Miracles of Reconciliation
©Photography by ~CC
Miracles of reconciliation are not complete when they occur, the work has only just begun. With God in control of our lives, he makes the impossible a reality. I believe our failures are allowed for us each to realize how imperfect we are on our own. It is only through "Him" that we truly succeed in the things or people we touch in this life. We can choose to "do" anything, but what if "He" calls us just to "be"? And if so, what would that look like?
It's been months since I've journaled on this blog, I have missed it! I have thought of you often, have written in my mind time after time, but only today I stopped "doing" and am just "being" here with you. Maybe it's all the pain I've witnessed these past weeks from the people I love the most; my family and our friends. A friends loss of both parents this year, burying her mother as recent as two weeks ago. This same friend is experiencing another chance at love and finds herself newly engaged, a blessing at such a time of deep loss and pain in her life. Another testimony to life after divorce. Another friend not even forty has been diagnosed with Melanoma Cancer on his ear lobe. He and his wife are leaning on God, family and friends for support. Another friend is one of my largest fans of this blog, is getting another chance with reconciliation in her marriage. She was faithful to pray and believe that he would come home after many months of separation and anguish, and he did. My peer at work has a saying, "God is off the chain". I think I know what she means when I witness the victory of reconciliation.Another set of friends are at the financial crossroads of ruin and do not know where their next roof over their head will be. I remember our family being there ourselves years ago, we walk with these friends and encourage them by sharing our life story; God will make a way, some how, some way...and they continue the fight.
And then there is the young family that was torn apart last year at this time from marital affairs, that now finds themselves in the rebuilding phase of their marriage. During that painful time the husband felt his life was heading in another direction. The wife, pregnant with their third child, refused to allow her love to die for this husband. Months later, and with much prayer, this husband returned home. The picture on this journal entry are the hands of this family; wife, husband, sons, and baby daughter. A "Miracle" of reconciliation....and they are working together to "stay together" one day at a time.
I am encouraged by the new chapters we all face in our lives after we walk through such pain. A young woman's life restored in every way after losing it all. Today she finds herself years later happily married, healthy, has a devoted husband, son, and a daughter on the way soon.
This morning as I was reading a great book called "The Good Life", by Chuck Colson, I was literally frozen when I read the following: (paraphrased) Thinking about his autistic grandsons schedule made him examine his own priorities. It made him think about the time he devoted to "doing" things- a lot of it simply indulging in distraction - versus how much time he gave to "being". Don't we all fall into that catagory at times? I identified with that statement, and I don't like it.
My prayer today for all of us is that we stop "doing"...and that we just simply "be" who it is today that God wants us to be. To sit quietly in a chair and read or pray. To hear our friend in need, to hug and comfort our neighbor that sits quietly alone; longing to have someone visit him or her. Let us be, just be........who God has intended us to be without the "doing".
I am reminded of the victory and healing that God brought to my own family nearly seven years ago. By all standards, our marriage and family were doomed in the worlds eyes, but not in God's. His desire was for us to take one day at a time, do the best we could to Stay In the Day, and live out the Victory He had given us, despite our own failures.
My goal remains to live out Psalm 147:11. "The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love". Nehemiah 8:10, "The JOY of the Lord is your STRENGTH".
Stay In The Day........ Stop "doing" and just "be"! ~CC
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