Trust

So this year at VBS I learned something new. I thankfully got to work with my friend Courtney! If you do not know who she is, read the blog below this one.

Like I said, I got to help her last week. I led her everywhere. I helped with craft and music time which is her favorite! Rec time I would tell her how to play and would aid in anyway she needed. On Friday, Courtney got to go through a fire truck, ambulance, and police car! Her favorite was sitting on top of the cop's motorcycle =]

While helping led her everywhere it kinda hit me. She has been putting her complete trust in me. She trust that I won't run her into anything, I won't mislead her during craft of rec time. She has to completely trust me and know I won't do any of that. Never did she question if I was taking her the right way. Never did she show fear in where we were going.

Shouldn't that be how we are? Trusting in God to lead us where we should go. I know my two biggest problems in trusting people and worrying. But we're suppose to trust in God and know He will take us where we need to go. He will guide us without fault. He wont lead us in the wrong direction unless we ourselves stop putting our trust in Him.

Something else that was cool was that Courtney could tell when the lights were off. When it was our lesson time, Courtney would walk through the door and turn to her right and flip the light switch. She is blind and yet she could see the light.

Sometimes I think we can blind to what God could really use us for. And sometimes we just need that light switch to be flipped.

Courtney also could tell from pretty far away that a door was closed. Ha one time we were walking and she out of the blue she said,"ugh oh! I will need to open the door when we get closer!" I was shocked bc we had never discussed what she could 'see' and what not. But she could tell when a door was not open. And she always liked to be the one to open it and hold it for anyone who needed to pass through.

We need to realize that when there is a door God has placed infront of us, we need to open it. We need to be like courtney in many ways but the main way that spoke to me was in trusting.

She didn't just trust me sometimes, she trust me all the time. She didn't ask questions in whether or not I was leading her the right way, she just went.

I'm speaking to myself when I say... It's time we completely trust in God and just go where He leads.
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Lord, Uncover My Eyes

So next week is VBS. I am very excited and I really hope and pray my special friend from last year comes back. My friend's name is Courtney. She is triplet of two other girls. They all look exactly alike but.. Courtney and a little different. She's blind. I dont know why I just thought of this example this morning... but I did while getting ready for church. Courtney really taught me something and the sad thing it took a year to finally hit me.

One day during VBS, the 2nd graders were coloring Noah sheets. Courtney could not recognize what color each crayon was so I was helping her. I noticed she kept rubbing her hand across her picture but I wasn't sure why? She then picked up a color and she asked what it was and I told her it was white. She didn't care and started to color with it.

I noticed again she kept feeling her paper and rubbing her hands all over it. Within a few seconds of going outside the lines with her white crayon, she gasped and faced me. I asked her what was wrong and she said... "Miss Ashlyn I just went outside the lines." I looked at her paper and said,"Oh no you didn't! I don't see anything outside the lines..?" She then grabbed my hand and rubbed it over her coloring sheet. She said, "you see? Right here is where I colored outside the lines." I could not see that she had colored outside the lines bc the crayon was white. She saw something I couldn't see.

This reminded me of how God sees what we are not able to see. Here we are coloring our own Noah picture... and if we aren't following God's will we color outside the lines. We pick up a color and we should be asking Him if we can use this one and then proceed to color. Yet sometimes we miss out and yet again color outside the lines.

It's time we step back and let God take our hands and show us where we've messed up. Its our turn to let Him rub our hands over our coloring picture and see where we have colored outside the lines.

Just something on my heart today.