Is It Wednesday Yet?

There have been many things I’ve wanted to blog in the past week but between having our first group of the summer, our internet being down the past few days, and my new room not having internet it just hasn’t happened.

We have staff meeting the beginning of each week and try to start off asking “how did you see God this week?”

Last week I saw God through our group. Our group included a large equipment mechanic, custom wood worker (or whatever he is officially called), an OCD mom, a girl who knew sign language, a lady with a bag full of medicine and natural remedies, to name a few. Totally different people but God had a purpose for each one. Another mission in town had a broken down tractor, another missions generator has been on the fritz and not working for a while, we have a smaller generator that has been sitting and not working for a realllly long time; all of these things were fixed or “diagnosed” by Tim (large equipment mechanic).

Chrissy (sign language) was able to connect with Kerby (our deaf boy) and communicate with Kerby’s deaf tutor which was really cool for all of them and for us to see.

Julie (medicine and remedies) was here just at the right time as many of us were under the weather. Matt and I were particularly grateful for her natural “booster shot” that helped our sore throat, mucus, coughing, cold, plugged ear issues.

And then there was Rita (OCD mom) who has a HUGE help to me in the depot. Long story short I’ve been a little nervous and quite apprehensive about letting people in to “my” depot to work this summer and it was with apprehension that I started working with Rita Monday morning. Turns out she’s OCD and an organizer (like me!) and I felt completely fine to give her instructions and leave her in the depot to work without me Tuesday morning. You don’t know how huge that was!

Her family is also going through some similar things my family back home is going through so we were able to talk and encourage each other.

Now to today (really yesterday, 6.12) which is why I really sat down to write…

Today in one word… FRUSTRATING!

I’m ready for the day to be over. I’m proud of myself for not losing it and ending up in tears multiple times today. There’s not one big thing that happened or went wrong, just a lot of little things, things not going right, people upset because you didn’t do something the way they wanted or get what they wanted, having to work with people who weren’t really taking any initiative so nothing was really happening. About the time progress was finally made, and things were looking nice we spotted a rat... things were pulled off shelves, shoved around but we lost the rat... which led to every single tote being pulled off the shelves, off the floor and out of the depot. I finally had to wrap things up, walk away, shower and now I’m in my room reading and just needed to write down my frustration. I’m sure God is trying to teach me something I just don’t know what that is.