Remembering our own Red Sea crossings <3
May is just about the sneakiest month, isn’t it?
It kind of slides in behind Easter and all the euphoria about the landscape changing from bleak winter bareness and brown as budding trees burst into action and we are marveling at tulips and daffodils and then all of a sudden we realize we have to mow grass and ball games dot our calendars as prolifically as dandelions are cropping up amongst the mulch we spread.
Suddenly the brevity of what summer will be is breathing down the neck as we attempt to figure how we are going to fit “Lazy” into the days of summer we have been so looking forward to.
Life is busy and days fill up quickly as years fly by.
I have been hearing a theme of late in some sermons and devotions about the importance of remembering and declaring the good things God has done and so this morning I am acting on that by sharing with you a prayer once prayed and answered many years ago, but it is building my faith still today.
I came across an entry I jotted in December of 2008. Five days before Christmas that year, I wrote in my journal “Next year, we will have two college tuitions to pay. I trust You to raise up how we will pay for that. I trust our years ahead to You.”
He did it.
He answered that prayer.
Sometime between the May graduation from high school and sending John off for his freshman year at ORU and Sarah to her senior year at Greenville, He made it happen.
I had two part time jobs that I loved and that summer I added a third. The hours meshed and still allowed me the freedom to be where I needed to be to keep up with our home, family and the ways I am called to serve others.
It was exhausting and challenging, but God is good. So good.
And every month when I calculated my three little paychecks, they covered one child’s tuition.
Oh we would have made it without those jobs. We could have borrowed the money and paid off loans, but God heard the particular cry of my heart that I could ease the burden of that double tuition year.
He understood that for me it mattered to be a part of the process.
He knew the redemption and restoration working hard and maintaining the semblance of holding down real jobs could work in the soul of a woman who contributes more to the expenses than the income side of the family ledger.
All of her life.
He understands the why behind our prayers more than we do.
He meets the needs we were not even aware of when we asked.
Write down your prayers.
Go back and look at them years later.
They are your personal record of His faithfulness.
See what wonderful things the Lord has done and declare them to others.
He is mighty and He is kind.
Praise Him <3