When it rains it pours

 So Seattle is done teasing me with amazing weather.  In the past few days I've gotten to know 'real' Seattle weather.  I took these photos about 10 minutes ago, and now there's sunshine outside.  When I get ready to leave Wheelhouse Coffee in about an hour it will more than likely be raining again.  To make it even more appropriate, Jon is playing Portishead in here, and it matches the weather all to well.  It was raining pretty nasty earlier, and as soon as I got to church it started raining in a different way.

My last post was about current projects that are going on at Mars Hill Church: Downtown.  The Art Wall project has been pretty much stalled for a while, and I found out today that the leadership wants this to go up this week.  I initially freaked out, because I am helping plan a party our community group is throwing on Friday, and there is still ALOT of work that needs to be done for the Harvest Party. So I am fairly low on bandwidth for other things.

So my initial response was stress and pressure.  I thought there would be NO WAY to make this happen by Saturday.  Then in an instant God reminded me that it's not about me and my abilities to get things done.  He reminded me that I'm not the one being glorified by any of this, it's him.

So what did I do with this refocusing? He put me in a community of people who have a heart to serve him in various different ways.   So, I reached out to the people around me, still expecting to get push back against helping me out because everyone is crazy busy right now, and despite my doubts, I have 3-4 guys that are going to help me paint the wall tomorrow, the photographer that I needed to resize and crop the photos is willing to labor pretty intensely today and tonight in order to get the photos ready, and the company that is printing the pictures said they can get them to me by Friday.  Please continue to pray that I remember who I'm working for and the fact that because God acted first we get to respond, not the other way around.

I am so relieved and comforted that the King of kings cares enough about me to remind me of how prideful I am daily.  I freaked out about this project because I knew that in my own abilities, time, and strength I couldn't get it done.  I fail time after time after time, but it seems like I so often forget these failures and the fact that on my own I can't do anything good, and through Him all things are possible.  (Philippians 4:13).