FIVE?

Ok, so my husband has felt the need to share what I feel to be premature news, so I guess I'll jump on the bandwagon.

We are 99.9% sure that there will soon be an addition to our family. Of course there is always a chance that the test is wrong.

A reason to rejoice? Most definitely, however, I was going to wait to shout it from the roof tops until I was 100% sure. So if I come back in a few days and say I'm NOT, then I don't appear to be foolish.

So there it is. The news is out.

Busy Little Bee

Someone recently asked if I've been out on vacation....I wish! No, it's just been a pretty busy week. I had company last weekend and the days have just slipped through the cracks since then! I will be culminating my baby shower marathon this weekend with two baby showers. They should be quite fun.

In addition I've got several church events coming up that will require my sharp wit, creativity and planning genius...too bad for them. Just kidding. I really do love planning events, it is just so fun to me.

So lately I've been thinking about trust. I remember I conducted a retreat before where we did what we call "trust falls". Basically one person stands on a high plateau of some sort and falls backwards into a team of people waiting to catch and break his/her fall. I found that I really enjoyed being the catcher. I knew whoever was up there wouldn't get past me. But then as I stood up there and tried to fall back, there was this mental thing that was really hard to get past. I'd be ready to go through the motions but I just couldn't bring myself to fall. (Which reminded me of when I was a kid and I was perfecting my cartwheels. I always practiced going to the right to the point where I could NOT do a cartwheel to the left. My brain would not let my body move that way. Really weird feeling.)

I think trust in real life is similar to the symbolic "trust fall". You can have all the facts, the people lined up- everything in place. But at some point you have to get over the mental barrier that keeps you from trusting.

Proverbs 3:5 in the Message Bible says, "Trust GOD from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own."

What mental barriers are keeping you from trusting God? What mental barriers are keeping you from trusting people? What must you overcome to just lean back and fall?