Wow. Three years passed in a haze of night feedings, diapers, potty training, and general life with two littles. However, I am still here, and still seeking the Lord and trying to hear from Him. For the past forever, I have done a read through the Bible in a year or two years program for my daily reading. Sometimes the going is tough. Right now I'm reading in Joshua, around chapters 17-21. Chapter after chapter delineating who gets what land where.
As I was slogging through these verses, I was thinking how boring it all was. I was, also, admittedly, skimming through verse after verse of "this tribe gets this land from this river to that mountain". Yawn.
Then, Joshua 21:46:
Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.
All of that boring division of land is the realization and reality of the Lord fulfilling His promise to the children of Israel. The promise that He would give them the Promised Land and bless them, and that they at last would have some rest after the desert wandering.
Three years absence from blogging (and other things I used to do) caused partially by the mundane details of being a mom to young children. Laundry, sweeping (and sweeping and sweeping and sweeping), hyper vigilance about bodily functions and waking at every night noise; these are the unexciting verses in this chapter of my life.
These boring verses in my story are clear evidence of God's faithfulness and blessing in my life. Years and years of praying for a husband and children (and knowing that, even if I never got them, God was still good and I was still the recipient of grace beyond measure). Getting so far in the story and then waiting some more. The nuts and bolts of each of our lives have so many "boring details", yet somehow, at the end, they often reveal the answers to our prayers.
