Resting...not always, but often

When I checked e-mail this morning, there waiting was note from a dear friend expressing her concern and prayer about the remaining preparations--after over 30 years of friendship she knows me.  Again this afternoon another friend called and did the same.  These are blessings from above to remind me of His care.
   While others with Teach Beyond are mainly concerned about raising support, my biggest concerns lie in a different area--getting prepared to leave.  This huge move involves more than just my preparation; my daughter needs to relocate, too.  She needs the funds to do so, and selling her car and other possessions is part of her plan...a huge SNAG there at this point.  The maroon 2003 Honda Civic graces our circular drive as I write. Then she needs to determine where she will live, difficult when step #1 is hanging in the balance.  After that getting her things together and actually doing it is yet another matter.
    Meanwhile, I'm on my own track.  Part of my preparation is obviously dependent upon her.  (My goal was to have two weeks to myself to finish, but that doesn't look like my deadline will be met--note whose deadline we're missing.)  In addition are many business details and health appointments that need tending  (the calendar is dotted most every day with appointments for the next two weeks), culling of unnecessary things in the house and personal items for someone else to use the space, and then making decisions about what I'm actually taking to Germany.  The unfamiliar weather, housing, and work situation makes it difficult for me to know how to decisively plan packing.  All of this make me like the proverbial deer in the headlights, paralyzed.
     None of you have ever done this, so let me tell you--with insurmountable tasks in mind, it is very easy for me to find even more to do (important things like a e-mail and this blog) to avoid what has to be done.  Then when I am actually doing them, the chores grow, getting bigGER.  Discouragement sets in as clutter abounds with all the "progress." 
    Thankfully, morning devotions renew me, putting things in perspective.  Sometimes like in the National Treasure movies where secret codes are illuminated in an otherwise concealed text, He speaks to me in his Word.  Today when I read Ps 46:1 these words stood out:   "God is our refuge and STRENGTH, a very PRESENT help in trouble."  Never before had I focused on His "present" help.  Then later on FB a fellow TBer posted John 15:16, "You did not choose me, but I chose you, appointed you that you should to and bear fruit and your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you"~Jesus.  Just like everything else in this journey, I just have to do what I'm supposed to do; the rest is up to Him.  He will see that the job gets done to His glory.  I rest in that...usually.