This morning I was sitting
in church between my husband and my son and I was feeling abundantly blessed. I
looked around and thought about how far God had brought us over the past year.
It has been a miraculous journey. As my friend Lainie would say, “Who but God?”
Who but God could take a
divorced mother of three living in Suburban Texas …
Unemployed
On Food Stamps
Giving up on church
Broken
And take a single, never
been married man living in small town Virginia (really small town)
Given up on his dream
Stuck in his job
Lonely
Praying for a family
And bring them together.
Across the miles
Through all the crazy
Into each other’s lives…and
make them a family.
God redeemed our sorrow
with joy.
Gave us gladness in proportion
to our former misery – Psalm 90:15
We will see the goodness of
the Lord in the Land of the Living – Psalm 27:13
I am doing a new thing. Can
you see it? I am making streams in the Desert – Isaiah 43:19
He lifted me out of the pit
and put my feet upon the rock and gave me a firm place to stand and put a new
song in my mouth – Psalm 40:2-3
God is rewriting our story.
A new family
Job for me with people I
love
Ministry – Working with the
youth
Surrendering to His plan – Gary being baptized and
tithing
Several years ago I began
to pray for God’s blessing and God’s favor on my family. I had no idea what
that would look like, I just knew that I NEEDED His blessing and His favor.
That prayer has been a game changer. I can not begin to tell you all of the
ways God has intervened, all of the ways He has provided. He has been so
faithful.
I tell you, He can take
whatever broken pieces you have and make something new.
He will redeem your sorrow
for joy.
I tell you this so you will
be encouraged and amazed by what God can do.
Not me
Not Gary
Not anything from this
world…
God alone…I would have
never imagined this journey, how could I?
Only God.
Believe it. Seriously.
You will find that you are
blessed beyond measure.
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