By Andrea Plotner
1. Enjoying God’s sense of humor
2. Listening for God’s voice and His corporate will
3. Seeing God’s vision unfold at Ft. Irwin
4. Watching God work in individual lives
5. Being sharpened by fellow board members
6. Being refined by circumstances
7. Enjoying a deep sense of community
8. Praying for others & being prayed for
9. Encouraging others to love God and His Word
10. Pointing to Jesus – our supreme treasure
Last year, when my husband was deployed, we had a (then) single young woman, Carrie, come to live with us. This was a huge help to me because it gave me a little more flexibility as a mom of young boys, and also provided some adult conversation every now and then.
Best of all, though, was that Carrie found our boys thoroughly entertaining. In sheer maddening parenting moments, Carrie’s amused expression would allow me step back and see the humor, and help me focus on affairs of the heart (mine and theirs), rather than on the current state of affairs.
God is like that. When we welcome his company into our circumstances, however messy, he doesn’t necessarily change the conditions as much as He changes our perspective. Suddenly, through Christ-colored-glasses, we are able to glimpse the hope, the joy, the love, and the humor in our homes & in our humanity (even during deployment!).
“There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24b
