There are times in life when you just can’t help but let stress get the better of you.  Big life changes have a tendency to be one of those times.  I know better, but, well, seemed everything was happening at once and I let it get to me.

We had it all planned out…at least we thought so.  Back in November, we announced it to the congregation even…we were that sure.  In June we would be leaving Archer City to move onto TCU’s campus in Ft.Worth.  We had no idea how we would eat but we were putting our trust in God (and the Methodist system)  to give us a small church somewhere near…just enough to put food on the table long enough to finish school.  Ten days later, Rick received a call from the District Superintendent saying we were being moved to the church in Chico, at the end of January!  So much for our planned future certainty!

God had our back the whole time.  In our anxious mood to make life happen, we reacted before He did.  He always has the final say!  God had been working in our lives, working out each and every little detail.  We only thought we had been patient.

Back in August, Rick had started seminary full time and had to maintain full time status at the church in Archer.  2 1/2 hour drive 2 days a week, each morning and evening.  On  those days, we would get up at 4:00 A.M. so he could leave by 5:00 to make it to school on time.  He would not arrive back home until midnight.  That was how we lived through the first semester of seminary.  It was grueling.  We knew the pace could not be maintained, work suffered, education suffered, everything suffered.  We prayed a LOT!  We knew we had to get closer to school.  We just didn’t know all the details of the how and when; until we received that call from the DS.

This is when I began to loose a bit of my sanity.  It was the holidays, Rick was either at school, work, or preparing for both.  All of it landed in my lap to get done.  The holiday schedule, the packing, all the new arrangements that involved 2 families.  And things only got worse.  Seems that when God moves to make good things happen; Satan is around to try his best to thwart them.  He jabbed hard several times in many different ways.  It made me mad, I fought back.

Through determined prayer, practiced patience and most importantly, a dear friends intervention, I managed to keep my sanity.

“Tracie”, she said.  “Stop and look at how God is working in your life.  He is working out every single detail for you, but you have to let go and let God.  Then, and only then, will it work out.”

Well, that hit me like a ton of bricks!  From that moment on, I lived each hour with that single thought in my mind.  “Let go and let God”.

It is 4 months later and guess what…we are safe and sound, the boxes got packed in time, all the details got worked out, all is well.  In fact all is better than well!  It only takes Rick an hour to get to school.  We get more sleep, he gets more study time and work time.  I get to start to school in August to complete my dream of becoming a registered nurse and the people here in Chico are loving us very good!

Let go and let God!  What does this mean for your life?  Where, in what areas are you still holding on, insisting on your way?  How can you let go and let God?

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