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The Calm Before the Storm

2/13/2019

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Are You in a Season of Rest and Renewal?

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PictureMicaela headed into the school with her assistant. She loves school.

​A couple weeks ago I swiped the spoon twice more around the coffee cup, watching the milk blend in in swirls of tan. The smell of that first cup invited me to take a deep sip. I did. Then I put it down.
 
I was half-way through my daily Bible reading when I remembered the cup. I sipped again. It was cooler now. Funny. When was the last time I let that happen?
 
Usually I gulped down that first cup like a life-line and was half-way through a second before any written word could make any sense. It was then that I realized that after almost ten months of desperate prayer, God had answered.
 
I was rested.
 
My raccoon eyes were fainter. The worry wrinkles softened. My brown eyes smiled back at me in the mirror. I was rested.
 
Who would have thought God would have brought an answer to my prayers through President Trumps defiant stand on a wall bordering Mexico? Through the Government Shutdown, my husband caught up on work at the farm and gave me many nights of restful sleep.
 
Last May, Micaela’s seizures worsened. To care for her, Jovani and I would check on her each hour during the night. All of her seizures come while she sleeps. They call them “nocturnal seizures”. Miceala’s seizures are freight trains. Once they get going it takes a lot of rescue medications and care to get them to stop. Always. Its rough.
 
I was running in the crisp winter air a few days ago, listening to a podcast. It was an interview of Blake Mycoskie by Levi Lesco In the interview Blake, the founder of TOMS Shoes, talked about God giving him a period of rest between seasons of difficult entrepreneur ventures. The rest got him ready to start a new project targeting violence in our country.
 
I paused.
 
I would soon go to Colorado and spend many days in the hospital with Micaela. Jovani and I would have to take shifts and manage her time during a long video EEG. There would be travel and the heartbreak of being far from Adela.
 
Oh, God! How beautiful is the way you provide for us.
 
I faced the difficult days of our stay at Children's Hospital Colorado with a rested mind and body.
 
I don’t know that I could have asked for a more precious blessing.
 
Life is full of seasons. Perhaps that is the only thing that we know to be true. Whatever season you are in, I pray you find God’s provision constant. It always is. 


In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.
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Psalm 4:8, NIV

Are you going through a season of rest and renewal? 

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Bill and Denese Runyan
2/13/2019 10:16:17 pm

You are always spot on and positive no matter what the season. Thank you for challenging me to rest in the LORD!

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Karen Moseley
3/6/2019 03:46:30 am

As always I am so blessed by your writings. I needed this one as it is 3:30 am and I am struggling to sleep. Now I will try to practice Psalms 4:8. Love you sweet lady.

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