This morning, my wife and I will stand in front of the body at our church, and ask for their prayers. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask of all you, for prayers as well.
I've shared a bit of my (our) lives with you here, and how we had a life changing episode 10 years ago in our life. With that, it brought some of the most heart wrenching pain I've every experienced in my life, but....it also brought me to my knees in surrender, and asking the Lord to take my life, and do with it as His will....
At a moment, my relationship with Him went from my head, to my heart, and I've never felt such serenity, and peace, as this. The barrier I held excluding the Holy Spirit from entering was no longer present...it brings tears of joy now, as I type this!
This episode also brought us to Whidbey Island, for with God's gift, came wisdom as well, and I knew where we were, was not the place for us to grow in Him and heal.
Next week, we leave to go back to Southern California, and try to close out that part of our life. I wish I could say I'm strong enough to not yield to it's memory, but I'm not. It is a scab that won't heal, and a nagging memory that won't abate, that can drain my energy and still my thoughts from doing the Lord's work.
It will take a month to try and close this door, and in that time my wife and I will be with-out income, and away from our son, here, at home. I ask you pray for me to remain strong and focused and not yield to worry, but to remain strong...that I man finally rise from that weak child of sin and temptation, and glorify Christ, as a strong man walking confidently under His grace and stewardship.
We'll be apart from our son on Easter, and I ask you pray for him too, on this most glorious day of all.
I pray I'll be back without that gorilla, and much energy, and focus, to lather on our King
Thank you all....
eddie
Brothers and sisters...
Grantspastor
Well said, Dullhoook! It's refreshed me a few times in the past year when I've found myself instinctivly reacting to "adversity" in a way that the "old" me did - with negativity, and/or hopelessness. More time passes, and my instincts are turning to the positive, and the negative feels foreign. 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
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