It has been a BUSY TWO WEEKS!
As you will see we now enter a season of work on the house that is every day overwhelming! Ever been overwhelmed and felt paralyzed, not able to move onto the next step, ever have NO IDEA what the next step is? Us too. Here’s how we deal…
Risk, it’s a small word, simple enough. Easy to say, much harder to live out. The saying goes a risk is worth the reward. I’ve lived long enough to know that’s not always true. But I may be changing my mind. Often for me the reward that comes with risk is not the financial gain (sometimes you lose with a risk) but the change that occurs in my heart & thinking along the way. Risk to me goes hand in hand with trust. It requires a decision.
Ever since Brian began his own business in 2012 we have chosen to walk with risk. In our region farming is commonplace so any farmer reading this will not be impressed, they live with risk every day.
Why this post on risk? Why right now?
With demo complete, building can begin. Here are some of the things on Brian’s to-do list.
- Get bids for kitchen (be knowledgable on cabinetry, flooring, spacing, including having EXACT measurements) This is why I write, he measures! I usually eyeball my measurements, this DOES NOT WORK in mapping out a brand new kitchen!
- Decide & purchase appliances (fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher, washer/dryer)
- Contact someone to get header in, can it even be done?
- Contract to get new electric panel installed
- Drywalling looms over him (250 sheets of drywall it will take)
- Stairs need rebuilt upstairs & new stairs installed going downstairs
- Install plumbing
- Install heating duct work
- Not to mention his busy landscape season begins in 6 weeks
You get the idea, it is OVERWHELMING! Will the house get done in time? That feeling can easily paralyze. There is much at risk right now. This is where trust comes in.
Most often I prefer to be in charge. OK, all of the time, I like to be in charge. I trust myself to work hard. This works to some degree until I am so overwhelmed that I cannot see clearly what the next step should be. When the weight of my action or inaction affects my children. When it is obvious to me that the outcome I desire in no longer something that I can control or can work hard enough to attain. This is when I am reminded I am a child of God and have a decision to make. Our countries coins say “In God We Trust”. We do. But I myself have learned this lesson the hard way over many years. Can I trust God with the areas of my life that are most important, especially when we are walking with risk? This is where faith comes in.
Risk. Trust. Faith.
Faith is believing in something you cannot see. Brian & I’s faith in Jesus causes us to depend on Him to guide us and ask what do we focus on today? We believe He answers. Our God is big and small at the same time. He wants everyone to know his great love and yet he loves each of us intimately and personally. Those are easy words to write but difficult words to live out. We pray, we trust and then we go to work.
If you knew God was for you and nothing could come against you, what would you risk?
P.S. In our experience God is with us even when we are stupid so don’t risk selling the farm until you’ve checked the market!