Moses, Sleeplessness, and "So it begins"

Hello all,

I am aware it has been some time since my last blog. This is due to the MADNESS that has unleashed in the lower hemisphere. The students arrived last Saturday...and I've hardly slept since. The day before they arrived, we were in a staff meeting going over job descriptions and Pastor Chet, without even looking at me, says, "Beth's going to be writing a book for me on discipleship." It took me four days to get an interview with him and understand what this meant. One chapter per week. Write in his voice. Write from his classes all the information that he has been studying for years!!!

So now I sit in class all day and type at full speed just to get his words down as much as I can. Then I stay up past midnight, compiling it. Then at the end of the week, I go back and rearrange everything and add fillers so that it makes sense. BAM! First chapter was turned in this morning!! It is difficult for me to describe how exhausting it was to write. And I have eleven more to go. I am so incredibly humbled to think that I am writing this book. He hopes to use it as a promotional tool and get it out to young people through the Calvary Chapel system. When I first got the assignment I didn't understand quite what it meant. A few days later I was overwhelmed, crying on the lap of my roommate as she prayed for me. She reminded me of Moses, and how when Moses kept insisting he wasn't qualified that God raised up Aaron. She prayed that I would walk in faith, and God would not take this opportunity from me to give to someone else. I've been praying that prayer ever since. This work has to be from the Holy Spirit. I feel like I am writing a doctorate and sprinting at the same time. Usually there aren't enough hours in the day. At the same time, I am so spent from the first week that it is tiring to think of so many more. So please pray!!!

Sleeplessness. Well...week one is like that anyway...and writing a book on top of that left me with barely any sleep. The good news is I got more last night, and hopefully I'll get more this week as things settle down.

So it begins. Not only have the three monthers been here for a week, the one month students (all 7 of them) arrived Sunday morning. So now our staff is split, running around like chickens with our heads cut off. They have class, we have class, they have late night challenges, we have early morning challenges. I think we are all extremely weary and strechted right now. Pray for our endurance and hope and that the Lord would sustain us no matter what. We have a whole summer (winter) ahead of us.

I love you all, and would love to hear from you!!!!! Pray for my lungs...they seem to have been inflamed the last two days.