The tiredness is all consuming. I can hardly keep my eyes open. The mornings which used to be invigorating and awe inspiring (with coffee of course) are now foggy and the evenings are hard to even get through. Outside at 2am, I wonder if I will stay awake as I sit at the picnic table so I can bring myself and the puppy back inside, after he gets done playing with that leaf of course. The howling all night is ear piercing and I am absolutely exhausted but as we are now in day 8 of the new puppy, I will say this…I am still alive. Tired but alive. Mylanta, a new little life is exhausting to watch over. New little puppies are fragile and susceptible to all kinds of dangers inside and out. You just wish they knew their crate was going to be their friend, electrical cords are bad, and that they didn’t have to worry if you were coming back to get them, but they do not know these things yet.
This is also how it can be with a new baby believer. In the fragile lives of some of the women we minister to, their new faith is susceptible to all kinds of dangers that prowl around them. Fears of the unknown, concerns if God will really provide, a faith that is growing but not grown, and an enemy who wants them back. We worry they will listen to something false, or be tempted to believe God can’t love them. One step forward, two steps back. The struggle is real and it is real in the lives of these women who have professed new faith in Jesus. This is not an easy ministry. We must have the persistence, patience, prayer, and sometimes tough love with these women but it is all worth it because Jesus is the perfecter of their faith. God is in control and the Holy Spirit will guide and direct. I can point these women in the right direction, steer them to the right path, the path toward Jesus, in which I know they are in good hands.
Please pray for many of the women we minister to that have given their lives to Jesus over the past few weeks. Some of them will be making the trip back to where they are from out East soon and we will have to believe they are trained up and ready to be released. Not so true with our new little Milo yet;)
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