Good morning, Lord Jesus. Help me start this day and every day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit.
Yesterday morning I sat in the Waffle House and “Chuck,” walked in! You may remember Chuck from my blog post 5 1/2 years ago.t, “He’s My F*cking Pastor.” If you did not read the post, you need to stop and read it. Here is the link to it: https://www.onedirection.community/conversations/2017/7/14/hes-my-fcking-pastor.
Chuck had moved away and came back to visit some friends. We sat at the bar and he told me tabout his life since the death of his son. He teared up one or twice ass he told me of the struggles his son’s two children had going forward without their father. How his wife still can’t get the video in her head of witnessing her son’s death to stop playing. And he shared of his continued pain. Chuck said his son always wore one type of cologne. And he said I know its crazy Gary, but I swear I smell his cologne many times and in different places and it makes me turn around and look for him. We talked for another 45 minutes, and Chuck even let me pray with him at the end! Amazing! His return journey to a relationship with Jesus is slow, as he still has a lot of baggage he is carrying. However, he is releasing it little by little, and I am so proud of him. I gave him an extra Lent devotion book I had in my car our church is reading through.I prayed God would make a river in his dessert. And I will simply pray and wait.
God, You're the one who makes a way where there seems to be no way. And while You're making a way, You call me to wait. And though I struggle in my passion to wait, it's in the waiting that I'm learning to trust You and allow You to make the way in Your wisdom, Your power, and Your timing. It's in the waiting that I'm learning to "trust in the (You) with all (my) heart, and lean not on (my) own understanding; in all (my) ways acknowledge (You), and (You) shall direct (my) paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
So as best as I can and all by Your grace, I choose to wait for You to make a way in the places where I look but can't see a way. Open the eyes of my heart to see the One who is the Way -- "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6). W ith my eyes on You, with my heart set to wait on You, trusting in You, I'm choosing to believe You will make a way. And that way will be good and right and true, because it's made by You. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
My family, if you have not read my previous post I gave you the link to above, please click the link and read it. I pray you will be filled with trust and faith as you wait on God, trusting in Him with all your heart, to make a way for you in the places where there seems to be no way, in Jesus' name! Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friends!
Gary Liederbach-Lead Follower
One Direction Community
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