After The Dust Settles I haven't been here for a while. Not because I don't have anything to say. Believe me, I do. I know this may sound strange, but I haven't felt like I had "permission" to write. You see, for the last few months, I have been a bit lost. It's as if my life were on hold. Waiting. Watching. Listening. Wondering what the Lord would have me to do. The best way I can describe this season is to tell you, the Lord is revamping me. I feel like He threw all the pieces of my life up in the air, and now I am watching them settle back into place. And, not necessarily in the places they were before. During this upheaval, I have sensed three main messages from the Lord. 1) God is Up to Something New For me, it all began last summer when back pain knocked me off my feet for several weeks. Since then, God has shaken up, challenged, and is transforming deep rooted routines and habits, attitudes and p...