Preparar

 

To Prepare

     This is what I should be doing, but I think I'll blog instead, and watch The Good Wife at the same time...I think that's what they call multi-tasking.  It has been a challenge these last two weeks to think about our upcoming trip, mainly because we have been extremely busy with wrapping up our spring semester with RUF at Alabama.
      
        The end of the school year is always packed with activity, but this year it just seemed to get here so much faster. Dinners, parties...I'll spare you the details, all to say it was fun and now we are about to attend our week long national conference down at the beach, life is just really hard right now...so ya'll can pray for me;)

   Seriously though, it has been easy to keep from preparing to go to Madrid. I still need to get lots of things done. We have to get the house ready for eight weeks without us,throw a fourth birthday party for Mae, find some sort of lightweight travel crib for the baby to sleep in while we are there, the girls need new jackets, and of course I need a pair of jeans that will make me look amazing. These are little things for sure, but those listed and many more add up to time I need, that I may not have...(Oh, and all the students going are each raising around $6000 in two months while finishing school and taking exams...no big deal)

         What I have found comforting, when I am wallowing on my 'before sleep guilt pillow', as I affectionately call it, (you know that time at night, right before you fall asleep, when you start to think about all the things you need to do, all the things you should have done/said/thought/prayed/read/watched/worn...whatever) is that God is never unprepared. He actually can't be, because you know, He's God and that would sort of go against the definition of being God. God is not unprepared to meet me right where I am, nor is He unprepared for what is happening and will happen as we head to Madrid. He is ready. As I heard this morning, before preparación to take communion..."Jesus is not/ cannot be #1 on your priority list, He is THE LIST." God controls time, it's His. He is the lens through which we 'do' all of life. This is the hope and truth we take to Madrid, that history and time are moving and working for the glory of God and His story includes the people and the city of Madrid, just as it includes the people and city of Tuscaloosa, or where ever you are as you read this. God has time on his hands so to speak, literally (I am saying that in my Rob Lowe Parks and Rec voice). So, while my confidence in myself to get all my Ts crossed and check off my list of things to do both, for this trip and for my soul, ebbs and flows( like it has my whole life) it's soul filling, life giving, contentment bringing to know that God is neither alarmed nor stressed or on the brink of what I like to call a 'a sure way to send your children to therapy later' breakdown. He's there. Ready.

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Rev 22:13

well, ill leave you with that. Pray for us as we prepare, but pray knowing that God is working already.

Muchos gracias,
Ada