I will draw her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her..

"I will draw her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her." Hosea 2:14

This is my life verse. The Lord spoke this scripture to me when I was but a year old in my relationship with Him. I was about to leave everything I knew to attend a Discipleship Training School with YWAM. It was 1998. I packed my bags, my Bible, my dreams and expectations and headed to the piney woods of East Texas to share a tiny dorm room with six other girls. The next five months of my life were given to the miraculous un-peeling of the Lord. I know.."un-peeling", not the most beautiful way to describe a work of the Lord, but the most accurate for certain. So, there I was in the "wilderness", grieving, growing, allowing the Lord to unpeel the layers of the world that I had accumulated over the last 22 years. And He spoke comfort to me. He woo'd me, he courted me, won my heart a thousand times over and sealed my devotion to Him. I will never be the same because of His goodness to me and His relentless pursuit of my heart. I can never go back to Egypt, for His faithfulness has been too evident.
He still draws me into the wilderness. This is where I listen best. It is the place where my desperation for Him moves me to action. Those sweet times with the Lord seem harder to come by these days. Three small boys, homeschooling, missions work and pregnancy require my focus most of the time. It is usually in those pre-dawn hours that I find my King waiting for me and hear that still small voice. I felt led today to start this blog to have a place to write, work out my words and thoughts and document His faithfulness to me. I will share a lot about homeschooling, raising my boys, my journey towards a natural birth, missions and whatever else comes up in my heart. Whoever wants to come along is welcome..