I know it has been almost a year since my last post but hey, life is busy even if you sleep a lot. I am beginning to think that life is like a dog chasing its tail. You run around a lot and nothing ever gets accomplished. I have been chasing my tail for the past several months. Due to surgeries I haven't been able to keep my yearly schedule of cleaning and rearranging things. Spring cleaning was completely out, especially since we spent time trying to get everything ready for graduation and then sending Kelcy off to Ecuador. Yep you heard me right. My disorganized, slow to move, unmotivated child decided that God has called her to ministry so she started off with a blog entitled Great News. This is a wonderful and encouraging blog. We have enjoyed reading it and watching it grow around the world. She has truly found a way to touch lives with God's love and understanding. She always loved to write and as she grew up we always worried how in the world she was ever going to make a living. She never wanted at 9-5 job, school was a struggle to say the least, and she wanted to become an author but never finished a story. Watch out when you look up and say the words, God help us. You might get what you ask for and not even know what you are waiting on, He is funny that way. So Kelcy became and author of a blog. Then she hits us with the words we never thought we would hear from her. Mom, Dad, I want to go to Ecuador on a mission trip. As usual the words were, O.K. go to the meeting and let us know all the details. You know the things you say when you don't really think they will go through with something? Here she comes with a pile of paperwork and said I need to sign forms. Well the first thing that I noticed is that the cost of this trip, especially with graduation around the corner is going to be impossible. Let me give you a small piece of advice in case you are not used to God working miracles in your life. Never say that something is impossible because if it is something meant to glorify God He will see that it happens. That's right, she sent out donation letters and got almost all of the money needed. Only one fundraiser and she was just 676.00 away from climbing on that plane. Then when we just knew it wasn't going to work out, we get a text from the church that an anonymous donation of the exact amount she needed had just been made in her name. Needless to say at this point we started looking at things differently. Now I did forget to mention that in that pile of paperwork there was a release that stated we would not hold the church responsible if she were to be kidnapped, held hostage or killed while on this trip. Yes I did think this would be the piece of paper that changed her mind but not Kelcy. Nope she went to her roomed prayed and came back down with her signature in its place just waiting for mine. So I signed. The trip really made her grow up and changed her perspective on what she was going to do for a living. She loves working with children thanks to this trip and a beautiful little Ecuadorian boy named Axel. She now mends the emptiness in her heart after falling in love with this small child, and having to leave him and his family behind, by working with the same age group in the church daycare. I know she is already planning to return to Ecuador and reunite with him and his family, and of course to see the changes God has made in her absence. Since her return her blog has exploded with viewers. God is really working in her and through her. Here is a link to her blog if you would like to check it out.www.didyouknowjesusisalive.blogspot.com
You may think I am getting a little off track here and maybe I did, but maybe it was what we now term around here as a God thing. Eventually my life will never get back to normal, but it will get going in the right direction again. I have finally started to downsize and declutter. It will be so nice to open a cabinet without holding out my arms to catch cups and bowls as they explode outward. It will also be nice to close a closet door without using my whole body to shove the door closed until you hear a click and back away slowing as you stare at the door as if some horrible monster has just been locked on the other side.
I have decided that in the next two weeks at least I will stop chasing my own tail and start chasing other things. Like girls out of the kitchen making messes while I clean, the ever elusive pot or pan that is out of place, band aids that you only find when you don't need them and toothpaste that you know is in that drawer somewhere. I hope I can take two weeks and transform a disaster into comfort.
Stay tuned for the before and after pictures. By the way did I mention that yesterday I had Jeff take down the popcorn ceiling in the upstairs bathroom? Here I go...
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