Eagle's Wings

Exciting times to be helping three teams minister in disaster relief during the summer months!  My role previously was always to stay home with Mom.  We were the invisible team members who prayed from afar.  Now we have become visible as Mom and I go with the teams and participate in additional ways.  Sometimes our job is to eat strawberries.  Sometimes it is to carry bags of dirt and other things to grow the strawberries.  Sometimes it is weeding or digging or just smiling and encouraging.  Often these jobs are not jobs in my set of skills, not in my gifting, not in my fun category.  Yet, I have learned that when the time comes to do the work, God lifts me above my skills, gifts, and likes.  He enables me. I so often learn much more by leaving the comfortable and doing that which I was sure I could not.  I am not always successful at these new endeavors, but I learn and am stretched by them.  Some of these new tasks will never again come my way.  Some will repeatedly knock at my door.  I could either complain and carry on about doing them, or I could pull up my socks and do them.  In the end God has put me to the test.  Will I obey His call to strike out into new adventures for Him?  Will I resist and try to stay comfortable?  I have found that once I have tasted these wild adventures, comfortable can get boring.  I am an introvert who likes being at home.  However, God keeps calling me to come out of my comfort into His adventure.  He calls autistic Jeffrey to soar on eagle wings to places where often there is no comfort.  Then I learn that in those places at that time the only comfort is in obedience to God’s call.  Then I find I must obey with all I have to the glory of God.  I, then, find safety, joy, and excitement on those eagle wings.