Welcome to the all new Waiting at the Well website!  Hope you like it!  I plan to use this blog to post updates about the ministry, praise and prayer requests, and also some miscellaneous stories, ponderings, etc., that don’t necessarily fit anywhere else on the site (to get things rolling, I have already reposted a couple of things from my old, seldom used, blog).  I hope you’ll check back from time to time and feel free to leave comments if you are so inclined.  

I’m so excited (and a little freaked out) by everything Jesus is doing!  I think this might be a bit of a wild ride .  In fact I had a dream a week or so ago that seemed to underscore this.  In my dream, I was standing on a sidewalk and a van came speeding by.  I knew I was supposed to be in that van, so I ran up to it and jumped in the passenger seat.  As soon as I got in, I was in for a big surprise….there was NO driver yet we went speeding off at what seemed like a hundred miles an hour! I was totally freaked out and kept thinking I needed to somehow get in the driver’s seat to take “control.”   The funny thing was that even though the van was screeching all over the place and taking all kinds of sudden twists and turns–we never ran into anything.  But it was still just a little too scary for me, so finally I managed to grab the wheel and jerked it hard so that we headed straight into a parking lot…a place I thought would be safe.  Well, it wasn’t.  As soon as the van pulled into the parking lot, there was a big semi truck heading straight for us!  I screamed out, “Do a miracle, Jesus!” and the the van stopped.  End of dream…but not the end of the story. 

I know the Lord was using that dream as a bit of a warning to me to keep my hands off the wheel!  No matter how badly I may want to have some semblance of control over how things play out from here, this is His ministry–not mine and He can drive it in any direction and at any speed He chooses.  It was also a gentle reminder that what we think is “safe” usually isn’t.  No matter how ”scary” some of His plans seem…the center of His will (even if it is the center of the fire!) is the only truly “safe” place to be.  It takes a lot bigger miracle to rescue us from our self imposed exiles to the ”parking lot” than it does to simply hang on for the ride.  Lord Jesus, please keep my hands off the wheel!  I don’t ever want to go to the “parking lot” — I want to stay in the race and allow you to do all that is in Your heart for my life!    

Hope you all will join us for the “ride” from time to time. 

See you at the well. 

Cindy