Sitting on a flight back to Dallas from Lima last week – I found myself looking down on the tops of blinding white puffy clouds while holding a cup of hot tea in my hands and thinking and wondering yet again how I got to this place in my life. The point of obedience and surrender that I have been in these past several months. Through the turmoil, drama and distraction of the world, I find myself right in the center of tranquility in my current life. Or life as I know it today. What an extremely special place to be. That’s not to say that in the midst of the calm at the moment I don’t still feel…

…deeply sad and hurting for the living conditions of those I serve.

…pain and empathy for the difficult lives of those I serve.

…extreme sadness and also compassion for the orphans that I met this last trip to Peru.

The difference is now I KNOW, feel and am very confident in the One who has the control. I don’t have to have all of the answers or control the situation. For me that is a huge breakthrough – right! Don’t have to know what the next step is or where I am headed. I know and feel the One who has it all under control is guiding and leading my steps. And in all of that there is FREEDOM. There is a feeling of weightlessness, that is difficult to describe, that propels me further and further down the path that I am to travel with almost effortless ease. (Well at times it feels that way!) And gladly, I put one foot in front of the other, each more quickly than the last. Racing down the road. Running the path. Anxious to reach all the people that need to be reached.

As Samuel Hernandez sings …

Dios siempre tiene el control – God always has control. And knowing that I can rest…

…In His Mighty Grip,

Stephanie