I first heard these words from Christine Caine, whom I so admire. "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not snap." Just a couple days from October, and I think back on this last year and wonder where the time has gone. I think about how busy  our lives have been this year. Not the over-glorified  kind of busy, though that is something I think we all can fall into if we're not careful. No, this past year has been FULL -that's probably a better word. How much more fitting then, are the words charging us to be flexible  so that we don't snap . I can still picture the student ministry leadership meeting where I spoke the words I felt God stirring in me from Isaiah 54. It was in January of this year, when I felt the Lord was beginning to grow us, stretch us  even. "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to t