Say What? Anything Can Happen!

OK, so we've been here for almost a month and I'm sittin here thinkin (in faith, mind you) that CERTAINLY God has a reason behind this!!! So, tonight at least part of the reason came to me!

Isaiah and I have been chillin in the room for forever and the tech comes in and starts talking to me. We started talking and it turned out that she wasn't even assigned to Isaiah. She came looking for us, b/c she wanted what I have! Here I am trying to keep reminding myself that surely God has something He's trying to get done here, but I figured that I either missed it or that I just wasn't supposed to see what He was trying to do, b/c you know that sometimes what He's doing is not meant for us to see.

It turns out that she'd been watching me and felt that there was something different about me and that she knew that I was a Christian. It reminds me of the story in the Bible when Jesus made the tree shrivel up, b/c it didn't have any fruit when He was hungry. See, that tree didn't have any fruit, b/c it was out of season. That story showed me that we are supposed to be ready all the time, not just when things are going just right for us (in season). We are supposed to be ready out of season as well and that's when times are getting tough, when it's hard to see God's hand anywhere, cuz you never know when someone is watching. For instance, some people who are very close to me were going to have their first baby, but only a few months into the pregnancy they found out that there was no heart beat and that the baby was severely deformed. It was such a hard time for them, but they continued going to church and praising God throughout that time. Now, they may have never even seen the fruit of their reaction to their situation, but I had people coming to me that I didn't even know telling me how it blessed and encouraged them to know that they can make it through whatever they were dealing with, b/c they saw my friends making it through their rough time.

It's not easy going through the crap that comes with life, but there is truly always a purpose for it, whether or not we see it. It's hard to see it at the time - believe me! There have been plenty of times that I have cried and asked God why my son has to go through all of this, but I promise, He's proven to me over and over again that He's never left or forsaken Isaiah or me! Trust Him, I promise He won't leave you hangin!