Have you ever just praised God for the timing of the perfect encouragement that He sent to you?
I had a rough weekend. I was really missing our friends - especially those who we got together with as a family. It is awesome to have friends that you can just call up and say "hey, want to hang out tonight" and not go to the trouble to clean the house up or make a perfect meal or worry when your kid is being mean and icky to their kids. You can be yourself completely and sprawl out on the couch while you are visiting. :) Man, I miss them!! Tears come still today thinking about it! I am still mourning this loss. As Kendra reminded me yesterday - I've had many losses, I have to work through the grief of
each of them. I keep thinking I'm done. LOL! I am so grateful that God is blessing me with lots of friends here - there are so many potential wonderful girlfriends here! I am excited when I see that and He keeps introducing me to such amazing women. But, I have only known them for short times - so that level of comfort is not there yet completely - but gosh, it is definitely getting there - I feel blessed today. Although this weekend my outlook on life just was very blah (for lack of better words.)
I got a note/package in the mail on Monday from my sister-in-law, Jenny. She sent me something a friend of hers makes - a little bottle that has tiny tear shaped beads in it with the verse Psalm 56:8 on it. The attached card says "The tears in a bottle remind us that God knows our every sorrow. We all know or have known sorrow. God promises that we are never alone and that He will wipe away every tear. Revelation 21:4" Jenny wrote me the most encouraging note to go along with it. She reminded me Matthew 11:28-30 says,
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Also 2 Corinthians 12:10 which says, "That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in
hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I
am strong." I of course, shed some more tears for His bottle. I happen to love the verses about Him bottling our tears! I was so in awe of His impeccable timing of when I needed this encouragement. She lives away from home as well and understands a lot of my struggles. I wrote her an email and thanked her for her encouragement. Her email back to me this morning that I read reminded me of a few things: He is always there to pick me back up. I am never alone even if I feel that way. He uses these hard times for good. Just to name a few. So thankful for my 'sister' this morning! So, then, I turn on the radio like I always do when I'm getting ready.
A song by Mandisa called 'Stronger' is on. (Click on the words and just listen to it!) I was singing along since I've heard the song a billion times and all of a sudden I
heard the words. More words 'just like' the ones from Jenny. It was super cool. Thanks God!
So, I've had two revelations over the past two days. First one was yesterday while I was enjoying the awesome weather and sunshine and doing some yard work. I of course have been thanking God for the beautiful weather this winter. But, it is not typical here evidently for it to be THIS warm during the winter (I can always hope that this is the new typical though). I know Indiana is having a very mild winter, as well. I was struck how grateful Jeff and I need to be that it is mild because it costs a lot less to heat our two homes!! So, praise God! Second one this morning - if I can boast and brag and share about God's impeccable timing to encourage me at
JUST THE RIGHT TIME...why would I not trust Him with the timing of everything else that goes on in my life? Just sayin'! Something for me to meditate on today.
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