"Listen."

As I made the trip to Uganda this year I took along an expectation. I was almost certain that it was a mistake to do so, but never the less I did. As I was here last year I experienced and encountered God in a whole new way. I found myself on my knees in the middle of the camp in broad daylight trying to catch my breath as I sobbed. It was a breaking moment in my life. I believe that in that moment God broke off of me the orphan spirit I had been carrying around for 3 decades prior. He put his arms around me telling me I would be an orphan no more.

So this year I expected bigger and better. I spent the first days of this trip looking for anything that may propel me into "that moment" and the experience that would top the last. Needles to say, "that moment" has not come for me this year. Even though I took along the expectation of the bigger and better this year, I sensed that God had something different in store. He does. I have come to a place where I am waiting expectantly, and all I have heard from the Holy Spirit is, "listen."

I have some specific things that I am seeking the Lord to answer and give me direction about, and in all of these things I have found the answer that I looked for.

I am quiet, I am patient, I am praying, and I am "listening."

Bigger and better does not always look bigger or better.

Barrett