn from you guys...be trained and equiped in Ministry?" Are you Kidding me!? That's THE purpose of the Navs ministry! "Ok God, You win...I'll stay" :) He'd given me some verses a few days before, and they'd only really made sense in that moment. Isaiah 43: 18-21 (you'll have to look 'em up!) says "I am doing a new thing...will you not be aware of it..." And this was Just the Beginning of the "New thing"...(Next few Blog entries will be about the Navs conference a few weeks ago...they are the next steps in the Lord's new thing in my life...and by the way, I decided to obey the Lord-as if I had a choice!- and stay in Edmonton for further equiping in ministry until December...or longer if that is what He wants for me...I'll keep you posted :)
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