Been thinking about normalcy lately.  What’s normal for you?  Now that I’m living in Tala I have a different kind of normal than I had in the States.  Here it’s normal for me to wonder if the electricity will stay on for any length of time; it’s normal to wonder if we’ll have the resources to send all the kids going to secondary school; it’s normal to miss my kids some days so much it hurts…but one thing has become even more evident is my reliance on God.

Sure I relied on God in the States but it was easy to rely more on myself and Chuck than God when things seemed to be going along pretty well, I was comfortable and surrounded by good friends and family.  But when those things are gone or compromised where do you turn?  God has to be my all in all when I’m trusting Him in every aspect of life now.

I pray for these words to become the “norm” in my life:

As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?  Psalm 42:1-2

So what’s normal?  Seems as I listen to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to lead the norm changes and it won’t matter about the external circumstances because my contentment will remain the same and centered on God.  He’s the norm, the constant, the equilibrium in my life…I just have to remind myself of that on an almost daily basis.