Grasping the steering wheel of a big yellow truck, (I gotta get me a pink one of these) feeling the power behind it as I drove home from an exhilerating canoe practice, I got to thinking about a conversation I had with my husband. Two very dear people in my life (at one time being very good friends with each other) have gone their seperate ways after having a rift or two between them. My husband remarked that so much hurt was involved that it was probably best/ easier to let "sleeping dogs lie" (my paraphrase).
I began to talk to God out loud in the truck while listening to some good country music. With my voice getting rather loud (to make sure He could hear me over the tunes) I began to challenge the thinking that this relationship would/could not be healed.
From deep within me I prayed for these two, with conviction that it was His will they resolve their differences/hurt. i asked, no actually kind of demanded that healing would be given...after all, I reminded God, either you have the power to change or you really are not God at all.....In faith I believe/KNOW He is able to do more than we could ever imagine. As much sin/hurt that we humans can dish out, God will change us and truly make us like new..nothing is beyond His repair!
I have taken this mind set within my own life/marriage. When people, circumstances, life have become to difficult for me, I go to God and tell Him that I know He can and will work it all out. I am continually amazed to see the ways in which he intervenes. I am still pinching myself when I look around to find that i have had 10 children, been married to the same man for 25 years, have wonderful, colorful friends and family, traveled a bit, and love the life I have been given. So many details that have meaning to me, (not necessarily to anyone else) God has seen to provide in my life to let me know that I am special to him. With all this said......He will heal these two and bring them back into relationship with each other, because THAT IS THE GOD I KNOW!!!
As I cruised to a stop and began praying for someone else special to me, the intensity of the former prayer subsided and it was just your regular, average kind, I wondered where the deep soul felt feeling had gone...was that God's holy spirit rising up in me because "now was the time"?
We will see......
Now if I only had this same conviction of God's power in the area of my weight....bring on the chocolate..jk:)
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