{"id":62,"date":"2018-09-06T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/what-i-learned-on-my-vacation-part-1-god-speaks\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:27:00","slug":"what-i-learned-on-my-vacation-part-1-god-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/what-i-learned-on-my-vacation-part-1-god-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned on my vacation, part 1: God Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>Here I am with a handful of free hours before me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>My tea is hot, music is in my ears telling me that God loves me, my keyboard is at my fingertips and I am bubbling with excitement.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I ran into my neighbor in our lobby on my way to the library to write and she asked me what I was doing with my big backpack.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Excitement filled my voice and face as I shared that I was ready to work on writing.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Oh how I love to write!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>This hobby fills my soul with such delight and I\u2019ve got a back log of material to put onto page!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>My prayer is that the tremendous growth of my soul over the past couple months will find a way to bring a piece of encouragement into your life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>(I humbled to think that there are people joining me on my journey.)<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>And so, let\u2019s get started! <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I embark on sharing the expanse of what I have learned on my summer vacation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Let me first paint the picture of what life looked and felt like before vacation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I\u2019ve shared the turmoil of \u201cwhat now?\u201d, the struggle to hope as we push past the average glioblastoma survival, my lack of identity as my career fades away. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span>But in the midst of it all I was unable to fully express myself.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was raw.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I found myself broken.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>My husband broke and so did I.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>When life is in pieces how do you keep it moving forward? I really didn\u2019t know how to answer that question.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a teen and young adult I wrote poetry.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have picked up the hobby again and am working to compile a volume of my poetry (I hope to enter some poetry contests and am practicing delayed gratification by keeping these poems private for now).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>In June I wrote a poem called \u201cBroken\u201d.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Here are the first lines:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Broken seems to describe how I feel.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>As I grieve my losses I am broken,<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I am less than,<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>I am weary.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The song, \u201clean\u201d by Nichole Nordeman has this line that I fully related to:<\/div>\n<div>\u201cReaching for more but coming up with less.\u201d <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This was how we entered summer, feeling like we were reaching for more but coming up less.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>But praise God summer had much blessing for us.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><u>Learning about Hearing God speak<o:p><\/o:p><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div><st1:place><st1:placetype>Camp<\/st1:placetype> <st1:placename>Oshkidee<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>is always great.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>The teaching this year was phenomenal.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>The speaker was sharing on hearing God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>This is a topic that I\u2019ve been bombarded with.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I did the \u201cVoice\u201d study with a friend by Priscilla Shirer, then attended a 6 week workshop at our church on hearing God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>So when we arrived at camp I had to chuckle ironically: \u201cI think God is trying tell me something!\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Indeed we do have a God who speaks!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>He speaks intimately and powerfully to our spirit.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I have experienced this for pretty much my entire life; more recently in increasing measure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As we were at camp the evening weather was spectacular and God spoke through it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Ryan and I really miss <st1:state><st1:place>Saskatchewan<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> thunder storms.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>There is something beautifully powerful in them.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>As we sat in the first 2 evening sessions the heavens lit up and thunder cracked and boomed and the rain <i>poured<\/i> .<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>The conversations continued; but I sat in pure awe!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was reminded how when my mom was in the process of being diagnosed with cancer, God told me he is powerful!*<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>God\u2019s power was evident!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>But it was also balanced with peace and calm and serenity, being on the water stand up paddle-boarding, peddle-boating were clear affirmations of these characteristic of God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>There was beauty in the skies reflecting my God\u2019s beauty. And the joy!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Moments surrounding the lake were rich with joy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>My God has so many facets!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>All I can hope for is that I have Eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart that truly understands.(2) how spectacular our God is.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God further spoke to me through an image He gave me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>A couple weeks before camp I was lying in my bed resting and I saw this in my mind\u2019s eye:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was at the edge of a deep and wide canyon.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>In front of me, spanning this chasm, was a rope and wooden plank bridge in disrepair.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Numerous planks were missing, others were broken in half.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was clear I needed to cross this bridge.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was a terrifying feeling, truly frightening.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then as if in the realm of the supernatural there was a \u201cglitching\u201d in my view of the bridge.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was like when a computer system isn\u2019t working properly and something is there and then the computer \u201cglitches\u201d and part of it\u2019s gone and it comes back.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>When this supernatural \u201cglitching\u201d happened the missing pieces of the bridge were filled in with these clearly supernatural pieces.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I\u2019ll be honest, I still was not too keen on crossing this sort of precarious bridge.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>It absolutely still required a trust that these supernatural pieces were actually there.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I didn\u2019t like this image too much.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>It didn\u2019t instill much sense of comfort to me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then at camp during one of the sessions my image expanded: on the bridge my family joined me. Ahead of me was Ryan, holding my handing stepping on ahead of me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Behind me were my children, unafraid, secure and frolicking joyously in delight across the bridge.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Surrounding us in the canyon was a very tangible presence of God; a transparent cloud of goodness embracing us, for lack of better descriptors. (I wish I could paint to share the image!)<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Now I was prepared, unafraid to cross this crazy bridge!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I shared this vision with the group of adults.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I hadn\u2019t told my husband about the image, afterward he said, \u201cI think that image was for me.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Therefore, I will try to more readily share images God gives me!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>We have a supernatural God who makes a way and brings joy in the midst of it all!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God also spoke to me very strikingly on my way to my last oncologist appointment where I would get my MRI results.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I had not been at all nervous about these results until the morning of.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I couldn\u2019t shake the anxiety.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I tried declaring truths but fears rose.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>On the half-hour drive this happened:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>We had been having days of thick depressing smoke from forest fires.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I hadn\u2019t seen the sky in at least a week.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>As we drove along the smoke and the clouds parted and rays of sunshine broke through.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>\u201cThat\u2019s sure a nice thing to see today\u201d, I thought.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then a brief few minutes later I saw cows chilling in a pasture.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I immediately thought of Psalm 23 \u201che will make you lie down in green pastures.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was skeptical that God was speaking, I mean after all (anxiety was taking hold of my mind) the results could be \u201cbad\u201d.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I tried to take hold of those thoughts with minimal success.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>We arrived at the clinic.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I reached into my purse to pull out my appointment card and found a paper with Rayna\u2019s memory verse written on it \u201cGod\u2019s way is perfect.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Oh boy, I think this is God speaking?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>But I didn\u2019t like it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>What if I just read \u201cGod\u2019s way is perfect\u201d and I get bad results??? Can I deal with that?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>THEN, we sat down waiting for me to be called in.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Usually we are able to go right into the exam room, but this day we had a 10 min wait.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I pulled out my phone, pulled up Facebook and top on my feed was someone posting an Ann Voskamp post which started out like this: \u201cjust for today<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>&#8212; DO. NOT. WORRY.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Then she quotes Matthew <st1:time hour=\"18\" minute=\"34\">6:34<\/st1:time> (MSG):<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"background: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9.5pt;\">\u201cGive your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don\u2019t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"background: white;\">Voskamp continues, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Just for today: Be a prayer warrior &#8212; not a panicked worrier. You either leave your worries with God . . . or your worries will make you leave God.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Worry is just the facade of taking action &#8212; when prayer really is.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;\">Bottom line &#8212; keep breathing deep and give your worries to God &#8212; He&#8217;ll give you His peace.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><b>I think God was downright smacking me on the head! <\/b><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Do you know what my response was?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>\u201cGod, how can I not worry if the doctor tells me there\u2019s changes for the worse?\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>But I have a patient God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I was called into the exam room and as I looked out the window God replied, \u201cbecause I am here.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span>\u201cI am here.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span>And I finally got it.&nbsp; I finally saw that God is with me in bad news and in good news.&nbsp; I finally saw that what matters most is that God is here.&nbsp; That he speaks. (When I take time to listen.)&nbsp; And I believed him.&nbsp; I believed that He was with me and that (in the words of my mom) it would be okay, no matter what the results were.&nbsp; After all he showed himself present with me the entire 45 minute journey to that doctor\u2019s room. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Yes God speaks.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*I have never heard God speak audibly.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>But He speaks to my spirit and I know with clarity that it is God speaking.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>The moment is burned into my mind: I was out for a run crossing the main street on my way to the trail and it was crystal clear: \u201cCheryl I am a powerful God.\u201d <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2) \u201cI bless you with eyes that see, ears that hear, and a heart that understands.\u201d This is the blessing the speaker prayed over us.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>He encouraged us to speak and pray it over others regularly.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Usually I tack on \u2026a heart that truly understands the deep love of God.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am with a handful of free hours before me.&nbsp; My tea is hot, music is in my ears telling me that God loves me, my keyboard is at my fingertips and I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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