CRAZINESS (At the Higest level)

I feel this is the craziest and most emotional my life has been thus far. Maybe that is an exaggeration and maybe it is not. I know each time you go through something you slowly forget all the emotions and hardships of the storm in life but this one just seems like it went from crazy to extreme crazy.

There is a lot taking place in our lives right now. I feel each day is already jam packed before I wake up in the morning with little room to add anything else that wants to pop up. And when new things do pop up (recently) I have been throwing tantrums or crying. I don't know if it is just emotions at their rawest or what.

But as God has warned me this past weekend don't get distracted. Yes for sure there is a lot going on and there is a lot more heading our way but the enemy's job is to distract and if I get distracted with overwhelmedness (think i made that word up) and what not then I will either just sit down and not move because of feeling like I can't accomplish any thing or I will start focusing to much on self to pay attention to all that God is trying to do outside of me.

So what does our schedule look like.
Supplying Needs: Daily we are sending out letters for donations requests, calling companies to follow up with those letters, picking up food, sending out Thanks yous and doing it all over again. Joel blessed me by saying yes to a new Database for Supplying Needs. This year we have started asking other companies beside food companies and so Excel is no longer sufficient for keeping record of of companies. And I got just the one I wanted which tickles me to no end. So on top of everything else I listed I am filling out our new datebase with wonderful information. And in a month we will be filing out our yearly report for the IRS. Oh my goodness my head is spinning just with things we need to do for SN.
God has also made it clear this past month that we will be doing Disaster Response. So as of now we are collecting items needed to respond to a natural disaster in the state of California.

Then there is church. God has asked us to be heavily involved with the church we attend. Again God said it is all to prepare us for SN in the future when we have crew. With all that we do at our church it is training us to be better leaders. So with this training comes lots of responsibility. I am taking classes at church once a week, we do Adopt-a-Block which is under our church but SN is also heavily involved with this ministry with needs of the people, I am going to be getting my license from the church, and now I have started a jewelry class every Saturday night.

I just feel there is no time for much else these days. And as God has made it clear it is not going to slow down for a while but get even more crazy. I keep reminding myself of the verse in the bible. God doesn't give you more than you can handle but I keep wondering if he pushes us to the max of the max of our limits where it feels at times we can't handle it. I don't know. Shrug shrug.

And on top of all of this we are picking up my baby girl Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from school and helping her with homework. It has brought me so much joy to be involved in her life. I am learning a lot from her. If I ever have kids of my own God has used Amiyah to make me a better parent than i would have ever been if not for her.

So that is our life. So hectic. I think I will appreciate it more when a season of quietness and less to do comes back around instead of thinking it is such a nuisance. But I know I will be thanking God even more later when i see all that He was doing during this time to teach and train us to be better for His Kingdom and leading people to a life with Him. What an honor and Joy to serve our God with all your heart mind soul and strength and leave nothing on the table but it all has been used for Him and His will for your life.

To God be The Glory,
the Butlers