My kids are singing At the BWA Youth Conference on stage. Here’s the link to the live feed.

http://www.bgct.org/texasbaptists/Page.aspx?pid=5078&srcid=1832

Read about it on the blog

Cool!!! Wish I could be there!!

Wishing,

Robin Bryce

"Success is an illusion."

I heard it said and thought of the profoundness. All we have is given us. God provides even our ability to breathe. Without his love we are nothing. Success is given us as a blessing of his love only, not our merit.

Vonda Skelton my friend, author and speaker, placed in her blog an article I wrote about attaining a successful life and leadership. Though I worked on the article, the ability to do the work was given me and I must pass the credit along to God who gave it.

If success is an illusion and love is the substance, then I am successfully loving in my longing. My two oldest children, Jonathan and Christa, have landed in Germany today to sing in four concerts in Berlin and Leipzig. They went with Texas Baptist All-State Choir on invitation to lead worship at the Baptist World Youth Conference. They will be back August 5th. As teens, they’re a long way from Mom. I’m excited for their opportunity, but I’ve got the Mom thing going on emotionally. Dad’s told them as a souvenir he wanted the Whittenburg Door where Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis.

Sure wish we were with them!

I’m antsy. Pacing the floor, starting a fire for the night’s chill, beginning dinner and washing dishes. I’m sitting, watching smoke, trying to keep a paper flame going long enough to ignite the wood. My heart aches; it races with anticipation. Impatience. Readiness. Anxiousness. Desiring to get rolling, see the flame roaring, and NOT the smoke in the fireplace. NOT the buying of a book proposal. NOT the increasingly busy speaking schedule. No, it’s the vision…I am driven.

I must go, do. I’m to work, reclaim people as Christ’s, first in North America then the world. The vision is so much more than a book or a speaking schedule. It drives me, inflames my passion. IF God can use me according to all he asks of me, lives will be changed restoring God’s kingdom, redeeming the lost. I’m ready to get going. Or I think I am.

This aching is intense and makes my adrenaline run. I feel the ‘Here I am. Send me.’ of long ago has me in the starting blocks pointed in the right direction having to wait for the gun to go off. Settled, relaxed, and resolute in mission. Tensed and ready for action.

Am I crazy? Why does my heart burn so hot? Do you think I am abnormal?

I do. I am a nobody, but God gave me this passion—a vision that consumes me. Every day I pray for God’s direction. Bit by bit, step by step, in all He has led me through, I come closer and the steps of the vision become clearer. Please pray. Pray I don’t lose my first love, and that I keep after God, not running ahead or lagging behind. I want to consistently follow God’s lead at all times. I need Him excruciatingly. What to do with this ache? All I know is… to remain close in prayer.

Will you join me? Pray “Here am I; send me.” Or “Use me.” If you mean it and believe it, your life will never be the same. Mine hasn’t, but what an adventure.
Robin