Did I really just burn my toast??  REALLY???  Yep.  There it was all sad and charred looking up at me as if to say, “I’m the cherry on top of your day today, Tami!  How do you like ME?!!” I wasn’t really surprised though.   It was a day!  I pulled my hot burnt slice of cinnamon raisin bread out of the toaster and just looked at it.  What was supposed to be a comfort food tonight with my peppermint tea, did anything but comfort me!  So, a NORMAL person would toast a NEW slice, and watch it so it didn’t burn the second time.  Now, don’t think I’ve lost my good sense… but I actually felt kind of sorry for it.  😦  I know.  But I did.  (Wow…that DOES sound strange when I read it back again).  It just looked so fried and used up…I think I actually saw a little bit of myself in that piece of toast. Is that weird?  Please don’t answer that. 🙂  It reminded me of myself today…feeling a little burnt out from this unbelievably tough season we are facing.  “I’m that piece of toast!”

I decided to eat the toast anyway.  Remember I felt sorry for it…cause you know, toast has feelings! 😉

Have you ever felt fried?  Done?  Ready for the next chapter of your story to begin?

I’ll spare you the details of the CRAZINESS that’s going on right now (mainly because I’m going to save that for another blog when I have the amazing ENDING to this wild adventure story to share)!  But trust me, it’s going to be a great story…a page turner, an edge of your seat kind of a story!  You won’t believe the timing of everything!  But its still being written, so you’ll have to be patient!  😉  The good thing is, I know we’re close to being on the other side of this season because I can feel God getting us ready for something big and something wonderful.  He’s like that.  He always sweeps in with an awesome ending when we trust Him to do so.  He also takes His sweet time….yup.

So why am I feeling like burnt toast if I’m trusting God?  Because sometimes, trusting God feels super hard…especially when your circumstances don’t make any sense at all.  “God, we’re supposed to go THIS way…so why are we turning to go THAT way?” That’s the moment when God tells us to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7).  He’s BIG into FAITH!  That I know.  I like to think of it like building “faith muscles”.  Just when you get comfortable with your level of faith (like weight lifting), He adds more onto it to cause you to become stronger.  Those who lift weights know that when more pounds are added, it’s a little tougher and a little uncomfortable.  But the end result is that you become stronger!  So, it’s a good thing.  But it’s still hard sometimes. If you don’t refresh yourself in Jesus, you will feel like burnt toast.  Believe me, I know!

Honestly, He really should have been my first choice for comfort tonight…not the tea and not the toast. 🙂  He’s the one I’m pressing into tonight.

James 1:2-4 says, “Consider it a sheer GIFT, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.  You know that under pressure, your FAITH-life is FORCED into the open and shows its true colors.  So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely.  Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”

Burnt toast and faith muscles.  🙂