Young Life

I met with the Allen Young Life directors yesterday for lunch. After praying and consulting those I trust for over a month now, AND asking God for a CLEAR path and sign. The meeting went very well.

Two things happened today that have helped me find even more peace in a decision to join Young Life. One, I grabbed a notebook out of my car just before coming into Tin Star today and dumped all of its contents into my car seat. When I came back from lunch and got in my car, I prayed again about the decision based on meeting both of the directors. I looked down before starting my car and found a bookmark (that had apparently fallen out of the notebook) stuck in my console. I pulled it out and recognized it although I hadn't looked at it since it had been given to me by MOPS last September. In bold letters the length of the bookmark it reads, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11. Furthermore, on the back, it reads, "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you." Isaiah 26:3. (In my bible it explains the verse: We can never avoid strife in the world around us, but with God we can know perfect peace even in the midst of turmoil. Supported by God's unchanging love and mighty power, we are not shaken by the surrounding chaos.)

Also, I mentioned in previous blogs, my husband's job situation and our finances. His current job situation has been one of concern and worry to us both for the past few months. After I met with YL today, Dusty called me and told me he was offered his old night position back beginning April 28. Along with it, his previous (higher) salary.

I believe today God has shown me in clear, no uncertain terms that these are the plans he has for me, and through him I (and my family) now have the peace we have been struggling for recently.