Good morning…
With her husband and kids away, our friend invited a cool group of women to a “Pop-Up Christmas Party.” Yummy food. Water and wine. Great conversations.
“It’s been a very hard year,” said one person I see periodically. Her husband, in his fifties, has faced life-threatening health scares. “It has been humbling to need people in a new way, but the amazing prayer support we have felt is carrying us through.”
“Humbled and carried?” I said, “Those are two beautiful words.”
Never would we put “health crisis” on our wish list, for our selves, for our loved ones, or for even our enemies, but when life hands us a “health crisis” we are humbled into a slower pace. We are lowered down to a place we do not visit by choice. We drop from our dreams and fall into God’s arms. Being carried by God is the best way to travel through a very hard year.
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God [set aside self-righteous pride], so that He may exalt you [to a place of honor in His service] at the appropriate time, casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully] (1 Peter 5:6-7, AMP).
…Sue…
