day eight

So much to say that I'm not even sure where to begin.  Three weeks is quite a bit of time where quite a bit of change can happen. 

 And it did.  

Almost three weeks ago I was offered a job that would require me to take at least a semester off from school.  I had been praying for the ways that God would provide for Mike and I financially and this was the answer for which I knew I had been searching.  I was offered the Leasing Manager position at Campus Pointe where I have been employed for almost 2 years now, a job that I had been hoping for for a while.  After accepting the job, I found out both managers that I had an amazing relationship with would be leaving to move to other properties.  My excitement quickly subsided.  Did I really want to work somewhere where I may no longer have allies as managers?  What if we were assigned a new Property Manager that wasn't someone that I could easily work with?  I prayed for someone with which I knew I could be a team.  Again, God answered.  The assistant manager that was at our property almost a year ago was assigned to be our new Manager; she was someone that I shared an amazing relationship with -- and her relationship with God is one for the books.  So here we are, day one into my new job and I'm happier than ever, and oh so thankful.

I must be honest, after I completed my personal Bible study in James, I've slacked off -- big time.  I haven't been staying in the Word like I promised I would.  This past week I've really been wanting to find a new Bible study so that I can delve back in and feel the Holy Spirit moving.  Last week, Mike met with Keith, the Worship Pastor at Hillvue Heights where we've been attending as guests since the move to Bowling Green.  Mike is hoping to volunteer with the Worship Team during our time here.  Mike came home incredibly happy and thankful for Keith's openness to Mike volunteering.  Then yesterday, the Keith's wife, Lindsay, emails Mike inviting me to the Women's Bible Study.  Okay, God.  I see what you're doing here.  My heart had been yearning for a Bible Study -- but not only that, I prayed weeks ago for a small group that I can identify with at Hillvue.  Here it was, right in front of me.  So, just this morning did I decide to go to Bible study tonight.  And what Bible Study did I choose? Forgotten God, studying the Holy Spirit in us.

Okay.  I see you, God.

I wanted to feel the Holy Spirit moving and low and behold, I'm studying Forgotten God.  I can't even begin to tell you how amazing it feels knowing you are right where God wants you to be.  These last few weeks I've been wondering if Bowling Green really is where Mike and I are supposed to be right now.  I'm taking a semester off from school, why are we even in Bowling Green?  We could have been working in Hardin County or even Lexington.  Why on earth Bowling Green when I'm not even in school here anymore? Here it is, plain as day.  I needed this small group of women at Hillvue Heights.  I needed to feel the Holy Spirit move with other women of God.  

I'm right where I need to be.

We're right where we need to be.

"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish.  And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14

At such a time as this.  Esther came to be Queen at a time where she could save the people of her heritage.  It was the perfect time.  She was right where she needed to be at such a time as that one.  It's stories like Esther's that remind me that we are in certain places in our lives, physically and not, at just the right time.

I am thankful for God's timing and the Holy Spirit that is moving in my life.  Take a moment to feel the Holy Spirit tonight.  Allow His mighty love and peace fill you.

May God bless you and keep you at such a time as this.

meg