Some times it is hard to know how to say thanks to God … but I am going to try – though my keyboard may short out from the moisture that is landing on it.
As many of you know, I typically write the Good Morning message the night before … usually around nine o’clock in the evening. But last night at nine o’clock I was on the road back from Clarkesville. You see, around three o’clock, a bolt of lightening set Heather’s duplex on fire. Austin was asleep – he’s a teenager with weird sleeping habits – at the time and was awakened by the firemen coming into his room telling him to get out. Austin’s first thought was for his beloved Stubby cat and for Lex who had just come to live with them that day. All got out of the home safely … but the duplex will have to be rebuilt. So at 5 o’clock, Mawmaw and I got a call from son Jim.
Heather has had a tough time of it over the past five years. Right now she is battling back pain, tachycardia, and very high blood pressure. When I asked her how she was doing, she began to weep … hard for a Dad to see his baby weep. The best I could do was give her a good hug and tell her that this, too, shall pass. Riding home, I couldn’t help but think not only of how much she has been through in this life – and yet, how blessed she has been in the process. Miss N remarked that she didn’t know what God had in store for Heather … but that it must be good. So now it is just past ten and I am winding down from making a two hour trip in an hour and a half and a two hour return trip through driving rain … and need to just count some blessings.
Blessing 1 – Austin is safe.
Blessing 2 – So are the cats.
Blessing 3 – Heather has a good brother and sister-in-law who come to her aid whenever she calls.
Blessing 4 – Heather has a place to stay for the evening.
Blessing 5 – Mawmaw and I made it to and from Clarkesville GA, lickety split and safe.
Blessing 6 – Austin is here with us
Blessing 7 – I have you good friends to pray for Heather.
I could go on … but suffice it to say, that God is good and God is in control and we are blessed by Him continually. So thank you, Father, for all of your blessings on me.
Ephesians 1:3-6 New International Version (NIV)
Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
Footnotes:
a. Ephesians 1:5 Or sight in love. He
b. Ephesians 1:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.
Agape’
Mr. Jim
Prayer Need:
Heather
Margaret Brewer
Shared Praises:
Thank you, Father, for firemen who break down doors and awaken sleeping grandchildren – and who also rescue those animals who are so precious to us.
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