Jun 06 2008
Darkest Before the Dawn?
I have to say that as weeks go, this one hasn’t been the best.
- Steve went to another healing meeting, and as he lined up with the others to be prayed for the guy next to him went flying over, hitting him in the temple with his elbow and nearly knocking him unconscious. Steve had a blinding headache for the next three days! And no, there was no miraculous healing for him.
- We had to cancel our family holiday to the South Coast because of the leaky radiator on Steve’s car.
- In an attempt to make it up to the kids, we decided to drive to the water park in a nearby city (in my car). The head gasket blew and we spent most of the afternoon sitting at the side of the duel carriageway waiting for the RAC to rescue us.
Which means we have two cars off the road - mine probably permanently - and no spare cash to cover it.
- Then we received the diagnosis that our eight year old son has tested positive for ceoliac disease.
So all in all, things seem to have gone from bad to worse!
I’ve had to really choose my attitude this week. Choose to keep worshipping God, choose to keep trusting that, in the end, He will work all things to the good. Choose to keep smiling. I can’t choose my circumstances but I can choose my attitude.
I’m not ever so good at it but I’m learning. As we sat at the side of the busy road on Thursday, with hundreds of cars whizzing past us, we chose to play the ’Bless you’ game, and we prayed for every car that passed (we chose a few colours each). We prayed that God would bless and heal and save those drivers.
Maybe one day in heaven God will introduce me to someone who is there because we prayed for them on Thursday. I hope so. It would be worth a blown head gasket!
Maybe.
Meanwhile, if it’s true that it ‘Always gets darkest just before the dawn’ then it must be nearly morning!
