September 09 – Is This What You Are Looking For?

September 9, 2016

TURNING THE CORNER (wk17.tu)

Furniture is coming!! Today we turn the corner and this place becomes HOME! Lori has a school meeting, Dustin is in charge! It’s a little crazy. Oh and of course…more paint! And a sweet friend welcomed us to our new home, southern style….FOOD!

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September 9, 2015

Stuck in Moscow Leaving T-stan

By dustinhedrick

In 2007 I was invited to travel to Tajikistan. And as the story goes, we were held in the airport due to the strangest things happening there. And if you have ever been through T-stan’s airport, it is simply strange anyways. It’s a whole cultural experience. That is by far the only time I have ever had to wrestle with people to get into the building. (Not exaggerating).

And not only that, there were people trying to take drugs out of the country. This is 2007, so it is a whole different world. The customs folks took the drugs, piled them beside the area and ushered people through. So crazy. And that doesn’t even get me started on how you have to bribe everyone to get through security in the first place. (A bribe consists of about $ .50 US).

So, once we get through, the plane is held due to freak storms, we are stuck for hours and when we get to Moscow, we miss our flight which forces us to stay until after our Visas run out. So, we leave that night and stay in the hotel next to the airport which is when I recorded this movie. Once we returned since our Visas ran out over night, we were taken by soldiers who held us at gun point in a small international zone where we had to stay. We could not leave due to the Visas and we could not stay because we had no Visa. They threatened jail for 6 months. And we wrote letters to the Cosnulate begging forgiveness and promising never to allow Visas to run out in Russia again.

Needless to say when I come through US customs even today, they mention three countries I have been to where I had issues and Russian Federation is one of them. They always laugh at me.

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Tweets From God – The future is never scary when you are acquainted with its author… -GOD

By Ashley Shepherd

My daughter just turned 3, this fall marks my officially prepping her for prek here at home. I’m not doing anything formal by any means, but rather making an attempt to be more intentional in introducing her to new concepts as well as covering things she already knows to keep them fresh in her mind. As such, I picked up a few workbooks to aid in the endeavor and she absolutely loves them.

The other day we were working in one of her workbooks, she was to circle the pictures that had two pairs of shoes. The shoes were broken up in sections, but being young and new to all of this she just saw a page full of shoes, so when I told her to count the shoes, she counted one section and then proceeded to count the shoes in the next section. It wasn’t until I covered the other sections with my hands that she began to grasp the concept.

In that moment I realized, in the same way, God often times hides things from our view so our perception is altered and we can better grasp the bigger picture. If He reveals all at once we risk missing out on the tiny details, the fundamentals that hold everything together.

Not knowing the end result seems scary, but in the end it’s for our good. Trust in His plans for you today. Don’t lean on your own understanding, because there is greater depths to the things He has in store that our carnal minds can’t comprehend.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

I’ll leave you with the words to the chorus of a familiar hymn, perhaps you know it, rest knowing He holds your future.

Because He Lives, by Bill Gaither

(Chorus)
Because he lives
I can face tomorrow
Because he lives
All fear is gone
Because I know
He holds the future
And life is worth the living
Just because he lives

Blessings!

Tweet By Dustin Hedrick
Devo/Thought Of The Day By Ashley Shepherd, Team DHM

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Tweets From God – I know exactly where you left your keys…. -GOD

By Ashley Shepherd

The day was drawing to an end, it had been a very long day full of birthday celebrations, and yet, though evening, I still had very much to do, all of which required multiple trips back and forth to my car. The only problem, you guessed it, I lost my keys, not once, not twice, but three times.

The reason, in the midst of all the chaos, my focus had been pulled in all types of directions and upon being interrupted time and time again, I simply laid my keys down any old where vs their allocated space.

Thankfully, in those moments, my brother was right there with me to say with a little chuckle, “looking for these” as he dangled the keys in the air. In the same way, God is always beside us taking in the moments of our lives and is ready and willing to help if we only ask.

I can’t help but think though, what if in those moments instead of becoming distracted and consumed by all that was around me, what if I took a moment and shifted my attention to Him? His word says, “You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you.” (Isaiah 26:3)

I don’t know about you, but the next time I tackle something head on I want to do it with a peaceful heart instead of an anxious one. Will you endeavor with me to invite Him into all the little day to day activities? He truly does care about the little things.