A Little Mudd on the Tires!

Me at the river, not yesterday!  I love the river!

 

Yesterday I had great learning experience!  God taught me a great lesson about being stuck in the mud.  Yep! MUD!!  It was a beautiful day out here at the ranch.  We decided to spend our day outside for work.  After lunch, we all decided to go for a little walk.  During our walk, we had a great idea to drive down to the river.  The John Day River is about 3-4 miles from our house.  The road is a gravel road.  It is a pretty easy drive down there.  As we got closer to the river, there is one spot that is wash out.  Usually, this spot is not a big deal.  But yesterday it looked very muddy.  I thought I could go around the area, thinking the ground would be solid.  I quickly found out it wasn't!!!  I was stuck!  I tried to back up and go forward, but nothing!!  The more I tried the deeper I was stuck!  The tires just spun and spun.

Praise God, before we left the house, I told one of the girls to grab the camp radio.  I  hate using the radio, b/c it hard to understand me, but I had no choice.  So I got up the courage to make a call.  I asked if anyone was down by the river.  My friend Jake told me he would come rescue me!  As we waited for Jake, I decided we needed to pray.  I prayed more for myself, not to beat myself up.  I am really good at beating myself up.  I felt so stupid!!!  A couple minutes after praying I saw a 4 wheeler coming towards up.  I thought, that can't be Jake, because Jake would be coming from the opposite direction.  My friend Ben pulled up, and said, "You look stuck!"  Um, yes!!!  I kept telling Ben I felt so stupid.  Ben was so excited though.  He loves to pull things out of the mud!   He looked in his tool box and found a rope.   He decided the best way to pull me out was from the back.  So he hooked the car up and told me to gas the car a little bit.  At about that time, Jake showed up!   Jake and I switch positions.  Ben and Jake pulled the car out in a jiffy!!!  They both a had huge smiles on their faces!  I kept saying, I can't believe I got stuck!  But Ben said he was so excited to pull me out.  Later on he said that he was so proud that his 4 wheeler did the job!!

A couple hours later, I was still beating myself up.  Then I felt like God told me, "Your thoughts are like the tires in that mud.  You can keep beating yourself up, and thinking about the situation over and over.  All they are going to do, is spin and spin.  The more they spin, the deeper they will go!! "

I had a choice I could think of the negative thoughts and dig myself deeper into a hole, or I could praise God that He took care of me.  I am my biggest critic.  We all get stuck sometime, if it is the mud or in our thoughts.  But it what you do, after you get stuck.  Are you going to spin your wheels, and dig deeper, or are you going to call out for help.  I want to be the one to call out for help, if it from a friend or for Jesus, or both!!

Me friend snapped this picture of me at the river!! 
The river is a great place to talk to God!

"Ask me and I  will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come."  Jeremiah 33:3

"Keep on asking and you will receive what you ask for."  Matthew 7:7

"My thoughts are not your thoughts," say the Lord.  And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine

 

."  Isaiah 55:8