Redeeming the Time: Practice makes Better...

Well, I wanted to put up that last post (pardon the length) because it was a very interesting study we had done recently, but I also wanted to let anyone who reads this know how it impacted our lives. God gave us an opportunity to grab onto just yesterday (Sunday). It was a very hot day, and the fans in the church just didn't seem to be able to keep up, so it was a bit of a struggle. But we got through just fine. Still, you don't realize how much heat can sap your strength. I teach on Sunday afternoons, tutoring a local doctor's children in English, which is helping to build some key bridges into their lives. Kathi as well is working to build relationships with this family. I teach for an hour, and then we usually go home, eat or whatever, getting rested up for the evening. Well, this family is extremely giving and so invited us to go bowling with them. At first, we were both thinking... ugh... it's so hot, and we are so very tired... bowling seemed like the last thing we wanted to do. And yet, we knew it was an opportunity that God had brought along the way. So we decided to do it, and never regretted it. God proved to be the wiser of us in bringing this opportunity along. And so we were able to put our study into practice, grabbing up the opportunities that come along the way, making time for them instead of holding to any rigid schedule.

So we did go bowling, and apart from my own lousy scores (Leah's was actually much better), what wasn't lousy was the building of relationships with this wonderful family. Their youngest son, who is elementary school age, is usually shy and doesn't EVER speak to us, or anyone else for that matter. But at the end, after we had cheered him on (even with gutterballs), he really warmed up and would at least look at us! So we thank God that His wisdom is much greater than our own, and we thank him for an opportunity to "practice what we preach".