I work at Boeing, at the Everett plant. Our plant is undergoing significant construction to make room for the 777X wing assembly factory. Buildings have been torn down, parking lots quickly disappeared, roads moved, 1000s of people moved around hoping to have a desk to sit in to do their work! What a mess! The dust has settled from the first wave of demolition all over our cars and people are getting into their new normal .. for now. On Friday, I stood on the 2nd floor walkway between the between the two big glass buildings, looking out over the construction site where my old building used to be. I counted 15 cranes stretching into the sky. Countless dump trucks being filled by several bobcats that are digging a gigantic hole in the middle of it all. There were cement trucks and more people running around in yellow vests than I could count from my perch! There was definitely work going on … They are in process to build something great for Boeing’s future! It all looked like a scrambled mess to me. But someone knows the rhyme and reason. I lifted my eyes to the horizon to see the beautiful snow-capped Olympic Mountains against a beautiful blue sky. How magnificent God was to remind me that beyond the mess right in front of me .. is something beautiful, breath-taking, grand and bigger than I can imagine from here. I love it when God talks to me in ways I can understand. Sometimes a 1000 words will go right over my head .. but show me … and I’ll get it. I hope I am not the only one like that. As I stood on the bridge, I was aware like never before, that Jesus has my NOW! …. Or I wouldn’t be sucking air on planet earth! (quote by Pastor Ron) I have a great family, friends and job! I am blessed! Sure – there is demolition and construction going on in my life! In my head and in my heart! I make so make so many mistakes! But with the help of the Holy Spirit, (and a few good friends) I will have a renewed heart and become the person Jesus wants me to be! There have been several changes happen in me over the past couple years. I am grateful for all them. The most difficult have been since the Ephesians Sermon Series at church in November - December. Those messages really required me to get real with my emotions and beliefs that encompass many aspects of my life before the Lord. Something I thought I was already doing. But God does require a clean heart … so on goes the demolition and construction. It does look like a scrambled mess from here but God says in Isaiah 41:13, “I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” It may not always look like I want it to look or be in the timing I prefer. That is why I trust Him to know the rhyme and reason. In my heart and mind, there are things being torn town, roads moved, garbage being removed, holes being dug because there is poison rotting below the surface, new things are being built. There is work being done right NOW to build me into someone who God created me to be for His Glory, for His Honor! To be His hands and feet to this world! But then I also lift up my eyes to the horizon, where I see all the incredible promises God has for me. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “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 a future and a hope.” God keeps it really simple so that I can understand. Not using a lot of words that could turn into list I need to follow and check off. He uses simple words that mean actions that I understand. Luke 10:27 says, “Love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s really great that Jesus himself showed over and over how simple it is to love. His greatest act of love for me was laying His life down on the cross to pay for my sins and so that I can have relationship with Him. My continuing life goal for 2015 – will be to keep tucking in behind Jesus in surrender and follow close behind Him. To listen closely for His voice and obey his direction. Diligently love with all my heart, soul, mind and strength those He put in my life! So that by the beginning of 2016, there will be something new built in me. Something wonderful and great that only God could have done! On Journey with you! ~ Ardis George 1/11/2015
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