I confess — I haven’t felt like writing a thing and have been waiting many weeks to be inspired enough to write a decent blog post. I’ve been in a spiritual desert. You know, when life gets hard, troubles mount, you feel like you can’t bear for another day the life-draining job and crashing family issues. Worse, you barely even think about God, He’s distant — not here and not now. I have felt like I was misplaced … that things weren’t right. I considered, I mean I seriously considered, putting my home on the market, quitting my job … I imagined a stress-free existence living with my mother or a friend. I’ve been invited into their homes … I could live quite inexpensively. And, you know … I could run away from all this and actually lighten my load. But, is this what God wanted? And, really, is it what I wanted? That’s when I cried out to the Lord one night after going to bed.
I talked to Him as though He were lying next to me. I let him have my frustratation and begged Him for direction. I planned my escape… asked for signs of His support. I was ready to fly away.
Guess what? Overnight – my inner being filled with inexplicable joy, contentment, and hope. These are real things. I don’t understand how God fixes us – our hearts and minds actually change… it’s miraculous the way He does this. It has been about three weeks since then and but I am still “happy” and feeling strong. Not only that, since then He’s tranformed the situations that were going on. My job is etraordinarily better … the family issue that was so terrible completely turned around. This is miraculous. On top of all that, God gave me a word in a chocolate Dove candy wrapper. Even before I unwrapped the piece of candy I felt like God was preparing me. It’s like I “knew” there was a special message for me in the wrapper while I opened it. Sure enough … inside the foil were the words: “You are where you are supposed to be.” I grinned and then popped the candy in mouth and enjoyed it while enjoying God’s amazing presence and His sense of humor.
His Word is sweet. His power is real. His voice is near. I am good and all is right again.