They were crazy, full, event filled days. With unexpected opportunities and challenges with each sunrise and sun set.
It started Monday
morning, well let me go back. May 2010 Crossroads Church decided to pursue a
modular building as a permanent location of ministry and purchased a 36X66
building. In the fall of the same year we approved an agreement with the
Assembly to locate the building on their land. It was not until the spring of
2011 that the agreement was approved by all parties. Plans were laid and
submitted in Dec. of the same year and rejected in January, resubmitted and
rejected and finally approved February of 2013. Yes, it has been a long time in
the making. Monday the phone rang.
The mover wanted to get
started moving the building and do it Wednesday (yes, Wednesday two days
later). O.K. but we needed dirt for the pad hauled and spread before they could
be set up and we needed professional drawings for the remodel permit and had no
one to draw those. So here we go making arrangements for the mover.
Tuesday the phone rang and we
had dirt and a hauler just needed a price and day. The mover wanted to meet at
the site on Tuesday. Following the meeting he would start Wednesday and by
Friday have the pieces on site.
Wednesday the phone rang and we
had dirt, price and a day Friday for the delivery. Before sunset Wednesday we had an appointment
with and engineer to look at the structure, take pictures in preparation for
drawings on Friday afternoon.
Thursday no phone call coming in,
but a few going out to make connections for payment and logistics. My Jayhawks
won that evening.
Friday, a message and
conversation from a new neighbor to the hayfield and waiting for the dirt guy,
engineer and a check.
Five days of movement
after 2 years and 10 months of seeming non-movement. By the time you read this
50yards of dirt will be piled up and a modular building in three sections will
be sitting on our site that had been only five steaks with orange tape flapping
in the wind. Crazy I tell you.
Not more crazy than the
ways of the Kingdom of God. Life seems to be going nowhere at all for so long
all the while God is putting in place all of the pieces like a fine Swiss watch.
So that when it is time the watch is wound and it runs flawlessly and
effortlessly at least so it appears. It also runs quickly. This has been God
project all along. The terms are unusual. The location is unusual. The timing
is unusual but that is usual for God’s plans according to his purposes. After
all:
6 Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.
call to Him while He is near.
“For My thoughts
are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
9 “For as heaven is higher than earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:6,8-9 HCSB
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
9 “For as heaven is higher than earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:6,8-9 HCSB
In His Service and Yours
The Rev
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