Teresa = MIA

I've been up for nearly 3 hours now, and when I woke up this morning I looked out the window to see a gray - gloomy 'morning' sky. It looks like rain... actually, it looks like rain for the next 2 or 3 days. I sometimes love the rain and thunderstorms, but I hate waking up to them.

It has been nearly a month since I've written - there have been many things that I've wanted to write about: places I've been and the places I'm going, the amazing people I've met, the many things God has been weighing in on my heart, things with family and things with other loved ones. I am sitting here wondering how I'm going to be able to write about everything that has been in my heart and on my mind; but I don't think it's possible.

The last month has been crazy. I've been spending most of my time in cars, other people's houses and other people's churches. I've been running from here to there... from a Missions trip for 6 days, to being home for 6 days and then leaving for 7 more. And now I've been back home for 4 days and I have 4 left to go until I'm gone again for 5 and then home for 3 or 4 and then gone for 6 more. Believe me, it can get exhausting friends!

There are bags and suitcases to pack, things to buy and people to get inthouch with to make sure things are planned right. And very little time for life. Very little time to truly catch-up and have a conversation with dear friends of mine, little time to have peace and quiet and have familiarity again, and very little time to truly reflect on what has been put into my heart and mind during a weekly Bible Study... let alone very little time to be completely quieted and stilled before God.

Sometimes, (like this morning) I'm wishing life had a 'pause' button. A button that makes it so that I'm the only one moving and that when I feel completely ready again - then I can press the 'go' button. Too bad life doesn't have one of those, I know many people who have wished that along with me. *grin*

When I left for the Missions trip it was good. Good to meet so many amazing new people (may have a blog up about them soon.) Good to learn what it truly means to have a servants heart and what it means to realize that God is capable even when I doubt that He is, and that He can work through and in me even when I feel completely enable.

The week after that I got to spend with my brothers Bryan and Mike and my brother Bryans' family. It was refreshing in ways, and yet de-freshing in others (I know, I'm not sure if that's a word either.) Our last night there, my sister Britt and my brother Bryan and I were all sitting around the Kitchen table sharing what God has been teaching us and where we've been in life lately and simply how we were doing. I haven't had anyone ask me that or have anyone share that with me in awhile - so those words were spoken at just the right time. *grin*

And now, for 4 more days I am home. Spending time with family, having Bible Study, having time with Jesus, sleeping in my own bed and catching up on rest, and desperately trying to catch-up with friends that I've been missing.

Saturday afternoon I'm leaving to spend a few days with dear friends of mine that I haven't had the chance to see since December! I may be exhausted and wanting/needing a few things that I haven't been able to have in the past month, but I am terribly excited about this next week. To sit around the table like we did the last time I was there - and share about where our hearts have been, what God is teaching/doing in us, and what life has brought to us. To work together on things that need to be done. And to eat together, share coffee, watch movies, laugh and take walks... I'm excited.

I have more to share. I just wanted to write a 'where-in-the-world-have-I-been' blog (literally.) I have more to write about where God has had me and what He's been allowing to weigh in on my heart, and a few other things.

Thanks for reading... please do comment, I'd love to hear from you. :)

Teresa