The song, “He’ll be coming around the mountain, he’ll be coming around the mountain when he comes” is in my head. This is the time of change. I feel it. This is what I’ve been prepared for. This is the end of my wilderness and the end of my testing. This is where God reveals the light and restores all of the years the canker has eaten.
Today, I couldn’t log-in to the video channel where I’d been creating messages over the last year here in California. I feel God saying to me in this, “the season will be remembered no more.” It’s as if this entire year is about to disappear and I won’t ever feel this pain again. The good news I’ve been seeking and holding onto is now about to speak loudly and the story picks up from where it left off when I told what had happened in authenticity before I left Florida.
All of the temptations and trials are behind me now and Jesus appears with the reward as promised (for those who endure).
I will find out in the next day or two if I’m being transferred to Austin. I am so excited to see what God is about to do in my life. I go to Houston next week to meet with Majestic (home of the crown) and I am so excited to see what God is going to do for me and Jason in this reunion after decades past. My daughter is coming back to Texas. My son is being prepared for a new season as he’s being forced to chill out with the weed (his supplier is mysteriously quiet) and all things are working for the good that God is preparing to reveal to us.
Even the timing of the jeep hitting my credit has a purpose in God’s plan. Maybe my daughter is to get the apartment without me or maybe it’s just there to keep me from trying to find a place here – forcing me to NOT try to get a place on my own. I’m excited to see God’s hand in this and I know that very soon it will all make sense and I’ll see the puzzle pieces and say, “Look what God has done! It’s marvelous!”
Maybe the things we call BAD are the very miracles that we will one day look back on and say WOW, THAT WAS AMAZING! Because those are the things that were leading us to the next chapter of God’s beautiful mystery in dreams unfolding.
Well, I’m going to get dressed and go roller blading now. I’m so excited to see God’s miracles today and I look forward to writing about the GOOD NEWS tonight.
My prayer and scripture on my heart at this moment is “In my timing, I the Lord will do it.” And this is reminding me that it’s not by my might that God is about to bless me or by my ideas or my work and labor. God wants to GIFT me great things and he alone is mighty to do just that without me struggling to receive the promise. All I must do is trust it’s coming and I’m so grateful that I get to write about his beautiful story here on this platform and share it one day with my kids and grandkids. In this it won’t be empty words or preaching and teaching from a book but I’ll be giving them real world proof of God’s goodness and they will have stones (like Joshua collected from the Jordan) to keep and reference to remember how good God was in this season. And if God can part the red sea and dry up the Jordan river he can certainly get me out of LA and onward and upward to a paradise where there is an abundance of love and good blessings that show his favor.
The other song I hear is Gloria Estevan “Coming out of the Dark, I see the light shining on me.”
Thank you Jesus for never leaving me and thank you Father in Heaven for being my Father of lights who gives me good gifts – no shadows.
In Jesus Name, Amen.