The Polson Family Adventure: Care-free dancing

Monday, June 23, 2008

Care-free dancing

Bro. Freddie presented some great teaching and insight yesterday on how "worry" will kill your joy. This was a very timely word for me as God has been dealing with me about this over the past few weeks. I have been carrying a lot of "stress" for the past many months and I have essentially handed Satan my joy. One of Lily and my favorite songs is the "Cinderella Song" by Steven Curtis Chapman. We love to dance together and sing to the top of our voices. The opening lines goes: "she swings and she sways, to whatever song plays, without a care in the world; and I'm sitting here wearing the weight of the world on my shoulders". I can relate to this so much. So many people (myself included) allow the cares of this world to steal "our joy for today". I want to be 100% present to my family and friends, but this is not possible when I "worry" about the past and/or future. The funny thing is that we named Lily with inspiration from the passage from Matthew 6 "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these".

I was thinking on these things on my drive to work this morning and an old song from my childhood came to mind; "I cast all my cares upon You, I lay all of my burdens, down at Your feet, and anytime I don't know, what to do, I will cast all my cares upon You". I commit and I hope you will also, to cast my cares upon Him, for he cares for me (us), and dance care-free and enjoy the blessings of God today, "...for all too soon, the clock will strike midnight, and she'll be gone."

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matthew 6:34 NIV)".

2 comments:

ddebbiegirl said...: I enjoyed reading your blog today. "Worry" takes up a big part of my life. I worry about "everything" ALL THE TIME. I feel like I'm waiting for this breakthrough so I can truly lay it all in God's hands. What a wonderful day that will be!! Love you all and you continue to be such an inspiration to me.; June 23, 2008 at 10:30 AM
cathyb said...: I too felt like Brother Freddie's message released me from some things that I have been holding onto for far too long and allowing to steal my joy! I have been seeking the "way" but it always seemed the mountain was too big! But through the words I heard Sunday God revealed to me that I had made it big, not Him!! I feel as if I have taken back what the devil stole from me for quite a while!

I felt like communion at the end was perfect and gave me the ability to truly lay it at His feet!; June 26, 2008 at 6:01 PM

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For those of you who are not familiar with our family's life, let me quickly catch you up. Hannah and I have been married for 8 wonderful years. We met as teenagers and quickly became best friends. Love blossomed and the rest is history. We both had plans on entering nursing as a profession and dreamed of medical missions prior to us even knowing each other. I finished my undergraduate work just days before we were married in December 2001 and Hannah finished the following May. We both worked as RN's at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children. We had plans on making the BIG BUCKS as travel nurses before starting our "family" but God had other plans. For on May 23, 2003, our beautiful Lilyan Rain (we call her Lily) was born. She absolutely changed our life.

During all this we were very active in a growing local church (Restoration Church), where we led a cell group and I led our worship team. Life moved on and things were good. I felt that I needed to further my education, but was unsure how we would balance family, church, work, grad school. Plus, we were very interested in adding a new little one to our family, so we decided that I would entered Graduate school part time. And on July 13, 2005, God blessed us again with our angel Aidan Nathanael.

Despite our wonderful life, in a home that we loved, great family and friends, a good supportive church, good jobs etc., we began to feel God pulling us away, changing our hearts, and still felt the He was telling us that we should pursue the dream of medical missions. So we continued to pray, and we started to plan. I finished graduate school in May of 2007 as a Family Nurse Practitioner and quickly started a job at a local primary care clinic. The strong pull of God to foreign soil persisted, and even strengthened over the next few months of 2007. We battled doubt, fears. We particularly battled leaving a church family and worship team that we had given so much of our life to. We learned some tough lessons about following the move of God on our heart, even if it meant leaving the "familiar"ities of life. This was a very hard time for us. I liken it to the desert with no sign of green or water. After much prayer, talk and tears, we decided to "step out of the boat". In early 2008, we notified the church and my job that we were leaving. "Tearing ourselves away" from the church was one of the hardest things we have ever done. At times it felt like it would easier to rip my own heart out but God is faithful and He gave us a peace that we had not experienced before. Pursuing the dream of God placed in our heart most definitely includes medical missions, but we also know God has even greater plans for us IF we will follow His voice.

Some amazing things have happened since. We sold our house within 7 days of it being on the market (unbelievable in the current housing market). God has opened up so many doors to opportunities for medical missions. I wish I could say that it all has been easy but I can't. But we are trusting God to make our paths straight.

One thing I can say... life in the past months has been anything but normal. Some of it has been exciting, some hard, some even really painful, but all good in the light of God's grace.

We look forward to sharing our life with you here. Please keep us in your prayers.

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