How are you feeling?
"Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up." Ecclesiastes 4: 9- 10
These sisters of goodness & love have lifted me up all year, and blessed me by letting me love them and learn with them.
This is a dreadful question when you are not feeling well. It requires one to navigate and come up with alternative ways to answer so as not to lose the wind in your own sails. Humans have an innate sense for survival. Otherwise, we would not see the massive numbers of humans that populate the world today.
Imagine the impending doom that Jesus felt, especially later in His life, when He knew His days were numbered.
People have been seeking means to survive for centuries. Recently, I finished a historical fiction book regarding the travel of one family from Germany to American, New Orleans, in 1836. The story was written based off of a true family who had immigrated overseas, to escape the inevitable uprising of power hungry men in Germany. The trip took on average 46 days on a large boat propelled by the wind and large sails. The family, whose fictionalized travel aboard the ship, consisted of 7 people, 5 of them their children. The author wrote of her great-great-grandparents' journey in 1836. A story she had heard a countless amount of times throughout her life.
As the end of the book grew closer, I began to thing realistically about the simple things that this mother had to endure. Back to the basics, she was not able to take a shower or bath for an unimaginably long period of time. I don't think this was top of mind for her in the least. She was in pure survival mode for herself and her entire family. She had no need to receive comfort for her lack of creature comforts and tending to her extraneous "modern day" needs. She simply toughed it out for survival sake. She wanted to keep her family safe and make a better life for all of them. She held onto a promise that had traveled overseas and seemed the only option for survival for the men in her family; a promise of hope, land, and freedom.
Initally I was going to write about the health issues I faced yesterday and the long night with indepth details that I endured. After reading the last few chapters of the book this morning, I concluded, there is nothing accomplished with sharing these details. My focus will be to hold onto hope of a better day to come. One where God has promised a future with Him; lacking pain, sorrow, and sickness.
Hold onto Hope, a brighter day is around the corner.
Jesus spent the night prior to His arrest in the garden praying to His Father. He knew of His impending death. He relinquished His own desire to stay with those He loved in this world. He did this so that all of us who believe in Him, will be reunited with Him for eternity. He made the ultimate sacrifice, His life for US.
Joshua 23:14
"Now I am about to go the way of all the earth.
You know with all your heart and soul
that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God
gave you has failed.
Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed."
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