I am not sure if you keep a journal, but I do. Or maybe I should say I did. Seems like life is so busy now that writing daily in a journal is almost impossible. I love to re-read what I wrote however! It helps me to see where I've been, what God has brought me through, and often just makes me smile remembering the things that God has used to teach me lessons. So here I am going to share with you a journal entry I made several years back...I hope it makes you smile, and THINK!
"This morning as I sat on my favorite side of our "old" couch in our "new" home trying to catch up on my reading in my awesome devotional book, something happened that God used to speak to me through! It may seem insignificant, but then again, it may not.
My children Josiah 10 and Aiden Rose 4 were quietly watching a movie in the den as I had my quiet time when all of a sudden Aiden Rose came screaming in pain out of the door. I was startled! She was running almost blindly to me only peeking through one eye. It didn't take me long to see that some how all of her beautiful long eye lashes on her right eye were trapped under her eyelid. You know how just one eye lash can irritate your eye, imagine all of your eyelashes on your eyeball! I knew that in order to relieve her pain I had to get her eye open all the way and free those eyelashes!
Aiden didn't understand that however! She didn't want her eye to be opened. An open eye was what started the pain in the first place. As I tried to open her eye and calm her fears at the same time I realized that I needed help. I told my son who was anxiously looking on that he needed to run upstairs for daddy. While one more time I tried to calmly explain to Aiden Rose the need to open her eye. Just as my husband rounded the corner I was able to get her to trust me enough to open her eye.
After it was all over and we had prayed for her, each of us went back to what we had been doing before. I was still sitting in my favorite spot on the couch and tried to go back to my Bible reading when it hit me. What had just happened was a lot like LIFE! Each day, or maybe for you each month, something hurtful can or will happen to us. We want to keep our eyes shut and hope the pain will just go away. Many times the Lord wants us to open our eyes to the pain (incident) and to TRUST Him to get us through it! He wants to get the "pain" out. He often uses the painful situations in our lives to help us see Him more clearly. We simply need to do the very thing that sometimes we are afraid of doing....Opening our Eyes!
Today...I encourage you...if something painful has or is happening in your life, let God open your eyes to the reality that NOTHING is TOO HARD for HIM! You can believe that HE will get the pain out, and even if the situation doesn't turn around, HE is ALWAYS there for you!
