I'm getting ready to embark on a new stage in my life..."Domestic Engineer" ;) ....and I'm really praying and thinking about what this stage of my life should look like. I tease Chris that I'll be on the couch watching soaps and eating bon-bons! Really, though, the Lord has blessed me with certain talents, and though I may not know yet what their purpose is outside the corporate world of biomedical engineering...I am committed to using them for His purpose.
Obviously, a large portion of my time and talents will be used in the mission field of my home. I love this article that our pastor's wife shared about missional mothering.
One of the verses I always cling to during times of big transistions in my life is Jeremiah 29:11, and while studying the other morning, I revisited this verse. This time much of the chapter really spoke to me as I read about the Lord speaking through Jeremiah to His people in exile. Now, don't get me wrong here, I really don't feel like living in Memphis is quite as extreme as the text I'm relating it to, but I often feel my heart is somewhere else. I don't think this literally describes my situation, but what I'm feeling is the thought that God leads you to live somewhere and it is there you should build a life, pray for your city and it's leaders, and pray the city would prosper and find salvation in our Lord.
Jeremiah 29:4-14
4 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” .....11 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 hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the LORD......
Today I read in the Memphis news that a Leadership Memphis study says 1 in 4 children living in Memphis is in dire poverty. That shocked me! I knew there was a lot of poverty in the area, but 1 in 4 children! There is a mission field right at my doorstep, and I'm praying we can do something to help.
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