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June 07, 2006
He Really Knows...
Wow, he really knows how much we can handle...
Today I'm checking in my first major conference. Last summer, I coordinated over twenty conferences, but they were smaller scaled with lots of needs. Earlier this summer, I helped coordinate the housing and dining for Odyssey of the Mind, but because there were so many of us working on it, I didn't feel the insane pressure of being solely responsible.
With this conference, I had to assign 500 persons from the Iowa Methodist Church to rooms in MWL and Oak Elm. Not necessarily the hard part. The difficult part has been dealing with cash registers! Goodness! It's so easy to learn how to use them with things are going right, it's trying to figure out the endless number of things that can go wrong.
But nonetheless, I was coming quite to the end of my rope by the end of this morning. I woke up at 4am, dreaming of checking people in, and then had to be here at 6am.
Since the morning madness, things have calmed down a bit. I've actually gotten to sit, here in the MWL Commons, read my Bible, my Utmost, and this pamphlet Nancy just gave me.
It's been pretty refreshing. The verses have been butt-kicking to say the least.
I know for certain that one of my summer verses is "He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." John 15:2
I know that God is pruning away all the residue of the world that remains in so many areas of my life...work, my overall identity, worth, value, the list goes on.
And coupled with that, I know God is teaching me a lot about love...like Tim said last night--my love for God, my love for his people, and my love for the lost.
I think it's interesting that a few verses later he says, "This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples." John 15:8
Well, we know we will be known as his disciples by what...our LOVE. I wonder what trials and testing God has left for me this summer in his efforts to grow me in this area.
All I know for now is that he knows where I'm at, he know's my limits, and he's kindly pushing their boundaries...
Pray that I would be patient with myself in this whole process. And pray I'd have much grace on my co-workers, friends, and the conference guests.
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