Astounding!

slow: requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, oroccurring; gradual: a plant of slow growth.


This cracked me up! a [church]plant of slow growth 


What is so crazy to me is that we came here for this "thing", this dream that was supposed to be the be-all-end-all in our lives. This is what everything else was leading up to. It's what kept us going when we knew we were in a place of learning, of preparation (usually a place we didn't particularly love) because it would all be worth it one day!


I won't lie. I thought this would be different. I've heard every other church planter's story. I know. But I still thought it would be different. Go ahead and laugh, but I expected more from God. After all, we came here out of obedience, not choice. I thought there'd be reward for that. I thought this would just flow and happen - not without hard work, just that it would happen. It's why we're here!


I can preach the response to this as well as the next girl. But it's still how I feel so often in life. I just want to toss a big "SERIOUSLY!?" up to heaven. 


But then I try to do this thing I'm working on - I shift from myself to what may be a more God-ish perspective and I see that if we had'nt come here to do this thing that feels so slow in the making, then I wouldn't have been here to talk to my new friend who needed someone to listen and had no one else tonight. We wouldn't be able to help our new church in areas where we're skilled and they're short-handed. I wouldn't be having coffee with a girl who can't find God no matter where she looks. 


Some days those things are irritating because they're not the thing. They seem inconsequential and like we wasted our time coming. Other times, they blow my mind because God brought me all the way across the country (again) so I could be in the right spot at the right time for Him. Who am I that He would choose me for these assignments? Why did He orchestrate so many events to have me right there on His behalf?


The intricacies of God astound me. Don't underestimate what you can and are doing for God right now, right where you are.