• This week's assignment is taking a deeper look into our spiritual lives and the warfare that we are individually facing.  I'd like everyone to seriously think and then blog about a situation in your life where you know that the enemy is attacking you and challenging your spiritual growth.  What area in your life are you feeling burdened or challenged?  The purpose of the assignment is to use this as a tool to arm ourselves better for this battle not to make you uncomfortable.  If this is too personal for you, share an area in your life that you have perservered in a spirtual battle or share your feelings on freedoms in general.

The area that comes to mind first as I read this assignment was lonliness.  We have only lived here six months and we moved from a place where we lived for many years.  It is hard to start over.  Although I have had people around me, it has felt as if a fog of lonliness has followed me lately.  As I discussed it with one friend, I felt as though I was to not run from the lonliness.  Perhaps it is part of being in ministry and wanting to do what God tells me.  I asked Him to bring my friends to me, to show me who to speak to and how, and bring people to speak into my life as well.  I also recently asked for prayer in regards to this with the ladies in our mission and come to find out that most of them felt this way after just moving and that it is part of the missionary journey.  How comforting that was to my weariness.  God is good.  I will count my lonliness a blessing and learn from it what I can.  I will also look forward to days of not feeling its tug!