I don’t know about y’all but this past year was especially hard. My mom passed away, the man she married after my dad passed wanted to forget that she ever had a life before him, so he did everything possible to physically erase all of my childhood. He would not let me even look at any of her personal things. That is part of the healing of grieving, but I was denied that by a man I hardly knew. Forgiving him was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. It was hard, it still is hard. We had a drought, still do, almost all of our food pruducing livestock either died or were stolen by predators. Oh I just want to cry thinking of it all. Many, most, of our ministry supporters deserted us, thus nearly no income for most of the year. We thank the Lord for the faithful few. But in the midst of it all the Lord continued to show us He loves us. And then today gives me this scripture below. I know through years of looking back that there has always (with us) been a battle or a testing before the Lord does something big. He prepares us first by making sure we are totally dependant on HIM.
I am here Lord, I am ready and waiting.
“This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:16, 18-19) (Read by Max McLean. Provided by Zondervan.)
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